HKUST(GZ)'s Open-Source Supervisor-Skills Tops GitHub Daily Trending: Distilling a Decade of PhD Supervision into AI Skills

What happened

On Oct 13, GitHub trending digests showed Supervisor-Skills — an open-source project by HKUST(GZ) assistant professor Yuyu Luo — topping the daily AI trending list. At press time it held roughly 9,611 stars and was still climbing. The project's README says it distills a PhD supervisor's decade of research mentoring into a set of executable AI skills — idea evaluation, deep literature research, paper writing, and pre-submission review — paired with a six-chapter handbook, callable from both Claude and GPT-4-series models.

Key facts

1. Trending data: Top of the Oct 13 daily AI list, ~9,611 stars and still climbing
2. Skill contents: Full research pipeline: idea evaluation, deep literature review, paper writing, pre-submission review, plus a six-chapter handbook
3. Model compatibility: Works with Claude and GPT-4 series; written in Python under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
4. Prior deployment: The skills had already been adopted by Doubao as an official research skill in its office mode
5. Project timeline: Released Apr 19, crossed 1,000 stars on May 21, topped the daily list on Oct 13