DevNexus-Research is a research-oriented DevNexus plugin package.

The plugin should make DevNexus useful for academic research, paper writing, LaTeX manuscript support, review, revision, citation integrity, and reproducible research handoff without making DevNexus core specific to academia.

The GitHub source home is Evref-BL/DevNexus-Research: git@github.com:Evref-BL/DevNexus-Research.git.

import { devNexusResearchDevNexusPluginConfig } from "@evref-bl/dev-nexus-research";

const plugin = devNexusResearchDevNexusPluginConfig();

Add the returned plugin config to a DevNexus project's plugins list. The package is licensed as CC-BY-NC-4.0 so Research can include adapted ARS-derived skills as automatic bundled workflow content while DevNexus core remains a separate, opt-in loader of curated plugins. The package currently exports a minimal research capability config, original DevNexus-Research skills, and adapted ARS-derived skills with explicit provenance. It also models baseline research artifact conventions and optional setup readiness for LaTeX, document export, bibliography, corpus, external index, and external skill surfaces. LaTeX support includes manuscript-root, bibliography-file, figure-path, table-path, and build-report conventions while keeping local compilation optional. Baseline skill availability does not require a user-provided ARS checkout. The package now records a provider-native ARS integration preference: Claude Code targets should use the upstream academic-research-skills plugin as-is, Codex targets should prefer the academic-research-suite skill from Imbad0202/academic-research-skills-codex, and the bundled ARS-derived DevNexus-Research skills remain the fallback when no native or shim package is available.

The package ships a synthetic fixture project at fixtures/synthetic-research-project/. The fixture enables the plugin, declares research artifact paths, includes synthetic source artifacts plus a minimal LaTeX manuscript and bibliography, and verifies the no-network, no-LaTeX, no-Zotero baseline.

Projects can place setup input under extensions.dev-nexus-research; the package exports helpers to extract setup options and render setup status from that DevNexus project extension.

Current state:

• The repository is an alpha implementation package.
• In DevNexus-managed projects, this repository should be checked out as a component source root such as components/dev-nexus-research.
• DevNexus is a package dependency and the generic host for loading the plugin.
• Plugin-owned skills live in this repository, with GitHub home Evref-BL/DevNexus-Research.
• The skill source tree lives under skills/<skill>/SKILL.md and is exported through the package registry.
• Research artifact conventions and setup status helpers are exported by the package and work in a no-network, no-LaTeX, no-Zotero baseline.
• LaTeX authoring support includes scoped mutation policy, citation-key and label checks, build-log diagnosis, and setup readiness summaries.
• DevNexus-Research is CC-BY-NC-4.0; ARS-derived skill vendoring/adaptation is approved for this package when attribution, upstream source path, commit/hash tracking, modification notes, license text/link, and no endorsement language are preserved.
• Adapted ARS-derived skills are bundled for deep-research, academic-paper, academic-paper-reviewer, and academic-pipeline.
• ARS attribution and provenance ship in each derived skill, skills/ARS-PROVENANCE.json, NOTICE.md, and typed package exports.
• The package no longer exposes checkout-based ARS non-skill surfaces. Commands, hooks, scripts/adapters, schemas/contracts, templates, examples, fixtures, tests, and references should be consumed through provider-native ARS packages when available. DevNexus-Research owns fallback skills and future shims for providers without a native package.
• A typed provider integration registry records Claude Code native plugin, Codex native skill-suite, planned OpenCode shim, and bundled fallback behavior with license and no-endorsement metadata.
• A synthetic research project fixture is included for smoke testing setup status, worker briefing, artifact paths, and minimal LaTeX authoring paths without private material or external services.
• Setup helpers can load artifact paths, local LaTeX compilation requirements, and external index profiles from a DevNexus project extension.
• Packaged installs include the README-referenced docs in docs/.
• Package metadata is private until a publication decision is made.
• The license posture is materialized as CC-BY-NC-4.0, making the package free and noncommercial rather than commercial-safe or OSI-open-source.

Packaged planning and integration docs:

• docs/dev-nexus-domain-plugin-setup-prd.md
• docs/dev-nexus-research-plugin-implementation-prd.md
• docs/ars-integration-inventory.md
• docs/ars-provider-native-integration-investigation.md