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Researcher Profile

Build a comprehensive profile for the given researcher.

Input

The user provides an author name (e.g., "Yoshua Bengio", "Y. LeCun", "Sara Walker").

Tool Chain

Execute these steps in order. Use the Valency MCP tools (see CLAUDE.md for tool name mapping).

Step 1: Get author profile

Call get_author_profile with:

• author (string): the author name provided by the user

This returns summary stats including top categories, publication timeline, co-author count, and total papers.

If no results are found, tell the user the author was not found and suggest checking the spelling or trying a partial name. Stop here.

Step 2: Get full publication list

Call search_by_author with:

• author (string): the author name
• limit (integer): 10
• sort_by (string): "citations"
• strict_mode (string): "fuzzy"

This returns the author's top papers sorted by citation count.

Step 3: Get research domain distribution

Call batch_author_categories with:

• authors (array of strings): a JSON array containing the author name, e.g. ["David W. Hogg"]
• max_categories (integer): 10

This returns the category distribution for the author's publications.

Step 4: Get top collaborators

Call find_coauthors with:

• author (string): the author name
• limit (integer): 10

This returns the author's most frequent collaborators with co-publication counts.

Output Format

Present the results in this structure:

Summary

A brief block with:

• Name: full name as it appears in the corpus
• Total papers: count from Step 1
• Active years: first paper year to last paper year
• Primary domains: top 3 categories from Step 3

Research Domains

A table of the top 5 categories from Step 3:

Category	Papers
cs.LG	42
...	...

Top Papers

A numbered list of up to 10 papers from Step 2. For each paper show:

• Title (with paper ID)
• Year
• Categories

Top Collaborators

A table of up to 5 collaborators from Step 4:

Collaborator	Co-authored papers
Name	15
...	...

Suggested Follow-ups

• /valency:network <author_name> — map their collaboration network
• /valency:similar <paper_id> — find papers similar to their top work (use the ID of their most-cited paper)