Best Claude skills for research
Research skills make your agent search wider and cite better: multi-source deep research, academic paper pipelines, literature reviews and trend scans across Reddit, X, YouTube and Hacker News. The best ones keep a source list and separate facts from interpretation.
632 research skills · ranked live · November 2026
The top 10. Ranked by the Alyn Score.
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Matt Pocock
Research
Investigate a question against high-trust primary sources and capture the findings as a Markdown file in the repo. Use when the user wants a topic researched, docs or API facts gathered, or…
Pack321k33MScore 89 - 2#2
Corey Haines
Marketingskills
Corey Haines
Customer Research
When the user wants to run or synthesize customer research, or asks what customer quotes, reviews, or feedback really mean, what is safe to conclude, and what to ask next: interviews…
Pack60k6.3MScore 88 - 3#3
Corey Haines
Marketingskills
Prospecting
When the user wants to find and qualify prospects for outbound, or asks who to target first, which signal to prioritize, or where to spot buyers with the problem: buying signals…
Pack60k6.3MScore 88 - 4#4
Addy Osmani
Source Driven Development
Grounds every implementation decision in official documentation. Use when you want to verify an approach against the official docs before implementing it, or when you want authoritative…
Pack115k1.8MScore 85 - 5#5
K-Dense
Scientific Agent Skills
K-Dense
Alphagenome
Looks up precomputed AlphaGenome Atlas effects for any GRCh38 single-nucleotide variant (AVI score with Phred and 18 SHAP feature attributions, plus raw and quantile scores for RNA-seq…
Pack57k328kScore 84 - 6#6
K-Dense
Scientific Agent Skills
Analytical Method Validation
Plans, executes, and documents validation, verification, and transfer of analytical procedures under the governing framework - ICH Q2(R2) and Q14, USP //, ICH M10 bioanalytical, CLSI EP, or…
Pack57k328kScore 84 - 7#7
K-Dense
Scientific Agent Skills
Arbor
Applies Arbor Hypothesis Tree Refinement to research artifacts with repeatable evaluators, including model training, agent harnesses, data synthesis and benchmark optimization. Uses…
Pack57k328kScore 84 - 8#8
Yuan1z0825
Nature Downloader
Use when a user needs lawful academic full text, CNKI institutional access, English OA retrieval, publisher API access, institutional browser fallback, or supporting information downloads.
Pack53k301kScore 84 - 9#9
Nature Paper Card
Build a structured deep-reading Paper Card for one scientific paper, analysing methods, experiment-to-claim evidence, limitations, and research ideas. Use for 论文精读卡、方法拆解、证据链分析; not…
Pack53k301kScore 84 - 10#10
Shubhamsaboo
Advisor Orchestrator Worker
Use when a task is too large for one model pass, needs parallel research or generation across many subtasks (like researching a dozen competitors at once), or the user asks to orchestrate…
Pack144k83kScore 83
What makes a great research skill.
Citations for every claim, with links you can check.
Multiple sources per question and a way to resolve conflicts.
A final synthesis step, not a pile of search results.
All 632 research skills.
wanshuiyin
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wanshuiyincomm-lit-review
Communications-domain literature review with Claude-style knowledge-base-first retrieval. Use when the task is about communications, wireless, networking, satellite/NTN, Wi-Fi, cellular…
Google DeepMind
Science Skills
Google DeepMinddbsnp-database
Use when you want to look up, map, and search for short genetic variants (SNPs, indels) in NCBI's dbSNP database. Resolves between rsIDs, genomic coordinates in VCF format, and HGVS…
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wanshuiyindeepxiv
Search and progressively read open-access academic papers through DeepXiv. Use when the user wants layered paper access, section-level reading, trending papers, or DeepXiv-backed literature…
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wanshuiyindse-loop
Autonomous design space exploration loop for computer architecture and EDA. Runs a program, analyzes results, tunes parameters, and iterates until objective is met or timeout. Use when user…
Google DeepMind
Science Skills
Google DeepMindembl-ebi-ols
Query and search the EMBL-EBI Ontology Lookup Service (OLS) for biomedical ontology terms, definitions, and hierarchies across 250+ ontologies (e.g., GO, DOID, HP). Use when the user asks…
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wanshuiyinembodiment-description
Write detailed embodiment descriptions for patent specifications. Use when user says "撰写实施例", "write embodiment", "实施例描述", "detailed description", or wants to describe how to practice an…
Google DeepMind
Science Skills
Google DeepMindencode-ccres-database
Query the ENCODE Registry of cis-Regulatory Elements (cCREs) via the SCREEN GraphQL API, or make custom queries to the ENCODE Portal REST API for experiments and files (ChIP-seq peaks…
Google DeepMind
Science Skills
Google DeepMindensembl-database
Query the Ensembl database to resolve gene, transcript, and protein IDs, fetch genomic or protein sequences, retrieve gene structures (exons), and get variant consequence and effect…
wanshuiyin
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wanshuiyinexa-search
AI-powered web search via Exa with content extraction. Use when user says "exa search", "web search with content", "find similar pages", or needs broad web results beyond academic databases…
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wanshuiyinexperiment-audit
Audit experiment integrity before claiming results. Uses cross-model review (external reviewer backend) to check for fake ground truth, score normalization fraud, phantom results, and…
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wanshuiyinexperiment-bridge
Workflow 1.5: Bridge between idea discovery and auto review. Reads EXPERIMENT_PLAN.md, implements experiment code, deploys to GPU, collects initial results. Use when user says "实现实验"…
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wanshuiyinexperiment-plan
Turn a refined research proposal or method idea into a detailed, claim-driven experiment roadmap. Use after `research-refine`, or when the user asks for a detailed experiment plan, ablation…
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wanshuiyinfeishu-notify
Send notifications to Feishu/Lark. Internal utility used by other skills, or manually via /feishu-notify. Use when user says "发飞书", "notify feishu", or other skills need to send status…
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wanshuiyinfirecrawl-search
Web search and page scraping via Firecrawl, returning full-page markdown. Use when user says "firecrawl search", "firecrawl scrape" or "/firecrawl-search".
wanshuiyin
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wanshuiyinformula-derivation
Structures and derives research formulas when the user wants to 推导公式, build a theory line, organize assumptions, turn scattered equations into a coherent derivation, or rewrite theory notes…
wanshuiyin
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wanshuiyingemini-search
Search research papers via Gemini for broad literature discovery. Use when user says "gemini search", "gemini papers", "search with gemini", or wants AI-powered literature discovery beyond…
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wanshuiyingrant-proposal
Draft a structured grant proposal from research ideas and literature. Supports KAKENHI (Japan), NSF (US), NSFC (China, including 面上/青年/优青/杰青/海外优青/重点), ERC (EU), DFG (Germany), SNSF…
Google DeepMind
Science Skills
Google DeepMindgtex-database
Use when you want to retrieve quantitative RNA expression data and variant eQTL information from the GTEx (Genotype-Tissue Expression) Project across 54 non-diseased tissue sites.
Google DeepMind
Science Skills
Google DeepMindhuman-protein-atlas-database
Use when you want to retrieve semi-quantitative protein expression and spatial localisation data from the Human Protein Atlas (HPA).
wanshuiyin
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wanshuiyinidea-creator
Generate and rank research ideas given a broad direction. Use when user says "找idea", "brainstorm ideas", "generate research ideas", "what can we work on", or wants to explore a research…
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wanshuiyinidea-discovery
Workflow 1: Full idea discovery pipeline to go from a broad research direction to validated, pilot-tested ideas. Use when user says "找idea全流程", "idea discovery pipeline", "从零开始找方向", or…
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wanshuiyinidea-discovery-robot
Workflow 1 adaptation for robotics and embodied AI. Orchestrates robotics-aware literature survey, idea generation, novelty check, and critical review to go from a broad robotics direction…
Google DeepMind
Science Skills
Google DeepMindinterpro-database
Identify domains, families, and sites in proteins; find all proteins in a family or sharing a domain; explore species distribution for a domain; annotate genomes with protein families and…
Google DeepMind
Science Skills
Google DeepMindliterature-search-biorxiv
Browse and filter life sciences, biology, and medical preprints from bioRxiv and medRxiv. Supports fetching paper metadata by DOI, and browsing by date range with category and keyword…
Google DeepMind
Science Skills
Google DeepMindliterature-search-europepmc
Search Europe PMC for scientific literature and download open-access full texts and PDFs. Retrieve full-text XML/plain text by PMCID, get citation lists and bibliography.
Google DeepMind
Science Skills
Google DeepMindliterature-search-openalex
Query the OpenAlex scholarly database for research papers, authors, institutions, topics, sources, publishers, funders, geo-locations, and keywords. Use when searching academic papers…
Google DeepMind
Science Skills
Google DeepMindncbi-sequence-fetch
Retrieve protein and nucleotide sequences from NCBI databases using E-utilities. Supports direct accession lookup, CDS translation, gene+organism search, locus lookup, PubMed-linked…
Google DeepMind
Science Skills
Google DeepMindopenfda-database
Query, search, and download data from the openFDA API for drugs, devices, foods, tobacco, cosmetics, animal and veterinary products, substances, and transparency data. Use for FDA adverse…
Google DeepMind
Science Skills
Google DeepMindopentargets-database
Query Open Targets Platform for target-disease associations, drug target discovery, tractability/safety data, genetics/omics evidence, known drugs, for therapeutic target identification.
Google DeepMind
Science Skills
Google DeepMindpdb-database
Use when you want to search for or download experimentally-determined 3D structures for biomolecules (proteins, nucleic acids, bound ligands). Supports searching by sequence similarity…
Google DeepMind
Science Skills
Google DeepMindpredictingthepast
Ancient text restoration, attribution, dating, contextualization, and embedding via Aeneas (Latin) / Ithaca (Ancient Greek). Use when asked to "restore", "attribute", "date"…
Google DeepMind
Science Skills
Google DeepMindprotein-sequence-similarity-search
Searches for homologous protein sequences using MMseqs2 (fast, default) or BLAST (comprehensive, fallback). Trigger this whenever the user provides a protein sequence or FASTA file and asks…
Orchestra Research
AI Research SKILLs
Orchestra Researchsentencepiece
Language-independent tokenizer treating text as raw Unicode. Supports BPE and Unigram algorithms. Fast (50k sentences/sec), lightweight (6MB memory), deterministic vocabulary. Used by T5…
Orchestra Research
AI Research SKILLs
Orchestra Researchsimpo-training
Simple Preference Optimization for LLM alignment. Reference-free alternative to DPO with better performance (+6.4 points on AlpacaEval 2.0). No reference model needed, more efficient than…
wanshuiyin
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wanshuiyinablation-planner
Use when main results pass result-to-claim (claim_supported=yes or partial) and ablation studies are needed for paper submission.
Orchestra Research
AI Research SKILLs
Orchestra Researchconstitutional-ai
Anthropic's method for training harmless AI through self-improvement. Two-phase approach - supervised learning with self-critique/revision, then RLAIF (RL from AI Feedback). Use for safety…
Research skills, explained.
Also searched as: deep research skill, academic research skills, last30days skill, research agent skill.
What are the best Claude skills for research?
Right now the top-ranked research skills on Alyn are Research (Matt Pocock), Customer Research (Corey Haines), Prospecting (Corey Haines). Rankings combine GitHub stars, installs, freshness and depth, and update live.
What is the last30days skill?
An agent skill by mvanhorn that researches any topic across Reddit, X, YouTube, Hacker News, Polymarket and the web, then synthesizes the results.
Can research skills write academic papers?
Academic packs cover research, writing, review and revision. You stay responsible for checking sources and originality.
How do I install a research skill?
Run npx skills add owner/repo in your project, or copy the folder with SKILL.md into ~/.claude/skills. Every skill on this page has a ready-to-copy command.
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