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.
- 1#1
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
Auto Claude Code Research In Sleep
wanshuiyinfigure-description
Process user-provided patent figures and generate formal drawing descriptions. Use when user says "附图处理", "figure description", "附图说明", "drawings description", or wants to describe patent…
Google DeepMind
Science Skills
Google DeepMindfoldseek-structural-search
Performs 3D structural searches of proteins against various databases (PDB, AlphaFold, CATH, MGnify, etc.) using the Foldseek API. Use ONLY when the user provides a physical 3D coordinate…
Orchestra Research
AI Research SKILLs
Orchestra Researchllamaguard
Meta's 7-8B specialized moderation model for LLM input/output filtering. 6 safety categories - violence/hate, sexual content, weapons, substances, self-harm, criminal planning. 94-95%…
Orchestra Research
AI Research SKILLs
Orchestra Researchnemo-guardrails
NVIDIA's runtime safety framework for LLM applications. Features jailbreak detection, input/output validation, fact-checking, hallucination detection, PII filtering, toxicity detection…
Orchestra Research
AI Research SKILLs
Orchestra Researchprompt-guard
Meta's 86M prompt injection and jailbreak detector. Filters malicious prompts and third-party data for LLM apps. 99%+ TPR, <1% FPR. Fast (<2ms GPU). Multilingual (8 languages). Deploy with…
Google DeepMind
Science Skills
Google DeepMindprotein-sequence-msa
Performs multiple sequence alignment of proteins with EBI Clustal Omega. Use when you need to align multiple sequences to assess similarity, domain conservation, or key residue…
Google DeepMind
Science Skills
Google DeepMindpubchem-database
Query PubChem, search by name/CID/SMILES, retrieve properties, similarity/substructure searches, bioactivity, for cheminformatics. Use when a user asks about a specific chemical, drug, or…
Google DeepMind
Science Skills
Google DeepMindalphafold-database-fetch-and-analyze
Retrieve and analyze AlphaFold predicted structures for a protein. Use when the user provides a specific UniProt Accession ID and wants structural confidence metrics (pLDDT), domain…
Google DeepMind
Science Skills
Google DeepMindalphagenome-atlas-website-links
Constructs deep-links and URLs for the AlphaGenome Atlas website. Supports generating single-variant exploration links (1-based VCF-style coordinates), genomic locus views (1-based closed…
Google DeepMind
Science Skills
Google DeepMindalphagenome-variant-impact-score
Score, annotate, and analyze the functional impact of genetic variants using AlphaGenome Variant Impact (AVI) scores. Query variants in chr:pos:ref>alt format, annotate VCF/tabular…
Google DeepMind
Science Skills
Google DeepMindjaspar-database
Query the JASPAR database for Transcription Factor (TF) binding profiles. Use when retrieving Position Frequency Matrices (PFMs) or Position Weight Matrices (PWMs) for specific TFs…
Google DeepMind
Science Skills
Google DeepMindliterature-search-arxiv
Search for scientific papers, preprints, and publications on arXiv. Extract metadata, abstracts, and download full-text PDFs or HTML versions of papers. Use when the user asks to find…
Orchestra Research
AI Research SKILLs
Orchestra Researchllama-factory
Expert guidance for fine-tuning LLMs with LLaMA-Factory - WebUI no-code, 100+ models, 2/3/4/5/6/8-bit QLoRA, multimodal support
Orchestra Research
AI Research SKILLs
Orchestra Researchunsloth
Expert guidance for fast fine-tuning with Unsloth - 2-5x faster training, 50-80% less memory, LoRA/QLoRA optimization
wanshuiyin
Auto Claude Code Research In Sleep
wanshuiyinanalyze-results
Analyze ML experiment results, compute statistics, generate comparison tables and insights. Use when user says "analyze results", "compare", or needs to interpret experimental data.
AgriciDanielblog-cluster
Semantic topic cluster planning and automated execution engine for claude-blog. Performs SERP-based keyword research, groups keywords by search intent and SERP overlap, builds a…
AgriciDanielblog-discourse
Research what people are actually saying about a topic in the last 30 days across Reddit, X / Twitter, YouTube, Hacker News, dev.to, Medium, and other public discourse platforms. API-free…
Google DeepMind
Science Skills
Google DeepMindgnomad-database
Query the Genome Aggregation Database (gnomAD). Use when determining the rarity or allele frequency of specific genetic variants, retrieving gene constraint metrics (pLI, LOEUF) to assess…
aaron-he-zhu
Aaron Marketing Skills
aaron-he-zhusearch-term-miner
Use when the user asks to "mine my search terms", "find new keywords from converting queries", "build a negative-keyword list", or "cut wasted paid spend"; harvests converting queries into…
AgriciDanielclaude-blog-brain
Scaffold and operate Claude Blog Brain, a source-cited Obsidian brain for blog content creation, optimization, and management dual-optimized for Google rankings (E-E-A-T, the 2026 core…
AgriciDanielblog-analyze
Score one blog post (or a folder of posts) on a 5-category 100-point scale covering content quality, SEO, E-E-A-T, technical elements, and AI citation readiness. Runs the deterministic…
AgriciDanielblog-audit
Full-site blog health assessment scanning all blog files for quality scores, orphan pages, topic cannibalization, stale content, and AI citation readiness. Runs canonical batch analysis…
AgriciDanielblog-cannibalization
Detect keyword cannibalization across blog posts by extracting primary keywords from titles and headings, clustering semantically similar targets, and flagging posts competing for the same…
AgriciDanielblog-decay
Compare two Google Search Console page exports (current vs previous period) to flag pages whose clicks or impressions fell by a chosen threshold, with a triage hint (refresh, query shift…
AgriciDanielblog-factcheck
Verify statistics and claims in blog posts by fetching cited source URLs and checking if the claimed data actually appears on the page. Extracts all load-bearing claims (statistics, product…
AgriciDanielblog-geo
Audit one blog post file for AI-citation readiness (self-contained, sourced passages, entity clarity, structure, crawler access) and score it with an internal 0-100 heuristic plus…
AgriciDanielblog-locale-audit
Read-only audit of a folder of existing multilingual blog posts: translation coverage, parity, hreflang and canonical consistency, meta-tag parity, and stale translations, with a…
AgriciDanielblog-localize
Deep cultural adaptation of an already translated blog post for one target market: local examples, CTAs, legal references, statistic sources, and formality (Sie/du, tu/vous). Built-in…
AgriciDanielblog-multilingual
One-command multilingual blog creation. Writes a blog post, translates it into user-specified languages, applies cultural adaptation, and emits hreflang tags, sitemap entries, and a…
AgriciDanielblog-outline
SERP-informed outline generation with H2/H3 heading hierarchy, competitive content gap analysis, section-by-section word count targets, chart and image placement markers, optional FAQ…
AgriciDanielblog-rewrite
Rewrite and optimize existing blog posts for Google SEO (E-E-A-T, helpful content) and AI citation visibility as one SEO discipline. For AI-citation-only audit (no Google work), use…
AgriciDanielblog-schema
Generate JSON-LD for ONE blog post (BlogPosting with Person, Organization, BreadcrumbList, ImageObject, VideoObject; FAQPage only as optional entity markup) in a single @graph, and check it…
AgriciDanielblog-seo-check
Post-writing SEO validation with pass/fail checklist covering title tag clarity and uniqueness, meta description quality, heading hierarchy, internal/external link audit with anchor text…
Google DeepMind
Science Skills
Google DeepMindcredentials
Instructions for handling API keys and credentials safely, verifying their presence, and prompting the user to add them if missing using a safe protocol.
appeekymetadata-optimization
When the user wants to optimize App Store metadata — title, subtitle, keyword field, or description. Also use when the user mentions "optimize my title", "ASO metadata", "keyword field"…
daymadefact-checker
Verifies factual claims in documents using web search and official sources, then proposes corrections with user confirmation. Use when the user asks to fact-check, verify information…
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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