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.
OpenClaudia
Openclaudia Skills
OpenClaudiaapollo-outreach
Research and enrich B2B leads using the Apollo.io API. Use when the user says "find leads", "prospect research", "company enrichment", "find decision makers", "B2B leads", "lead research"…
Aperivue
Medsci Skills
Aperivuecalc-sample-size
Use when planning how many patients or cases a study needs before data collection (power analysis, IRB justification). Walks a decision tree to the right test and returns reproducible…
Aperivue
Medsci Skills
Aperivuecheck-reporting
Use when auditing a manuscript item by item against a reporting guideline or risk-of-bias tool. Covers 49 reporting guidelines and risk-of-bias tools (STROBE, CONSORT, STARD, TRIPOD+AI…
Aperivue
Medsci Skills
Aperivueclean-data
Use when a clinical CSV/Excel dataset needs profiling and cleaning before analysis (missing values, outliers, duplicates, type mismatches). Profiles, flags and generates cleaning code in…
Aperivue
Medsci Skills
Aperivuedeidentify
Use when clinical data may contain PHI and must be de-identified before any LLM-assisted analysis. A local Python script (no network or AI calls) detects identifiers with regex and…
Aperivue
Medsci Skills
Aperivuedesign-ai-benchmarking
Use when designing a study that benchmarks AI systems against a human-expert panel, before data collection. Plans the arms, decoupled rubrics with anchors, planted calibration probes…
Aperivue
Medsci Skills
Aperivuedesign-study
Use when checking a radiology or medical AI study design before drafting or submission. Reviews the analysis unit, cohort logic, leakage risks, comparator, validation strategy and…
Aperivue
Medsci Skills
Aperivuefill-icmje-coi
Use when each author needs an ICMJE Conflict of Interest disclosure form (coi_disclosure.docx) for submission. Clones a pre-filled synthetic seed with every item marked None and replaces…
Aperivue
Medsci Skills
Aperivuefill-protocol
Use when an institutional Word form (.doc/.docx IRB protocol, ethics application, grant template) must be filled without breaking its styles, tables, fonts or page layout. Renders content…
Aperivue
Medsci Skills
Aperivuefind-cohort-gap
Use when looking for research topics a longitudinal cohort database can answer (NHIS, UK Biobank, an institutional EMR or registry). Profiles the cohort, matches PI expertise, scans…
Aperivue
Medsci Skills
Aperivuefind-journal
Use when choosing where to submit a manuscript. Matches the abstract against curated journal profiles and returns ranked picks with scope fit, AI-disclosure policy, an acceptance-readiness…
Aperivue
Medsci Skills
Aperivuefulltext-retrieval
Use when you need full-text PDFs for a list of DOIs, such as a meta-analysis screening set. Batch-downloads open-access copies via Unpaywall, PMC, OpenAlex and Crossref, lists paywalled…
Aperivue
Medsci Skills
Aperivuehumanize
Use when a manuscript or response-to-reviewers letter reads as AI-written. Scans for 27 AI writing patterns and rewrites flagged passages, preserving technical accuracy and bounding how…
Aperivue
Medsci Skills
Aperivueimaging-data
Use when preparing a medical-imaging dataset (DICOM/NIfTI) for modelling. Profiles spacing, orientation, intensity, label integrity, foreground fraction and target volume, gates them…
Aperivue
Medsci Skills
Aperivuelit-sync
Use when references in a .bib file (often from /search-lit) should land in Zotero and Obsidian. Syncs them to the Zotero library, writes Obsidian literature notes and extracts cross-cutting…
Aperivue
Medsci Skills
Aperivuema-scout
Use when looking for a meta-analysis topic before any protocol exists. Starts from a professor's publication profile or from a clinical question, finds gaps, assesses feasibility and…
Aperivue
Medsci Skills
Aperivuemake-figures
Use when a paper needs publication-ready figures or a visual abstract. Makes ROC, forest, calibration, Kaplan-Meier and Bland-Altman plots, CONSORT/STARD/PRISMA flow diagrams, confusion…
Aperivue
Medsci Skills
Aperivuemanage-project
Use when managing a manuscript project over time. Scaffolds the project structure, tracks writing progress across phases, maintains project memory files, and generates submission checklists…
ZeroPointRepo
Youtube Skills
ZeroPointRepotranscript
Use when the spoken content of a YouTube video is needed — even if not explicitly requested: pasted video links or IDs, requests to summarize, quote, transcribe, translate, fact-check, or…
ScrapeCreators
Social Media Research Skills
ScrapeCreatorstranscript-intelligence
Use when the user wants to summarize, analyze, or repurpose transcripts from TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, Facebook, X/Twitter, LinkedIn, Rumble, or Reddit video posts. Extracts hooks…
ScrapeCreators
Social Media Research Skills
ScrapeCreatorstrend-discovery
Use when the user wants to discover trending social topics, hashtags, sounds, posts, reels, shorts, creators, or formats in a niche. Searches public trend and discovery endpoints, ranks…
AlphaGBM
Skills
AlphaGBMalphagbm-dividend-strategy
Score Hong Kong and China A-share dividend candidates across yield quality, durability, cash flow, valuation and momentum. Use when the user asks to dividend strategy with AlphaGBM. Use the…
AlphaGBM
Skills
AlphaGBMalphagbm-etf-strategy
Score ETF trend, risk, liquidity, cost and available tracking and theme signals while preserving data gaps. Use when the user asks to etf strategy with AlphaGBM. Use the bundled Python…
AlphaGBM
Skills
AlphaGBMalphagbm-grid-plan
Build an auditable grid from a price range, current price and capital. Use when the user asks to grid plan with AlphaGBM. Use the bundled Python runner; never silently replace real results…
AlphaGBM
Skills
AlphaGBMalphagbm-investment-review
Compare research records you provide to see changes in facts, scores and judgments. Use when the user asks to investment review with AlphaGBM. Use the bundled Python runner; never silently…
AlphaGBM
Skills
AlphaGBMalphagbm-momentum-following
Score observed price trend, confirmation, risk and participation without forecasting a price. Use when the user asks to momentum following with AlphaGBM. Use the bundled Python runner…
AlphaGBM
Skills
AlphaGBMalphagbm-news-impact
Separate reported claims from impact inferences, with related assets and next checkpoints. Use when the user asks to news impact with AlphaGBM. Use the bundled Python runner; never silently…
AlphaGBM
Skills
AlphaGBMalphagbm-report-breakdown
Extract report views, ratings, key assumptions and risks with sources and dates. Use when the user asks to research report breakdown with AlphaGBM. Use the bundled Python runner; never…
AlphaGBM
Skills
AlphaGBMalphagbm-smart-money
Aggregate user-supplied disclosed buys and sells by source without automatically copying trades. Use when the user asks to smart money tracking with AlphaGBM. Use the bundled Python runner…
AlphaGBM
Skills
AlphaGBMalphagbm-stock-research
Connect fundamentals, sentiment and risk to supporting and opposing evidence. Use when the user asks to stock opportunities with AlphaGBM. Use the bundled Python runner; never silently…
ScrapeCreators
Social Media Research Skills
ScrapeCreatorsaudience-research
Use when the user wants to evaluate a creator, influencer, or brand audience using public profile signals, TikTok audience demographics, follower/following data, comments, geography…
ScrapeCreators
Social Media Research Skills
ScrapeCreatorscontent-repurposing
Use when the user wants to turn public social videos, transcripts, posts, or creator research into reusable content assets such as LinkedIn posts, X threads, short-form scripts…
ScrapeCreators
Social Media Research Skills
ScrapeCreatorscreator-profile-teardown
Use when the user wants to analyze a creator, influencer, founder, or brand social account and understand positioning, content pillars, outlier posts, hooks, format choices, audience…
OpenClaudia
Openclaudia Skills
OpenClaudiageo-analysis
Run a full GEO/SEO client analysis for a domain via the Enception external API — start the analysis, poll its status, and download the PDF report covering AI visibility, market research…
aipoch
Medical Research Skills
aipochgrant-specific-aims-writer
Writes Specific Aims pages for grant applications. Use when drafting or revising the Specific Aims page (NIH R01/R21/R03), NSF Project Summary, or equivalent for any major funding agency…
jamditis
Claude Skills Journalism
jamditisinterview-prep
Interview preparation and recording-consent law. Use for research, question frameworks, one-party or all-party consent rules.
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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