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.
zLanqing
Codex Claude Academic Skills
zLanqingUse this skill whenever the user wants to do anything with PDF files. This includes reading or extracting text/tables from PDFs, combining or merging multiple PDFs into one, splitting PDFs…
zLanqing
Codex Claude Academic Skills
zLanqingqutip
Quantum physics simulation library for open quantum systems. Use when studying master equations, Lindblad dynamics, decoherence, quantum optics, or cavity QED. Best for physics research…
zLanqing
Codex Claude Academic Skills
zLanqingscientific-toolkit-skill
Research computing toolkit for optoelectronic information science and engineering, MATLAB/Octave, Python scientific analysis, signal processing, image processing, statistics, simulation…
zLanqing
Codex Claude Academic Skills
zLanqingseaborn
Statistical visualization with pandas integration. Use for quick exploration of distributions, relationships, and categorical comparisons with attractive defaults. Best for box plots…
zLanqing
Codex Claude Academic Skills
zLanqingsympy
Use this skill when working with symbolic mathematics in Python. This skill should be used for symbolic computation tasks including solving equations algebraically, performing calculus…
onvoyage-ai
GTM Engineer Skills
onvoyage-aiwrite-seo-geo-content
Writes product-led content pages optimized for both search engines and AI engine citations. Produces markdown files with frontmatter, following page-type frameworks (comparison, guide, use…
aipoch
Medical Research Skills
aipochlay-summary-for-cross-disciplinary-teams
Rewrites technical research content into a structured lay summary that cross-disciplinary teams can quickly understand and act on. Use when the user wants to explain research to colleagues…
onvoyage-ai
GTM Engineer Skills
onvoyage-airesearch-brand
Researches a company from its URL and produces a Brand DNA file covering positioning, audience, competitors, voice, and messaging. Use when starting work with a new brand or customer.
liangdabiao
Amazon Sorftime Research MCP Skill
liangdabiaosif-amazon-research
Use this skill for Amazon e-commerce research, market validation, competitor analysis, traffic diagnosis, keyword strategy, advertising review, launch evaluation, and growth optimization…
brycewang-stanfordaamas-camera-ready
Use when preparing an accepted AAMAS paper for the IFAAMAS open-access camera-ready, covering author de-anonymization, proceedings metadata, two-column reflow of game figures and learning…
brycewang-stanfordaamas-related-work
Use when positioning an AAMAS submission against multiagent, game-theory, and reinforcement-learning literature spread across AAMAS, AAAI, IJCAI, NeurIPS, ICML, EC, and JAAMAS, including…
brycewang-stanfordaamas-workflow
Use when planning an AAMAS project timeline from venue fit through abstract, full-paper or extended-abstract upload, supplementary material, the double-blind rebuttal, decision, IFAAMAS…
yushui2022
MathModel Skill
yushui2022paper-workflow-orchestrator
编排完整的数学建模工作流，从赛题与附件出发依次完成输入预检、题意分析、模型路线、数据与图表、代码与真实运行、证据门禁、正式写作与 Word/PDF 检查。当用户要做完整篇数学建模论文、需要从零跑通或从中断处续跑整个流程时使用。
zLanqing
Codex Claude Academic Skills
zLanqingresearch-writing-skill
Chinese-first research paper writing, revision, polishing, section drafting, rebuttal, peer-review response, thesis prose improvement, and manuscript argument planning. Use when the user…
brycewang-stanfordaaai-camera-ready
Use when preparing an accepted AAAI paper for camera-ready source submission to AAAI Press, including proceedings page limits, two-column template compliance, copyright transfer, purchased…
brycewang-stanfordaaai-related-work
Use when positioning an AAAI paper's novelty against archival work, contemporaneous arXiv or workshop papers, and AAAI/IJCAI/NeurIPS/ICML/ICLR neighbors across the broad AI scope, while…
brycewang-stanfordaaai-supplementary
Use when organizing AAAI supplementary material, including the technical appendix, multimedia appendix, and code/data ZIPs, while respecting that AAAI supplements are due with the paper…
Aperivue
Medsci Skills
Aperivuearchitecture-zoo
Renamed to /model-selection in v6 (removed in v7).
Aperivue
Medsci Skills
Aperivueexplainability
Renamed to /model-assessment in v6 (removed in v7).
lingzhi227
Agent Research Skills
lingzhi227paper-assembly
Orchestrate the full paper pipeline end-to-end. Manage state propagation between phases (literature → plan → code → experiments → figures → tables → writing → review), support checkpointing…
Weizhenaresearch-add-fields
Add field definitions to existing research outline.
Weizhenaresearch-add-items
Add items (research objects) to existing research outline.
lingzhi227
Agent Research Skills
lingzhi227backward-traceability
Make every number in the final PDF traceable to the exact code line that produced it. Uses \hypertarget/\hyperlink LaTeX commands and \num{formula} evaluated at compile time. Use for…
lingzhi227
Agent Research Skills
lingzhi227data-analysis
Generate statistical analysis code with 4-round review. Select appropriate statistical tests, interpret results, and produce analysis reports with p-values, effect sizes, and confidence…
lingzhi227
Agent Research Skills
lingzhi227experiment-design
Design experiment plans with progressive stages — initial implementation, baseline tuning, creative research, and ablation studies. Plan baselines, datasets, hyperparameter sweeps, and…
lingzhi227
Agent Research Skills
lingzhi227figure-generation
Generate publication-quality scientific figures using matplotlib/seaborn with a three-phase pipeline (query expansion, code generation with execution, VLM visual feedback). Handles bar…
lingzhi227
Agent Research Skills
lingzhi227idea-generation
Generate novel research ideas with iterative refinement and novelty checking against literature. Score ideas on Interestingness, Feasibility, and Novelty. Use when brainstorming research…
zhnnky329paper-section-writer
Draft submission-ready mathematical-modeling paper sections from the approved solution package, frozen numbers, human decision ledger, and verified figures without searching scattered…
lingzhi227
Agent Research Skills
lingzhi227self-review
Automatically review an academic paper using the NeurIPS review form with three reviewer personas, ensemble scoring, and reflection refinement. Extracts text from PDF, runs structured…
lingzhi227
Agent Research Skills
lingzhi227slide-generation
Convert a completed paper into presentation slides (Beamer LaTeX) or poster. Extract key figures, tables, equations, and create a narrative flow for oral presentation. Identified gap in…
lingzhi227
Agent Research Skills
lingzhi227latex-formatting
Handle LaTeX formatting, templates, and styling for academic papers. Set up conference templates (ICML, ICLR, NeurIPS, AAAI, ACL), fix formatting issues, manage packages, and ensure…
lingzhi227
Agent Research Skills
lingzhi227atomic-decomposition
Decompose research ideas into atomic, self-contained concepts with bidirectional math-code mapping. For each concept, extract the math formula from papers and find code implementations. Use…
lingzhi227
Agent Research Skills
lingzhi227citation-management
Manage BibTeX citations for LaTeX papers. Harvest missing citations from a draft using Semantic Scholar, validate cite keys against .bib files, deduplicate entries, and format bibliography…
lingzhi227
Agent Research Skills
lingzhi227experiment-code
Write ML experiment code with iterative improvement. Generate training/evaluation pipelines, debug errors, and optimize results through code reflection. Use when implementing experiments…
lingzhi227
Agent Research Skills
lingzhi227literature-review
Conduct comprehensive literature reviews using multi-perspective dialogue simulation. Generate diverse expert personas, conduct grounded Q&A conversations, and synthesize findings into…
lingzhi227
Agent Research Skills
lingzhi227literature-search
Search academic literature using Semantic Scholar, arXiv, and OpenAlex APIs. Returns structured JSONL with title, authors, year, venue, abstract, citations, and BibTeX. Use when the user…
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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