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.
kostja94
Marketing Skills
kostja94keyword-research
Coordinates keyword research from a seed or existing keyword data through discovery, intent clustering, opportunity assessment and page mapping.
davidondrej
Skills
davidondrejdeep-scrape
Build sourced JSON dossiers on people, companies, or topics with DeepAPI. Use for profiles, prospects, vendor due diligence, or customer research across sources; use deep-research for…
kostja94
Marketing Skills
kostja94github
When the user wants to use GitHub for SEO, parasite SEO, GEO, open source marketing, README optimization, or curated Awesome lists. Also use when the user mentions "GitHub," "GitHub SEO,"…
hashicorp
Agent Skills
hashicorpprovider-resources
Implement Terraform Provider resources and data sources using the Plugin Framework: CRUD operations, schema design, plan modifiers and validators, not-found handling, waiters for eventually…
vinvcnresearch
对照高可信一手来源调研问题，并把发现保存为仓库中的 Markdown 文件。适用于用户想调研主题、收集文档或 API 事实，或把阅读工作委托给后台代理时。
brycewang-stanfordacademic-paper
Academic paper writing skill with 12-agent pipeline. v2.5: Style Calibration (learn author's writing voice from past papers) + Writing Quality Check (writing quality checklist for natural…
brycewang-stanfordacademic-paper-composer
Systematic writing framework for philosophy and interdisciplinary academic papers from optimized outline to submission-ready manuscript. Use when users want to: (1) write a paper from a…
brycewang-stanfordacademic-paper-reviewer
Multi-perspective academic paper review with dynamic reviewer personas. Simulates 5 independent reviewers (EIC + 3 peer reviewers + Devil's Advocate) with field-specific expertise. Supports…
foryourhealth111-pixelcitation-management
Comprehensive citation management for academic research. Resolve bibliographic identifiers, extract accurate metadata, validate citations, deduplicate references, and generate properly…
composio-communitycontent-research-writer
Assists in writing high-quality content by conducting research, adding citations, improving hooks, iterating on outlines, and providing real-time feedback on each section. Transforms your…
product-on-purpose
Pm Skills
product-on-purposediscover-journey-map
Maps a customer journey across stages, touchpoints, emotional curve, pain points, and moments of truth into a markdown artifact with an optional mermaid timeline or flowchart. Use when…
composio-communitylead-research-assistant
Identifies high-quality leads for your product or service by analyzing your business, searching for target companies, and providing actionable contact strategies. Perfect for sales…
Owl-Listener
Designer Skills
Owl-Listenerresearch-repository
Build a repository that makes findings findable, reusable, and cumulative across teams. Use when the same research keeps getting redone. For synthesising one study, use `affinity-diagram`.
Owl-Listener
Designer Skills
Owl-Listenersurvey-design
Design unbiased survey instruments — question wording, scales, and sampling — to measure attitudes at scale. Use when you need quantitative breadth. For behavioural experiments, use…
Appllamaappllama-usage
Use the Appllama MCP (mcp.appllama.io) well — research real top-grossing mobile apps, their screens, flows, and UI elements, then build from what you learn. Load when the Appllama MCP is…
Owl-Listener
Designer Skills
Owl-Listenerbehavioural-analytics
Read funnels, retention curves, and event data as a designer — separating a design problem from a tracking artefact. Use when handed product data you did not design and asked why people…
alchaincyfdarwin-skill
Darwin Skill 2.0 (达尔文.skill 2.0): autonomous skill optimizer, v2.0 integrates Microsoft Research SkillLens (arXiv 2605.23899) 9-dim rubric + SkillOpt (arXiv 2605.23904) validation-gated…
jezweb
Claude Skills
jezwebdeep-research
Deep research and discovery before building something new. Explores local projects for reusable code, researches competitors, reads forums and reviews, analyses plugin ecosystems…
OpenClaudia
Openclaudia Skills
OpenClaudiaahrefs-python
Manages Ahrefs API usage in Python using `ahrefs-python` library. Use when working with SEO / marketing related tasks or with data including backlinks, keywords, domain ratings, organic…
foryourhealth111-pixelcomprehensive-research-agent
Ensure thorough validation, error recovery, and transparent reasoning in research tasks with multiple tool calls
anbeimecontent-research-writer
内容创作者、技术写作员在撰写博客、深度文章或技术文档时，使用此技能可开启全流程写作协作。它能帮你研究资料、构建大纲、逐段打磨并自动添加引用，快速优化Hook，让你高效产出高质量内容，告别孤军奋战！
product-on-purpose
Pm Skills
product-on-purposediscover-interview-synthesis
Synthesizes user research interviews into actionable insights, patterns, and recommendations. Use after conducting user interviews, customer calls, or usability sessions to extract and…
PleasePromptonotebooklm
Use this skill to query your Google NotebookLM notebooks directly from Claude Code for source-grounded, citation-backed answers from Gemini. Browser automation, library management…
ScrapeCreators
Social Media Research Skills
ScrapeCreatorsoutlier-post-finder
Use when the user wants to find posts, videos, reels, shorts, tweets, or social content that overperformed versus a creator, brand, or competitor baseline. Finds outliers, explains why they…
briiirussell
Cybersecurity Skills
briiirussellowasp-audit
Audit application source code against the OWASP Top 10:2025 categories — broken access control (incl. SSRF), security misconfiguration, software supply chain failures, cryptographic…
dzhngratchet-files
Ratchet source file size so every file stays small enough for an agent to read whole: find every file over a token budget, split oversized files by concept, and set up the pre-commit…
ScrapeCreators
Social Media Research Skills
ScrapeCreatorsscrapecreators-api
Scrape and extract public data from 27+ social media platforms using the ScrapeCreators REST API. Covers TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter/X, Reddit, Threads, Bluesky…
kajisho5shipping-build-artifacts
Make the build step a real gate on what you actually distribute — build scripts that warn and exit 0 on a missing input, size checks with only an upper bound, hand-maintained file lists…
OpenSenseNovasn-research-report
用于撰写或组织研究报告结构。按读者认知任务（全景/对比/调查/时序）和领域惯例（学术/医疗/法律/政策）选择报告模板。
jamditis
Claude Skills Journalism
jamditisvisual-explainer
HTML explainers, diagrams, architecture, timelines, source maps, slide decks, comparison tables, recaps, plan and diff reviews.
ZeroPointRepo
Youtube Skills
ZeroPointRepoyoutube-api
Use when YouTube data is needed without Google API quotas or OAuth setup: transcripts, video metadata, channel info, search results, playlists. Triggers on pasted YouTube links, creator…
ZeroPointRepo
Youtube Skills
ZeroPointRepoyoutube-data
Use when structured YouTube data is needed: pasted video/channel/playlist links, transcripts for analysis, video metadata, channel upload history, search results, or playlist contents —…
ZeroPointRepo
Youtube Skills
ZeroPointRepoyoutube-search
Use when the user wants to find YouTube content on any topic: searching for videos or channels, finding creators who cover a subject, discovering tutorials, talks, or expert discussions, or…
GarethManning
Education Agent Skills
GarethManningai-hallucination-fact-check-protocol
Design a fact-checking protocol for AI-generated text, extending SIFT with AI-specific adaptations for hallucination detection. Use when students need to verify AI claims and citations.
nexscope-aiamazon-keyword-research
Amazon keyword research and market opportunity analysis for sellers. Retrieve autocomplete suggestions (long-tail keywords), analyze competitor landscape, and assess market opportunity for…
nexscope-aiamazon-listing-optimization
Amazon listing builder and optimizer for sellers. Two modes: (A) Create — build keyword-optimized listings from scratch using keyword lists + product characteristics + AI copywriting, (B)…
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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