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.
Ryze-AI-Adgentseo-audit
Full SEO audit of a site from its real Search Console + GA4 data — indexation health, CTR anomalies, decaying pages, striking-distance keywords, quick wins. Use when asked to "audit my…
Ootto-AIagent-reach
MUST USE when user wants to 调研/research/搜索/search/查/找/look up anything on the internet — e.g. 全网调研 X / 帮我调研一下 X / 查一下 X / 搜搜 X / 看看大家怎么评价 X / X 上有什么讨论 / research this topic。 Also MUST USE…
Adkid-Zephyr
Anti Defensive Writing Skill
Adkid-Zephyranti-defensive-writing
论文写作、修改、压缩和实验组织全流程中阻止【防御性写作】。把论文视为一场学术发布会， 而不是项目总结、实验日志或自我审查报告：识别这项工作最值得发表的价值，围绕它建立 最有利、最完整、最有说服力的叙事。不平均展示、不主动示弱、不写实验流水账、不替审稿人 攻击自己。 触发词：论文润色、论文修改、写摘要、写引言、写结论、压缩论文、rebuttal、回复审稿意见、…
Ryze-AI-Adgentbacklink-check
Backlink profile for any domain — referring domains, authority, anchors, new/lost links, and a side-by-side vs a competitor. Use when asked "check my backlinks", "backlink profile of X"…
Ryze-AI-Adgentcompetitor-gap
Find keywords a competitor ranks for that the user's site doesn't — the content gap, prioritized by volume and winnability. Use when asked "what does competitor.com rank for", "keyword gap…
lawve-ai
Awesome Legal Skills
lawve-aijurisrank
Argentine Supreme Court citation network analysis using JurisRank — a peer-reviewed PageRank algorithm with temporal decay for measuring jurisprudential authority. Ranks precedents by…
Master-cai
Research Paper Writing Skills
Master-cairesearch-paper-writing
Improve academic paper writing quality for ML/CV/NLP-style papers with clear section structure, paragraph flow, and reviewer-facing presentation. Use when drafting or revising Abstract…
onvoyage-ai
GTM Engineer Skills
onvoyage-aigeo-content-research
Researches what prompts people ask AI engines (ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Claude) about a product category and produces a prompts.csv artifact — a prioritized, strictly-schema'd list of…
kerpopulejev-social-research
Use when researching social posts, creators, reactions, or trends. Jev ranks discovery cards and decides when opened, source-linked evidence is enough for a bounded report.
onvoyage-ai
GTM Engineer Skills
onvoyage-aireddit-opportunity-research
Researches Reddit using a brand's Brand DNA to find promotable pain-point discussions, target subreddits, and real user search language. Produces a prioritized Reddit opportunity list for…
brycewang-stanfordamann-literature-synthesis
Use when systematically gathering, coding, and synthesizing a management/organization literature for an Academy of Management Annals (Annals) review — the search-and-coverage methodology…
brycewang-stanfordamann-proposal-framing
Use when writing the short proposal that gates an Academy of Management Annals (Annals) review — the ≤5-page, four-heading proposal submitted under the twice-yearly deadlines before any…
Affitor
Affiliate Skills
Affitorcontent-research-brief
Research trending topics, collect source articles, and generate a structured research brief for content creation. Stop writing from thin air — write from real sources. Use this skill when…
staruhub
ClaudeSkills
staruhubdeep-research
Use this skill when the user wants an evidence-based research memo, literature review, market/policy/technical landscape, or a multi-source decision brief with citations, trade-offs, and a…
AlpacaLabsLLCepd-research
Search for EPDs by product category, CSI division, or material type — finds EPDs from EC3, program operator registries, and manufacturer sites. Use when the user asks to "find EPDs for..."…
benchflow-ai
Skillsbench
benchflow-aimhc-algorithm
Implement mHC (Manifold-Constrained Hyper-Connections) for stabilizing deep network training. Use when implementing residual connection improvements with doubly stochastic matrices via…
yushui2022
MathModel Skill
yushui2022modeling-paper-rubric-and-model-selector
按评分点组织论文结构并给出模型路线，产出论文大纲、评分点对齐表与候选模型对照实验方案。当需要在多个候选模型间取舍、需要把评分要求映射成章节结构、或模型路线尚未确定时使用。赛题原文解析由 problem-doc-model-selector 负责。
yushui2022
MathModel Skill
yushui2022paper-formal-writer
正式论文的唯一撰写路径，制定写作计划、按章节写作与审计、全文统一改写，并生成原生公式 Word 与 PDF 渲染检查。当运行证据已通过校验、需要撰写或续写完整竞赛论文、或需要产出 final_paper.docx 与渲染 PDF 时使用。
AlpacaLabsLLCproduct-cut-sheet
Create a source-faithful single-product FF&E cut sheet or spec book entry from a supplied PDF or product URL. Preserve selected identity and source limits; use ffe-spec-book for a complete…
staruhub
ClaudeSkills
staruhubproduct-manager
资深产品经理助手，提供 PRD/MRD/BRD 创作与评审、产品策略、留存增长、竞品分析、功能优先级，以及 grill-me-to-doc 逐轮访谈。用户要求“逐个问我”“先把需求问清楚”“grill me”“把想法变成产品文档”时进入 grill-me-to-doc：先读仓库证据，每轮只问一个决策，给推荐答案与理由，记录决策和未决项，支持 resume，产出结构化…
Affitor
Affiliate Skills
Affitorproprietary-data-generator
Create original surveys, benchmarks, and aggregated data nobody else has. Automate data collection for content moats. Triggers on: "create original data", "proprietary data", "survey…
Weizhenaresearch-deep
Read research outline, launch independent agent for each item for deep research. Disable task output.
Weizhenaresearch-report
Summarize deep research results into markdown report, cover all fields, skip uncertain values.
staruhub
ClaudeSkills
staruhubwechat-article-writer
专业微信公众号文章助手，支持四个独立且可组合模式：article 写正文；image-prompts 从文章生成版本化、provider-neutral 的图片提示词 manifest 与稳定占位符，但不调用生图；layout 把文章和 manifest 确定性转换为微信安全的内联 HTML；full-pipeline 串联正文、提示词/…
brycewang-stanfordamann-organizing-framework
Use when building the novel integrative framework that an Academy of Management Annals (Annals) review must deliver — the theory-advancing "new way of seeing the field" that is the…
benchflow-ai
Skillsbench
benchflow-aiattention-variants-from-papers
Implement paper-defined attention variants by extracting mechanism invariants, mapping tensor shapes, preserving module interfaces, validating numerical behavior, and integrating the custom…
Ootto-AIcontent-research
Turn Claude into a content research machine for any niche. Point it at any creator or account and it pulls their posts, finds the exact ones that blew up (the outliers), then breaks down…
lingzhi227
Agent Research Skills
lingzhi227deep-research
Conduct systematic academic literature reviews in 6 phases, producing structured notes, a curated paper database, and a synthesized final report. Output is organized by phase for clarity.
lingzhi227
Agent Research Skills
lingzhi227github-research
Explore and analyze GitHub repositories related to a research topic. Reads deep-research output, discovers repos from multiple sources, deeply analyzes code, and produces integration…
kwakseongjaeomd-kr-writer
oh-my-design 블로그 글을 12개 voice preset으로 작성하거나 다듬는다. 한국어 표기·띄어쓰기·번역투·높임과 상황별 문체는 hangul 스킬을 따르고, 보고서·피치덱·공지·이메일·보도자료 같은 문서 자체는 hangul이 맡는다 — toss-tech-design (default), karrot-neighborly…
yushui2022
MathModel Skill
yushui2022paper-micro-unit-generator
按修复队列重写反复不通过的论文章节，或按明确要求生成旧版与演练草稿脚手架。当章节连续审计失败需要局部重写、或用户明确要求快速草稿而非正式论文时使用。
zhnnky329paper-polisher
Polish mathematical modeling paper drafts for grammar, clarity, formula consistency, hedging calibration, overclaim detection, and contest formatting compliance. Use after…
zhnnky329reference-manager
Manage and verify references for mathematical modeling contest papers, generating BibTeX entries, checking citation completeness, and ensuring all references are traceable to actual sources.
zhnnky329related-paper-analyzer
Collect and analyze relevant papers, reports, and reference methods to inform method selection without fabricating references or copying models blindly.
aj-geddes
Claude Code Bmad Skills
aj-geddesbmad-research
Conducts market, competitive, domain, and technical research using live web sources, producing a cited research-report.md to inform BMAD planning decisions. Use when the user says: -…
zsygggpaper-deck
将论文、技术文章或知识内容制作成高真实感的 AIGC 幻灯片。先做叙事结构和逐页视觉导演，再调用生图模型生成每一页 16:9 slide image，最后合成为 PPTX/PDF。适合论文汇报、组会、公开课、技术分享、商业化研究展示；当用户提到“论文PPT”“AI生成PPT”“不像AI的PPT”“高质感幻灯片”“逐页生图PPT”时使用。
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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