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.
BrianRWagner
AI Marketing Claude Code Skills
BrianRWagnerlast30days
Research any topic across Reddit, X, and web from the last 30 days. Get current trends, real community sentiment, and actionable insights in 7 minutes vs 2 hours manual research.
sno-ailess-is-more
Write the least code that works, and cut what an AI agent over-built. Use on any coding task: write, fix, refactor, or review a diff. Also when the user says 'less', 'simplify', 'too…
alirezarezvani
Claude Code Skill Factory
alirezarezvanislash-command-factory
Generate custom Claude Code slash commands through intelligent 5-7 question flow. Creates powerful commands for business research, content analysis, healthcare compliance, API integration…
shawnpang
Startup Founder Skills
shawnpanginvestor-research
When the user wants to identify, evaluate, or prioritize potential investors for a fundraising round. Also activates when the user asks "who should I pitch?", "find me investors", "build an…
shawnpang
Startup Founder Skills
shawnpangmarket-research
When the user needs to estimate market size, understand market dynamics, or validate that a market opportunity is large enough to pursue.
Adkid-Zephyr
Oral Paper Skill
Adkid-Zephyroral-paper-skill
Help authors learn from exemplary ICLR, ICML, and NeurIPS papers through source-linked manuscript comparisons, concrete writing and experiment suggestions, and guided reflection. Use for…
rohunvora
X Research Skill
rohunvorax-research
General-purpose X/Twitter research agent. Searches X for real-time perspectives, dev discussions, product feedback, cultural takes, breaking news, and expert opinions. Works like a web…
Noi1r
Beamer Skill
Noi1rbeamer
Beamer LaTeX slide workflow: create, compile, review, and polish academic presentations. Use this skill whenever the user works on Beamer .tex slide decks, or asks to create slides, make a…
PleasePrompto
Google AI Mode Skill
PleasePromptogoogle-ai-mode-skill
Use this skill when the user requests current information, documentation, coding examples, or web research beyond the knowledge cutoff. Queries Google's AI Search mode to retrieve…
cookjohngs-export
Export Google Scholar paper(s) to Zotero via BibTeX. Gets citation data from Google Scholar's cite dialog, then pushes to Zotero desktop. Supports single or batch export.
cookjohngs-advanced-search
Perform advanced Google Scholar search with filters - author, journal, date range, exact phrase, title-only. Constructs proper URL parameters from natural language. Use for precise filtered…
cookjohngs-fulltext
Get full-text access links for a Google Scholar paper - PDF, DOI, Sci-Hub, and publisher links. Use when user wants to read or download a paper's full text.
tudoumashu
AI Memory Skillpack
tudoumashullm-wiki
Query and maintain the user's local LLM Wiki from any Codex or Claude Code conversation or project. Use when the user asks to search personal knowledge, recall prior research or decisions…
handsomeZR-netizen
Mathmodel Skill
handsomeZR-netizenmathmodel-skill
Plugin shim for the mathmodel-skill competition workflow. Use when Codex invokes this plugin for a CUMCM, MCM/ICM, or Diangong Cup modeling-contest task, including problem selection…
Spark-To-Paper-Skillspaperjury
Three modes for CS-conference papers (CVPR/ICCV/ECCV vision, ACL/EMNLP/NAACL NLP, ICLR/NeurIPS/ICML/AAAI ML). DIRECT-EDIT mode (common): the user describes a change in Chinese or English…
lishix520
Academic Paper Skills
lishix520academic-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…
lishix520
Academic Paper Skills
lishix520academic-paper-strategist
Systematic strategic planning framework for philosophy and interdisciplinary academic papers targeting preprint platforms (PhilArchive, arXiv, PhilSci-Archive). Use when users want to: (1)…
zubair-trabzada
AI Sales Team Claude
zubair-trabzadasales
You are a comprehensive AI sales intelligence and outreach system for Claude Code. You help founders, sales teams, agency owners, and solopreneurs research prospects, qualify leads…
zubair-trabzada
AI Sales Team Claude
zubair-trabzadasales-research
You are the company research engine for /sales research <url. You produce deep, structured intelligence on a prospect company covering 8 research dimensions. This skill is invoked…
K-Dense
Scientific Agent Skills
K-Densearboreto
Infers candidate gene regulatory networks from bulk or single-cell expression data using AertsLab Arboreto GRNBoost2 and GENIE3. Use for transcription factor-target association ranking…
K-Dense
Scientific Agent Skills
K-Denseautoskill
Analyzes user-requested Screenpipe history windows to detect repeated research workflows, match existing scientific skills, and stage new skill drafts or composition recipes for review…
K-Dense
Scientific Agent Skills
K-Densebids
Organizes, queries, validates, and converts Brain Imaging Data Structure (BIDS) datasets. Supports organizing neuroscience and biomedical data (MRI, EEG, MEG, iEEG, PET, microscopy, NIRS…
K-Dense
Scientific Agent Skills
K-Densebioservices
Provides a Python interface to bioinformatics services including UniProt, KEGG, ChEMBL, Reactome, QuickGO, and UniChem. Used for cross-database protein annotation, pathway retrieval…
K-Dense
Scientific Agent Skills
K-Densebulk-rnaseq
Prepares bulk RNA-seq FASTQ, Salmon, STAR or featureCounts output for gene-level differential expression. Covers nf-core/rnaseq and standalone quantification, biological replication…
K-Dense
Scientific Agent Skills
K-Densecantera
Runs Cantera homogeneous chemical reactors and evaluates ignition delay with mechanism provenance, conservation checks, and numerical refinement. Use for combustion kinetics, closed…
K-Dense
Scientific Agent Skills
K-Densecellprofiler
Runs reproducible CellProfiler microscopy pipelines for nuclear segmentation, cell counts, and per-object fluorescence measurements. Supports image/channel manifests, headless batch…
K-Dense
Scientific Agent Skills
K-Densecitation-management
Comprehensive citation management for academic research. Search OpenAlex, PubMed, and Google Scholar for papers, extract accurate metadata, validate citations, and generate properly…
K-Dense
Scientific Agent Skills
K-Denseclinical-decision-support
Prepares and validates research-only clinical decision-support evaluation, evidence-profile, cohort, survival, biomarker/model, privacy, and governance artifacts. Supports aggregate or…
K-Dense
Scientific Agent Skills
K-Denseclinical-reports
Creates safety-bounded draft structures and runs local deterministic checks for clinical case, diagnostic, trial, safety, and aggregate research reports. Use only with synthetic…
K-Dense
Scientific Agent Skills
K-Densedeepchem
Builds molecular property prediction and MoleculeNet workflows with DeepChem, including SMILES featurization, scaffold or grouped holdouts, masked labels, graph models and explicit…
K-Dense
Scientific Agent Skills
K-Denseadaptyv
Uses the Adaptyv Bio Foundry API and Python SDK to design protein characterization experiments, estimate costs, submit sequences, monitor laboratory progress, and retrieve results. Applies…
K-Dense
Scientific Agent Skills
K-Denseaeon
This skill should be used for time series machine learning tasks including classification, regression, clustering, forecasting, anomaly detection, segmentation, and similarity search. Use…
K-Dense
Scientific Agent Skills
K-Denseanndata
Handles annotated matrices in single-cell analysis, .h5ad and Zarr files, and integration with the scverse ecosystem. This is the data format skill—for analysis workflows use scanpy; for…
K-Dense
Scientific Agent Skills
K-Denseastropy
Core Python library for astronomy and astrophysics workflows that need Astropy APIs, including units/quantities, coordinates, FITS I/O, tables, time systems, WCS, and cosmology. Use when…
K-Dense
Scientific Agent Skills
K-Densebenchling-integration
Benchling Python SDK and REST API integration for registry entities, inventory, ELN entries, workflows, Benchling Apps, and Data Warehouse queries. Use when automating lab data with…
K-Dense
Scientific Agent Skills
K-Densebiopython
Provides Biopython workflows for sequence manipulation, file parsing (FASTA/GenBank/PDB), phylogenetics, and programmatic NCBI/PubMed access (Bio.Entrez). Supports batch processing, custom…
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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