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.
359 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…
321k33MScore 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…
60k6.3MScore 88 - 3#3
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…
115k1.8MScore 85 - 4#4
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…
57k328kScore 84 - 5#5
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…
57k328kScore 84 - 6#6
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…
57k328kScore 84 - 7#7
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…
144k83kScore 83 - 8#8
mvanhorn
Last30days Skill
mvanhorn
Last30days
Research what people actually say about any topic in the last 30 days. Pulls posts and engagement from Reddit, X, YouTube, TikTok, Hacker News, Polymarket, GitHub, and the web. Includes a…
67k61kScore 82 - 9#9
davila7
Agents Autogpt
Autonomous AI agent platform for building and deploying continuous agents. Use when creating visual workflow agents, deploying persistent autonomous agents, or building complex multi-step…
33k285kScore 80 - 10#10
Agents Crewai
Multi-agent orchestration framework for autonomous AI collaboration. Use when building teams of specialized agents working together on complex tasks, when you need role-based agent…
33k285kScore 80
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 359 research skills.
Matt Pocockresearch
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…
Corey Haines
Marketingskills
Corey Hainescustomer-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…
Addy Osmanisource-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…
K-Dense
Scientific Agent Skills
K-Densealphagenome
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…
K-Dense
Scientific Agent Skills
K-Denseanalytical-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…
K-Dense
Scientific Agent Skills
K-Densearbor
Applies Arbor Hypothesis Tree Refinement to research artifacts with repeatable evaluators, including model training, agent harnesses, data synthesis and benchmark optimization. Uses…
Shubhamsabooadvisor-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…
mvanhorn
Last30days Skill
mvanhornlast30days
Research what people actually say about any topic in the last 30 days. Pulls posts and engagement from Reddit, X, YouTube, TikTok, Hacker News, Polymarket, GitHub, and the web. Includes a…
davila7agents-autogpt
Autonomous AI agent platform for building and deploying continuous agents. Use when creating visual workflow agents, deploying persistent autonomous agents, or building complex multi-step…
davila7agents-crewai
Multi-agent orchestration framework for autonomous AI collaboration. Use when building teams of specialized agents working together on complex tasks, when you need role-based agent…
davila7agents-langchain
Framework for building LLM-powered applications with agents, chains, and RAG. Supports multiple providers (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google), 500+ integrations, ReAct agents, tool calling, memory…
JimLiubaoyu-electron-extract
Extracts resources and JavaScript from any installed Electron app (`.asar` bundle), restoring original sources from `.js.map` files when available or formatting minified code with Prettier…
Imbad0202
Academic Research Skills
Imbad0202sr-screener
Protocol-driven study screening for systematic, scoping and rapid reviews. Turns a proposal or PROSPERO protocol into confirmed eligibility rules, then screens titles/abstracts and full…
alirezarezvani
Claude Skills
alirezarezvanideepread
Use when the user asks to deeply read a book, article, PDF, or document set; extract claims and evidence; build a knowledge map; or learn through Feynman explanation and recall. Covers…
OpenMontagefaceswap
Swap faces in a video using AI via the HeyGen API. Use when: (1) Replacing a face in a video with another face, (2) Face swapping from a source image onto a target video, (3) Creating…
Imbad0202
Academic Research Skills
Imbad0202academic-paper
12-agent academic paper writing pipeline. 11 modes (full/plan/outline/revision/revision-coach/abstract/lit-review/format-convert/citation-check/disclosure/rebuttal-audit). 6 paper types, 5…
Imbad0202
Academic Research Skills
Imbad0202academic-paper-reviewer
Multi-perspective academic paper review with dynamic reviewer personas. Runs a 5-seat, role-separated review panel (Journal-Fit Reviewer + 3 peer-review roles + Devil's Advocate) with…
OpenAI
Skills
OpenAIsecurity-threat-model
Repository-grounded threat modeling that enumerates trust boundaries, assets, attacker capabilities, abuse paths, and mitigations, and writes a concise Markdown threat model. Trigger only…
phurynsurvey-design
Writing or reviewing a survey or questionnaire: customer feedback, NPS, CSAT, CES, pricing, market research, an in-app survey. Starts from the decision, asks about facts, pilots it, and…
Composiocontent-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…
Composiolead-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…
phuryncompetitor-analysis
Analyze competitors with strengths, weaknesses, and differentiation opportunities. Identifies direct competitors and maps the competitive landscape. Use when doing competitive research…
Orchestra Research
AI Research SKILLs
Orchestra Researchgrpo-rl-training
Expert guidance for GRPO/RL fine-tuning with TRL for reasoning and task-specific model training
phurynmarket-sizing
Estimate market size using TAM, SAM, and SOM with top-down and bottom-up approaches. Use when sizing a market opportunity, estimating addressable market, preparing for investor pitches, or…
OpenAI
Skills
OpenAInotion-research-documentation
Research across Notion and synthesize into structured documentation; use when gathering info from multiple Notion sources to produce briefs, comparisons, or reports with citations.
wanshuiyin
Auto Claude Code Research In Sleep
wanshuiyincitation-crosscheck
Double-blind bibliographic cross-check: one agent extracts each cited entry verbatim from the local .bib, a second independently re-fetches the same paper's record from the web while blind…
wanshuiyin
Auto Claude Code Research In Sleep
wanshuiyinexperiment-queue
SSH job queue for multi-seed/multi-config ML experiments with OOM-aware retry, stale-screen cleanup, and wave-transition race prevention. Use when user says "batch experiments", "队列实验"…
wanshuiyin
Auto Claude Code Research In Sleep
wanshuiyinfigure-spec
Generate deterministic publication-quality architecture, workflow, and pipeline diagrams from structured JSON (FigureSpec) into editable SVG. Use when user says "架构图", "workflow 图"…
Hugging Face
Skills
Hugging Facehuggingface-paper-publisher
Publish and manage research papers on Hugging Face Hub. Supports creating paper pages, linking papers to models/datasets, claiming authorship, and generating professional markdown-based…
Orchestra Research
AI Research SKILLs
Orchestra Researchawq-quantization
Activation-aware weight quantization for 4-bit LLM compression with 3x speedup and minimal accuracy loss. Use when deploying large models (7B-70B) on limited GPU memory, when you need…
Orchestra Research
AI Research SKILLs
Orchestra Researchdeepspeed
Expert guidance for distributed training with DeepSpeed - ZeRO optimization stages, pipeline parallelism, FP16/BF16/FP8, 1-bit Adam, sparse attention
Google DeepMind
Science Skills
Google DeepMindalphagenome-single-variant-analysis
Analyzes genetic variant effects on gene expression (RNA-seq), chromatin accessibility (DNASE), histone marks (ChIP), and transcription factors using the AlphaGenome API. Use when the user…
deanpeters
Product Manager Skills
deanpetersbattle-card-builder
Research and draft a competitive battle card from public evidence — every claim labeled and sourced. Use when a rep needs a field-action card, not a research report.
Google DeepMind
Science Skills
Google DeepMindchembl-database
Query the ChEMBL database for bioactive molecules, drug targets, bioactivity data, approved drugs, and chemical structures. Use when the user asks about compounds, targets, IC50/Ki values…
Google DeepMind
Science Skills
Google DeepMindclinvar-database
Use when needing clinical significance, pathogenicity classifications (e.g., Pathogenic, Benign, VUS), clinical evidence rationales, or finding "hard positive" benchmark controls for human…
deanpeters
Product Manager Skills
deanpeterscompany-research
Create a company research brief with executive quotes, product strategy, and org context. Use when preparing for interviews, competitive analysis, partnerships, or market-entry work.
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), Source Driven Development (Addy Osmani). 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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