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.
referodesignrefero-design
Primary/default skill for UI design, product design, web design, landing pages, dashboards, product screens, redesigns, visual polish, frontend/CSS styling, design systems, components…
Weizhenaresearch
Conduct preliminary research on a topic and generate research outline. For academic research, benchmark research, technology selection, etc.
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…
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…
irinabuht12-ossicp-research-assistant
Build detailed B2B buyer personas with pain points, objections, buying triggers, and messaging angles. Use when given a product and market to research ideal customer profiles, creating…
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…
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.
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…
Cold-IQ
ColdIQ S GTM Skills
Cold-IQlead-sources-guide
Lead sources by use case with a data workspace delivery-ready templates - Apollo, LinkedIn Sales Navigator, a data workspace, Ocean.io, Openmart, and Local Directories. Use when choosing…
Affitor
Affiliate Skills
Affitoraffiliate-check
Live affiliate program data from openaffiliate.dev. Search programs, compare commissions, check cookie days, find top performers. Use when researching affiliate programs, comparing options…
irinabuht12-osscitation-source-gap-finder
Find the exact pages AI assistants cite when answering questions in your category, and identify which ones you can get into. Claude clusters the cited sources, scores each by attainability…
questflowaidengxiaofeng-cycle-industry
Use when evaluating stocks through Deng Xiaofeng's cycle-and-industry lens: deep industry research, cycle position awareness, supply-demand dynamics, and buying leaders at cycle bottoms.
questflowaimuddy-waters-forensic
Use when evaluating Muddy Waters-style forensic short research: fraud, channel checks, related-party structures, cash verification, governance failure, and evidence-based short theses.
questflowaidelphi-thematic-crypto
Use when evaluating crypto sectors through a Delphi-style thematic research lens: sector maps, tokenomics, narrative timing, and research-driven crypto allocation.
explorium-ai
GTM Skills
explorium-aiaccount-research
Account research skill for Claude Code and Codex: generate a high-signal company intelligence brief including firmographics, technographics, funding history, hiring signals, business…
explorium-ai
GTM Skills
explorium-aicontact-research
Contact research skill for Claude Code and Codex: given a list of people, match and enrich each one with Vibe Prospecting — verified work email, LinkedIn, direct phone, current role, work…
explorium-ai
GTM Skills
explorium-aimeeting-prep
Meeting prep skill for Claude Code and Codex: generate a 30-minute pre-call brief for any target account with headline signals, attendee profiles, ranked talking points, discovery…
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.
shawnpang
Startup Founder Skills
shawnpangreview-mining
When the user wants to research customer pain points, complaints, or sentiment using review platforms like Trustpilot, G2, Capterra, or app stores. Also use when the user mentions "what are…
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…
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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