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.
wanshuiyin
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wanshuiyinexa-search
AI-powered web search via Exa with content extraction. Use when user says "exa search", "web search with content", "find similar pages", or needs broad web results beyond academic databases…
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wanshuiyinexperiment-audit
Audit experiment integrity before claiming results. Uses cross-model review (external reviewer backend) to check for fake ground truth, score normalization fraud, phantom results, and…
wanshuiyin
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wanshuiyinexperiment-bridge
Workflow 1.5: Bridge between idea discovery and auto review. Reads EXPERIMENT_PLAN.md, implements experiment code, deploys to GPU, collects initial results. Use when user says "实现实验"…
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wanshuiyinexperiment-plan
Turn a refined research proposal or method idea into a detailed, claim-driven experiment roadmap. Use after `research-refine`, or when the user asks for a detailed experiment plan, ablation…
wanshuiyin
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wanshuiyinfeishu-notify
Send notifications to Feishu/Lark. Internal utility used by other skills, or manually via /feishu-notify. Use when user says "发飞书", "notify feishu", or other skills need to send status…
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wanshuiyinfirecrawl-search
Web search and page scraping via Firecrawl, returning full-page markdown. Use when user says "firecrawl search", "firecrawl scrape" or "/firecrawl-search".
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wanshuiyinformula-derivation
Structures and derives research formulas when the user wants to 推导公式, build a theory line, organize assumptions, turn scattered equations into a coherent derivation, or rewrite theory notes…
wanshuiyin
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wanshuiyingemini-search
Search research papers via Gemini for broad literature discovery. Use when user says "gemini search", "gemini papers", "search with gemini", or wants AI-powered literature discovery beyond…
wanshuiyin
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wanshuiyingrant-proposal
Draft a structured grant proposal from research ideas and literature. Supports KAKENHI (Japan), NSF (US), NSFC (China, including 面上/青年/优青/杰青/海外优青/重点), ERC (EU), DFG (Germany), SNSF…
Google DeepMind
Science Skills
Google DeepMindgtex-database
Use when you want to retrieve quantitative RNA expression data and variant eQTL information from the GTEx (Genotype-Tissue Expression) Project across 54 non-diseased tissue sites.
Google DeepMind
Science Skills
Google DeepMindhuman-protein-atlas-database
Use when you want to retrieve semi-quantitative protein expression and spatial localisation data from the Human Protein Atlas (HPA).
wanshuiyin
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wanshuiyinidea-creator
Generate and rank research ideas given a broad direction. Use when user says "找idea", "brainstorm ideas", "generate research ideas", "what can we work on", or wants to explore a research…
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wanshuiyinidea-discovery
Workflow 1: Full idea discovery pipeline to go from a broad research direction to validated, pilot-tested ideas. Use when user says "找idea全流程", "idea discovery pipeline", "从零开始找方向", or…
wanshuiyin
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wanshuiyinidea-discovery-robot
Workflow 1 adaptation for robotics and embodied AI. Orchestrates robotics-aware literature survey, idea generation, novelty check, and critical review to go from a broad robotics direction…
wanshuiyin
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wanshuiyinintegrity-forensics
Run the Anti-Autoresearch integrity-forensics sweep (span-anchored evidence ledger → GPT auditors propose findings → a rules-only reporter that lists every proposal with what the auditor…
deanpeters
Product Manager Skills
deanpetersintelligence-collection-disciplines
Run competitive research like an intelligence agency: eight collection disciplines (OSINT to MASINT), signal-to-inference chains, and fusion. Use when one-source research isn't enough.
Google DeepMind
Science Skills
Google DeepMindinterpro-database
Identify domains, families, and sites in proteins; find all proteins in a family or sharing a domain; explore species distribution for a domain; annotate genomes with protein families and…
wanshuiyin
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wanshuiyininterview-cheatsheet
Generate a long-form Chinese interview-prep cheat sheet on a specific ML/LLM topic — formulas with derivations, from-scratch PyTorch code, comparison tables, and 25 高频面试题 (L1 必会 / L2 进阶 /…
wanshuiyin
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wanshuiyininvention-structuring
Structure a raw invention idea into a formal invention disclosure. Use when user says "构建发明", "structure invention", "发明构建", "invention disclosure", or wants to formalize a rough idea into…
wanshuiyin
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wanshuiyinjurisdiction-format
Compile patent application into jurisdiction-specific filing format. Use when user says "格式转换", "jurisdiction format", "国家格式", "compile patent", or wants formatted patent documents for…
wanshuiyin
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wanshuiyinkeenable-search
Keyless web search and page fetch via Keenable. Use when user says "keenable search", "web search without an API key", "fetch this page as markdown", or needs broad web results beyond…
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wanshuiyinkill-argument
Two-thread adversarial review: a fresh reviewer constructs the strongest 200-word rejection memo, then a second fresh reviewer defends the paper point-by-point and surfaces still-unresolved…
Google DeepMind
Science Skills
Google DeepMindliterature-search-biorxiv
Browse and filter life sciences, biology, and medical preprints from bioRxiv and medRxiv. Supports fetching paper metadata by DOI, and browsing by date range with category and keyword…
Google DeepMind
Science Skills
Google DeepMindliterature-search-europepmc
Search Europe PMC for scientific literature and download open-access full texts and PDFs. Retrieve full-text XML/plain text by PMCID, get citation lists and bibliography.
Google DeepMind
Science Skills
Google DeepMindliterature-search-openalex
Query the OpenAlex scholarly database for research papers, authors, institutions, topics, sources, publishers, funders, geo-locations, and keywords. Use when searching academic papers…
wanshuiyin
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wanshuiyinmermaid-diagram
Generate Mermaid diagrams from user requirements. Supports flowcharts, sequence diagrams, class diagrams, ER diagrams, Gantt charts, and 18 more diagram types.
wanshuiyin
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wanshuiyinmeta-apply
Privileged applier that LANDS meta-optimize / corpus-audit patches the user approved — the ONLY skill permitted to mutate the skill corpus from a self-modification proposal, with…
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wanshuiyinmeta-optimize
Analyze ARIS usage logs and propose optimizations to SKILL.md files, reviewer prompts, and workflow defaults. Outer-loop harness optimization inspired by Meta-Harness (Lee et al., 2026)…
Google DeepMind
Science Skills
Google DeepMindncbi-sequence-fetch
Retrieve protein and nucleotide sequences from NCBI databases using E-utilities. Supports direct accession lookup, CDS translation, gene+organism search, locus lookup, PubMed-linked…
Google DeepMind
Science Skills
Google DeepMindopenfda-database
Query, search, and download data from the openFDA API for drugs, devices, foods, tobacco, cosmetics, animal and veterinary products, substances, and transparency data. Use for FDA adverse…
Google DeepMind
Science Skills
Google DeepMindopentargets-database
Query Open Targets Platform for target-disease associations, drug target discovery, tractability/safety data, genetics/omics evidence, known drugs, for therapeutic target identification.
Google DeepMind
Science Skills
Google DeepMindpdb-database
Use when you want to search for or download experimentally-determined 3D structures for biomolecules (proteins, nucleic acids, bound ligands). Supports searching by sequence similarity…
Google DeepMind
Science Skills
Google DeepMindpredictingthepast
Ancient text restoration, attribution, dating, contextualization, and embedding via Aeneas (Latin) / Ithaca (Ancient Greek). Use when asked to "restore", "attribute", "date"…
Google DeepMind
Science Skills
Google DeepMindprotein-sequence-similarity-search
Searches for homologous protein sequences using MMseqs2 (fast, default) or BLAST (comprehensive, fallback). Trigger this whenever the user provides a protein sequence or FASTA file and asks…
Google DeepMind
Science Skills
Google DeepMindpubmed-database
Search PubMed for scientific literature, including published clinical trials. Fetch abstracts and full text. Link published research to biological databases (gene, protein, nucleotide…
Google DeepMind
Science Skills
Google DeepMindreactome-database
Query the Reactome database (Analysis and Content Services). Use when the user asks about pathway analysis, gene list enrichment, retrieving results by token, finding unmapped or not-found…
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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