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.
AgriciDanielblog-factcheck
Verify statistics and claims in blog posts by fetching cited source URLs and checking if the claimed data actually appears on the page. Extracts all load-bearing claims (statistics, product…
AgriciDanielblog-geo
Audit one blog post file for AI-citation readiness (self-contained, sourced passages, entity clarity, structure, crawler access) and score it with an internal 0-100 heuristic plus…
AgriciDanielblog-locale-audit
Read-only audit of a folder of existing multilingual blog posts: translation coverage, parity, hreflang and canonical consistency, meta-tag parity, and stale translations, with a…
AgriciDanielblog-localize
Deep cultural adaptation of an already translated blog post for one target market: local examples, CTAs, legal references, statistic sources, and formality (Sie/du, tu/vous). Built-in…
AgriciDanielblog-multilingual
One-command multilingual blog creation. Writes a blog post, translates it into user-specified languages, applies cultural adaptation, and emits hreflang tags, sitemap entries, and a…
AgriciDanielblog-outline
SERP-informed outline generation with H2/H3 heading hierarchy, competitive content gap analysis, section-by-section word count targets, chart and image placement markers, optional FAQ…
AgriciDanielblog-rewrite
Rewrite and optimize existing blog posts for Google SEO (E-E-A-T, helpful content) and AI citation visibility as one SEO discipline. For AI-citation-only audit (no Google work), use…
AgriciDanielblog-schema
Generate JSON-LD for ONE blog post (BlogPosting with Person, Organization, BreadcrumbList, ImageObject, VideoObject; FAQPage only as optional entity markup) in a single @graph, and check it…
AgriciDanielblog-seo-check
Post-writing SEO validation with pass/fail checklist covering title tag clarity and uniqueness, meta description quality, heading hierarchy, internal/external link audit with anchor text…
Google DeepMind
Science Skills
Google DeepMindcredentials
Instructions for handling API keys and credentials safely, verifying their presence, and prompting the user to add them if missing using a safe protocol.
Google DeepMind
Science Skills
Google DeepMinduv
Checks whether the uv Python package manager is installed and installs it if missing. Ensures uv is on PATH. Use when another skill requires uv as a prerequisite.
kostja94
Marketing Skills
kostja94local-seo
When the user wants to optimize for local search, set up Google Business Profile, or build local citations. Also use when the user mentions "local SEO," "Google Business Profile," "Google…
kostja94
Marketing Skills
kostja94ai-traffic-tracking
Compatibility pointer for AI assistant referrals and generative search visibility; maintained in Open Analytics.
ScrapeCreators
Social Media Research Skills
ScrapeCreatorscompetitor-social-research
Use when the user wants to research competitors' social media strategy, compare brands or creators, find what content is working in a niche, identify content gaps, or produce a practical…
kostja94
Marketing Skills
kostja94traffic-analysis
Compatibility pointer for source, UTM and direct-traffic analysis; maintained in Open Analytics.
ScrapeCreators
Social Media Research Skills
ScrapeCreatorsad-library-teardown
Use when the user wants to analyze active ads from Meta/Facebook, Google, or LinkedIn ad libraries; tear down a competitor's messaging; extract hooks, offers, CTAs, video transcripts…
ScrapeCreators
Social Media Research Skills
ScrapeCreatorstranscript-intelligence
Use when the user wants to summarize, analyze, or repurpose transcripts from TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, Facebook, X/Twitter, LinkedIn, Rumble, or Reddit video posts. Extracts hooks…
ScrapeCreators
Social Media Research Skills
ScrapeCreatorstrend-discovery
Use when the user wants to discover trending social topics, hashtags, sounds, posts, reels, shorts, creators, or formats in a niche. Searches public trend and discovery endpoints, ranks…
ScrapeCreators
Social Media Research Skills
ScrapeCreatorsaudience-research
Use when the user wants to evaluate a creator, influencer, or brand audience using public profile signals, TikTok audience demographics, follower/following data, comments, geography…
ScrapeCreators
Social Media Research Skills
ScrapeCreatorscontent-repurposing
Use when the user wants to turn public social videos, transcripts, posts, or creator research into reusable content assets such as LinkedIn posts, X threads, short-form scripts…
ScrapeCreators
Social Media Research Skills
ScrapeCreatorscreator-profile-teardown
Use when the user wants to analyze a creator, influencer, founder, or brand social account and understand positioning, content pillars, outlier posts, hooks, format choices, audience…
aipoch
Medical Research Skills
aipochdiscussion-composer
Composes a Discussion around key findings, mechanisms, clinical relevance, and limitations. Use when writing or improving a Discussion section for any biomedical manuscript — including…
aipoch
Medical Research Skills
aipochgrant-specific-aims-writer
Writes Specific Aims pages for grant applications. Use when drafting or revising the Specific Aims page (NIH R01/R21/R03), NSF Project Summary, or equivalent for any major funding agency…
aipoch
Medical Research Skills
aipochlimitation-and-risk-writer
Acknowledges limitations in sample, design, measurement, and validation in a professional way that improves credibility without undermining the whole paper. Use when writing the limitations…
ScrapeCreators
Social Media Research Skills
ScrapeCreatorsproduct-demand-research
Use when the user wants to validate a product idea, find pain points, mine demand signals, discover objections, or gather voice-of-customer language from Reddit, social posts, video…
aipoch
Medical Research Skills
aipochskill-auditor
A comprehensive auditor for any agent skill — including Manus, OpenClaw/ClawHub, Claude, LobeHub, or custom SKILL.md-based skills. Use this skill whenever a user wants to evaluate, audit…
ScrapeCreators
Social Media Research Skills
ScrapeCreatorssocial-listening-brief
Use when the user wants a social listening report about what people are saying about a brand, person, product, topic, category, or niche across public social platforms. Produces cited…
aipoch
Medical Research Skills
aipochtarget-journal-matcher
Matches your study to appropriate journals based on topic, design, and evidence strength. Use when deciding where to submit a manuscript, comparing journal options by impact factor vs scope…
nexscope-aiecommerce-keyword-research
Cross-platform keyword research for e-commerce. Discover high-converting keywords across Amazon, Shopify, Etsy, Google Shopping, TikTok Shop, and Walmart. Analyzes search volume signals…
aipoch
Medical Research Skills
aipochfigure-legend-writer
Writes complete, publication-grade figure legends that can stand on their own. Use when writing or revising figure legends for any scientific figure — bar charts, line graphs, scatter…
aipoch
Medical Research Skills
aipochposter-storyline-builder
Reorganizes a paper into a storyline suitable for scientific posters. Use when planning the section structure, title hierarchy, figure selection, and live-explanation flow for an academic…
aipoch
Medical Research Skills
aipochauthor-response-builder
Turns reviewer comments into structured, professional point-by-point responses linked to manuscript revisions, clarifications, rebuttals, and additional analyses.
aipoch
Medical Research Skills
aipochbatch-effect-correction
Use when correcting batch effects in merged bulk expression matrices with sample-level batch metadata while preserving biological group structure and generating before-and-after QC plots…
aipoch
Medical Research Skills
aipochcerna-analysis
Use when building a ceRNA regulatory network from a key gene list by combining bundled miRNA-mRNA and miRNA-lncRNA database files, with flat-file CSV exports and PDF visualization in a…
aipoch
Medical Research Skills
aipochcibersort-immune-infiltration-analysis
Use when estimating relative immune cell infiltration from a bulk expression matrix with a CIBERSORT-style nu-SVR deconvolution workflow based on an LM22 signature matrix, comparing one…
aipoch
Medical Research Skills
aipochclaim-strength-calibrator
Calibrates manuscript claim strength so wording matches the actual evidence level, study design, and validation status.
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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