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Research skills for Claude Code and Codex
Skills that run research for an agent: deep web research with cited reports, investigative and primary-source researchers, literature reviews and paper lookups, hypothesis generation and scientific brainstorming, autonomous research loops, and research documentation in Notion and Google Workspace. They give an agent a method for gathering evidence and stating what it found.
Highest-scoring research skills in the October 22, 2026 snapshot: citation-management from K-Dense-AI/claude-scientific-skills (89/100), researcher from bitwize-music-studio/claude-ai-music-skills (82/100) and autonomous-investigation from deanpeters/Product-Manager-Skills (81/100). Scores come from the Suede Skill Check.
- 46 listed skills
- 15 repositories
- 11 with full pages
9 from official publishers. 8 bundle scripts. 8 connect to an outside service. Listed in Productivity and Knowledge Work (22), Science and Research (18), AI Agents and LLM Engineering (5), Writing and Editing (1).
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| Skill | Repository | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| autonomous-investigation 81/100 · B | deanpeters/Product-Manager-Skills | Defines the protocol behind investigation skills for unattended AI research, using a search-plan gate, Fact, Inference, and Assumption labels, confidence stacking, and diffable outputs. |
| citation-management 89/100 · B | K-Dense-AI/claude-scientific-skills | Manages academic citations by searching OpenAlex, PubMed, and Google Scholar, extracting metadata, validating references, and generating formatted BibTeX entries. |
| firecrawl-deep-research 80/100 · B | firecrawl/skills | Produces an intensive, cited analytical report with executive summary, multi-angle findings, contrarian views, open questions, and full sources, for complex topics needing rigorous synthesis. |
| firecrawl-research-index 76/100 · C | firecrawl/skills | Finds papers that answer a research query in Firecrawl's paper index, covering biomedical and life-science literature plus arXiv preprints, using semantic search and verification. |
| firecrawl-research-papers 75/100 · C | firecrawl/skills | Finds and synthesizes research papers using semantic search and related-paper expansion over Firecrawl's index of largely biomedical and life-science literature plus arXiv preprints. |
| firecrawl-workflows 80/100 · B | firecrawl/skills | Runs Firecrawl workflows that produce deliverables such as research reports, literature reviews, SEO audits, QA reports, lead lists, and website design systems. |
| literature-review 89/100 · B | K-Dense-AI/claude-scientific-skills | Conducts systematic, scoping, and narrative literature reviews using sources such as PubMed, arXiv, and bioRxiv, tracking search coverage and evidence limitations. |
| researcher 82/100 · B | bitwize-music-studio/claude-ai-music-skills | Conducts investigative-grade research with primary source analysis and cross-verification for albums that need factual research, source material, or verification of claims. |
| researchers-biographical 82/100 · B | bitwize-music-studio/claude-ai-music-skills | Researches personal backgrounds, interviews, motivations, and humanizing details to give biographical context about the people involved in an album's subject. |
| researchers-tech 82/100 · B | bitwize-music-studio/claude-ai-music-skills | Researches project histories, changelogs, developer interviews, and open source documentation when an album's subject involves technology projects or developer stories. |
| systems-paper-writing 77/100 · C | Orchestra-Research/AI-Research-SKILLs | Guides writing systems papers for OSDI, SOSP, ASPLOS, NSDI, and EuroSys with structural blueprints, writing patterns, venue checklists, reviewer guidelines, LaTeX templates, and deadlines. |
| autoresearch 66/100 · D | Orchestra-Research/AI-Research-SKILLs | Orchestrates end-to-end autonomous AI research projects using a two-loop architecture. The inner loop runs rapid experiment iterations with clear… |
| bgpt-paper-search 82/100 · B | K-Dense-AI/claude-scientific-skills | Searches BGPT scientific papers by topic or DOI and retrieves claim-level evidence extracted from full text, including experiments, reported… |
| brainstorming-research-ideas 74/100 · C | Orchestra-Research/AI-Research-SKILLs | Guides researchers through structured ideation frameworks to discover high-impact research directions. Use when exploring new problem spaces… |
| clinical-reports 79/100 · C | K-Dense-AI/claude-scientific-skills | Creates safety-bounded draft structures and runs local deterministic checks for clinical case, diagnostic, trial, safety, and aggregate research… |
| creative-thinking-for-research 71/100 · C | Orchestra-Research/AI-Research-SKILLs | Applies cognitive science frameworks for creative thinking to CS and AI research ideation. Use when seeking genuinely novel research directions by… |
| deep-research 80/100 · B | sanjay3290/ai-skills | Execute autonomous multi-step research using Google Gemini Deep Research Agent. Use for: market analysis, competitive landscaping, literature… |
| huggingface-papers 80/100 · B | huggingface/skills | Look up and read Hugging Face paper pages in markdown, and use the papers API for structured metadata such as authors, linked… |
| hypothesis-generation 79/100 · C | K-Dense-AI/claude-scientific-skills | Formulates evidence-bounded scientific questions, candidate hypotheses, rival explanations, causal or associational claims, discriminating… |
| ml-paper-writing 67/100 · D | Orchestra-Research/AI-Research-SKILLs | Write publication-ready ML/AI papers for NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, ACL, AAAI, COLM. Use when drafting papers from research repos, structuring arguments… |
| nemo-rl-auto-research 85/100 · B | NVIDIA/skills | Autonomous NeMo-RL research agent workflow for directed hypothesis testing and open-ended discovery. Guides agents through the full experiment… |
| notion-research-documentation 73/100 · C | makenotion/notion-cookbook | Researches questions across Notion sources and synthesizes cited briefs, comparisons, or reports. Use when answering requires discovering and… |
| notion-research-documentation 74/100 · C | openai/skills | Research across Notion and synthesize into structured documentation; use when gathering info from multiple Notion sources to produce briefs… |
| paper-lookup 87/100 · B | K-Dense-AI/claude-scientific-skills | Searches 18 scholarly APIs for papers, preprints, citations, open-access full text, repository records, and journal OA status, and returns results… |
| parallel-web 77/100 · C | K-Dense-AI/claude-scientific-skills | Uses Parallel CLI for web search, URL extraction, deep research, structured data enrichment, entity discovery, and recurring web monitoring. Best… |
| persona-researcher 54/100 · D | googleworkspace/cli | Organize research — manage references, notes, and collaboration. |
| propose-hypotheses 66/100 · D | NeoLabHQ/context-engineering-kit | Execute complete FPF cycle from hypothesis generation to decision |
| research 86/100 · B | danjdewhurst/story-skills | This skill should be used when the user asks to "research", "fact-check", "check the history", "is this accurate", "research notes", "sources"… |
| research 71/100 · C | mattpocock/skills | 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… |
| research-grants 87/100 · B | K-Dense-AI/claude-scientific-skills | Supports research proposal preparation and review for NSF, NIH, DOE, DARPA, and Taiwan NSTC, including opportunity-specific requirements, aims… |
| research-lookup 87/100 · B | K-Dense-AI/claude-scientific-skills | Compiles current scholarly evidence for a scientific manuscript or research brief when the user explicitly asks to gather literature, references… |
| researchers-financial 82/100 · B | bitwize-music-studio/claude-ai-music-skills | Researches SEC filings, earnings calls, analyst reports, and market data. Use when the album subject involves financial crimes, corporate stories… |
| researchers-gov 82/100 · B | bitwize-music-studio/claude-ai-music-skills | Researches DOJ/FBI/SEC press releases, agency statements, and government sources. Use when research needs official government records or agency… |
| researchers-historical 82/100 · B | bitwize-music-studio/claude-ai-music-skills | Researches archives, contemporary accounts, and timeline reconstruction. Use when the album subject involves historical events that need primary… |
| researchers-journalism 82/100 · B | bitwize-music-studio/claude-ai-music-skills | Researches investigative articles, interviews, and news coverage. Use when research needs journalistic sources for cross-referencing or additional… |
| researchers-legal 82/100 · B | bitwize-music-studio/claude-ai-music-skills | Researches court documents, indictments, plea agreements, and sentencing records. Use when the album subject involves legal proceedings or criminal… |
| researchers-primary-source 80/100 · B | bitwize-music-studio/claude-ai-music-skills | Researches the subject's own words from tweets, blogs, forums, and chat logs. Use when research needs direct quotes or first-person accounts. |
| researchers-security 82/100 · B | bitwize-music-studio/claude-ai-music-skills | Researches malware analysis, CVEs, attribution reports, and hacker community sources. Use when the album subject involves cybersecurity incidents or… |
| researchers-verifier 74/100 · C | bitwize-music-studio/claude-ai-music-skills | Performs quality control, citation validation, and fact-checking before human review. Use after research is complete to verify all sources and… |
| scientific-brainstorming 87/100 · B | K-Dense-AI/claude-scientific-skills | Facilitates evidence-aware scientific ideation with independent generation, structured discussion, explicit assumptions, transparent evaluation… |
| scientific-critical-thinking 79/100 · C | K-Dense-AI/claude-scientific-skills | Evaluates scientific claims and evidence quality. Applies to experimental design validity, biases and confounders, statistical interpretation… |
| setup-arxiv-mcp 66/100 · D | NeoLabHQ/context-engineering-kit | Guide for setup arXiv paper search MCP server using Docker MCP |
| web-research-parallel 69/100 · D | gooseworks-ai/goose-skills | Web research API with OpenAI-compatible chat completions and async tasks |
| web-search-exa 69/100 · D | gooseworks-ai/goose-skills | Neural web search - find similar content, extract pages, and run deep research |
| web-search-tavily 69/100 · D | gooseworks-ai/goose-skills | AI-powered web search, crawling, extraction, and deep research |
| web-search-valyu 69/100 · D | gooseworks-ai/goose-skills | Web search, AI answers, content extraction, and async deep research |
How to choose research skills
Match the skill to the evidence you need. Scientific skills from K-Dense-AI and Orchestra-Research work from papers and databases; general researchers (deep-research, firecrawl-deep-research, the bitwize-music researchers) work from the open web and primary sources.
Search-backed skills call a provider (Firecrawl, SerpApi, OpenAI, Gemini) and read its API key, shown under Before you install. Usage is billed by that provider.
Prefer skills that cite sources and separate fact from inference. autonomous-investigation and research-lookup structure their output that way, which makes review fast.
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