Research Claude Skills
2 269 research skills from 396 authors. They find sources and get you up to speed on unfamiliar ground. Half of them fit into 2 278 tokens or less — that is what one costs your context window when the agent loads it. 663 ship runnable scripts rather than instructions alone. 4 of them cannot work without an MCP server, most often rube. We also found 264 copies of these same skills sitting in other people's repositories — counted once here, not 264 times.
2 269 unique 396 authors 1 169 updated this month 93 from vendors
Answer a question across a corpus of contract documents with verified citations. Use when the user asks what a contract says, which contracts have a clause, what changed between amendments, or any question that needs reading and citing across a set of contract files. The corpus must be on the local filesystem (see README).
Market research, compensation benchmarking, BATNA, total comp analysis, and offer evaluation
Professional document preparation with LaTeX for academic papers, resumes, books, presentations, and formal documents
A comprehensive skill for user research — covering research methods, interview techniques, participant recruitment, synthesis, insight generation, readout formats, and continuous discovery habits. From early generative research to evaluative usability testing.
> Use when the user wants to verify paper claims against code or data, audit numerical accuracy, check formula-code alignment, or validate citation accuracy. Triggers on phrases like "verify claims", "check numbers", "do the numbers match", "formula vs code", "audit the paper", or "cross-check results".
> Use when the user wants to find related work, survey a research area, identify literature gaps, or discover open-source implementations. Triggers on phrases like "find papers on", "related work", "literature review", "what papers exist", "open source implementation", or "papers with code".
End-to-end paper reproduction from arxiv URL through smoke runs to replication experiments. Handles missing or partial official code, missing training scripts, missing hyperparameters, and private datasets via similar-public-dataset substitution. Use when the user asks to reproduce, implement, replicate, or re-run a paper from scratch, or pastes an arxiv URL with reproduction intent.
> Use when the user wants to write, structure, or revise academic paper sections, improve notation consistency, or refine figures and tables. Triggers on phrases like "write the abstract", "structure the methods", "improve this section", "notation consistency", "figure refinement", or "paper structure".
> Use when the user wants to prepare code for open-source release, create reproducible research artifacts, or structure a repository for publication. Triggers on phrases like "publish code", "open source release", "reproducibility", "research repository", "code release", or "prepare for publication".
> Use when the user wants to anticipate reviewer questions, select the strongest ablations to present, prepare rebuttals, or identify paper weaknesses before submission. Triggers on phrases like "reviewer questions", "anticipate reviewers", "rebuttal", "paper weaknesses", "defend the paper", or "strengthen the paper".
Search and analyze academic literature. Find papers, understand research methodologies, and synthesize academic findings for research projects.
Conduct comprehensive company research and due diligence. Analyze business model, competitive landscape, management, and market position.
Research topics and write content like blog posts, articles, and copy
Conduct comprehensive research on any topic. Synthesize information from multiple angles, provide structured analysis, and generate detailed research reports.
Research company and contact information for sales outreach
Structured workflow for fact-checking claims in journalism. Use when verifying statements for publication, rating claims for fact-check articles, or building pre-publication verification processes. Includes claim extraction, evidence gathering, rating scales, and correction protocols.
Crisis communication and rapid response workflows for journalists and communications professionals. Use when covering breaking news events, managing organizational communications during crises, coordinating rapid fact-checking efforts, or developing crisis response plans. Essential for newsrooms, PR teams, and anyone who needs to communicate accurately under time pressure.
Transcription workflows, recording management, and quote extraction for journalists. Use when processing audio/video recordings, generating transcripts with timestamps, extracting quotes for fact-checking, or building source-and-recording databases. For interview question design and pre-interview preparation, see the interview-prep skill.
Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and public records request workflows. Use when drafting records requests, tracking submissions, understanding exemptions, appealing denials, or managing large document productions. Essential for investigative journalists, researchers, and transparency advocates.
Journalism source verification and fact-checking workflows. Use when verifying claims, checking source credibility, investigating social media accounts, reverse image searching, detecting AI-generated content, or building verification trails. For reporters, fact-checkers, and researchers working with unverified information.
Academic writing, research methodology, and scholarly communication workflows. Use when writing papers, literature reviews, grant proposals, conducting research, managing citations, preparing for peer review, choosing OA routes under Plan S / 2026 OSTP Nelson Memo, posting preprints, working with persistent identifiers (ORCID, DOI, ROR), assigning CRediT contributor roles, preregistering analyses on OSF / AsPredicted, or disclosing LLM use to journals and funders. Essential for researchers, graduate students, and academics across disciplines.
Generate CLAUDE.md project memory files that transfer institutional knowledge, not obvious information. Use when setting up new journalism projects, onboarding collaborators, or documenting project-specific quirks. Includes templates for editorial tools, event websites, publications, research projects, content pipelines, and digital archives.
Generate LESSONS.md retrospective files that capture institutional knowledge, especially failures. Use when closing out journalism projects, investigations, events, or publications. Includes templates for research projects, event post-mortems, editorial tools, and publications.
Legal methods for accessing paywalled and geo-blocked content. Use when researching behind paywalls, accessing academic papers, bypassing geographic restrictions, or finding open access alternatives. Covers Unpaywall, library databases, VPNs, and ethical access strategies for journalists and researchers.
Generate self-contained HTML pages that visually explain systems, data stories, investigations, editorial workflows, and code changes. Use when the user asks for a diagram, architecture overview, diff review, plan review, project recap, source map, comparison table, timeline, or any visual explanation of technical or editorial concepts. Also use proactively when about to render a complex ASCII table (4+ rows or 3+ columns) — present it as a styled HTML page instead. Adapted from nicobailon/visual-explainer with journalism, newsroom, and academic design sensibilities.
安全追踪热点、研究关键词和拆解竞品内容，并将结果转成原创选题和证据包。用于用户要求找热点、看趋势、分析爆款、研究竞品账号、拆标题或开头、比较内容结构、发现评论需求和判断时效窗口。只做公开信息研究和只读采集，不自动互动、发布或使用主账号登录态抓取竞品。
Evidence-based health research using tiered trusted sources with GRADE-inspired evidence ratings. Integrates Apple Health data for personalized context. Use when user asks health, nutrition, exercise, sleep, or wellness questions.
This skill should be used for elimination-style research where the user wants to choose from a shortlist of products, tools, services, vendors, or other options using explicit criteria, numeric evidence, tournament-style comparison, source/domain classification, image-supported consumer reports, raw data tables, and ownership-cost estimates for replaceable parts. Use this skill whenever the user asks to compare options, buy something, shortlist candidates, rank alternatives, generate a "don't make me think" report, or produce a full audit report with raw numeric data.
This skill should be used when the user requests to research topics using FireCrawl, enrich notes with web sources, search and scrape information, or write scientific/academic papers. It extracts research topics from markdown files, creates research documents with scraped sources, generates BibTeX bibliographies from research results, and provides Pandoc/MyST templates for academic writing with citation management.
Run candidate product, brand, company, or benchmark names through an audition — authoritative domain-availability checks, collision research across SaaS/GitHub/packages/the target adjacent domain, a light trademark and ownability read, a ranked callback list, and an interactive casting report of finalists with optional draft branding. Use when the user is naming a product, app, company, feature, or benchmark; asks "is this name taken", "check these domains", "help me pick a name", "is X available", "name my product", "brand name research", "audition names"; or wants to compare and pressure-test a shortlist of candidate names before committing.
Scan and clean macOS caches, package-manager data, crash dumps, and app caches to reclaim disk space. Deterministic — a config registry (targets.json) plus two scripts (survey.py read-only, clean.py executor) do all the measuring and deleting; the agent only relays a compressed summary and makes the few human-judgment calls. IMPORTANT — use this skill whenever the user's request on macOS involves: freeing disk space, cleaning/clearing caches, "disk is full", "clean up my Mac", "free up space", "what's eating my disk", "running low on disk", needing space for an install, or any low-storage complaint. Covers the whole workflow survey → choose → clean → empty Trash.
Research, score, and publish a weekly industry digest on any topic. Casts a wide net via web search (20+ candidates), verifies sources for AI-generated slop, scores each item on five parameters (Novelty, Relevance, Slopiness, Technical depth, Feasibility), selects the top items, and generates both markdown files and a Tufte-style HTML report. Use this skill whenever the user says "/weekly-digest", "run the weekly digest", "industry digest", "what's new in [topic]", "weekly roundup", "news digest on [topic]", "research what happened this week in [topic]", or any request to create a curated, scored summary of recent developments in a field. Also use when the user wants to monitor a topic area with quality filtering — the slopiness scoring is the key differentiator from a simple news search.
Audit a white paper or long-form technical document against a research-grounded best-practices checklist. Two lanes — deterministic script checks (readability, undefined acronyms, structure blocks, broken links) plus an LLM-judge review (overclaims, inconsistent numbers, buried lede, limitations honesty, audience fit). Produces a prioritized P0–P2 findings report by default; applies fixes on explicit request (TDD for any code changes). Use when the user says "audit this white paper", "review my paper against best practices", "check this doc for overclaims", "whitepaper QA", "is this paper ready to publish", or wants prioritized recommendations on a technical document.
Use when reverse-engineering a binary or firmware — static triage + decompilation (Ghidra/IDA/Binary Ninja), dynamic instrumentation (GDB/Frida 17/angr), anti-reversing & packer bypass, OLLVM/VM deobfuscation, UEFI/BIOS RE & Secure Boot research, patch-diffing for n-days
Use when about to ask the user a factual question, propose a solution, diagnose an error, or choose between approaches. Triggers on: 'Do you have X installed?', 'What version?', 'Is X configured?', 'We should...', 'The fix is...', 'Options: 1...', 'Based on my understanding...', 'I believe X supports...'. Before deciding anything, spin up parallel subagents to WebSearch for current docs, community solutions, framework best practices, and GitHub issues. Your memory is stale — verify everything.
Investigate application or repository source code with search_file and read_file to explain behavior, trace root causes of runtime or query errors, and answer with precise file citations.
Map open problems where this repo can advance SOTA. Use when scoping research. Do not use to run the campaign; use night-market-completion-integrity-campaign.
Turn hunches into accepted results: worthiness score, evidence bar, research-to-rules. Use when vetting ideas. Not for QA; use night-market-validation-and-qa.
Selects architecture paradigm via research before scaffolding. Use when architecture is undecided and the choice needs justification and documentation.
Selects optimal sources for tool calls, balancing accuracy with token cost. Use before research tasks or when deciding whether a claim needs verification.
Processes external resources into stored knowledge with quality scoring and routing. Use when ingesting articles, papers, or docs into a memory palace.
Curate the web-capture index. Use when the capture backlog grows, captures sit unprocessed at seedling/pending, or to surface stored research during work.
Searches GitHub for existing implementations, libraries, or patterns. Use when finding code examples or prior art on a topic during a research session.
Refines an active research session by drilling deeper into a subtopic. Use after tome:research to narrow results to a specific channel or angle.
Searches academic literature via arXiv, Semantic Scholar, and open-access PDFs. Use when building literature reviews or finding formal research on a topic.
Merges, dedupes, ranks, and formats research findings into a report. Use after research agents return results from multiple channels to produce a ranked report.
Runs multi-source research across GitHub, HN, Reddit, arXiv, and Semantic Scholar. Use when surveying a technical topic across multiple channels.
Comprehensive collection of 128+ ready-to-use scientific skills for Claude enabling research across biology, chemistry, medicine, genomics, and advanced analysis domains.