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Academic Research Skills for Claude Code: research → write → review → revise → finalize
38K starsJul 18, 2026 pushresearchPythonResearch
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Mechanical Engineering Research Skill alternatives for AI agents.
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Mechanical Engineering Research Skill
A domain-rigor skill for thermal-fluid mechanical engineering research, packaging agent workflows for Codex and Claude Code to enforce physical validity in analysis, writing, and data interpretation.
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Research the last 30 days across Reddit, X, YouTube, Hacker News, Polymarket, GitHub, and the web, then synthesize a grounded brief for an AI agent.
54K starsJul 25, 2026 pushresearchPythonClaude Code
$ npx skills add mvanhorn/last30days-skill -g#3
Run autonomous deep research over web and local sources
28K starsJun 28, 2026 pushresearchPythonResearch Agent
$ npx skills add assafelovic/gpt-researcher#4
~95% on SimpleQA (e.g. Qwen3.6-27B on a 3090). Supports all local and cloud LLMs (llama.cpp, Ollama, Google, ...). 10+ search engines - arXiv, PubMed, your private documents. Everything Local & Encrypted.
8.7K starsJul 18, 2026 pushresearchPythonResearch
$ npx skills add LearningCircuit/local-deep-research#5
An AI-powered research assistant that performs iterative, deep research on any topic by combining search engines, web scraping, and large language models. The goal of this repo is to provide the simplest implementation of a deep research agent - e.g. an agent that can refine its research direction overtime and deep dive into a topic.
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$ npx skills add dzhng/deep-research#6
The agent that grows with you
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$ npx skills add NousResearch/hermes-agent#7
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$ npx skills add KKKKhazix/khazix-skills#8
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$ npx skills add safishamsi/graphify#9
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$ npx skills add OthmanAdi/planning-with-files#10
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$ npx skills add HKUDS/nanobot#11
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$ npx skills add coreyhaines31/marketingskills#12
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$ npx skills add CherryHQ/cherry-studio#13
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$ npx skills add Egonex-AI/Understand-Anything#14
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$ npx skills add op7418/guizang-ppt-skill#15
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$ npx skills add iOfficeAI/AionUi#16
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