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Academic Research Skills for Claude Code: research → write → review → revise → finalize
36K starsJul 3, 2026 pushresearchPythonResearch
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AI Research Skills
Universal SKILL.md catalog for research workflows: literature review, research design, project memory, manuscript writing, and cross-agent delegation for Claude Code, Codex, Gemini, Cursor, OpenClaw, and generic AI clients.
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~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.
8.5K starsJun 14, 2026 pushresearchPythonResearch
$ npx skills add LearningCircuit/local-deep-research#3
Run autonomous deep research over web and local sources
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$ npx skills add assafelovic/gpt-researcher#4
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$ npx skills add OthmanAdi/planning-with-files#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
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.
49K starsJul 3, 2026 pushresearchPythonClaude Code
$ npx skills add mvanhorn/last30days-skill -g#7
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$ npx skills add Egonex-AI/Understand-Anything#8
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$ npx skills add NousResearch/hermes-agent#9
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$ npx skills add safishamsi/graphify#10
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$ npx skills add HKUDS/nanobot#11
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$ npx skills add alirezarezvani/claude-skills#12
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$ npx skills add Jeffallan/claude-skills#13
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$ npx skills add kyegomez/swarms#14
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$ npx skills add coreyhaines31/marketingskills#15
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$ npx skills add nanocoai/nanoclaw#16
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