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Academic Research Skills for Claude

Name: Academic Research Skills for Claude
Author: Imbad0202

Streamline research with Academic Research Skills for Claude.

intermediate⏱ 30 minutes💵 Free + LLM API costs

47,180 stars3,691 forksPythonGuide quality 8/10Updated 9/9/2026100% free · open source

What it is

Write your academic paper step-by-step from research through finalization.

Real use case example

"A graduate student, Sarah, wants to write a research paper. She uses this skill to automatically generate a research hypothesis for the topic 'Impact of climate change on global economies'. The skill outputs a 100-word hypothesis, and Sarah then uses the writing feedback to refine it through peer review and iterative revisions."

Best insideClaude Code

When to use it

•When conducting in-depth research for a thesis or dissertation
•When writing academic papers that require rigorous research and review
•When revising and finalizing research articles for publication

Ready-to-paste prompt

python academic_research_skills.py research --topic "Artificial Intelligence in Education"

Heads up: Requires Python to be installed and configured on the system, with the specific version specified in the GitHub repository's README

Saves to your device

Use with Claude

New

Skip the builder — one click puts this in Claude, Cursor, Antigravity and more.

⚡ Runs out of the box

A prompt/skill package — nothing to install beyond adding it to your AI tool.

Try it instantly — no install

Claude Code

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/academic-research-skills && curl -fsSL https://workflowstacks.com/api/skills/academic-research-skills/claude-skill -o ~/.claude/skills/academic-research-skills/SKILL.md

Open in another AI app

Opens the app with this repo with the prompt ready to go — no copy-paste needed.

Connect the whole catalog (MCP)

claude mcp add --transport http workflowstacks https://workflowstacks.com/api/mcp

Adds a WorkflowStacks connector to Claude Code: search and load any skill here by chatting.

How Academic Research Skills for Claude works

Codeflow

Free to inspect

Academic Research Skills for Claude is a very large Python project (~268k lines across 418 code files, plus 14 test files). You install it into your AI tool with one command; there is nothing to run yourself. Last commit this month, Other license, has a test suite.

Size

Very large codebase

~268k lines · 418 code files · days to read — use, don't read

Setup

Install as a skill / plugin

Add it to Claude Code (or your AI tool) with one command — 4 skills inside. Nothing to run yourself.

Runs on

Inside your AI tool

Helper scripts use Python

Python 99%Shell 1%

Where to start reading

1
README.md
Start here — what it does and how to install it
2
examples/benchmark_report_template.json
A worked example — copy this to get going

What's in each folder

commands/Prompts, skills & agent definitions16 files

skills/Prompts, skills & agent definitions4 files

agents/Prompts, skills & agent definitions3 files

docs/Documentation116 files

examples/Examples you can copy45 files

evals/Evaluations & benchmarks1103 files

scripts/Helper scripts590 files

shared/Folder138 files

READMEHas testsDocumentedCI checksExamples includedOther licenseUpdated this month

Use with Claude

New

Skip the builder — one click puts this in Claude, Cursor, Antigravity and more.

⚡ Runs out of the box

A prompt/skill package — nothing to install beyond adding it to your AI tool.

Try it instantly — no install

Claude Code

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/academic-research-skills && curl -fsSL https://workflowstacks.com/api/skills/academic-research-skills/claude-skill -o ~/.claude/skills/academic-research-skills/SKILL.md

Open in another AI app

Opens the app with this repo with the prompt ready to go — no copy-paste needed.

Connect the whole catalog (MCP)

claude mcp add --transport http workflowstacks https://workflowstacks.com/api/mcp

Adds a WorkflowStacks connector to Claude Code: search and load any skill here by chatting.

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Details

Creator

Imbad0202

Language

Python