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academic-research-skills: Streamline Your Research & Writing Process

Leverage this Python Claude skill to research, draft, review, and finalize papers faster—perfect for founders needing academic‑level documentation. 52k+ GitHub stars.

From the repo · “Academic Research Skills for Claude Code: research → write → review → revise → finalize”

intermediate⏱ 30 minutes💵 Free + LLM API costs
53,678 stars+1,193★ this week4,115 forksPythonGuide quality 8/10 · reviewed Oct 14Updated 10/24/2026100% 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."

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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

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⚡ 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
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How academic-research-skills: Streamline Your Research & Writing Process works
Codeflow
Free to inspect

Academic-research-skills: Streamline Your Research & Writing Process 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. 1
    README.md
    Start here — what it does and how to install it
  2. 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
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Details
Creator
Imbad0202
Language
Python
Category
claude-skill
Published
2/26/2026

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