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Set up

Skills are installed by placing their folder where your agent loads skills.

Download ZIP from GitHub Open the repository

The download comes from github.com/IanLiYi1996/research-skills itself, not from our server, so what you get is exactly what its author published.

Install instructions come from the README

Skills do not use an MCP config. Follow the steps in the README below.

README

synced Oct 22, 2026

Research Skills - Claude Code Plugin

Comprehensive research and analysis toolkit for academic workflows. This Claude Code plugin provides specialized commands, agents, skills, and automation for literature review, data analysis, paper writing, and experiment tracking.

Features

🔧 Commands

Custom slash commands for common research tasks:

/analyze - Data analysis and visualization with statistical summaries
/summarize - Research paper summarization and key findings extraction
/search-papers - Literature search across academic databases
/track-experiment - Experiment tracking and result management
/arxiv - Search, download, and manage arXiv papers
/latex - Create and format LaTeX documents, equations, tables, and figures
/huggingface - Search HuggingFace Hub for models and datasets
/fetch - Fetch and retrieve content from web URLs
/git - Git version control for research projects
/slides - Create and export presentations (Slidev and python-pptx)
/references - Search DBLP and manage BibTeX bibliographies

🤖 Agents

Specialized AI agents for research workflows:

research-assistant - Academic research specialist for literature review and citation management
data-analyst - Statistical analysis and data visualization expert
experiment-manager - Experiment tracking and reproducibility specialist
writing-assistant - Academic writing and manuscript preparation expert
latex-expert - LaTeX typesetting and journal paper formatting specialist
presentation-creator - Presentation design specialist for slides and talks

🎓 Skills

Advanced capabilities with bundled resources:

academic-research - Literature review, citation generation, research synthesis
data-visualization - Publication-quality charts and statistical analysis
academic-writing - Manuscript drafting and scholarly writing
experiment-tracking - Reproducible research and data management
arxiv-search - arXiv paper search, download, and metadata retrieval
latex-writing - LaTeX templates, cheatsheet, and paper formatting
huggingface - HuggingFace Hub model and dataset search
web-fetch - Web content fetching and resource retrieval
git-research - Git version control for research reproducibility
context7-docs - Real-time code documentation retrieval
slidev-presentation - Markdown-based presentations with Slidev
pptx-generation - Programmatic PowerPoint generation with python-pptx
reference-management - Bibliography and citation management using DBLP

⚡ Automation (Hooks)

Event-driven automation for research workflows:

auto-formatter - Format code and documents on save
research-validator - Validate research files before git commits
data-backup - Automatic data backup and versioning
result-archiver - Archive analysis results and update records

Installation

Quick Install

# Add marketplace
/plugin marketplace add IanLiYi1996/research-skills

# Install plugin
/plugin install research-toolkit@research-skills

# Set environment variables (required)
export TAVILY_API_KEY=<your-api-key>          # For web search (Tavily)
export CONTEXT7_API_KEY=<your-api-key>        # For code documentation (Context7)

# HuggingFace uses OAuth authentication - follow the browser prompt on first use

# Optional environment variables (with defaults)
export ARXIV_STORAGE_PATH=~/Documents/arxiv_papers  # Default: ./arxiv_papers
export RESEARCH_FS_PATH=.                     # Filesystem access path, default: current directory
export RESEARCH_GIT_PATH=.                    # Git repository path, default: current directory

Prerequisites

uv - Required for arXiv, fetch, and git MCP servers. Install via:
```
curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh
```

Quick Start

Using Commands

/analyze data/experiment-results.csv
/summarize papers/smith-2024-ml-paper.pdf
/search-papers "machine learning interpretability"
/track-experiment create --title "Drug efficacy study"
/arxiv search "transformer architecture" --category cs.LG
/huggingface search-models --task text-generation --limit 10
/fetch https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.07041
/git status
/slides new presentation.md --format slidev --topic "My Research"
/references search "attention mechanism"
/references author "Yoshua Bengio"
/references export references.bib

Using Agents

Help me conduct a systematic literature review
Use data-analyst to compare treatment groups
Launch experiment-manager to set up my experiment
Create a presentation for my thesis defense using presentation-creator

Using Skills

Skills trigger automatically based on keywords:

"Help me conduct a systematic literature review"
[Triggers academic-research skill]

"Create scatter plot for temperature vs pressure"
[Triggers data-visualization skill]

"Search arXiv for recent papers on diffusion models"
[Triggers arxiv-search skill]

"Find a good model for sentiment analysis on HuggingFace"
[Triggers huggingface skill]

"Create slides for my conference presentation"
[Triggers slidev-presentation skill]

"use context7 - How do I use React hooks?"
[Triggers context7-docs skill]