Academic Research Skills
Academic Research Skills is a set of Claude Code skills that guides researchers through research, writing, review, and revision for a paper.
What it is good for
- Structuring a research paper through guided questions
- Finding and checking academic references and citations
- Getting feedback on a draft before submitting to a journal
- Revising a manuscript after peer review comments
At a glance
- Who it is for
- Setup
- Guided command-line setup
Level 4 of 5. You copy and paste commands into a terminal by following the instructions. Comfortable territory for vibe coders.
- Cost
- Free and open source
- Type
- Skill or plugin
- Tasks
- Works with
- Claude Code, VS Code, JetBrains
Momentum
- Rank this week
- Not ranked yet
- Best rank
- None yet
- GitHub stars
- 54,968
GitHub numbers as of Nov 2, 2026. Updated weekly.
Official links
Setup steps are on the official pages. We do not repeat them here, since they change.
Questions
- Is Academic Research Skills free?
- Yes. It is free and open source.
- Do I need to know how to code to use Academic Research Skills?
- You do not need to write code, but setup means copying and pasting commands into a terminal by following its instructions.
- What does Academic Research Skills work with?
- According to its own documentation, it works with Claude Code, VS Code, and JetBrains.
- What is Academic Research Skills good for?
- Structuring a research paper through guided questions, finding and checking academic references and citations, getting feedback on a draft before submitting to a journal, and revising a manuscript after peer review comments.
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