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A set of Claude Code skills that package common academic research workflows, from literature search and paper drafting to slide decks and review writing.

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What is it?

research-skills is a collection of Claude Code skills aimed at academic research. Each skill is a self-contained folder that you copy into the Claude Code skills directory and invoke with a slash command or natural-language trigger. The collection covers six workflows: systematic literature retrieval with measurable recall, medical imaging AI literature reviews, PhD research proposals, original research article drafting from completed experiments, fidelity-first academic slide decks for live talks, and stylized AI-generated slide images for reading and sharing.

The skills emphasize citation integrity. Several of them verify references against DOI, PMID, arXiv or Zotero records and flag unverifiable entries instead of inventing them. The lit-search and scholar-slides skills ship their own toolchains and include an install script that provisions their dependencies.

The project is written mainly in Python and is aimed at researchers and graduate students who work with Claude Code and want repeatable structure for writing, reviewing and presenting research.

Key features

  • 01Systematic literature retrieval across sources with saturation and recall reporting
  • 02Medical imaging AI review drafting with citekey and claim-ledger auditing
  • 03PhD research proposal generation with a verify-before-cite workflow
  • 04Original paper drafting (IMRaD) that reconciles numbers against a results ledger
  • 05Editable academic slide decks with vector equations and citation tracking
  • 06Stylized slide image generation from paper content using multiple visual styles

Use cases

  • Running a systematic literature search over a defined time window for a review
  • Drafting a PhD proposal or research plan with verified references
  • Turning finished experiments into a results-first paper draft
  • Preparing a group-meeting or defense deck from a paper PDF

Quick start

  1. 1

    Copy the skill folder you want into your Claude Code skills directory

    cp -r medical-imaging-review ~/.claude/skills/
  2. 2

    Provision the toolchain for scholar-slides or lit-search (run once)

    cd ~/.claude/skills/scholar-slides && ./install.sh
  3. 3

    Invoke the skill in Claude Code, for example /lit-search

Things to know

  • No license is specified, so reuse and redistribution rights are unclear.
  • scholar-slides needs Python 3.11+ and Node 18+, and lit-search needs uv and Python 3.11+.
  • paper-slide-deck relies on the Gemini API, and its AI-generated slide images cannot be edited and may garble math and data.
  • Figure detection on dense two-column papers is less reliable and needs human confirmation.

Topics

#claude-code#agent-skills#academic-writing#literature-review#research-workflow#citation#slides

FAQ

What is research-skills?
A set of Claude Code skills that package common academic research workflows, from literature search and paper drafting to slide decks and review writing. research-skills is a collection of Claude Code skills aimed at academic research. Each skill is a self-contained folder that you copy into the Claude Code skills directory and invoke with a slash command or natural-language trigger. The collection covers six workflows: systematic literature retrieval with measurable recall, medical imaging AI literature reviews, PhD research proposals, original research article drafting from completed experiments, fidelity-first academic slide decks for live talks, and stylized AI-generated slide images for reading and sharing.
Is research-skills free to use? What license does it have?
research-skills has no declared license. Its code is public, but without a license you have no explicit permission to reuse it; ask the author before relying on it.
Is research-skills still maintained?
Actively maintained. The last commit to research-skills was on Oct 10, 2026.
What can I use research-skills for?
Running a systematic literature search over a defined time window for a review Drafting a PhD proposal or research plan with verified references Turning finished experiments into a results-first paper draft Preparing a group-meeting or defense deck from a paper PDF
How do I install research-skills?
Copy the skill folder you want into your Claude Code skills directory: cp -r medical-imaging-review ~/.claude/skills/ Provision the toolchain for scholar-slides or lit-search (run once): cd ~/.claude/skills/scholar-slides && ./install.sh Invoke the skill in Claude Code, for example /lit-search
Where can I get research-skills?
The source code and installation instructions are on GitHub: https://github.com/luwill/research-skills

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