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| # | Skill | Repository | Stars | Used in | Tokens | Auto-check | Licence | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lets Claude Code ask questions of your Google NotebookLM notebooks through browser automation and return answers grounded in your uploaded sources. | PleasePrompto/ | 7.8k | 13 repos | ~2.4k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | 27 days ago |
| 2 | Perform comprehensive exploratory data analysis on scientific data files across 200+ file formats. | spacering-net/ | 3.8k | 15 repos | ~3.6k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 3 | Structured hypothesis formulation from observations. An agent skill from spacering-net/codeg. | spacering-net/ | 3.8k | 15 repos | ~3.6k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | today |
| 4 | Researches a GitHub repository over four rounds using the GitHub API and web search, then writes a structured markdown report with timeline, metrics and Mermaid diagrams. | bytedance/ | 83k | 5 repos | ~1.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 5 | Searches the web through the Tavily API with LLM-friendly output: clean structured results, optional AI-written answers, domain filters, news mode, images and raw content. | allenpeng0705/ | 3.1k | 4 repos | ~2.5k | Automated safety check: Notes | No licence | 6 days ago |
| 6 | Builds a structured deep-reading card for one scientific paper, covering methods, how experiments support claims, limitations and research ideas, with a script to prepare the source. | Yuan1z0825/ | 46k | 2 repos | ~2.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | today |
| 7 | Routes web research and platform lookups across 16 sites, including Twitter, Reddit, YouTube, Bilibili, Xiaohongshu and GitHub, through one command-line tool. | Panniantong/ | 93k | — | ~1.4k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 22 days ago |
| 8 | Measures STL, OBJ, PLY or 3MF mesh files against additive manufacturing design limits and reports printability findings for each print process. | earthtojake/ | 18k | 2 repos | ~1.5k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 9 | Researches a person or theme and distills how they think into a runnable persona skill with mental models, decision rules and a characteristic voice. | alchaincyf/ | 34k | — | ~4.6k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 1 mo ago |
| 10 | Fetches the TeX source of an arXiv paper from its URL, reads it and writes a markdown summary tied to the nanochat project. | karpathy/ | 58k | 2 repos | ~494 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 29 days ago |
| 11 | Assists in writing high-quality content by conducting research, adding citations, improving hooks, iterating on outlines, and providing real-time feedback on each section. | weapp-tailwindcss/ | 1.9k | 25 repos | ~3.5k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 12 | 12.Peer Review Structured manuscript/grant review with checklist-based evaluation. | spacering-net/ | 3.8k | 18 repos | ~5.9k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | today |
| 13 | Composes, revises or audits research proposals and opening reports through an evidence-first state machine with argument maps, section contracts and dynamic expert reviewers. | Yuan1z0825/ | 46k | 2 repos | ~1.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 14 | Verifies the technical accuracy of JavaScript concept pages by checking code examples, MDN and ECMAScript claims and external links through a five-phase method. | leonardomso/ | 67k | 1 repo | ~5k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 26 days ago |
| 15 | Runs web-grounded searches through Perplexity's Sonar models over OpenRouter for current events, recent literature and cited facts beyond the model's training cutoff. | davila7/ | 32k | 12 repos | ~3.5k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | today |
| 16 | 16.Networkx Comprehensive toolkit for creating, analyzing, and visualizing complex networks and graphs in Python. | zLanqing/ | 4.6k | 16 repos | ~3.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | BSD-3-Clause | 4 mo ago |
| 17 | Evaluate research rigor. An agent skill from weapp-tailwindcss/weapp-tailwindcss. | weapp-tailwindcss/ | 1.9k | 23 repos | ~5.9k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | today |
| 18 | Reference guidance for checking every citation in academic writing against canonical sources such as DOI, arXiv, CrossRef and Semantic Scholar, to catch fake or wrong references. | Galaxy-Dawn/ | 5.7k | 3 repos | ~1.9k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 14 days ago |
| 19 | Screens records for systematic, scoping and rapid reviews against fixed eligibility rules, using two blinded AI reviewers and a third adjudicator, with traceable PRISMA counts. | Imbad0202/ | 51k | — | ~8.4k | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | 4 days ago |
| 20 | Creates, revises, audits and exports manuscript-ready scientific figures in Python or R, and routes AI-generated graphical abstracts to a separate workflow. | Yuan1z0825/ | 46k | — | ~2.9k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | today |
| 21 | Conduct comprehensive, systematic literature reviews using multiple academic databases (PubMed, arXiv, bioRxiv, Semantic Scholar, etc.). | neflibata-feng/ | 126 | 21 repos | ~5.9k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | 3 days ago |
| 22 | Query and analyze scholarly literature using the OpenAlex database. | neflibata-feng/ | 126 | 13 repos | ~3k | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | 3 days ago |
| 23 | This skill enriches vague prompts with targeted research and clarification before execution. | severity1/ | 1.9k | 2 repos | ~1.7k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 6 days ago |
| 24 | Drafts Chinese invention patent applications and technical disclosures from research papers or inventor materials, tying each claim feature to source evidence. | Yuan1z0825/ | 46k | 1 repo | ~1.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | today |
| 25 | Searches bioRxiv life sciences preprints by keyword, author, date range or category with a Python script, returning JSON metadata and optional PDF downloads. | LigphiDonk/ | 738 | 13 repos | ~3.7k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 5 mo ago |
| 26 | Analyzes Neuropixels recordings from SpikeGLX or Open Ephys through preprocessing, drift correction, Kilosort4 spike sorting, quality metrics and curation. | davila7/ | 32k | 10 repos | ~2.8k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 27 | Reference for RuView's research-grade WiFi sensing features: multistatic fusion, cross-viewpoint geometry, persistent field models, RF tomography, intention signals and mesh security. | ruvnet/ | 97k | — | ~1.2k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | today |
| 28 | Systematically evaluate scholarly work using the ScholarEval framework, providing structured assessment across research quality dimensions including problem formulation, methodology, analysis, and… | spacering-net/ | 3.8k | 12 repos | ~3.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 29 | Finds papers in OpenAlex, PubMed and Google Scholar, turns DOIs, PMIDs and arXiv IDs into clean BibTeX, and validates citations for a manuscript or thesis. | K-Dense-AI/ | 2.4k | 2 repos | ~3.9k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | 7 days ago |
| 30 | Comprehensive citation management for academic research. An agent skill from neflibata-feng/MyArxiv-Agent. | neflibata-feng/ | 126 | 20 repos | ~8.1k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | 3 days ago |
| 31 | Systematic writing framework for philosophy and interdisciplinary academic papers from optimized outline to submission-ready manuscript. | lishix520/ | 1.4k | 2 repos | ~6.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 9 mo ago |
| 32 | Researches technology and advanced-manufacturing stocks by tracing supply-chain bottlenecks, with dated evidence, profit implications and conditions that would change the view. | muxuuu/ | 4.1k | — | ~1.9k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 21 days ago |
| 33 | Retrieve and analyze AlphaFold predicted structures for a protein. | google-deepmind/ | 3.2k | 2 repos | ~1.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | 22 days ago |
| 34 | Runs a 12-agent pipeline that plans, drafts, cites, reviews and formats academic papers, with modes for revision, rebuttals, abstracts and citation checks. | Imbad0202/ | 51k | — | ~16k | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | 4 days ago |
| 35 | Routes literature requests to lawful full-text sources: open access, publisher APIs, CNKI and institutional browser access, with a supporting-information gate. | Yuan1z0825/ | 46k | 2 repos | ~6k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 36 | Searches arXiv, fetches metadata, generates BibTeX, downloads PDFs and finds citations and related papers using a bundled Python script. | XiaomiMiMo/ | 14k | 1 repo | ~1.5k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 4 days ago |
| 37 | Formulate evidence-bounded scientific questions, candidate hypotheses, rival explanations, causal or associational claims, discriminating predictions, measurements, and preregistration-ready… | K-Dense-AI/ | 2.4k | 2 repos | ~3.9k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 7 days ago |
| 38 | Supplies LaTeX templates and formatting rules for journals, conferences, posters, and grant proposals, then can check a draft against them. | davila7/ | 32k | 9 repos | ~5.1k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | today |
| 39 | 39.Sympy A skill your agent uses when working with symbolic mathematics in Python. | zLanqing/ | 4.6k | 16 repos | ~3.4k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 4 mo ago |
| 40 | 40.Llmwiki Build and use a persistent, citation-traceable knowledge wiki from documents, research papers, notes, or project documentation. | atomicstrata/ | 2.2k | 1 repo | ~814 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 41 | Analyzes genetic variant effects on gene expression (RNA-seq), chromatin accessibility (DNASE), histone marks (ChIP), and transcription factors using the AlphaGenome API. | google-deepmind/ | 3.2k | 2 repos | ~3k | Automated safety check: Notes | Apache-2.0 | 22 days ago |
| 42 | Runs multi-round research in three stages with a persisted state file, evidence tracking and a long-form report with per-claim citations. | TokenRhythm/ | 7.1k | — | ~1.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | 2 days ago |
| 43 | 43.X Research General-purpose X/Twitter research agent. An agent skill from rohunvora/x-research-skill. | rohunvora/ | 1.2k | 1 repo | ~1.6k | Automated safety check: Pass | No licence | 7 mo ago |
| 44 | Renders ready-made scientific figure templates, such as raincloud plots, Taylor diagrams and chord diagrams, from bundled Python scripts in the MathModel sandbox. | jihe520/ | 6.2k | — | ~627 | Automated safety check: Notes | No licence | 4 days ago |
| 45 | 45.LLM Council Run any question, idea, or decision through a council of 5 AI advisors who independently analyze it, peer-review each other anonymously, and synthesize a final verdict. | tenfoldmarc/ | 817 | 2 repos | ~4.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | No licence | 5 mo ago |
| 46 | Simulates a journal peer review of a manuscript with a five-seat reviewer panel, an editorial synthesizer and several review modes. | Imbad0202/ | 51k | — | ~11k | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | 4 days ago |
| 47 | Execute autonomous multi-step research using Google Gemini Deep Research Agent. | sanjay3290/ | 430 | 10 repos | ~683 | Automated safety check: Notes | Apache-2.0 | 26 days ago |
| 48 | Covers publication-ready matplotlib figures for academic papers, slides, and reports—bars, trends, scatter, heatmaps, and multi-panel layouts—with… | ChenLiu-1996/ | 8.1k | — | ~557 | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | yesterday |
Questions, answered from the data.
What is the best research and science skill?
NotebookLM Research Assistant from PleasePrompto/notebooklm-skill ranks first of the 6,175 research and science skills listed here, with the highest score: its repository has 7.8k GitHub stars, 13 other GitHub owners carry a copy, its SKILL.md loads about 2.4k tokens and it has informational notes only in the automated safety check. Next come Exploratory Data Analysis and Hypothesis Generation.
Which research and science skills are official?
49 of the 6,175 research and science skills are official, published by the vendor's own GitHub organization: Hugging Face Paper Publisher, Docs Grounding Verifier, JS Perf Investigation, Physicsnemo Cfd Create Model Wrapper, Scientific Problem Selection and 44 more.
How are these skills ranked?
By Skill Navigator score, which combines the GitHub stars of the skill's repository (shared across that repo's skills and discounted for large collections), how many other GitHub owners carry a copy of the skill, and automated SKILL.md quality checks, minus penalties for safety-check warnings and for each further skill from the same repository. Skills that fail the safety check are not listed.
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- Bioinformatics1,169
- Citation management952
- Academic paper search515
- Literature review487
- Deep research421
- Reproducible research378
- Econometrics and empirical research331
- Peer review314
- Experimental design286
- Clinical and healthcare research271
- Scientific writing258
- Hypothesis generation224
- Physical and earth sciences213
- Drug discovery and cheminformatics202
- Fact-checking and source verification174
- Protein structure and design132
- Math and symbolic computation64
- Grant writing55
- Quantum computing24
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- AI & LLM Engineering4,913
- Agent Workflows8,317
- Documents & Office4,276
- Writing & Content3,844
- Marketing & SEO3,982
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- Security3,019
- Productivity & Automation4,118
- Business, Finance & HR4,048
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