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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 | 14 repos | ~2.4k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | 29 days ago |
| 2 | Structured hypothesis formulation from observations. An agent skill from spacering-net/codeg. | spacering-net/ | 3.9k | 14 repos | ~3.6k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | today |
| 3 | 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/ | 84k | 4 repos | ~1.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 4 | 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/ | 47k | 2 repos | ~2.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | yesterday |
| 5 | Routes web research and platform lookups across 16 sites, including Twitter, Reddit, YouTube, Bilibili, Xiaohongshu and GitHub, through one command-line tool. | Panniantong/ | 94k | — | ~1.4k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | yesterday |
| 6 | 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 | 3 repos | ~2.5k | Automated safety check: Notes | No licence | 8 days ago |
| 7 | 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 |
| 8 | Structured manuscript/grant review with checklist-based evaluation. | spacering-net/ | 3.9k | 17 repos | ~5.9k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | today |
| 9 | Research what people actually say about any topic in the last 30 days. | mvanhorn/ | 64k | — | ~7.9k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | today |
| 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/ | 59k | 1 repo | ~494 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 1 mo ago |
| 11 | 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 | today |
| 12 | 12.Networkx Comprehensive toolkit for creating, analyzing, and visualizing complex networks and graphs in Python. | zLanqing/ | 4.7k | 15 repos | ~3.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | BSD-3-Clause | 4 mo ago |
| 13 | 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 | 11 repos | ~3.5k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | today |
| 14 | Evaluate research rigor. An agent skill from weapp-tailwindcss/weapp-tailwindcss. | weapp-tailwindcss/ | 1.9k | 22 repos | ~5.9k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | today |
| 15 | Compare two revisions of the Logseq logseq-review-workflow skill by running the same review prompt against isolated before and after skill snapshots, collecting both outputs, and producing a… | logseq/ | 45k | — | ~1k | Automated safety check: Pass | AGPL-3.0 | today |
| 16 | Fetch any URL and convert to markdown using Chrome CDP. An agent skill from sdyckjq-lab/llm-wiki-skill. | sdyckjq-lab/ | 2.5k | 2 repos | ~3.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | No licence | 2 mo ago |
| 17 | Creates, revises, audits and exports manuscript-ready scientific figures in Python or R, and routes AI-generated graphical abstracts to a separate workflow. | Yuan1z0825/ | 47k | — | ~2.9k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | yesterday |
| 18 | Drafts Chinese invention patent applications and technical disclosures from research papers or inventor materials, tying each claim feature to source evidence. | Yuan1z0825/ | 47k | 1 repo | ~1.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | yesterday |
| 19 | Installs, authenticates and operates Gemini Notebook (NotebookLM) through the notebooklm-py CLI or its typed async Python API, for notebooks, sources, grounded chat and generated artifacts. | teng-lin/ | 20k | — | ~4.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 2 days ago |
| 20 | Conduct comprehensive, systematic literature reviews using multiple academic databases (PubMed, arXiv, bioRxiv, Semantic Scholar, etc.). | neflibata-feng/ | 126 | 20 repos | ~5.9k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | today |
| 21 | Query and analyze scholarly literature using the OpenAlex database. | neflibata-feng/ | 126 | 12 repos | ~3k | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | today |
| 22 | 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 | 2 repos | ~1.9k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 16 days ago |
| 23 | 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/ | 47k | 1 repo | ~1.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | yesterday |
| 24 | 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 |
| 25 | 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 | today |
| 26 | 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 | 12 repos | ~3.7k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 5 mo ago |
| 27 | Analyzes Neuropixels recordings from SpikeGLX or Open Ephys through preprocessing, drift correction, Kilosort4 spike sorting, quality metrics and curation. | davila7/ | 32k | 9 repos | ~2.8k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 28 | 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 |
| 29 | Comprehensive citation management for academic research. An agent skill from neflibata-feng/MyArxiv-Agent. | neflibata-feng/ | 126 | 19 repos | ~8.1k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | today |
| 30 | Systematically evaluate scholarly work using the ScholarEval framework, providing structured assessment across research quality dimensions including problem formulation, methodology, analysis, and… | spacering-net/ | 3.9k | 11 repos | ~3.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 31 | 31.Obsidian CLI Interact with Obsidian vaults using the Obsidian CLI to read, create, search, and manage notes, tasks, properties, and more. | Atmosphere/ | 3.8k | 13 repos | ~795 | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | today |
| 32 | Scan Logseq ClojureScript Node/Electron targets for npm module loading risks, especially ESM-only packages that may fail when loaded through js/require or shadow-cljs require-based shims. | logseq/ | 45k | — | ~3.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | AGPL-3.0 | today |
| 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 | 24 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 | today |
| 35 | Routes literature requests to lawful full-text sources: open access, publisher APIs, CNKI and institutional browser access, with a supporting-information gate. | Yuan1z0825/ | 47k | 2 repos | ~6k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | yesterday |
| 36 | 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 | today |
| 37 | Save the current conversation, a decision, or a set of notes as a document in an Outline collection; use when the user wants to keep what was discussed in their knowledge base. | outline/ | 41k | — | ~474 | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | today |
| 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 | A skill your agent uses when building or maintaining a personal LLM-powered knowledge base. | Astro-Han/ | 2.4k | — | ~3.6k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 2 mo ago |
| 40 | 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 | 24 days ago |
| 41 | 41.Sympy A skill your agent uses when working with symbolic mathematics in Python. | zLanqing/ | 4.7k | 15 repos | ~3.4k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 4 mo 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 | today |
| 43 | 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 | 6 days ago |
| 44 | 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 | today |
| 45 | 自动从 Z-Library 下载书籍并上传到 Google NotebookLM。支持 PDF/EPUB 格式,自动转换,一键创建知识库。 | zstmfhy/ | 1.7k | 1 repo | ~968 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 8 mo ago |
| 46 | Covers publication-ready matplotlib figures for academic papers, slides, and reports—bars, trends, scatter, heatmaps, and multi-panel layouts—with… | ChenLiu-1996/ | 8.3k | — | ~557 | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | 3 days ago |
| 47 | Runs a bounded, source-grounded research loop that drafts a cited dossier and can propose a separately reviewed merge into an Obsidian vault. | AgriciDaniel/ | 15k | — | ~1.6k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 28 days ago |
| 48 | Collects content from WeChat articles, web pages, YouTube, podcasts, documents and more, uploads it to NotebookLM and generates podcasts, slides or mind maps. | joeseesun/ | 6.2k | — | ~3.6k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 4 days ago |
Questions, answered from the data.
What is the best agent skill for researchers?
NotebookLM Research Assistant from PleasePrompto/notebooklm-skill ranks first of the 6,562 agent skills for researchers listed here, with the highest score: its repository has 7.8k GitHub stars, 14 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 Hypothesis Generation and GitHub Deep Research.
Which agent skills for researchers are official?
53 of the 6,562 agent skills for researchers are official, published by the vendor's own GitHub organization: Hugging Face Paper Publisher, Qmd, Gitnexus CLI, Docs Grounding Verifier, JS Perf Investigation and 48 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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- PowerPoint presentations439
- Data pipelines and ETL422
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