Topic · Research & Science
Best deep research skills for Claude Code, Codex and other agents.
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| # | Skill | Repository | Stars | Used in | Tokens | Auto-check | Licence | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 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 repo | ~1.4k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 2 | 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 |
| 3 | 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 | 7 days ago |
| 4 | 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 |
| 5 | 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 repo | ~1.6k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 27 days ago |
| 6 | 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 |
| 7 | 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 | 3 days ago |
| 8 | 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 |
| 9 | Execute autonomous multi-step research using Google Gemini Deep Research Agent. | sanjay3290/ | 431 | 10 repos | ~683 | Automated safety check: Notes | Apache-2.0 | 27 days ago |
| 10 | 10.Research Conduct preliminary research on a topic and generate research outline. | Weizhena/ | 2.3k | 3 repos | ~1.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 1 mo ago |
| 11 | A skill your agent uses when the user asks the openkb chat to make a deck / slide presentation / PPT / slides / 演示稿 / 幻灯片 from their compiled KB content. | VectifyAI/ | 4.7k | 1 repo | ~2.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | 2 mo ago |
| 12 | Runs a two-axis deep research method on a product, company, concept or person: its full history over time, compared with peers today, delivered as a typeset PDF report. | KKKKhazix/ | 21k | — | ~2.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 6 days ago |
| 13 | Orchestrates a ten-stage academic workflow from research to finished manuscript, including integrity checks, two rounds of peer review and revision. | Imbad0202/ | 51k | — | ~15k | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | 4 days ago |
| 14 | A router skill that sends academic work such as literature reviews, drafting, citation checks, peer review and revision to the right workflow in the ARS suite. | Imbad0202/ | 12k | — | ~12k | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | 4 days ago |
| 15 | Deep research with hyperresearch, for Claude Code and OpenAI Codex. | jordan-gibbs/ | 3.8k | — | ~1.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 6 days ago |
| 16 | Read research outline, launch independent agent for each item for deep research. | Weizhena/ | 2.3k | 3 repos | ~850 | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | 1 mo ago |
| 17 | A skill your agent uses when the user asks the openkb chat to make a deck / slide presentation / PPT / slides / 演示稿 / 幻灯片 from their compiled KB content AND wants a dark, high-tech, neon / glow /… | VectifyAI/ | 4.7k | 1 repo | ~4.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | 2 mo ago |
| 18 | 18.Dy Note DyNote: systematically and efficiently extract raw Douyin/DY video data and analyze videos, comments, accounts, hashtags, and short-video scenes into evidence-graded learning notes, summaries… | Rimagination/ | 172 | 1 repo | ~4.5k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 3 mo ago |
| 19 | 19.Jev Social Run browser-grounded, read-only social research through Jev Social when a user wants posts, profiles, comments, video evidence, or a source-linked report from Instagram, TikTok, or LinkedIn and the… | socai-io/ | 156 | 3 repos | ~1.5k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 6 days ago |
| 20 | Runs a 13-agent pipeline for rigorous academic research, from forming the question through systematic search, synthesis, bias checks and an APA 7.0 report. | Imbad0202/ | 51k | — | ~13k | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | 4 days ago |
| 21 | Summarize deep research results into markdown report, cover all fields, skip uncertain values. | Weizhena/ | 2.3k | 3 repos | ~963 | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | 1 mo ago |
| 22 | Creates NotebookLM notebooks from URLs, text and files, asks cited questions, runs web research and generates audio, slides, quizzes and other artifacts. | claude-world/ | 465 | — | ~1.8k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 2 mo ago |
| 23 | Researches Chinese market, macro, trade, procurement, listed-company and regulatory information from free official sources that need no sign-up or API key. | OpenSenseNova/ | 5.7k | 1 repo | ~954 | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | 20 days ago |
| 24 | A skill your agent uses when the user needs multi-source research with citation tracking, evidence persistence, and structured report generation. | ultralisp/ | 258 | 2 repos | ~1.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | No licence | 24 days ago |
| 25 | Coordinates a team of researcher agents across several rounds, with a lead who triages findings, assigns follow-ups and cross-checks key claims. | malob/ | 463 | 1 repo | ~5.8k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 4 days ago |
| 26 | Deterministic deep research via RivalSearchMCP. An agent skill from damionrashford/RivalSearchMCP. | damionrashford/ | 132 | 1 repo | ~796 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 27 | Multi-engine web search (SearXNG) + browsing/scraping (Camofox, CloakBrowser). | Johell1NS/ | 529 | — | ~2.5k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 1 mo ago |
| 28 | 28.Web Research A skill your agent uses for requests related to web research; it provides a structured approach to conducting comprehensive web research | Juncai22/ | 123 | 3 repos | ~1.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | 2 mo ago |
| 29 | Earnings analysis — pre- and post-earnings. An agent skill from helsome/folio. | helsome/ | 269 | 1 repo | ~2.5k | Automated safety check: Pass | No licence | 4 days ago |
| 30 | Researches an unfamiliar topic and delivers a verified resource guide and a staged, timed learning roadmap as matching Markdown and HTML files. | Liuziyu77/ | 195 | — | ~3.6k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | 1 mo ago |
| 31 | Talks to a running DeerFlow agent platform over its HTTP API to send research questions, stream replies, check health and manage models, skills, memory and uploads. | bytedance/ | 83k | 1 repo | ~1.7k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 32 | Professional deep research report generation — multi-agent collaboration with parallel chapter writing, automatic latest-data targeting, multilingual output, and built-in quality checks. | hoolulu/ | 594 | 1 repo | ~5.7k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 1 mo ago |
| 33 | Core skill for the deep research and writing tool. An agent skill from neflibata-feng/MyArxiv-Agent. | neflibata-feng/ | 126 | 18 repos | ~8.4k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | yesterday |
| 34 | Replaces single quick searches with a staged research routine of broad survey, targeted deep dives and cross-checking, run before the agent writes anything that needs facts. | bytedance/ | 83k | 5 repos | ~2k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 35 | Role playbook for a LoopX worker running an auto-research lane, with execution checklists, artifact contracts and stop conditions. | loopx-project/ | 6.2k | — | ~3.5k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | today |
| 36 | Conduct comprehensive deep research on any topic using Dify-powered workflow - searches documentation, academic papers, tutorials, APIs, best practices, and returns structured analysis with insights. | 21pounder/ | 120 | 2 repos | ~883 | Automated safety check: Notes | Apache-2.0 | 4 mo ago |
| 37 | Efficiently perform web searches using the mcp-local-rag server with semantic similarity ranking. | nkapila6/ | 134 | 1 repo | ~1.6k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 1 mo ago |
| 38 | This skill should be used when a user requests deep research on any topic. | fivetaku/ | 272 | — | ~8k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 1 mo ago |
| 39 | 39.Deepdive Meta-research под вопрос или решение: веб-поиск, источники, Q&A отчёт с цитатами по файлам для повторного использования. | Socialpranker/ | 371 | — | ~5.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 4 days ago |
| 40 | 40.Suiko 日本語文書のAI由来の均一さ、翻訳調、不自然さ、論旨、読解負荷を、決定的なRust CLIと目視で診断し、依頼に応じて書く・直す。日本語の学術論文・研究報告では、中心命題、用語、論証、DOCX/PDF納品を監査契約で確認する。Use when the user explicitly mentions suiko, asks whether Japanese text looks… | nwiizo/ | 114 | — | ~1.8k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 41 | Generate a specialized domain-expert research agent modeled on PaperClaw architecture. | guhaohao0991/ | 250 | — | ~2k | Automated safety check: Pass | No licence | 7 mo ago |
| 42 | Argument shapes for the 5 built-in workflow patterns — deep-research, adversarial-review, code-review, multi-perspective, codebase-audit — runnable via the workflow tool's name input, without… | QuintinShaw/ | 554 | — | ~827 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | yesterday |
| 43 | A skill your agent uses when the user requests to generate, create, or write professional research reports including but not limited to market analysis, consumer insights, brand analysis, financial… | bytedance/ | 83k | 5 repos | ~8.4k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 44 | Plan, triage, and write academic rebuttals and review responses. | M1n-n9/ | 688 | — | ~1.9k | Automated safety check: Pass | No licence | 3 mo ago |
| 45 | Reference knowledge for open-source intelligence collection: the collection cycle, source reliability tiers, search query patterns and entity extraction. | RightNow-AI/ | 18k | — | ~2.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | 3 mo ago |
| 46 | When you want to pressure-test a potential new business, product, or side project against the serial-founder filter. | coreyhaines31/ | 848 | — | ~1.7k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 1 mo ago |
| 47 | Enter "plan mode" for a deep-research or article-writing task — search the web, fetch sources, optionally run experiments in Python/Node, design one recommended outline and research strategy, then… | MagicCube/ | 680 | — | ~2.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | No licence | 4 mo ago |
| 48 | 48.Librarium Runs evidence-aware, multi-provider research with the Librarium v2 CLI. | jkudish/ | 134 | — | ~1.9k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 23 days ago |
Questions, answered from the data.
What is the best deep research skill?
Agent Reach from Panniantong/Agent-Reach ranks first of the 411 deep research skills listed here, with the highest score: its repository has 93k GitHub stars, 1 other GitHub owner carry a copy, its SKILL.md loads about 1.4k tokens and it passes the automated safety check with no findings. Next come GitHub Deep Research and Tavily Web Search.
Which deep research skills are official?
4 of the 411 deep research skills are official, published by the vendor's own GitHub organization: Research Agent, Wiki Researcher, Nemo Rl Auto Research and Gemini Interactions API.
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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