Academic Research Skills: a Claude Code skill by Edward Cheng-I Wu
For researchers who want a staged, checked path from research question to finished paper. Skip it if you only need a quick summary or a short essay.
High-risk warning At least one scanner rated it high risk, so we keep it out of the top ten. Read its code before you install it.
Before you install: An optional audit gate runs a script that sends selected drafts to an outside model, though only after you agree for that run.
- Score
- 63of 100
- Rank
- #219of 239
- Installs
- 7.6Kon skills.sh
- Stars
- 56.5Kon GitHub
- Security
- Warning 5 scanners
- Updated
- 2026
- Context
- ~200tokens always
Install
npx skills add https://github.com/Imbad0202/academic-research-skills
Run it in your terminal. View the source
Most people install it straight from GitHub, where it has 56.5K stars, so its skills.sh count understates how widely it is used.
Using the Claude app rather than Claude Code? You can add a skill there too. How to add it in the app
What does Academic Research Skills do?
Academic Research Skills is a set of 5 skills that carries a paper from research question to finished manuscript. The academic-pipeline orchestrator detects where you are and hands work to deep-research, academic-paper and academic-paper-reviewer, while sr-screener screens records against review criteria on request. Its 10 stages run research, writing, an integrity check of references, citations and data, a peer review with five reports, revision, a focused re-review, a fresh final integrity pass, then export to Markdown, DOCX through Pandoc or PDF through LaTeX. Each stage waits for your confirmation, and an optional last stage writes a record of the human and AI collaboration.
When should you use Academic Research Skills?
Use it when
- You want to go from a topic to a full paper draft
- You received reviewer comments and need a structured revision
- You want references and data checked before submission
Skip it when
- You only need a short essay or blog post
- You don't want to confirm each stage before moving on
What it needs and what it can touch
You need
- Pandoc for DOCX output and a LaTeX install for PDF (both optional)
What it can do
- Reads and writes manuscript and review files in your project
- Runs shell commands (Pandoc, LaTeX, its own check scripts)
- Reads web pages and papers during research
- Sends deliverables to an outside model only if you enable its optional audit gate
From reading its instructions, not from running it.
Why it scores 63
Strongest on upkeep (100 of 100), weakest on adoption (38).
Is Academic Research Skills safe to install?
At least one scanner rated it high risk, so we keep it out of the top ten. Read its code before you install it. Scanners often miss what other scanners catch, and a skill can change after a scan. Read its source before you install it.
| Scanner | Result | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Gen Agent Trust Hub | Passed | Nov 6, 2026 |
| Socket | Passed | Nov 7, 2026 |
| Snyk | Low risk | Nov 6, 2026 |
| Runlayer | High risk | Mar 14, 2026 |
| ZeroLeaks | Low risk | Apr 16, 2026 |
Details
- Installs
- 7,634
- Repository stars
- 56,455
- Last repository change
- Tokens always loaded
- about 200
- Tokens when used
- about 14,501
- License
- Custom
- Data confidence
- High
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