MCP CheckClaude skills for research papers
50 of 155 public skills on GitHub that mention research papers: skills named for it first, then by stars, at most 3 from one repository. Each links to its folder; copy it into ~/.claude/skills/ to use it.
scholar evaluation
Provides qualitative-first, evidence-traceable developmental review of scholarly works and audit low-stakes research-assessment rubrics with optional local quality controls. Never use for ranking people or consequential decisions.
K-Dense-AI/scientific-agent-skills★ 55kMITFolder:
scholar-evaluationarxiv
Search, download, and summarize academic papers from arXiv. Use when user says "search arxiv", "download paper", "fetch arxiv", "arxiv search", "get paper pdf", or wants to find and save papers from arXiv to the local paper library.
wanshuiyin/Auto-claude-code-research-in-sleep★ 18kMITFolder:
arxivsemantic scholar
Search published venue papers (IEEE, ACM, Springer, etc.) via Semantic Scholar API. Complements /arxiv (preprints) with citation counts, venue metadata, and TLDR. Use when user says "search semantic scholar", "find IEEE papers", "find journal papers",…
wanshuiyin/Auto-claude-code-research-in-sleep★ 18kMITFolder:
semantic-scholarscholarly writing refiner
Polishes academic English paragraph by paragraph, reviewing grammar, word choice, voice, coherence, and sentence structure. Outputs revision suggestions alongside polished text. Triggered by phrases like 'polish this paragraph,' 'check the grammar,'…
zebbern/claude-code-guide★ 4.7kMITFolder:
scholarly-writing-refinerpubmed database
Direct REST API access to PubMed. Advanced Boolean/MeSH queries, E-utilities API, batch processing, citation management. For Python workflows, prefer biopython (Bio.Entrez). Use this for direct HTTP/REST work or custom API implementations.
foryourhealth111-pixel/Vibe-Skills★ 3.8kApache-2.0Folder:
pubmed-databaseoma scholar
Search academic literature and generate, validate, or compare Knows paper sidecars. Use for claim/evidence analysis and literature synthesis.
first-fluke/oh-my-agent★ 1.4kMITFolder:
oma-scholararxiv search
Search arXiv preprint repository for papers in physics, mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology, and related fields
Microck/ordinary-claude-skills★ 408Licence: see repoFolder:
arxiv-searchscholarly citation
Verifiable-attribution and citation-discipline craft — atomic claim decomposition, evidence grading (primary/analysis/forecast tiers), claimant attribution, citation typing (cites/references/contradicts/defines), source anchoring (Xanadu). Use when writing…
alfadur7/llm-wiki-newsroom★ 173MITFolder:
scholarly-citationsemantic scholar deep
Deep research over the Semantic Scholar Graph API. Covers endpoints missing from allenai's lookup skill — paper references (backward citations), recommendations, batch paper lookup (up to 500 IDs), snippet search, and multi-hop citation graph traversal…
CodeAlive-AI/ai-driven-development★ 167MITFolder:
semantic-scholar-deepfirecrawl research papers
Find and synthesize research papers, whitepapers, PDFs, technical reports, and academic sources with Firecrawl Research, using semantic paper search, related-paper expansion, and in-body verification over Firecrawl's paper index — largely biomedical and…
firecrawl/skills★ 140ISCFolder:
firecrawl-research-papersenterprise scholarship
生成"企业专项奖学金申请书"docx。企业专项奖学金由企业赞助、与特定行业/公司绑定（华为/腾讯/中石化/字节等），评审侧重学习+行业兴趣+职业规划。书信体格式，1000~1800
cuic19053-hue/awesome-student-ai-skills★ 139MITFolder:
enterprise-scholarshipcsc scholarship
'生成"国家公派留学申请书"（CSC Scholarship Application）。
cuic19053-hue/awesome-student-ai-skills★ 139MITFolder:
csc-scholarshipmotivation scholarship
生成"国家励志奖学金申请书"docx。国家励志奖学金（6000 元，2024年起执行财教〔2024〕181号新标准）评审侧重学习 + 家庭经济困难，必须先获得学校家庭经济困难认定。书信体格式，1200~2000
cuic19053-hue/awesome-student-ai-skills★ 139MITFolder:
motivation-scholarshipxs arxiv
arXiv論文の検索・トレンド発見・詳細分析を行う統合スキル。興味度スコアでユーザーに刺さる論文を自動選定。PDF全文読み込み・Notion蓄積対応。「arXivチェックして」「論文検索」「論文分析して」で使用。
karaage0703/ai-assistant-workspace★ 137MITFolder:
xs-arxivalterlab arxiv
Search and retrieve preprints from arXiv via the Atom API by keywords, authors, arXiv IDs, date ranges, or subject categories. Use when finding or fetching papers in physics, mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology, quantitative finance,…
AlterLab-IEU/AlterLab-Academic-Skills★ 80MITFolder:
alterlab-arxivalterlab pubmed
Provide direct REST API access to PubMed via the NCBI E-utilities API, supporting advanced Boolean/MeSH queries, batch processing, and citation management. Use when searching biomedical literature by MeSH terms, retrieving abstracts or PMIDs in bulk, or…
AlterLab-IEU/AlterLab-Academic-Skills★ 80MITFolder:
alterlab-pubmedpubmed search
Search PubMed biomedical literature with natural language queries powered by Valyu semantic search. Full-text access, integrate into your AI projects.
EthanYoQ/Skill-hub★ 11MITFolder:
pubmed-searchconsult biblical scholar
Use when user asks about a biblical passage's meaning, wants to validate an analogy or idea against the text, or needs cross-references with scholarly evidence. Also use when a question about Scripture lacks a passage anchor. Requires explicit confidence…
davebream/claude-of-alexandria★ 8GPL-3.0Folder:
consult-biblical-scholarbiopython
Provides Biopython workflows for sequence manipulation, file parsing (FASTA/GenBank/PDB), phylogenetics, and programmatic NCBI/PubMed access (Bio.Entrez). Supports batch processing, custom molecular-biology pipelines, BLAST automation, structure analysis,…
K-Dense-AI/scientific-agent-skills★ 55kMITFolder:
biopythoncitation management
Comprehensive citation management for academic research. Search OpenAlex, PubMed, and Google Scholar for papers, extract accurate metadata, validate citations, and generate properly formatted BibTeX entries. This skill should be used when you need to find…
K-Dense-AI/scientific-agent-skills★ 55kMITFolder:
citation-managementalphaxiv
Quick single-paper lookup via AlphaXiv LLM-optimized summaries with tiered source fallback. Use when user says "explain this paper", "summarize paper", pastes an arXiv/AlphaXiv URL, or provides a bare arXiv ID for quick understanding - not for broad…
wanshuiyin/Auto-claude-code-research-in-sleep★ 18kMITFolder:
alphaxivpaper analysis assistant
其他高等院校教师与数据科学家在追踪前沿学术时，当需要深度解析arXiv论文，用此技能可一键下载PDF并自动生成词频分析、双人播客、交互式网页、PPT演示与总结图，将数小时的文献阅读转化为多媒体内容，效率提升十倍！
anbeime/skill★ 8.9kNo licence statedFolder:
paper-analysis-assistantacademic paper strategist
Systematic strategic planning framework for philosophy and interdisciplinary academic papers targeting preprint platforms (PhilArchive, arXiv, PhilSci-Archive). Use when users want to: (1) plan a paper on a specific topic, (2) identify research gaps and…
brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills★ 4.8kLicence: see repoFolder:
strategistscientific writing
Core skill for the deep research and writing tool. Write scientific manuscripts in full paragraphs (never bullet points). Use two-stage process with (1) section outlines with key points using research-lookup then (2) convert to flowing prose. IMRAD…
brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills★ 4.8kLicence: see repoFolder:
scientific-writingSearching Scientific Literature
PubMed search with keyword optimization, result parsing, and metadata extraction
brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills★ 4.8kLicence: see repoFolder:
searching-literatureopenalex database
Query and analyze scholarly literature using the OpenAlex database. This skill should be used when searching for academic papers, analyzing research trends, finding works by authors or institutions, tracking citations, discovering open access publications,…
foryourhealth111-pixel/Vibe-Skills★ 3.8kApache-2.0Folder:
openalex-databasemorning ai
AI news tracking skill that monitors 80+ entities across 6 free sources (Reddit, HN, GitHub, HuggingFace, arXiv, X/Twitter). Generates scored daily reports with infographics and message digests. Invoke via /morning-ai.
davepoon/buildwithclaude★ 3.7kMITFolder:
morning-aisepia
Make AI-generated writing read as human-written, in fiction and in professional prose. Repairs the narrative architecture of fiction and stories (based on StoryScope, arXiv:2604.03136); routes professional text through domain rules for release notes,…
Nanako0129/sepia★ 3.5kMITFolder:
sepiaopencli reader
Generic read-only fallback for sources opencli supports but no dedicated skill covers: finance sites (Yahoo Finance, Bloomberg, Reuters, Barchart, Eastmoney, Xueqiu, Sinafinance), communities (Reddit, HackerNews, Weibo, Zhihu, Xiaohongshu, Bilibili),…
himself65/finance-skills★ 3.5kMITFolder:
opencli-readerpaper search
Academic paper search via Google Scholar using Serper API
open-gitagent/opengap★ 3kMITFolder:
paper-searchwiki research loop
Auto-grow a pro-workflow wiki by running a budget-capped BFS research loop over pluggable source fetchers (web, arXiv, GitHub). Each iteration pops a seed from the queue, fetches sources, drafts a wiki page, dedupes claims against existing pages, enqueues…
rohitg00/pro-workflow★ 2.9kNo licence statedFolder:
wiki-research-loopllmwiki
Build and use a persistent, citation-traceable knowledge wiki from documents, research papers, notes, or project documentation. Use for llmwiki projects, retrieving reusable evidence for an agent task, or compiling a corpus for repeated questions. A…
atomicstrata/llm-wiki-compiler★ 2.2kMITFolder:
llmwikiaaai related work
Use when positioning an AAAI paper's novelty against archival work, contemporaneous arXiv or workshop papers, and AAAI/IJCAI/NeurIPS/ICML/ICLR neighbors across the broad AI scope, while staying inside AAAI's dual-submission and AI-as-source policy…
brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills★ 1.3kMITFolder:
aaai-related-workaamas related work
Use when positioning an AAMAS submission against multiagent, game-theory, and reinforcement-learning literature spread across AAMAS, AAAI, IJCAI, NeurIPS, ICML, EC, and JAAMAS, including arXiv and workshop versions, concurrent submissions, prior conference…
brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills★ 1.3kMITFolder:
aamas-related-workacl related work
Use when positioning an ACL submission against the NLP literature, covering ACL Anthology citation practice, arXiv-versus-published version citation, concurrent LLM-era preprints, prior-cycle ARR resubmission overlap, anonymity-preserving self-citation,…
brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills★ 1.3kMITFolder:
acl-related-workdeeppapernote
Generate a high-quality deep-reading note for a single paper and write it into an Obsidian-style vault. Use when the user gives a paper title, DOI, URL, arXiv ID, Zotero item, or local PDF and wants a polished Markdown note with strong structure,…
917Dhj/DeepPaperNote★ 1.3kMITFolder:
deeppapernotepaper search usage
This skill should be used when the user asks to "search for papers", "find research papers", "search arXiv", "search PubMed", "look up a DOI", "download a paper", "search IEEE", or "search Scopus".
fcakyon/claude-codex-settings★ 1.2kApache-2.0Folder:
paper-search-usage02 bib verify
Verify a BibTeX file for hallucinated or fabricated references by cross-checking every entry against CrossRef, arXiv, and DBLP. Reports each reference as verified, suspect, or not found, with field-level mismatch details (title, authors, year, DOI). Use…
agentscope-ai/OpenJudge★ 983Apache-2.0Folder:
02-bib-verify02 ref hallucination arena
Benchmark LLM reference recommendation capabilities by verifying every cited paper against Crossref, PubMed, arXiv, and DBLP. Measures hallucination rate, per-field accuracy (title/author/year/DOI), discipline breakdown, and year constraint compliance.…
agentscope-ai/OpenJudge★ 983Apache-2.0Folder:
02-ref-hallucination-arena03 ref hallucination arena
Benchmark LLM reference recommendation capabilities by verifying every cited paper against Crossref, PubMed, arXiv, and DBLP. Measures hallucination rate, per-field accuracy (title/author/year/DOI), discipline breakdown, and year constraint compliance.…
agentscope-ai/OpenJudge★ 983Apache-2.0Folder:
03-ref-hallucination-arenafootnote relegator
Condense a scholarly legal article by moving nonessential detail from the body into substantive footnotes while preserving every word and keeping the argument self-sufficient. Handles Markdown and Word (.docx), integrates moved material with existing…
lawve-ai/awesome-legal-skills★ 911Licence: see repoFolder:
footnote-relegator-seth-chandlerlaw review editor
Rigorous multi-pass editor for law review articles, student notes, seminar papers and other legal scholarship. Runs six specialized passes — structure, substantive critique, Bluebook citations, grammar and clarity, fact-checking against sources, and a…
lawve-ai/awesome-legal-skills★ 911Licence: see repoFolder:
law-review-editor-seth-chandlerlight citation
Verify scholarly references and claim-citation support for Light stage 10. Use when auditing a manuscript, claim map, bibliography, DOI/arXiv/PMID/ISBN/URL, BibTeX/CSL, citekeys, chimeric or fabricated citations, retraction/correction alerts, or preparing…
Light0305/Light-skills★ 824MITFolder:
light-citationlight literature search
Light 科研主线第 1 步·文献调研:在线多源检索(OpenAlex/arXiv/Crossref/Europe PMC/DOAJ,全程免 key)→ 产出**不是论文列表,是可直接喂 idea 的"领域地图"**:近三年前沿 + 经典奠基 + 跨领域方法移植**三层分别 检索分别排序**,合成研究脉络 + 方法谱系 + 未解问题地图,揪出**最像你设想的那一篇**→喂 idea-critique 撞车预警,诚实标检索覆盖度。何时用:调研某方向 / 找综述 / 了解某领域有哪些工作 / 提 idea…
Light0305/Light-skills★ 824MITFolder:
light-literature-searchmaker mdap
Knowledge base from \"Solving a Million-Step LLM Task with Zero Errors\" (Meyerson, Paolo, Dailey, Shahrzad, Francon, Hayes, Qiu, Hodjat, Miikkulainen — arXiv:2511.09030). Use when designing long-horizon, multi-step agentic LLM pipelines that need very…
coco-research/coco★ 795Licence: see repoFolder:
maker-mdapacademic humanizer
Draft, audit, or minimally revise English- or Chinese-language academic prose to reduce formulaic, vacuous, mechanically repetitive, or process-leaking language while preserving claims, evidence strength, logical relations, manuscript-wide terminology…
dongshuyan/compass-skills★ 762MITFolder:
academic-humanizeroutline agent
Step 1 of the PaperOrchestra pipeline (arXiv:2604.05018). Convert (idea.md, experimental_log.md, template.tex, conference_guidelines.md) into a strict JSON outline containing a plotting plan, literature search plan (Intro + Related Work), and section-level…
Ar9av/PaperOrchestra★ 694Licence: see repoFolder:
outline-agentpaper autoraters
Run the four paper-quality autoraters from PaperOrchestra (arXiv:2604.05018, App. F.3) — Citation F1 (P0/P1 partition + Precision/Recall/F1), Literature Review Quality (6-axis 0-100 with anti-inflation rules), SxS Overall Paper Quality (side-by-side), and…
Ar9av/PaperOrchestra★ 694Licence: see repoFolder:
paper-autoratersliterature review agent
Step 3 of the PaperOrchestra pipeline (arXiv:2604.05018). Execute the literature search strategy from outline.json — discover candidate papers via web search, verify them through Semantic Scholar (Levenshtein > 70 fuzzy title match, temporal cutoff, dedup…
Ar9av/PaperOrchestra★ 694Licence: see repoFolder:
literature-review-agentfirecrawl research index
Find the papers that answer a research query in Firecrawl's research paper index — a corpus of paper abstracts whose largest share is biomedical and life-science literature (PubMed, bioRxiv, medRxiv), alongside arXiv preprints in CS, physics, and math —…
firecrawl/cli★ 674No licence statedFolder:
firecrawl-research-index
Claude skills for research papers: before you install one
Is there a Claude skill for research papers?
Yes: 155 public skills from 75 GitHub repositories mention research papers. The best-known ones named for it are scholar evaluation (K-Dense-AI/scientific-agent-skills, ★ 55k), arxiv (wanshuiyin/Auto-claude-code-research-in-sleep, ★ 18k) and semantic scholar (wanshuiyin/Auto-claude-code-research-in-sleep, ★ 18k). Stars belong to the whole repository, not to one skill.
How do I add scholar evaluation to Claude?
For research papers, copy the scholar-evaluation folder from K-Dense-AI/scientific-agent-skills (the folder that holds SKILL.md) into ~/.claude/skills/ to use it in every Claude Code project, or into .claude/skills/ for one project. For the Claude apps, upload the zipped folder as a custom skill instead.
What licences do these research papers skills use?
Of the 50 research papers skills listed here, 36 sit in repositories under an open licence such as MIT or Apache 2.0, and 3, such as paper analysis assistant and wiki research loop, state no licence at all, which legally means you may not reuse them. The licence badge on each card tells you which is which.
Does Anthropic make an official research papers skill?
No. None of the 155 research papers skills comes from Anthropic's own skills repository, so all of them are community-made across 75 repositories.
How recently were research papers skills updated?
116 of the 155 research papers skills sit in repositories that changed in the 30 days before 31 Oct 2026.
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