Agent skills for research in Claude Code
430 agent skills for research in the catalog list Claude Code as a supported host. These are the 15 that rank highest, ordered by adoption, freshness and documentation. web-research, alpha-research and literature-review lead the list. Claude Code reads them from .claude/skills/<name>/SKILL.md in the project, or ~/.claude/skills/<name>/ for every project. A skill is a folder with a SKILL.md file; Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description. Every listing links to its source and shows a freshness grade.
Updated Oct 26, 2026 · Built from catalog data; how we rank and grade
How to install in Claude Code
npx skills add <owner>/<repo> --skill <name> -a claude-code
Where it goes: .claude/skills/<name>/SKILL.md in the project, or ~/.claude/skills/<name>/ for every project.
The host's docs describe copying a folder with a SKILL.md into a skills directory; the npx skills command is a third-party shortcut for the same thing.
Each listing page has the exact command for that listing.
Top 15 of 430
- 1web-research
langchain-aiOfficial
Searches multiple web sources, synthesizes findings, and produces cited research reports using delegated subagents.
- Published by the vendor
- Largest repository here (30,550 stars)
- Active in the last 30 days
★ 30.6KLast active Oct 23, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 2alpha-research
Companion-Inc
Search, read, and query research papers via Feynman's alphaXiv-backed alpha tools.
- Repository has 10K stars
- Active in the last 30 days
- Open source (MIT)
★ 10KLast active Oct 24, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 3literature-review
Companion-Inc
Run a literature review using paper search and primary-source synthesis.
- Repository has 10K stars
- Active in the last 30 days
- Open source (MIT)
★ 10KLast active Oct 24, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 4deepapi
davidondrej
Use DeepAPI for all web search, deep research, and web scraping (websites, LinkedIn, GitHub, X/Twitter, YouTube, Instagram) instead of built-in search…
- Repository has 4.2K stars
- Active in the last 30 days
- Open source (MIT)
★ 4.2KLast active Oct 21, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 5deep-research
davidondrej
Run deep research through DeepAPI and save a report with sources.
- Repository has 4.2K stars
- Active in the last 30 days
- Open source (MIT)
★ 4.2KLast active Oct 18, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 6firecrawl-research-index
firecrawlOfficial
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…
- Published by the vendor
- Active in the last 30 days
★ 664Last active Oct 22, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 7research-stage-publication
Optima-CityU
Publish the current revision of an LLM4AD research workflow stage, including after a user edits and replaces an earlier conversation turn.
- Active in the last 30 days
- Open source (BSD-3-Clause)
★ 677Last active Sep 29, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 8deep-research-report
impredicative
Produce a comprehensive, referenced deep-research report on a given topic as a downloadable markdown file.
- Active in the last 30 days
- Open source (LGPL-3.0)
★ 157Last active Oct 13, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 9
Qianfan Deep Research Agent for complex research tasks.
- Repository has 2K stars
- Open source (MIT)
- Ships helper scripts
★ 2KLast active Sep 15, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
BFreshness: B–Security: not graded yet - 10review-paper
Aperivue
Use when writing a literature review article (narrative, scoping PRISMA-ScR or systematic).
- Active in the last 30 days
- Open source (MIT)
- Ships helper scripts
★ 349Last active Oct 4, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 11meta-analysis
Aperivue
Use when running a systematic review and meta-analysis, DTA or intervention.
- Active in the last 30 days
- Open source (MIT)
- Ships helper scripts
★ 349Last active Oct 16, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 12discover-interview-synthesis
product-on-purpose
Synthesizes user research interviews into actionable insights, patterns, and recommendations.
- Active in the last 30 days
- Open source (Apache-2.0)
★ 758Last active Oct 17, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 13gemini-deep-researcher
duotify
Use this skill when a user wants a comprehensive research report on any topic with cited sources.
- Open source (MIT)
- Ships helper scripts
- For JavaScript
★ 254Last active Aug 7, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
BFreshness: B–Security: not graded yet - 14obsidian-literature-workflow
Galaxy-Dawn
Use this skill for project-scoped literature review built on Sources/Papers, with synthesis landing in Knowledge, writing handoff in Writing, and the default…
- Repository has 5.9K stars
- Open source (MIT)
- Ships helper scripts
★ 5.9KLast active May 13, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
CFreshness: C–Security: not graded yet - 15review-response
Galaxy-Dawn
Systematic review response workflow from comment analysis to professional rebuttal writing.
- Repository has 5.9K stars
- Open source (MIT)
★ 5.9KLast active May 13, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
CFreshness: C–Security: not graded yet
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