academic-research-skills: Claude Code Workflows for Research Papers
A builder-focused guide to academic-research-skills, a Claude Code skill suite for literature review, writing, peer review, revision, and finalization.
Key takeaways#
academic-research-skillsis a Claude Code skill suite for academic workflows.- It covers research planning, literature review, writing, review, revision, formatting, and finalization.
- The repository frames AI as a copilot for scholarly work, not a way to hide AI usage or bypass researcher judgment.
What academic-research-skills is#
academic-research-skills packages academic research workflows as Claude Code skills, agents, commands, hooks, schemas, scripts, and documentation. The repository describes the workflow as research → write → review → revise → finalize. It is meant to help a researcher handle repetitive research operations while keeping the human responsible for the actual question, method, interpretation, and argument.
The project is useful because academic writing has many structured steps that agents can support: searching for sources, checking citations, planning an argument, finding gaps, reviewing draft logic, verifying data claims, formatting output, and producing revision plans. Encoding those steps as skills makes the workflow more repeatable than a loose prompt.
Main components#
The repository centers on four major areas. Deep Research supports research planning, literature review, systematic-review workflows, fact-checking, and a multi-agent research team. Academic Paper supports writing, style calibration, quality checks, LaTeX hardening, citation conversion, figure verification, and disclosure statements. Academic Paper Reviewer provides multi-perspective peer review with editor and reviewer roles. Academic Pipeline orchestrates a full staged research-to-publication workflow.
The suite includes commands such as /ars-plan for paper-structure planning and /ars-lit-review for literature-review work. It also documents optional dependencies for outputs such as DOCX and APA-style PDF builds.
Installation notes#
For Claude Code CLI, VS Code, or JetBrains integrations, the repository documents plugin installation:
/plugin marketplace add Imbad0202/academic-research-skills /plugin install academic-research-skills
The project also points Codex CLI users to a sibling distribution called academic-research-skills-codex. Optional tooling such as Pandoc or Tectonic is only needed for specific export formats; Markdown workflows can run with fewer dependencies.
Best use cases#
This resource is best for researchers, students, and research engineers who already know their domain and want structured assistance. Good uses include organizing a literature review, reviewing a draft against a rubric, checking citation hygiene, or creating a revision plan after peer feedback. It is not a replacement for experimental design, ethical review, authorship responsibility, or expert interpretation.