academic-research-skills
Academic Research Skills for Claude Code: research → write → review → revise → finalize
Academic Research Skills is a comprehensive AI sub-agent suite for Claude Code that guides researchers through the complete scholarly writing pipeline—from literature search to final publication. It orchestrates 13 research agents, 12 writing agents, and 7 peer-review agents across a 10-stage workflow covering research planning, drafting, integrity verification, multi-perspective review, and revision tracking. Designed for human-in-the-loop collaboration, it handles citation verification, claim auditing, figure validation, and format conversion while preserving the researcher's voice and decision-making authority.
Key Features
Use Cases
- 01Writing empirical research papers with guided literature review, structure planning, and citation management
- 02Conducting PRISMA-compliant systematic literature reviews with multi-database search and evidence synthesis
- 03Revising manuscripts in response to peer-review comments with traceability matrices linking changes to reviewer requests
- 04Performing integrity audits on draft manuscripts to catch fabricated citations, unsupported claims, and statistical errors before submission
- 05Converting paper formats and citation styles (Markdown to LaTeX, APA to IEEE) with bibliography verification
- 06Reviewing colleagues' papers through multi-agent analysis covering journal fit, methodology, and devil's advocate critique
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academic-research-skills — FAQ
What is academic-research-skills and what does it do?+
Academic-research-skills is an AI sub-agent collection for Claude Code that automates the research, writing, reviewing, and revision stages of academic paper production. It verifies citations, checks claims against sources, formats bibliographies, and provides multi-perspective peer review while keeping the human researcher in control of all critical decisions.
How do I install academic-research-skills in Claude Code?+
Run '/plugin marketplace add Imbad0202/academic-research-skills' followed by '/plugin install academic-research-skills' in Claude Code version 3.7.0 or later. Then test with '/ars-plan' to start a guided paper structure dialogue.
Which AI clients work with academic-research-skills?+
The sub-agent works with Claude Code (CLI, VS Code extension, and JetBrains plugin), Claude Science (via GitHub import), Pi (with community wrapper), and Codex CLI (via sibling distribution). It requires Claude Code 3.7.0 or later for plugin installation.
Do I need API keys or other prerequisites?+
You need an ANTHROPIC_API_KEY environment variable set for Claude API access. Optional: Pandoc for DOCX output, tectonic plus Source Han Serif TC fonts for APA 7.0 PDF, and a real Python interpreter for advanced features like the write-scope guard and revision-patch mode.
Is academic-research-skills free to use?+
The sub-agent is open source under Creative Commons BY-NC 4.0 (non-commercial use). You pay only for Claude API usage; a typical 15,000-word paper costs approximately four to six dollars in API tokens.
Can academic-research-skills write my paper automatically?+
No. It follows a human-in-the-loop design where AI handles citation hunting, formatting, consistency checks, and draft review, but the researcher defines the research question, chooses methods, interprets results, and makes all substantive writing decisions.
How do I install academic-research-skills?+
Open the source repository on GitHub and follow its README. academic-research-skills is a agent — MCP Agents Market links you directly to the official repo.
Is academic-research-skills free?+
academic-research-skills is an open-source project hosted on GitHub. Check the repository for its license and any usage requirements.