🎓 Education & Research Workflows
Literature review, citation context, research synthesis, paper drafting, replication checks, and evidence packets for academic and technical teams.
Who this is for
- Researchers, academic labs, research analysts, and science or technical writing teams turning scattered sources into reviewable research artifacts.
- Knowledge workers doing literature review, citation review, paper drafting, replication checks, and synthesis with explicit human judgment.
Jobs covered
- Search personal, academic, and web research sources before drafting.
- Extract citation context, paper metadata, and dense PDF text into usable artifacts.
- Turn research questions into reviewable outlines, drafts, and replication plans.
- Package findings into diagrams, archived sources, and human-reviewed research briefs.
Workflow Stacks
- Literature review packet: Search library → query academic indexes → parse papers → extract citations → summarize evidence
- Draft paper workflow: Frame research idea → review related work → draft sections → check claims → prepare figures
- Replication and synthesis pass: Collect source artifacts → convert PDFs → run analysis workflow → review quality gates → archive evidence
- Grounded RAG research assistant: Ingest bounded sources → build graph context → configure retrieval → review grounded answers → archive evidence
Curated Skills (25)
Connects research agents to a Zotero library so teams can search papers, inspect annotations, and ground literature review in their own source corpus.
Adds deeper Zotero-native research operations: paper chat, citation-grounded answers, note saving, tagging, importing, and library-wide review.
Adds arXiv search, download, and local paper storage for technical literature review and fast-moving research areas.
Extracts paper metadata, affiliations, DOI details, and references from academic HTML sources before citation review.
Covers Google Scholar-style citation lookup, BibTeX export, and author/citation context for literature maps.
Gives science teams reusable manuscript, figure, citation, and response-drafting workflows shaped around academic writing norms.
Turns a raw research topic into literature review, experiment planning, draft writing, and verification artifacts.
Adds domain-specific scientific workflow guidance when general prompting is too loose for research-heavy analysis.
Guides literature review, experiment tracking, evidence records, result reporting, and paper-writing through a structured research-agent workflow.
Adds quality-gated paper, analysis, slide, and replication workflows with review checkpoints before results are shared.
Runs private research passes across web, academic, and local document sources with citations and an encrypted knowledge base.
Converts scanned or layout-heavy papers into page-aligned Markdown for citation-aware review and synthesis.
Captures web sources as clean offline artifacts so research packets can preserve cited pages and review context.
Supports research diagrams, study designs, paper figures, and collaborative whiteboarding before findings are written up.
Lets research agents search NotebookLM notebooks, source sets, notes, and study artifacts without leaving the research workspace.
Turns notebooks into parameterized repeatable runs for analysis, replication checks, and teaching workflows.
Supports iterative ML experiment planning, execution, and review loops with reusable research-agent structure.
Lets research and education teams build grounded assistants over course material, papers, or institutional knowledge bases.
Converts bounded research or institutional document sets into inspectable knowledge graphs before graph-backed retrieval is used.
Builds a reviewable RAG chatbot over a bounded source set so grounded answers can be checked before reuse in research workflows.
Adds an autonomous research workflow for literature scans, source gathering, and first-pass synthesis packets.
Schedules recurring source-backed research digests and alerts so teams can monitor the same knowledge sources with reviewable outputs.
Lets research teams index private document collections and ask cited, grounded questions over bounded source sets.
Supports literature-style research workflows where an agent drafts cited reports from multiple perspectives for review.
Adds an evaluation layer for research teams comparing model or agent workflows before using outputs in studies.
| Skill | What it does here | Persona | Install | Stars |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Search and analyze Zotero research libraries through MCP | Connects research agents to a Zotero library so teams can search papers, inspect annotations, and ground literature review in their own source corpus. | Academic lab manager / researcher | Medium | 3.4k |
| Ground research agents in Zotero libraries with LLM for Zotero | Adds deeper Zotero-native research operations: paper chat, citation-grounded answers, note saving, tagging, importing, and library-wide review. | Researcher / literature review lead | Medium | 1.7k |
| Search and analyze arXiv papers through MCP workflows | Adds arXiv search, download, and local paper storage for technical literature review and fast-moving research areas. | Research analyst / graduate researcher | Medium | 2.8k |
| Beautiful Soup Academic Paper Parser | Extracts paper metadata, affiliations, DOI details, and references from academic HTML sources before citation review. | Research data assistant / literature analyst | Low | 0 |
| SerpAPI Scholar Agent | Covers Google Scholar-style citation lookup, BibTeX export, and author/citation context for literature maps. | Research analyst / citation reviewer | Medium | 0 |
| Run Nature-style academic writing and figure workflows with Nature Skills | Gives science teams reusable manuscript, figure, citation, and response-drafting workflows shaped around academic writing norms. | Scientific writing lead / lab author | Medium | 10k |
| Turn a research idea into a draft paper workflow with AutoResearchClaw | Turns a raw research topic into literature review, experiment planning, draft writing, and verification artifacts. | Research lead / technical author | High | 11.5k |
| Run research and scientific analysis workflows with Scientific Agent Skills | Adds domain-specific scientific workflow guidance when general prompting is too loose for research-heavy analysis. | Research scientist / scientific analyst | Medium | 18.8k |
| Run academic research workflows with Claude Scholar | Guides literature review, experiment tracking, evidence records, result reporting, and paper-writing through a structured research-agent workflow. | Academic lab lead / research project owner | Medium | 4.1k |
| Run academic writing, analysis, and replication workflows with quality gates in claude-code-my-workflow | Adds quality-gated paper, analysis, slide, and replication workflows with review checkpoints before results are shared. | Replication lead / academic workflow owner | Medium | 970 |
| Run local deep research workflows with Local Deep Research | Runs private research passes across web, academic, and local document sources with citations and an encrypted knowledge base. | Research analyst / private knowledge worker | High | 7.9k |
| Convert dense PDFs into LLM-ready text and page-aligned markdown with olmOCR | Converts scanned or layout-heavy papers into page-aligned Markdown for citation-aware review and synthesis. | Research engineer / paper ingestion lead | High | 17.1k |
| Capture a live webpage as a clean PDF or readable archive for offline review with Percollate | Captures web sources as clean offline artifacts so research packets can preserve cited pages and review context. | Research assistant / evidence archivist | Low | 4.6k |
| Excalidraw Virtual Whiteboard and Diagram SDK | Supports research diagrams, study designs, paper figures, and collaborative whiteboarding before findings are written up. | Lab collaborator / technical writing team | Medium | 119.9k |
| Search NotebookLM notebooks, sources, and generated study artifacts from agents | Lets research agents search NotebookLM notebooks, source sets, notes, and study artifacts without leaving the research workspace. | Research analyst / study workflow owner | Medium | 3.6k |
| Parameterize and execute notebooks as repeatable runs | Turns notebooks into parameterized repeatable runs for analysis, replication checks, and teaching workflows. | Research engineer / data science instructor | Medium | 6.4k |
| Automate ML research loops with ARIS skills | Supports iterative ML experiment planning, execution, and review loops with reusable research-agent structure. | ML researcher / research engineer | High | 9.6k |
| Use DocsGPT for document-grounded enterprise assistants | Lets research and education teams build grounded assistants over course material, papers, or institutional knowledge bases. | Research ops / learning technology lead | High | 17.9k |
| Build graph RAG context with Neo4j LLM Graph Builder | Converts bounded research or institutional document sets into inspectable knowledge graphs before graph-backed retrieval is used. | Research engineer / knowledge graph builder | High | 4.7k |
| Run RAG chatbot workflows with Verba | Builds a reviewable RAG chatbot over a bounded source set so grounded answers can be checked before reuse in research workflows. | Research ops / retrieval workflow lead | High | 7.7k |
| Run autonomous deep research workflows with GPT Researcher | Adds an autonomous research workflow for literature scans, source gathering, and first-pass synthesis packets. | Research assistant / academic analyst | Medium | 27.4k |
| Run scheduled research automations with self-hosted Khoj | Schedules recurring source-backed research digests and alerts so teams can monitor the same knowledge sources with reviewable outputs. | Research analyst / knowledge ops lead | High | 35k |
| Chat with private document collections through Kotaemon | Lets research teams index private document collections and ask cited, grounded questions over bounded source sets. | Research ops / document QA lead | High | 25.4k |
| Draft cited research reports with STORM | Supports literature-style research workflows where an agent drafts cited reports from multiple perspectives for review. | Research analyst / academic writing lead | Medium | 28.3k |
| Evaluate agent and model workflows with EvalScope | Adds an evaluation layer for research teams comparing model or agent workflows before using outputs in studies. | Research engineer / evaluation owner | Medium | 3k |
Editorial Notes
- Prefer source-linked research artifacts over unsupported summary-only workflows.
- Keep citation, authorship, and scientific claims under human review, especially for publishable work.
- Include both academic search and document-conversion picks so the collection supports real research operations, not just paper discovery.
- Frame these as research workflow aids, not peer-review substitutes, authorship guarantees, or automated scientific claims.