Academic Research Skills

Claude Code plugin marketplace for academic research workflows.

🎯 Test Results

Last verified: 2026-06-23 (full run, evidence in docs/test-evidence/). 2026-08-21 spot-check: PubMed search still working (5,688 results for "soil carbon cycling", 2022–2026), both via browser and via the new standalone API script plugins/pm-search/skills/pm-search/scripts/pubmed_api_search.py.

We tested the skills by searching for papers on agricultural large models, smart agriculture, and soil carbon cycling across multiple platforms.

Platform	Status	Results Found	Papers Extracted
PubMed	✅ Success	22,891	60
ScienceDirect	✅ Success	107,119	56
CNKI	✅ Success	9,745	40
Web of Science	✅ Success	32,503	2
Google Scholar	❌ Timeout	-	-
IEEE Xplore	❌ Timeout	-	-

Total: 168 papers extracted (exceeding 100 target), all from 2022-2026.

Quick Start (Any Agent)

Just send this to your agent:

Install all academic research skills from this repo:
https://github.com/YuanyuanMa03/academic-research-skills

Works with Claude Code, Copilot CLI, Codex, Gemini CLI, ChatGPT, Qwen, DeepSeek, or any LLM agent that can read GitHub repos.

Platforms

Platform	Prefix	Skills	Count
CNKI	`cnki-*`	search, download, export, journal browse, paper detail	10
Google Scholar	`gs-*`	search, advanced search, cited-by, fulltext, export	6
ScienceDirect	`sd-*`	search, download, export, journal browse, paper detail	8
Web of Science	`wos-*`	search, download, export, paper detail	7
PubMed	`pm-*`	search, advanced search, export, fulltext, paper detail	6
IEEE Xplore	`ieee-*`	search, download, export, journal browse, standards	9
Zotero CSL	`zotero-*`	citation style generation	1
Nature	`nature-*`	academic search, writing, polishing, figures, reader, patent, reviewer	11

58 skills total — 8 academic platforms covered.

Browser skills (CNKI, GS, SD, WoS, PubMed, IEEE) require Chrome DevTools MCP. Nature skills are pure prompt-based and work with any LLM.

Installation

Claude Code (Recommended)

# Add marketplace
/plugin marketplace add YuanyuanMa03/academic-research-skills

# Install all skills
/plugin install cnki-advanced-search@academic-research-skills
/plugin install cnki-download@academic-research-skills
/plugin install cnki-export@academic-research-skills
/plugin install cnki-journal-index@academic-research-skills
/plugin install cnki-journal-search@academic-research-skills
/plugin install cnki-journal-toc@academic-research-skills
/plugin install cnki-navigate-pages@academic-research-skills
/plugin install cnki-paper-detail@academic-research-skills
/plugin install cnki-parse-results@academic-research-skills
/plugin install cnki-search@academic-research-skills
/plugin install gs-advanced-search@academic-research-skills
/plugin install gs-cited-by@academic-research-skills
/plugin install gs-export@academic-research-skills
/plugin install gs-fulltext@academic-research-skills
/plugin install gs-navigate-pages@academic-research-skills
/plugin install gs-search@academic-research-skills
/plugin install ieee-advanced-search@academic-research-skills
/plugin install ieee-download@academic-research-skills
/plugin install ieee-export@academic-research-skills
/plugin install ieee-journal-browse@academic-research-skills
/plugin install ieee-navigate-pages@academic-research-skills
/plugin install ieee-paper-detail@academic-research-skills
/plugin install ieee-parse-results@academic-research-skills
/plugin install ieee-search@academic-research-skills
/plugin install ieee-standards-search@academic-research-skills
/plugin install nature-academic-search@academic-research-skills
/plugin install nature-citation@academic-research-skills
/plugin install nature-data@academic-research-skills
/plugin install nature-figure@academic-research-skills
/plugin install nature-paper2ppt@academic-research-skills
/plugin install nature-polishing@academic-research-skills
/plugin install nature-reader@academic-research-skills
/plugin install nature-response@academic-research-skills
/plugin install nature-writing@academic-research-skills
/plugin install nature-paper-to-patent@academic-research-skills
/plugin install nature-reviewer@academic-research-skills
/plugin install pm-advanced-search@academic-research-skills
/plugin install pm-export@academic-research-skills
/plugin install pm-fulltext@academic-research-skills
/plugin install pm-navigate-pages@academic-research-skills
/plugin install pm-paper-detail@academic-research-skills
/plugin install pm-search@academic-research-skills
/plugin install sd-advanced-search@academic-research-skills
/plugin install sd-download@academic-research-skills
/plugin install sd-export@academic-research-skills
/plugin install sd-journal-browse@academic-research-skills
/plugin install sd-navigate-pages@academic-research-skills
/plugin install sd-paper-detail@academic-research-skills
/plugin install sd-parse-results@academic-research-skills
/plugin install sd-search@academic-research-skills
/plugin install wos-dom@academic-research-skills
/plugin install wos-download@academic-research-skills
/plugin install wos-export@academic-research-skills
/plugin install wos-navigate-pages@academic-research-skills
/plugin install wos-paper-detail@academic-research-skills
/plugin install wos-parse-results@academic-research-skills
/plugin install wos-search@academic-research-skills
/plugin install zotero-csl@academic-research-skills

Copilot CLI

git clone https://github.com/YuanyuanMa03/academic-research-skills.git
mkdir -p ~/.copilot/skills
cp -R academic-research-skills/plugins/*/skills/* ~/.copilot/skills/

Skill tool	Copilot CLI equivalent
`Read`	`view`
`Write`	`create`
`Edit`	`edit`
`Bash`	`bash`
`Grep`	`grep`
`WebFetch`	`web_fetch`

Codex (Marketplace recommended)

Codex distributes reusable skills through plugins. This repository includes a Codex marketplace at .agents/plugins/marketplace.json and one Codex plugin manifest per skill under plugins/<name>/.codex-plugin/plugin.json.

Add this marketplace to Codex, then install the skills you need from the plugin directory:

codex plugin marketplace add YuanyuanMa03/academic-research-skills
codex
/plugins

In the plugin directory, choose Academic Research Skills, open the plugin you need, and select Install plugin. Start a new Codex thread after installing. You can invoke a skill explicitly with @ or let Codex choose it from the task description.

Codex plugin installs include the required MCP configuration:

Browser-based research skills start chrome-devtools-mcp through npx.
nature-academic-search starts its bundled academic-search MCP server and bootstraps its Python dependencies into ~/.cache/academic-search-mcp.

You can also install a plugin directly from the CLI:

codex plugin add nature-academic-search@academic-research-skills
codex plugin add cnki-search@academic-research-skills
codex plugin add gs-search@academic-research-skills

Useful marketplace maintenance commands:

codex plugin marketplace list
codex plugin marketplace upgrade academic-research-skills
codex plugin marketplace remove academic-research-skills

Manual skill install fallback

This repository is a multi-skill collection. Do not install the repository root as a single Codex skill; install the directories under plugins/*/skills/*.

git clone https://github.com/YuanyuanMa03/academic-research-skills.git
mkdir -p ~/.codex/skills
cp -R academic-research-skills/plugins/*/skills/* ~/.codex/skills/

Or install a specific skill with Codex's GitHub skill installer by passing the nested skill path instead of the repository root:

python3 /path/to/install-skill-from-github.py \
  --repo YuanyuanMa03/academic-research-skills \
  --path plugins/nature-academic-search/skills/nature-academic-search

Skill tool	Codex equivalent
`Read`, `Write`, `Edit`	Native file tools
`Bash`	Native shell tools
`Skill` tool	Skills load natively

Gemini CLI

git clone https://github.com/YuanyuanMa03/academic-research-skills.git
mkdir -p ~/.gemini/skills
cp -R academic-research-skills/plugins/*/skills/* ~/.gemini/skills/

Skill tool	Gemini CLI equivalent
`Read`	`read_file`
`Write`	`write_file`
`Edit`	`replace`
`Bash`	`run_shell_command`
`Grep`	`grep_search`
`Skill` tool	`activate_skill`
`WebSearch`	`google_web_search`
`WebFetch`	`web_fetch`

OpenClaw

git clone https://github.com/YuanyuanMa03/academic-research-skills.git
mkdir -p ~/.openclaw/skills
cp -R academic-research-skills/plugins/*/skills/* ~/.openclaw/skills/

Other Agents (Generic)

git clone https://github.com/YuanyuanMa03/academic-research-skills.git
cp -R academic-research-skills/plugins/cnki-search/skills/cnki-search /path/to/your/agent/skills/

Skill structure (universal):

<skill-name>/
├── SKILL.md              # Main instructions
├── references/           # Supporting guides (optional)
├── examples/             # Annotated examples (optional)
└── scripts/              # Helper scripts (optional)

Don't Know Your Agent? Just Paste It

Paste the SKILL.md content directly into any LLM chat:

cat academic-research-skills/plugins/cnki-search/skills/cnki-search/SKILL.md
# Copy and paste into ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Qwen, DeepSeek, etc.

Usage

"Search CNKI for papers on neural rendering"
"Find citing papers on Google Scholar"
"Download this ScienceDirect paper"
"Help me write a Nature-style introduction"

Adding Plugins

Create plugins/your-skill-name/skills/your-skill-name/SKILL.md
Add plugins/your-skill-name/.claude-plugin/plugin.json
Add entry to .claude-plugin/marketplace.json
Submit a pull request

Acknowledgments

Nature skills (nature-*) are based on nature-skills by @Yuan1z0825.

License

MIT

Name		Name	Last commit message	Last commit date
.agents/plugins		.agents/plugins
.claude-plugin		.claude-plugin
.github/workflows		.github/workflows
docs		docs
plugins		plugins
scripts		scripts
.gitignore		.gitignore
.pre-commit-config.yaml		.pre-commit-config.yaml
CHANGELOG.md		CHANGELOG.md
CLAUDE.md		CLAUDE.md
CONTRIBUTING.md		CONTRIBUTING.md
LICENSE		LICENSE
README.md		README.md
README_zh.md		README_zh.md
pyproject.toml		pyproject.toml

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