academic-research-skills

# Academic Research Skills for Claude Code

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[简体中文版](README.zh-CN.md) | [繁體中文版](README.zh-TW.md) | [日本語版](README.ja-JP.md) | [한국어](README.ko-KR.md) | [Español](README.es-ES.md) | [Português](README.pt-BR.md)

A comprehensive suite of Claude Code skills for academic research, covering the full pipeline from research to publication.

**Install in 30 seconds** (Claude Code CLI / VS Code / JetBrains, v3.7.0+):

```text
/plugin marketplace add Imbad0202/academic-research-skills
/plugin install academic-research-skills
```

Then try `/ars-plan` to walk through your paper structure via Socratic dialogue, or jump to [Quick install](#quick-install) for prerequisites and the traditional symlink flow.

On claude.ai or Claude Desktop (paid plans), add the same repository under **Customize → Plugins → Add → Add marketplace → Add from a repository**, then install `academic-research-skills`. Hooks and plugin agents do not run in plain chat there; see [SETUP Method 0](docs/SETUP.md#install-from-claudeai-or-claude-desktop-account-marketplace).

> **AI is your copilot, not the pilot.** It can draft text, including a whole paper in full mode, but the decisions stay yours, and the pipeline stops for your confirmation at every stage. It handles the grunt work (hunting down references, formatting citations, verifying data, checking logical consistency) so you can focus on the parts that actually require your brain: defining the question, choosing the method, interpreting what the data means, and deciding what comes after "I argue that." You remain the author, and you answer for every claim you submit.
>
> Unlike a humanizer, this tool doesn't help you hide the fact that you used AI. It helps you write better. Style Calibration learns your voice from past work. Writing Quality Check catches the patterns that make prose feel machine-generated. The goal is quality, not cheating.

### Why human-in-the-loop, not full automation?

Lu et al. (2026, *Nature* 651:914-919) built **The AI Scientist** — the first fully autonomous AI research system to publish a paper through blind peer review at a top-tier ML venue (ICLR 2025 workshop, score 6.33/10 vs workshop average 4.87). Their Limitations section enumerates the failure modes that any fully-autonomous AI research pipeline inherits: implementation bugs, hallucinated results, shortcut reliance, bug-as-insight reframing, methodology fabrication, frame-lock, citation hallucinations.

ARS is built on the