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Claude Skills Research — Development skill for Claude Code

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Claude Code skills for academic research support: paper review, bibliography verification, literature surveying, head-to-head paper comparison, and HPC experiment campaigns.

How to install Claude Skills Research

This entry records only its repository, not the path inside it, so there is no exact command to give. Open chgagne/claude-skills-research and copy the folder into ~/.claude/skills/, or the file into ~/.claude/agents/.

What Claude Skills Research does

Claude Code skills for academic research support: paper review, bibliography verification, literature surveying, head-to-head paper comparison, and HPC experiment campaigns.

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README

claude-skills-research

Claude Code skills for supporting academic research in machine learning and computer science: reviewing papers, verifying bibliographies, finding related work, comparing a draft against prior art, and running experiment campaigns on HPC clusters.

These grew out of real reviewing work. Every design decision that looks odd is there because something failed on a real paper, and the reasoning is recorded in the skill itself rather than lost.

Install

git clone https://github.com/chgagne/claude-skills-research ~/.claude/skills

Or clone elsewhere and symlink the ones you want into `~/.claude/skills/`. Claude Code discovers a skill by the frontmatter in its `SKILL.md`.

**No dependencies.** Every tool is Python 3.10+ standard library only — no pip install, no virtualenv. A guard test in each skill fails the suite if a third-party import creeps in.

Optional configuration

Setting	Effect	How
`SCHOLARLY_MAILTO`	Puts Crossref/OpenAlex requests in their polite pool — faster and more reliable. Optional; everything works without it.	`export SCHOLARLY_MAILTO="you@university.edu"` or write it to `~/.config/scholarly/mailto`
`S2_API_KEY`	A dedicated 1 req/s lane on Semantic Scholar instead of a contended anonymous pool.	Request one free, then `export S2_API_KEY=…` or `~/.config/scholarly/s2_key`
`pdftotext`	Lets `comparing-papers` read PDFs when LaTeX source is unavailable.	`brew install poppler` / `apt install poppler-utils`
`sympy`	Lets `verifying-proofs` confirm an algebraic identity rather than merely failing to refute it. Absent, those steps report `UNVERIFIED` and the run exits 2.	`pip install sympy`
`z3`	An opt-in escape hatch in `verifying-proofs` for a concrete inequality over reals or integers. Not used by any default run.	`pip install z3-solver`
`latexmk`	Builds the per-theorem PDFs in `explaining-de