Academic Researcher Skill — Development skill for Claude Code
The Researcher's Operating System: a Claude Agent Skill for academic research, from first paper to PhD by Publication.
How to install Academic Researcher Skill
This entry records only its repository, not the path inside it, so there is no
exact command to give. Open Scottthe3rd/academic-researcher-skill and copy the folder into
~/.claude/skills/, or the file into ~/.claude/agents/.
What Academic Researcher Skill does
The Researcher's Operating System: a Claude Agent Skill for academic research, from first paper to PhD by Publication. 40 commands: supervisor, adversarial sweeps, rival audits, reading ledger, viva prep.
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README
Academic Researcher: The Researcher's Operating System (a Claude Skill)
A **Claude [Agent Skill](https://agentskills.io)** that gives Claude the roles a research program needs: supervisor, editor, adversarial peer reviewer, simulated committee, reading-ledger keeper, milestone tracker, literature tutor, and writing partner. Built for anyone writing scholarly papers, from a first journal article to a full doctorate, with the deepest support for the **PhD by publication** (thesis by published works), where it began.
**Keywords:** academic research assistant · research workflow · academic writing · peer review · PhD by publication · thesis by publication · compilation thesis · article-based dissertation · three-paper dissertation · kappa / synthesis chapter · doctorate · dissertation · viva preparation · systematic review · PRISMA · literature review · reading log · rival hypotheses · power simulation · research methodology · reviewer response letter · Claude skill · Anthropic Agent Skill · AI research assistant · AI PhD supervisor · independent researcher.
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