academic-research-skills Goes to 11.5K Stars by Doing the Whole Paper Pipeline
GitHub Trending today: Imbad0202/academic-research-skills. Plus 1,302 stars in 24 hours. 11.5K total. The pitch is a Claude Code plugin that runs the entire academic research pipeline as a sequence of agent skills. Literature review, drafting, peer review, revision, final formatting. v3.9.2 shipped yesterday.
What is in the box. A 13-agent research team with Socratic question refinement, PRISMA systematic-review workflow, and cross-model verification. A 12-agent writing pipeline with style calibration, LaTeX support for APA 7, Chicago, IEEE, MLA, and Vancouver. A 7-agent peer-review system with 0-100 quality rubrics and a built-in devil's-advocate critic. Citation verification against Semantic Scholar with an anti-leakage protocol that flags contamination from training data. A material passport that lets you stop and resume long-running projects across sessions.
Why it landed so hard. Skills as a pattern crystallized over the last six weeks. Karpathy's skills repo, mattpocock/skills, scientific-agent-skills, tech-leads-club/agent-skills. Each one carved out a vertical. academic-research-skills is the most opinionated and most pipeline-shaped of the bunch. It treats a paper as a 10-stage assembly line with integrity gates between stages. The plugin install is one slash command in Claude Code v3.7-plus.
The license is CC-BY-NC 4.0, so commercial labs need to negotiate, but academia and individuals are clean. The bigger signal: if a single anonymous repo can put together a 50-page peer-reviewed-style submission with citation checks and reviewer responses, the unit of academic productivity just moved from a postdoc to a Claude Code session. Read that twice before deciding it does not affect you.
https://github.com/Imbad0202/academic-research-skills
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What is in the box. A 13-agent research team with Socratic question refinement, PRISMA systematic-review workflow, and cross-model verification. A 12-agent writing pipeline with style calibration, LaTeX support for APA 7, Chicago, IEEE, MLA, and Vancouver. A 7-agent peer-review system with 0-100 quality rubrics and a built-in devil's-advocate critic. Citation verification against Semantic Scholar with an anti-leakage protocol that flags contamination from training data. A material passport that lets you stop and resume long-running projects across sessions.
Why it landed so hard. Skills as a pattern crystallized over the last six weeks. Karpathy's skills repo, mattpocock/skills, scientific-agent-skills, tech-leads-club/agent-skills. Each one carved out a vertical. academic-research-skills is the most opinionated and most pipeline-shaped of the bunch. It treats a paper as a 10-stage assembly line with integrity gates between stages. The plugin install is one slash command in Claude Code v3.7-plus.
The license is CC-BY-NC 4.0, so commercial labs need to negotiate, but academia and individuals are clean. The bigger signal: if a single anonymous repo can put together a 50-page peer-reviewed-style submission with citation checks and reviewer responses, the unit of academic productivity just moved from a postdoc to a Claude Code session. Read that twice before deciding it does not affect you.
https://github.com/Imbad0202/academic-research-skills
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