Research Skills

Research Skills is a cross-agent plugin marketplace for academic research and development workflows. It ships skills, agent-callable capabilities that auto-trigger from natural-language intent, covering the parts of a research group's work that AI coding agents are good at automating: literature search, grant writing, manuscript preparation, publication figures, presentations, project lifecycle management, and neuroinformatics data standards.

It targets three agent runtimes from one shared set of skill definitions: Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, and GitHub Copilot CLI.

Learn it hands-on

This marketplace is taught week-by-week in the free Agentic Research Course from the Open Science Collective.

Plugins

Plugin	What it does
Project	Epics/worktrees, PR review, CI/CD, debugging, agent fan-out
Grant	NIH/NSF proposal writing, review, figure QA
Manuscript	Literature review, peer review, writing, journal formatting
Opencite	Literature search, citation management, PDF retrieval
Figures	Publication-quality figure composition and QA
Presentation	Interactive Reveal.js slide decks
Neuroinformatics	BIDS conversion, HED annotation, experiment design

Start with Getting Started to install a plugin, or Architecture to see how skills, commands, agents, and MCP servers fit together.