Research Paper Writing Skills for AI Agents
Research paper writing skills help an agent work on the structured argument a paper makes, from title through references. The sub-topics here map to the parts of that argument: framing why the paper exists in the first screen of reading, positioning related work as the conversation the paper joins, describing how evidence was produced in methods, separating what was observed from spin in results, working out what it means and what would change your mind in discussion, and handling submission, the social process of getting the paper in front of peers. Many fields use IMRaD as the default spine. Read the ranked list by sub-topic: if you are stuck on one section, start with the skill that names that section. Otherwise start at the top and work down until a skill's scope matches the draft you have.
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Start with these.
A research paper is a structured argument: title to references, with IMRaD as the default spine in many fields.
These are the closest matches for this work. Start with the first one and open it to install.
- Rank 01View Agent SkillDirect
academic-paper
A 12-agent academic paper writing pipeline with 11 modes covering planning, outlining, drafting, revision, abstracts, lit review, citation checks, and LaTeX/DOCX/PDF output. Built directly for research paper writing.
10,067 · popularity - Rank 02View Agent SkillDirect
research-paper-writer
Creates formal academic research papers following IEEE/ACM standards with proper structure, citations, and scholarly writing style. Built directly for research paper writing.
3,248 · popularity - Rank 03View Agent SkillDirect
nature-writing
Drafts or restructures scientific manuscript arguments, sections, and first-submission materials from author-provided evidence, with paper-type, section, and journal routing. Built for academic paper drafting.
13,796 · popularity - Rank 04View Agent SkillDirect
nature-polishing
Polishes, translates, or tightens existing academic prose while preserving facts and evidence boundaries, with Nature-style section and journal routing. Built for manuscript language work.
15,558 · popularity - Rank 05View Agent SkillDirect
academic-pipeline
Orchestrates the full academic pipeline from research through writing, integrity checks, review, revision, and finalization across a 10-stage workflow. Built for end-to-end research paper production.
6,661 · popularity - Rank 06View Agent SkillDirect
latex-paper-en
English LaTeX assistant for existing .tex journal or conference papers: compile repair, venue formatting, bibliography checks, section writing, related work, tables, pseudocode, and de-AI polish. Built for academic paper work.
5,649 · popularity - Rank 07View Agent SkillDirect
firecrawl-research-papers
Finds and synthesizes research papers, whitepapers, and academic sources via Firecrawl's paper index with semantic search, related-paper expansion, and in-body verification. Built for literature reviews and sourced synthesis.
33,101 · popularity - Rank 08View Agent SkillDirect
academic-search
Helps formulate academic search queries, recommends databases, analyzes abstracts, and structures literature reviews. Built for the related-work and literature-search facets of paper writing.
5,583 · popularity
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nature-academic-search
Searches literature across sources, verifies and manages citations, builds MeSH strategies, and audits citation impact. Built for the related-work and citation facets of paper writing.
13,446 · popularity - Rank 10View Agent SkillPossible
firecrawl
NotableAny live-web task via the Firecrawl CLI — including ordinary web research: searching the web, reading or extracting pages, gathering sources, discovering site URLs, bulk extraction, downloading a site, change alerts, or pages needing clicks/login — web only; local files route to firecrawl-parse. For papers use firecrawl-research-index; for library, API, error, or bug questions use firecrawl-developer-index.
- Rank 11View Agent SkillPossible
notion-research-documentation
OfficialResearch across Notion and synthesize into structured documentation; use when gathering info from multiple Notion sources to produce briefs, comparisons, or reports with citations.
- Rank 12View Agent SkillPossible
academic-paper-reviewer
Simulates a multi-perspective peer review panel with journal-fit, methodology, domain, and devil's-advocate roles plus an editorial decision. Adjacent to paper writing for pre-submission review.
9,151 · popularity - Rank 13View Agent SkillPossible
paper-audit
Reviewer-style audit and submission gate for .tex, .typ, or .pdf papers with issue bundles, revision roadmaps, and re-audits. Adjacent to paper writing for pre-submission review.
Needs (stated): Python
3,219 · popularity - Rank 14View Agent SkillPossible
academic-paper-review
Produces structured peer-review-quality analyses of academic papers covering summary, strengths, weaknesses, methodology, and literature positioning. Adjacent to paper writing for review and self-assessment.
2,589 · popularity - Rank 15View Agent SkillPossible
scholar-evaluation
Evaluates academic work against a reproducible rubric covering problem, literature, methodology, evidence, analysis, and citations. Adjacent to paper writing for self-assessment and revision.
5,761 · popularity - Rank 16View Agent SkillPossible
latex-thesis-zh
Chinese LaTeX thesis assistant for existing .tex theses: compile diagnosis, GB/T 7714, structure, formula layout, terminology consistency, and blind-review anonymization. Adjacent to paper writing for thesis work.
4,033 · popularity - Rank 17View Agent SkillPossible
nature-reader
Creates source-grounded Chinese-English paper readers with aligned text, figures, tables, and equations. Adjacent to paper writing for close reading of sources.
13,142 · popularity - Rank 18View Agent SkillPossible
deep-research
NotableCourses whose content rests on current, external or real-world facts that must be verified against live sources before being taught — recent events, market or policy data, product and version specifics, scientific developments, named cases. Researches the topic first, keeps a claim-to-source ledger, and grounds the outline and every page in what was actually fetched. Use when the request depends on up-to-date or externally checkable facts; not for timeless textbook topics that stand on established knowledge alone.
- Rank 19View Agent SkillPossible
nature-paper2ppt
Creates Chinese academic PPTX decks from a scientific paper with source figures and speaker notes. Adjacent to paper writing for conference or group-meeting presentations.
14,270 · popularity - Rank 20View Agent SkillPossible
ai-research-explore
NotableRigor Explore compatible skill slug for meaningful and potentially novel deep learning research candidates. Use when the researcher has chosen the task family, dataset, benchmark, evaluation method, provided SOTA references, and wants candidate-only exploration on top of `current_research` with auditable repo understanding, idea gating, fair comparison, and governed experiments written to `explore_outputs/`. Do not use for README-first trusted reproduction, open-ended direction finding, narrow code-only or run-only exploration, passive repo analysis, verified novelty claims, or implicit experi
311,248 · popularity - Rank 21View Agent SkillPossible
paper-context-resolver
Resolves narrow reproduction-critical paper details such as dataset splits, preprocessing, or evaluation protocol from primary sources while recording conflicts. Adjacent to the methods facet of paper writing.
451,036 · popularity - Rank 22View Agent SkillPossible
ai-research-reproduction
NotableRigor Reproduce compatible skill slug for README-first deep learning repository reproduction. Use when the user wants an end-to-end, minimal-trustworthy flow that reads the repository first, selects the smallest documented inference or evaluation target, coordinates intake, setup, trusted execution, optional trusted training, optional repository analysis, and optional paper-gap resolution, enforces conservative patch rules, records evidence assumptions deviations and human decision points, and writes the standardized `repro_outputs/` bundle. Do not use for paper summary, generic environment se
310,973 · popularity - Rank 23View Agent SkillPossible
nature-paper-to-patent
Turns research papers into evidence-grounded Chinese invention patent drafts and technical disclosures. Adjacent to paper writing but a different deliverable.
10,969 · popularity - Rank 24View Agent SkillPossible
doc-coauthoring
OfficialGuide users through a structured workflow for co-authoring documentation. Use when user wants to write documentation, proposals, technical specs, decision docs, or similar structured content. This workflow helps users efficiently transfer context, refine content through iteration, and verify the doc works for readers. Trigger when user mentions writing docs, creating proposals, drafting specs, or similar documentation tasks.
What this topic covers
Each sub-topic groups Agent Skills for a specific situation.
- Framing
- Why this paper exists, in the first screen of reading.
- Related work
- The conversation this paper is joining.
- Methods
- How the evidence was produced.
- Results
- What was observed, cleanly separated from spin.
- Discussion
- What it means, and what would change your mind.
- Submission
- The social process of getting the paper in front of peers.
Frequently asked questions
- What counts as a research paper writing skill here?
- Skills that operate on the paper as a structured argument, title to references. That includes work on framing, related work, methods, results, discussion, and submission, with IMRaD as the default spine in many fields.
- How is the list ordered?
- It is ranked by observed search demand, with direct matches to the topic first and a cap on any single publisher. Use the order as a starting point, then pick by which section of your paper needs work.
- Should I pick one skill or several?
- The sub-topics are distinct parts of the argument, so a skill scoped to results will not cover framing or submission. Match the skill to the section you are drafting, and use more than one when your draft spans several sections.
- Where should I start if my draft is incomplete?
- Start with framing, since it establishes why the paper exists in the first screen of reading. From there, move through related work, methods, results, and discussion in the order the argument is read.
How to install an Agent Skill
Start with the first skill on this page. Claude Code reads a SKILL.md once it is in the skills directory:
- Claude Code — copy the SKILL.md for academic-paper into ~/.claude/skills/academic-paper/ for yourself, or .claude/skills/academic-paper/ to share it with a project.
- From the registry — run npx skills add imbad0202/academic-research-skills@academic-paper.
- Or download academic-paper from its source and place that SKILL.md in the directory above.
How to choose Check the source and the skill’s own instructions before you install. Official and Notable describe where a skill comes from.