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80 AI research skills — literature survey, ideation, experiment execution, paper writing skills-hub.ai mirrors 98 skills from AI Research Skills daily, every skill links back to its upstream GitHub source. Install with one command across Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Windsurf, and any MCP-compatible tool.

Upstream: github.com/Orchestra-Research/AI-Research-SKILLs

Installing a AI Research Skills skill

Pick a skill below, then run the install command for your AI coding tool. The skills-hub CLI writes the SKILL.md to the right directory and tracks the install in .skills.json so your team gets reproducible installs.

# Install a AI Research Skills skill
npx @skills-hub-ai/cli install <skill-slug>

# Browse all AI Research Skills skills via API
curl https://skills-hub.ai/api/v1/skills?source=ai-research

# Browse all sources
open https://skills-hub.ai/sources

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The most-installed skills from AI Research Skills, ranked by adoption.

  1. 01brainstorming-research-ideas

    26 installs

    Guides researchers through structured ideation frameworks to discover high-impact research directions. Use when exploring new problem spaces, pivoting between projects, or seeking novel angles on existing work.

    Researchfrom AI Research Skills
  2. 02unsloth

    10 installs

    Expert guidance for fast fine-tuning with Unsloth - 2-5x faster training, 50-80% less memory, LoRA/QLoRA optimization

    Researchfrom AI Research Skills
  3. 03autogpt-agents

    5 installs

    Autonomous AI agent platform for building and deploying continuous agents. Use when creating visual workflow agents, deploying persistent autonomous agents, or building complex multi-step AI automation systems.

    Researchfrom AI Research Skills
  4. 04ml-paper-writing

    5 installs

    Write publication-ready ML/AI papers for NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, ACL, AAAI, COLM. Use when drafting papers from research repos, structuring arguments, verifying citations, or preparing camera-ready submissions. For systems venues (OSDI, NSDI, ASPLOS, SOSP), use systems-paper-writing instead.

    Researchfrom AI Research Skills
  5. 05huggingface-tokenizers

    4 installs

    Fast tokenizers optimized for research and production. Rust-based implementation tokenizes 1GB in <20 seconds. Supports BPE, WordPiece, and Unigram algorithms. Train custom vocabularies, track alignments, handle padding/truncation. Integrates seamlessly with transformers. Use when you need high-performance tokenization or custom tokenizer training.

    Researchfrom AI Research Skills
  6. 06creative-thinking-for-research

    4 installs

    Applies cognitive science frameworks for creative thinking to CS and AI research ideation. Use when seeking genuinely novel research directions by leveraging combinatorial creativity, analogical reasoning, constraint manipulation, and other empirically grounded creative strategies.

    Researchfrom AI Research Skills
  7. 07skypilot-multi-cloud-orchestration

    4 installs

    Multi-cloud orchestration for ML workloads with automatic cost optimization. Use when you need to run training or batch jobs across multiple clouds, leverage spot instances with auto-recovery, or optimize GPU costs across providers.

    Researchfrom AI Research Skills
  8. 08whisper

    3 installs

    OpenAI's general-purpose speech recognition model. Supports 99 languages, transcription, translation to English, and language identification. Six model sizes from tiny (39M params) to large (1550M params). Use for speech-to-text, podcast transcription, or multilingual audio processing. Best for robust, multilingual ASR.

    Researchfrom AI Research Skills
  9. 09audiocraft-audio-generation

    3 installs

    PyTorch library for audio generation including text-to-music (MusicGen) and text-to-sound (AudioGen). Use when you need to generate music from text descriptions, create sound effects, or perform melody-conditioned music generation.

    Researchfrom AI Research Skills
  10. 10sglang

    2 installs

    Fast structured generation and serving for LLMs with RadixAttention prefix caching. Use for JSON/regex outputs, constrained decoding, agentic workflows with tool calls, or when you need 5× faster inference than vLLM with prefix sharing. Powers 300,000+ GPUs at xAI, AMD, NVIDIA, and LinkedIn.

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  11. 11langchain

    2 installs

    Framework for building LLM-powered applications with agents, chains, and RAG. Supports multiple providers (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google), 500+ integrations, ReAct agents, tool calling, memory management, and vector store retrieval. Use for building chatbots, question-answering systems, autonomous agents, or RAG applications. Best for rapid prototyping and production deployments.

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  12. 12evolving-ai-agents

    2 installs

    Provides guidance for automatically evolving and optimizing AI agents across any domain using LLM-driven evolution algorithms. Use when building self-improving agents, optimizing agent prompts and skills against benchmarks, or implementing automated agent evaluation loops.

    Buildfrom AI Research Skills
  13. 13gguf-quantization

    2 installs

    GGUF format and llama.cpp quantization for efficient CPU/GPU inference. Use when deploying models on consumer hardware, Apple Silicon, or when needing flexible quantization from 2-8 bit without GPU requirements.

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  14. 14lambda-labs-gpu-cloud

    2 installs

    Reserved and on-demand GPU cloud instances for ML training and inference. Use when you need dedicated GPU instances with simple SSH access, persistent filesystems, or high-performance multi-node clusters for large-scale training.

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  15. 15transformer-lens-interpretability

    2 installs

    Provides guidance for mechanistic interpretability research using TransformerLens to inspect and manipulate transformer internals via HookPoints and activation caching. Use when reverse-engineering model algorithms, studying attention patterns, or performing activation patching experiments.

    Researchfrom AI Research Skills
  16. 16nemo-evaluator-sdk

    1 installs

    Evaluates LLMs across 100+ benchmarks from 18+ harnesses (MMLU, HumanEval, GSM8K, safety, VLM) with multi-backend execution. Use when needing scalable evaluation on local Docker, Slurm HPC, or cloud platforms. NVIDIA's enterprise-grade platform with container-first architecture for reproducible benchmarking.

    Researchfrom AI Research Skills
  17. 17rwkv-architecture

    1 installs

    RNN+Transformer hybrid with O(n) inference. Linear time, infinite context, no KV cache. Train like GPT (parallel), infer like RNN (sequential). Linux Foundation AI project. Production at Windows, Office, NeMo. RWKV-7 (March 2025). Models up to 14B parameters.

    Researchfrom AI Research Skills
  18. 18tensorrt-llm

    1 installs

    Optimizes LLM inference with NVIDIA TensorRT for maximum throughput and lowest latency. Use for production deployment on NVIDIA GPUs (A100/H100), when you need 10-100x faster inference than PyTorch, or for serving models with quantization (FP8/INT4), in-flight batching, and multi-GPU scaling.

    Researchfrom AI Research Skills
  19. 19faiss

    1 installs

    Facebook's library for efficient similarity search and clustering of dense vectors. Supports billions of vectors, GPU acceleration, and various index types (Flat, IVF, HNSW). Use for fast k-NN search, large-scale vector retrieval, or when you need pure similarity search without metadata. Best for high-performance applications.

    Researchfrom AI Research Skills
  20. 20distributed-llm-pretraining-torchtitan

    1 installs

    Provides PyTorch-native distributed LLM pretraining using torchtitan with 4D parallelism (FSDP2, TP, PP, CP). Use when pretraining Llama 3.1, DeepSeek V3, or custom models at scale from 8 to 512+ GPUs with Float8, torch.compile, and distributed checkpointing.

    Researchfrom AI Research Skills
  21. 21modal-serverless-gpu

    1 installs

    Serverless GPU cloud platform for running ML workloads. Use when you need on-demand GPU access without infrastructure management, deploying ML models as APIs, or running batch jobs with automatic scaling.

    Researchfrom AI Research Skills
  22. 22ml-training-recipes

    1 installs

    Battle-tested PyTorch training recipes for all domains — LLMs, vision, diffusion, medical imaging, protein/drug discovery, spatial omics, genomics. Covers training loops, optimizer selection (AdamW, Muon), LR scheduling, mixed precision, debugging, and systematic experimentation. Use when training or fine-tuning neural networks, debugging loss spikes or OOM, choosing architectures, or optimizing GPU throughput.

    Buildfrom AI Research Skills
  23. 23blip-2-vision-language

    1 installs

    Vision-language pre-training framework bridging frozen image encoders and LLMs. Use when you need image captioning, visual question answering, image-text retrieval, or multimodal chat with state-of-the-art zero-shot performance.

    Researchfrom AI Research Skills
  24. 24ara-compiler

    1 installs

    Compiles any research input — PDF papers, GitHub repositories, experiment logs, code directories, or raw notes — into a complete Agent-Native Research Artifact (ARA) with cognitive layer (claims, concepts, heuristics), physical layer (configs, code stubs), exploration graph, and grounded evidence. Use when ingesting a paper or codebase into a structured, machine-executable knowledge package, building an ARA from scratch, or converting research outputs into a falsifiable, agent-traversable form.

    Buildfrom AI Research Skills

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skills-hub.ai mirrors skills from 90+ official GitHub repositories every day. Each imported skill is parsed from a SKILL.md file in the source repo, gets a security scan and quality score on import, and links back to its upstream source of truth.

Last sync: Oct 11, 2026, 4:10 PM (success).

AI Research Skills skills, frequently asked

What are AI Research Skills skills?

AI Research Skills skills are AI coding skills published by AI Research Skills (80 AI research skills — literature survey, ideation, experiment execution, paper writing) and mirrored daily on skills-hub.ai. They are SKILL.md files that follow the open Agent Skills standard, so they work in Claude Code, Cursor, Codex CLI, Windsurf, Copilot, and any MCP-compatible tool.

How many AI Research Skills skills are available?

skills-hub.ai indexes 98 skills from AI Research Skills, synced daily from the upstream GitHub repository (https://github.com/Orchestra-Research/AI-Research-SKILLs).

How do I install a AI Research Skills skill?

Run `npx @skills-hub-ai/cli install <skill-slug>` in your project. The CLI writes the SKILL.md to the right directory for your AI tool and adds it to your `.skills.json` lockfile so your team gets the same skills at the same versions.

Are these official AI Research Skills skills?

Yes. Every skill from this source is mirrored from AI Research Skills's own GitHub repository (https://github.com/Orchestra-Research/AI-Research-SKILLs). Each skill page links back to the upstream source of truth, so you can verify the original.