Academic Research Skills for Claude Code, Codex & AI Agents

These skills help an agent with academic research workflows. Most come from a Nature-style skills collection, which covers reading, writing and reviewing papers.

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Figures for Papers

Create publication-style Matplotlib charts with an AI agent, using scientific plotting conventions, reference scripts and print or vector export guidance.

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Nature Paper Card

Build a structured paper-reading card covering methods, evidence chains, limitations and testable research ideas.

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Form research questions, search and verify literature, synthesize evidence, and produce a referenced research report.

  • research
  • literature review
  • fact checking
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Review scientific documents for claims, methods, evidence, citations and presentation.

  • academic-research
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Nature Reviewer

Simulate evidence-grounded peer review with independent reviewer reports and prioritized major and minor concerns.

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Nature Social Science

Frame social-science research questions, literature maps, evidence routes and defensible claims, then review novelty and feasibility.

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Run Codex-oriented research, literature review, manuscript revision, study screening and experiment-planning workflows.

  • academic-research
  • literature-review
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Nature Paper X-Ray

Reconstruct a paper’s reasoning, experimental design and evidence limits, with worked examples for key formulas.

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Nature Data

Prepare Data and Code Availability statements, repository plans, dataset citations and FAIR metadata checks.

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Nature Proposal Writer (researchwrite)

Develop or audit research proposals and plans through evidence, argument and section contracts before drafting.

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Nature Response

Prepare point-by-point reviewer responses, revision cover letters, marked manuscripts and consistent revision packages.

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Nature Reader

Create source-linked Chinese-English Markdown paper readers with aligned text, figures, tables and equations.

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Nature Paper to PPT

Turn scientific papers or reading notes into Chinese PPTX research presentations with source figures and speaker notes.

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Nature Downloader

Retrieve academic full text through open-access, publisher API and authorized institutional or browser access.

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Nature Writing

Draft manuscript sections and initial-submission materials from supplied evidence, or restructure a scientific argument.

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Nature Citation

Find Nature and CNS-family papers that support specific manuscript claims, verify sources and export reference-manager files.

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Nature Statistics

Audit statistical reporting across methods, results and figure legends, including replication, uncertainty and multiple comparisons.

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Nature Academic Search

Search literature across sources, manage references, verify citations and audit citation impact with explicit evidence.

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Nature Literature Pipeline

Automate literature discovery, configurable scoring, reading, delivery and local archival through a scheduled workflow.

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How to choose Academic Research skills

Use reader and paper-card skills to digest literature, proposal skills to plan studies, and figure skills for publication graphics.

  • Digest a stack of papers quickly
  • Draft a research proposal
  • Prepare figures for a paper