claude-skills

Skills for Claude Code.

Available Skills

deep-research

Systematic academic literature review in 6 phases. Searches arXiv, Semantic Scholar, and conference proceedings. Produces structured notes, a curated paper database, and a synthesized final report.

Includes:

• 7 Python scripts (search, download, extract, database management, BibTeX, report compilation)
• 3 reference guides (API reference, note templates, workflow phases)
• /research <topic> slash command

Installation

Step 1: Install the skill

npx skills add lingzhi227/claude-skills -g -a claude-code

Important: Use the -g (global) flag. The scripts use ~/.claude/skills/deep-research/ paths that require global installation.

Step 2: Install the /research command + check dependencies

git clone https://github.com/lingzhi227/claude-skills.git /tmp/claude-skills
/tmp/claude-skills/install.sh
rm -rf /tmp/claude-skills

This installs the /research slash command and optionally sets up PyMuPDF for PDF extraction.

Step 3: Configure (optional)

1. Semantic Scholar API key (recommended for higher rate limits):

   • Get one at https://www.semanticscholar.org/product/api#api-key
   • Save in ~/keys.md:

     S2_API_Key: your-key-here
     

2. Output directory: Research outputs go to ~/deep-research-output/ by default.

Usage

In Claude Code:

/research transformer architectures for long-context reasoning

Or just ask naturally: "Do a literature review on protein folding with LLMs"

Requirements

• Python 3
• PyMuPDF (pip install PyMuPDF) — optional, for PDF text extraction