research-essentials plugin
Everything for writing and publishing research: paper writing, journal formats, literature review, citations, ideation and figures.
How to install the research-essentials plugin
Run both commands inside Claude Code. The first adds the marketplace once; the second installs the plugin.
/plugin marketplace add KalarisLabs/research-agent-skills
/plugin install research-essentials@research-agent-skillsWhat's inside research-essentials
67 parts read from the plugin's own files.
Skills 67
Claude loads it when the task matches- abstract-and-title
Write and sharpen research paper titles, abstracts (structured and unstructured), keywords, highlights, significance statements, graphical-abstract text and lay summaries. Use when drafting or revising an abstract to a word limit, turning results into a one-sentence contribution, choosing between candidate titles, writing Cell/Elsevier highlights, a PNAS significance statement or a plain-language summary, or optimizing discoverability (keywords, search terms).
- academic-plotting
Generates publication-quality figures for ML papers from research context. Given a paper section or description, extracts system components and relationships to generate architecture diagrams via Gemini. Given experiment results or data, auto-selects chart type and generates data-driven figures via matplotlib/seaborn. Use when creating any figure for a conference paper.
- acm-sigconf
Format ACM conference papers and journal articles with the acmart LaTeX class (sigconf, sigplan, acmsmall, acmlarge, acmtog, manuscript/review/anonymous modes) or the ACM Word template, covering CCS concepts, keywords, ACM Reference Format, rights management and copyright blocks, anonymization for double-blind review, accessibility (alt text), the TAPS production workflow and common acmart errors. Use when writing for CHI, SIGGRAPH, KDD, SIGMOD, CCS, FAccT, WWW, SIGIR, CSCW, PLDI or any ACM venue or journal.
- analytical-method-validation
Plans and evaluates analytical method validation, verification, and transfer using Python scripts (plan_validation, check_response, check_accuracy_precision, check_detection_limits, check_bioanalytical_run, compare_methods) under ICH Q2(R2)/Q14, ICH M10, USP 1220/1225/1226, CLSI EP, or ISO/IEC 17025. Covers protocols, linearity, accuracy and precision, DL/QL, M10 run checks, TOST equivalence, Deming and Passing-Bablok. Use when designing a validation protocol with pre-stated acceptance criteria. Use when evaluating linearity, precision, or detection limit data. Use when checking an ICH M10 bioanalytical run or ISR. Use when comparing or transferring a method between labs. Does not decide a method is validated; USP, CLSI, ISO text is not supplied.
- apa7
Format papers, theses and references in APA Style 7th edition for psychology, education, social sciences, nursing and business, covering student vs professional papers, title page, abstract and keywords, heading levels, in-text citations, reference list entries (journal articles, books, chapters, datasets, software, webpages, AI tools), tables and figures, bias-free language, and APA via LaTeX (apa7 class + biblatex-apa), Word or Pandoc/CSL. Use when a user needs APA format, APA citations or references, or an APA-compliant manuscript or thesis.
- arxiv-submission
Prepare and post preprints to arXiv without processing failures or leaks, covering TeX source packaging (.bbl, figures, case-sensitive paths), stripping private comments, choosing categories and license, endorsement, metadata (title, abstract, comments field), versioning and replacements, and linking the journal DOI later. Use when posting a paper to arXiv, when arXiv's TeX compilation fails, before uploading source, or when updating a preprint after acceptance. Includes a zero-dependency preflight checker.
- bgpt-paper-search
Search scientific papers and retrieve structured experimental data extracted from full-text studies via the BGPT MCP server. Returns 25+ fields per paper including methods, results, sample sizes, quality scores, and conclusions. Use for literature reviews, evidence synthesis, and finding experimental details not available in abstracts alone.
- bibtex-hygiene
Clean, deduplicate and validate BibTeX/BibLaTeX bibliographies before submission. Use when a .bib file has duplicate keys or works, missing fields, broken DOIs, lost acronym capitalization (e.g. "bert" instead of "BERT"), inconsistent page dashes, arXiv preprints that now have published versions, or when LaTeX/biber emits bibliography warnings. Includes a zero-dependency linter and normalizer.
- brainstorming-research-ideas
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.
- cell-press
Prepare manuscripts for Cell Press journals (Cell, Molecular Cell, Neuron, Immunity, Cell Reports, Cell Systems, iScience, Cell Metabolism, Current Biology and others), covering Summary, Highlights, eTOC blurb and graphical abstract, STAR Methods with the Key Resources Table, resource availability (lead contact, materials, data and code), figure and statistics requirements, and Cell Press formatting at submission vs revision. Use when targeting a Cell Press journal, writing highlights or a graphical abstract, or converting methods into STAR Methods.
- citation-management
Searches OpenAlex, PubMed, and Google Scholar, extracts metadata from DOIs, PMIDs, PMCIDs, arXiv IDs, and URLs via CrossRef, PubMed, and arXiv, then formats, deduplicates, and validates BibTeX files using bundled Python scripts (search_openalex.py, extract_metadata.py, format_bibtex.py, validate_citations.py, doi_to_bibtex.py). Use when converting DOIs or PMIDs to BibTeX, finding papers on a topic, filling missing volume, pages, or DOI fields, cleaning or merging .bib files with duplicate entries, or checking a bibliography for errors before submission. Not for systematic review search methodology or synthesis; use literature-review for that.
- citation-verification
Verify that every reference in a manuscript really exists and matches its metadata, catching hallucinated, corrupted or mismatched citations before submission. Use when checking a .bib file or reference list, after an AI assistant drafted citations, when a DOI may point to the wrong paper, when adding missing DOIs, or before camera-ready. Queries Crossref, OpenAlex and arXiv; zero dependencies.
- consciousness-council
Run a multi-perspective Mind Council deliberation on any question, decision, or creative challenge. Use this skill whenever the user wants diverse viewpoints, needs help making a tough decision, asks for a council/panel/board discussion, wants to explore a problem from multiple angles, requests devil's advocate analysis, or says things like "what would different experts think about this", "help me think through this from all sides", "council mode", "mind council", or "deliberate on this". Also trigger when the user faces a dilemma, trade-off, or complex choice with no obvious answer.
- cover-letter-to-editor
Write journal submission cover letters, presubmission inquiries, transfer requests, and reviewer suggestion or exclusion lists that help a manuscript get past editorial triage. Use when submitting a paper to a journal, pitching a manuscript to an editor (presubmission enquiry), transferring after rejection, explaining a resubmission or appeal, or preparing the editor-facing parts of a submission such as the significance pitch, suggested reviewers and conflicts. Not for job or fellowship application letters.
- creative-thinking-for-research
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.
- dhdna-profiler
Extract cognitive patterns and thinking fingerprints from any text. Use this skill when the user wants to analyze how someone thinks, understand cognitive style, profile writing or speech patterns, compare thinking styles between people, asks "what's my thinking style", "analyze how this person reasons", "cognitive profile", "thinking pattern", "DHDNA", "digital DNA", or wants to understand the mind behind any text. Also trigger when the user provides text and wants deeper insight into the author's reasoning patterns, decision-making style, or cognitive signature.
- elsevier-cas
Prepare submissions to Elsevier journals (including The Lancet family style notes, Cell-independent Elsevier titles, and thousands of society journals) using the elsarticle LaTeX class, the CAS single/double-column templates or Word, covering highlights, graphical abstracts, keywords, CRediT author statements, declarations of interest, generative-AI disclosure, data availability, reference styles per journal, Editorial Manager submission and "Your Paper Your Way" format-free first submission. Use when targeting an Elsevier journal or fixing elsarticle/CAS template issues.
- exa-search
Web toolkit powered by Exa, tuned for scientific and technical content. Use this skill when the user needs to search the web or fetch/extract URL content. Covers: web search (semantic lookups, research, current info — with optional research-paper category and academic domain filtering) and URL extraction (fetching pages, articles, academic PDFs in batch). Use this skill for web-related tasks when the user wants high-quality search or scholarly filtering via category=research paper. Triggers on requests to search, look up, fetch a page, or extract an article.
- experimental-design
Design experiments and studies BEFORE data is collected — choosing a design, randomizing, blocking, and laying out treatment combinations so results are interpretable. Use whenever someone is planning a study, asks how to assign subjects/samples to groups, mentions randomization, blocking, stratification, controls, factorial or fractional-factorial designs, design of experiments (DOE), screening many factors, response-surface optimization, crossover or repeated-measures or split-plot designs, cluster/group randomization, Latin squares, plate layouts, batch/run-order effects, replication vs. pseudoreplication, or sequential/adaptive/group-sequential designs. Trigger even for informal phrasings like "how should I set up this experiment", "how do I avoid confounding", "what's the best way to test these 6 factors", or "assign these mice to conditions". For computing the sample size or power once the design is chosen, use statistical-power; for analyzing data already collected, use statistical-analysis.
- firecrawl-research-index
Query Firecrawl Research Index paper endpoints for topic discovery, source metadata, question-matched passages, and citation-neighbor expansion. Use when a researcher explicitly asks for Firecrawl Research or its hosted arXiv and biomedical paper records.
- generate-image
Generate or edit images with AI models through the OpenRouter Image API (Gemini, Seedream, Recraft, GPT-Image, Riverflow). Use for photos, illustrations, artwork, concept art, visual assets, logos, and image editing or compositing from reference images. For flowcharts, circuits, pathways, and other technical diagrams, use the scientific-schematics skill instead.
- hypogenic
Plans and audits use of ChicagoHAI HypoGeniC/HypoRefine for LLM-assisted hypothesis generation from labeled text datasets. Use for the `hypogenic` package, its task configs, hypothesis banks, or HypoBench datasets—not for manual hypothesis formulation or scientific validation.
- hypothesis-generation
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- ieee-transactions
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- infographics
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- iso-standards-readiness
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- latex-posters
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- liteparse
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- literature-review
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- markdown-mermaid-writing
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- market-research-reports
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- markitdown
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- matplotlib
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- ml-paper-writing
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- nature-portfolio
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- open-notebook
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- paper-lookup
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- paperclip
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- paperzilla
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- parallel-web
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Using research-essentials in Claude Code
Skills need no command. Claude reads them when your request matches what they describe.
Update, turn off or remove
- Update the plugin (shell)
- claude plugin update research-essentials@research-agent-skills
- Refresh the marketplace
- /plugin marketplace update research-agent-skills
- Turn it off for now
- /plugin disable research-essentials@research-agent-skills
- Remove it
- /plugin uninstall research-essentials@research-agent-skills
Skills in research-essentials
- analytical-method-validationKalarisLabs/research-agent-skills
Plans and evaluates analytical method validation, verification, and transfer using Python scripts (plan_validation, check_response, check_accuracy_precision, check_detection_limits, check_bioanalytical_run, compare_methods) under ICH Q2(R2)/Q14, ICH M10, USP 1220/1225/1226, CLSI EP, or ISO/IEC 17025. Covers protocols, linearity, accuracy and precision, DL/QL, M10 run checks, TOST equivalence, Deming and Passing-Bablok. Use when designing a validation protocol with pre-stated acceptance criteria. Use when evaluating linearity, precision, or detection limit data. Use when checking an ICH M10 bioanalytical run or ISR. Use when comparing or transferring a method between labs. Does not decide a method is validated; USP, CLSI, ISO text is not supplied.
17 files126stars - citation-managementKalarisLabs/research-agent-skills
Searches OpenAlex, PubMed, and Google Scholar, extracts metadata from DOIs, PMIDs, PMCIDs, arXiv IDs, and URLs via CrossRef, PubMed, and arXiv, then formats, deduplicates, and validates BibTeX files using bundled Python scripts (search_openalex.py, extract_metadata.py, format_bibtex.py, validate_citations.py, doi_to_bibtex.py). Use when converting DOIs or PMIDs to BibTeX, finding papers on a topic, filling missing volume, pages, or DOI fields, cleaning or merging .bib files with duplicate entries, or checking a bibliography for errors before submission. Not for systematic review search methodology or synthesis; use literature-review for that.
21 files126stars - consciousness-councilKalarisLabs/research-agent-skills
Run a multi-perspective Mind Council deliberation on any question, decision, or creative challenge. Use this skill whenever the user wants diverse viewpoints, needs help making a tough decision, asks for a council/panel/board discussion, wants to explore a problem from multiple angles, requests devil's advocate analysis, or says things like "what would different experts think about this", "help me think through this from all sides", "council mode", "mind council", or "deliberate on this". Also trigger when the user faces a dilemma, trade-off, or complex choice with no obvious answer.
2 files126stars - dhdna-profilerKalarisLabs/research-agent-skills
Extract cognitive patterns and thinking fingerprints from any text. Use this skill when the user wants to analyze how someone thinks, understand cognitive style, profile writing or speech patterns, compare thinking styles between people, asks "what's my thinking style", "analyze how this person reasons", "cognitive profile", "thinking pattern", "DHDNA", "digital DNA", or wants to understand the mind behind any text. Also trigger when the user provides text and wants deeper insight into the author's reasoning patterns, decision-making style, or cognitive signature.
2 files126stars - experimental-designKalarisLabs/research-agent-skills
Design experiments and studies BEFORE data is collected — choosing a design, randomizing, blocking, and laying out treatment combinations so results are interpretable. Use whenever someone is planning a study, asks how to assign subjects/samples to groups, mentions randomization, blocking, stratification, controls, factorial or fractional-factorial designs, design of experiments (DOE), screening many factors, response-surface optimization, crossover or repeated-measures or split-plot designs, cluster/group randomization, Latin squares, plate layouts, batch/run-order effects, replication vs. pseudoreplication, or sequential/adaptive/group-sequential designs. Trigger even for informal phrasings like "how should I set up this experiment", "how do I avoid confounding", "what's the best way to test these 6 factors", or "assign these mice to conditions". For computing the sample size or power once the design is chosen, use statistical-power; for analyzing data already collected, use statistical-analysis.
7 files126stars - generate-imageKalarisLabs/research-agent-skills
Generate or edit images with AI models through the OpenRouter Image API (Gemini, Seedream, Recraft, GPT-Image, Riverflow). Use for photos, illustrations, artwork, concept art, visual assets, logos, and image editing or compositing from reference images. For flowcharts, circuits, pathways, and other technical diagrams, use the scientific-schematics skill instead.
3 files126stars - hypogenicKalarisLabs/research-agent-skills
Plans and audits use of ChicagoHAI HypoGeniC/HypoRefine for LLM-assisted hypothesis generation from labeled text datasets. Use for the `hypogenic` package, its task configs, hypothesis banks, or HypoBench datasets—not for manual hypothesis formulation or scientific validation.
18 files126stars - academic-plottingKalarisLabs/research-agent-skills
Generates publication-quality figures for ML papers from research context. Given a paper section or description, extracts system components and relationships to generate architecture diagrams via Gemini. Given experiment results or data, auto-selects chart type and generates data-driven figures via matplotlib/seaborn. Use when creating any figure for a conference paper.
4 files126stars - arxiv-submissionKalarisLabs/research-agent-skills
Prepare and post preprints to arXiv without processing failures or leaks, covering TeX source packaging (.bbl, figures, case-sensitive paths), stripping private comments, choosing categories and license, endorsement, metadata (title, abstract, comments field), versioning and replacements, and linking the journal DOI later. Use when posting a paper to arXiv, when arXiv's TeX compilation fails, before uploading source, or when updating a preprint after acceptance. Includes a zero-dependency preflight checker.
2 files126stars - bibtex-hygieneKalarisLabs/research-agent-skills
Clean, deduplicate and validate BibTeX/BibLaTeX bibliographies before submission. Use when a .bib file has duplicate keys or works, missing fields, broken DOIs, lost acronym capitalization (e.g. "bert" instead of "BERT"), inconsistent page dashes, arXiv preprints that now have published versions, or when LaTeX/biber emits bibliography warnings. Includes a zero-dependency linter and normalizer.
2 files126stars - citation-verificationKalarisLabs/research-agent-skills
Verify that every reference in a manuscript really exists and matches its metadata, catching hallucinated, corrupted or mismatched citations before submission. Use when checking a .bib file or reference list, after an AI assistant drafted citations, when a DOI may point to the wrong paper, when adding missing DOIs, or before camera-ready. Queries Crossref, OpenAlex and arXiv; zero dependencies.
2 files126stars - exa-searchKalarisLabs/research-agent-skills
Web toolkit powered by Exa, tuned for scientific and technical content. Use this skill when the user needs to search the web or fetch/extract URL content. Covers: web search (semantic lookups, research, current info — with optional research-paper category and academic domain filtering) and URL extraction (fetching pages, articles, academic PDFs in batch). Use this skill for web-related tasks when the user wants high-quality search or scholarly filtering via category=research paper. Triggers on requests to search, look up, fetch a page, or extract an article.
5 files126stars - abstract-and-titleKalarisLabs/research-agent-skills
Write and sharpen research paper titles, abstracts (structured and unstructured), keywords, highlights, significance statements, graphical-abstract text and lay summaries. Use when drafting or revising an abstract to a word limit, turning results into a one-sentence contribution, choosing between candidate titles, writing Cell/Elsevier highlights, a PNAS significance statement or a plain-language summary, or optimizing discoverability (keywords, search terms).
126stars - acm-sigconfKalarisLabs/research-agent-skills
Format ACM conference papers and journal articles with the acmart LaTeX class (sigconf, sigplan, acmsmall, acmlarge, acmtog, manuscript/review/anonymous modes) or the ACM Word template, covering CCS concepts, keywords, ACM Reference Format, rights management and copyright blocks, anonymization for double-blind review, accessibility (alt text), the TAPS production workflow and common acmart errors. Use when writing for CHI, SIGGRAPH, KDD, SIGMOD, CCS, FAccT, WWW, SIGIR, CSCW, PLDI or any ACM venue or journal.
126stars - apa7KalarisLabs/research-agent-skills
Format papers, theses and references in APA Style 7th edition for psychology, education, social sciences, nursing and business, covering student vs professional papers, title page, abstract and keywords, heading levels, in-text citations, reference list entries (journal articles, books, chapters, datasets, software, webpages, AI tools), tables and figures, bias-free language, and APA via LaTeX (apa7 class + biblatex-apa), Word or Pandoc/CSL. Use when a user needs APA format, APA citations or references, or an APA-compliant manuscript or thesis.
126stars - bgpt-paper-searchKalarisLabs/research-agent-skills
Search scientific papers and retrieve structured experimental data extracted from full-text studies via the BGPT MCP server. Returns 25+ fields per paper including methods, results, sample sizes, quality scores, and conclusions. Use for literature reviews, evidence synthesis, and finding experimental details not available in abstracts alone.
126stars - brainstorming-research-ideasKalarisLabs/research-agent-skills
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.
126stars - cell-pressKalarisLabs/research-agent-skills
Prepare manuscripts for Cell Press journals (Cell, Molecular Cell, Neuron, Immunity, Cell Reports, Cell Systems, iScience, Cell Metabolism, Current Biology and others), covering Summary, Highlights, eTOC blurb and graphical abstract, STAR Methods with the Key Resources Table, resource availability (lead contact, materials, data and code), figure and statistics requirements, and Cell Press formatting at submission vs revision. Use when targeting a Cell Press journal, writing highlights or a graphical abstract, or converting methods into STAR Methods.
126stars - cover-letter-to-editorKalarisLabs/research-agent-skills
Write journal submission cover letters, presubmission inquiries, transfer requests, and reviewer suggestion or exclusion lists that help a manuscript get past editorial triage. Use when submitting a paper to a journal, pitching a manuscript to an editor (presubmission enquiry), transferring after rejection, explaining a resubmission or appeal, or preparing the editor-facing parts of a submission such as the significance pitch, suggested reviewers and conflicts. Not for job or fellowship application letters.
126stars - creative-thinking-for-researchKalarisLabs/research-agent-skills
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.
126stars - elsevier-casKalarisLabs/research-agent-skills
Prepare submissions to Elsevier journals (including The Lancet family style notes, Cell-independent Elsevier titles, and thousands of society journals) using the elsarticle LaTeX class, the CAS single/double-column templates or Word, covering highlights, graphical abstracts, keywords, CRediT author statements, declarations of interest, generative-AI disclosure, data availability, reference styles per journal, Editorial Manager submission and "Your Paper Your Way" format-free first submission. Use when targeting an Elsevier journal or fixing elsarticle/CAS template issues.
126stars - firecrawl-research-indexKalarisLabs/research-agent-skills
Query Firecrawl Research Index paper endpoints for topic discovery, source metadata, question-matched passages, and citation-neighbor expansion. Use when a researcher explicitly asks for Firecrawl Research or its hosted arXiv and biomedical paper records.
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research-essentials plugin questions
How do I install the research-essentials plugin?
In Claude Code run /plugin marketplace add KalarisLabs/research-agent-skills, then /plugin install research-essentials@research-agent-skills.
What does the research-essentials plugin include?
research-essentials bundles 67 skills.
How do I update or remove the research-essentials plugin?
Update it with claude plugin update research-essentials@research-agent-skills in your shell, or from the Installed tab of /plugin. Remove it with /plugin uninstall research-essentials@research-agent-skills.
What license is the research-essentials plugin under?
MIT, as stated in the plugin's manifest.