Research Papers is a production-ready Claude Code skill (quality score 70/100) in the research-methods sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/research-papers/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.
When to invoke it: Use when the user asks "is there a better way to do X", "what are state-of-the-art methods for Y", "find papers on Z", "how do others solve this problem", or wants to understand recent advances in a technique.
The Research Papers skill is built for researchers, data scientists, academics, and analysts working with complex data and scientific literature. It is part of the open ClaudSkills registry, a community-curated catalog of 15,000+ capabilities you can install for Claude Code — the Claude CLI agent.
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/research-papers curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/research-papers/SKILL.md \ -o ~/.claude/skills/research-papers/SKILL.md
Or just download SKILL.md directly and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/research-papers/. Claude Code auto-discovers it on next session.
Skills live at ~/.claude/skills/research-papers/SKILL.md on macOS/Linux, or %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\research-papers\SKILL.md on Windows. See the full install guide for step-by-step instructions.
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