Overview
AI Research SKILLs is an open-source productivity skill for Claude Code, Codex, and Gemini CLI, published by Orchestra-Research. Its author describes it as: “Comprehensive open-source library of AI research and engineering skills for any AI model. Package the skills and your claude code/codex/gemini agent will be an AI research agent with full horsepower. Maintained by Orc…”. The project has 11k stars on GitHub and is available under the MIT license. Add it to your setup with `git clone https://github.com/Orchestra-Research/AI-Research-SKILLs ~/.claude/skills/AI-Research-SKILLs`.
Installation
Add AI Research SKILLs to your agent with:
git clone https://github.com/Orchestra-Research/AI-Research-SKILLs ~/.claude/skills/AI-Research-SKILLs Review a skill’s source before installing it — skills can instruct your agent to run commands. This command comes from the skill’s public repository, which is the source of truth for setup steps. New to skills? Read how to install Claude Code skills.
Supported agents
- Claude Code — named in the skill.md
- Codex — named in the skill.md
- Gemini CLI — named in the skill.md
License
AI Research SKILLs is published under the MIT license.
Strengths
- Clear MIT license — safe to read and adapt within its terms
- Ships in Orchestra-Research/AI-Research-SKILLs, an established project with 11,251 GitHub stars
- Works with Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI
Author
Topics
Frequently asked questions
- What does AI Research SKILLs do?
- Comprehensive open-source library of AI research and engineering skills for any AI model. Package the skills and your claude code/codex/gemini agent will be an AI research agent with full horsepower. Maintained by Orchestra Research.
- How do I install AI Research SKILLs?
- Run git clone https://github.com/Orchestra-Research/AI-Research-SKILLs ~/.claude/skills/AI-Research-SKILLs in your agent, then reload your skills. Review the source at https://github.com/Orchestra-Research/AI-Research-SKILLs before installing.
- Is AI Research SKILLs free to use?
- Yes. AI Research SKILLs is free and open source under the MIT license, so you can read, run, and adapt it within that license's terms.
- Which agents does AI Research SKILLs work with?
- AI Research SKILLs lists Claude Code, Codex, and Gemini CLI — named in its SKILL.md, its plugin marketplace or its repository topics. Skills use the portable SKILL.md format, so other agents that read that format may load it too.
- Where does AI Research SKILLs come from?
- AI Research SKILLs ships inside Orchestra-Research/AI-Research-SKILLs, a repository that contains 41 catalogued skills in total. The repository's 11,251 GitHub stars apply to that whole collection, not to this skill on its own.