Qinyan Academic Skills

A curated, installable collection of AI agent skills for research, writing, analysis, and scientific workflows.

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Qinyan Academic Skills equips AI coding agents with reusable research capabilities: literature discovery, scientific writing, grant proposals, bioinformatics, drug discovery, clinical research, machine learning, data analysis, and more. The repository currently contains 182 skills across 18 domains, including five first-party Qinyan Academic skills.

Use the complete collection or install only the skill, category, tool, and scope that your workflow needs.

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✨ Highlights

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🚀 Quick start

Install everything

The default target is the global Claude Code skills directory.

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/LeonChaoX/qinyan-academic-skills/main/install.sh | bash

[!NOTE] The installer requires Bash, Git, and curl. On Windows, run it in WSL or Git Bash. Review install.sh before piping it to Bash if your environment requires source inspection.

Install only what you need

INSTALLER="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/LeonChaoX/qinyan-academic-skills/main/install.sh"

# Install one category
curl -fsSL "$INSTALLER" | bash -s -- --category 01

# Install one skill
curl -fsSL "$INSTALLER" | bash -s -- --skill scanpy

# Install into the current project instead of globally
curl -fsSL "$INSTALLER" | bash -s -- --project --skill scientific-writing

# Target another supported agent
curl -fsSL "$INSTALLER" | bash -s -- --tool codex

Short forms such as -c, -s, and -t are also supported. Run bash install.sh --help for the complete command reference.

Discover and maintain skills

# Browse and search
bash install.sh --list
bash install.sh --list-skills
bash install.sh --search "protein"

# Inspect and update
bash install.sh --status
bash install.sh --check-update
bash install.sh --update
bash install.sh --update --skill scanpy

Clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/LeonChaoX/qinyan-academic-skills.git
cd qinyan-academic-skills
bash install.sh --help

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🤖 Supported agents

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🧭 Skill catalog

Each category links directly to its source directory. Use --list-skills for the complete list or --search to discover skills by name and description.

First-party Qinyan Academic skills

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🔬 Research workflows

[!TIP] Start with one focused skill, inspect its SKILL.md, and combine skills only when the research workflow genuinely needs multiple capabilities.

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📖 Documentation

• Technical guide — installer architecture, search, update detection, and version management
• install.sh --help — complete CLI options and examples
• skills/ — canonical source for every skill

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🙏 Sources and attribution

This collection combines first-party Qinyan Academic skills with carefully organized skills derived from the following open-source projects:

• K-Dense-AI/claude-scientific-skills — broad scientific research skill collection
• luwill/research-skills — academic slides, literature reviews, and research planning workflows
• Qinyan Academic — paper search, paper analysis, academic polishing, citation discovery, and topic analysis

Attribution and license metadata for an individual skill remain in that skill’s SKILL.md.

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🤝 Contributing

Contributions that improve skills, translations, documentation, and installer compatibility are welcome.

1. Fork the repository and create a focused branch from main
2. Add or update a skill in the appropriate category, keeping SKILL.md as its entry point
3. Update affected documentation and translations
4. Validate links, commands, and formatting
5. Open a pull request with a clear description of the change and its impact

When changing shared facts such as counts, supported tools, or CLI flags, update all five README files in the same pull request.

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📄 License

The repository is distributed under the MIT License. Individual skills may declare additional or different terms in their SKILL.md; review those terms before redistribution or commercial use.