Best Claude skills for deep research.
295 skills in ahel's catalog match "deep research". This list ranks 25 of them by GitHub stars, with the ones named for deep research first. The top three are deep-research, deep-research-notebooklm and auto-deep-research-guide. They come from 13 different publishers. All 25 have GitHub stars on record, and deep-research has the most, 270,267. All 25 come from the community rather than from the vendor of the product they work with. 17 of the 25 were read in full by ahel's safety review. All 25 work through ahel today, so one connection brings them to Claude, ChatGPT and Ahel Desktop. All 25 had a commit in the last 90 days. Most sit in Dev tools and AI & models. Each row links to the item's own page, with its install steps and safety review.
25 results
| # | Name | Stars | Publisher | Use in |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | deep-researchLets your agent write research reports with citations by searching and reading multiple web sources. | 270k | Communityaffaan-m | ClaudeChatGPTAhel Desktop |
| 2 | deep-research-notebooklmLets your agent run deep research across multiple sources via NotebookLM and deliver organized briefs. | 32k | Communitydavila7 | ClaudeChatGPTAhel Desktop |
| 3 | auto-deep-research-guideAutomated deep research tool for thorough topic investigation | 4k | Communitybrycewang-stanford | ClaudeChatGPTAhel Desktop |
| 4 | deep-auditAudits papers, proofs, or codebases by fanning out skeptic reviewers who hunt defects, then judges and fixes them. | 4k | Communitybrycewang-stanford | ClaudeChatGPTAhel Desktop |
| 5 | deep-learning-papers-guideAnnotated deep learning paper implementations with code walkthroughs | 4k | Communitybrycewang-stanford | ClaudeChatGPTAhel Desktop |
| 6 | deep-literature-searchMulti-source exhaustive literature search across academic databases | 4k | Communitybrycewang-stanford | ClaudeChatGPTAhel Desktop |
| 7 | deep-searcher-guideOpen deep research alternative for private data with vector search | 4k | Communitybrycewang-stanford | ClaudeChatGPTAhel Desktop |
| 8 | keras-deep-learningBuild and debug deep learning models with Keras and TensorFlow backend | 4k | Communitybrycewang-stanford | ClaudeChatGPTAhel Desktop |
| 9 | local-deep-research-guideDeep research agent searching 10+ sources with local or cloud LLMs | 4k | Communitybrycewang-stanford | ClaudeChatGPTAhel Desktop |
| 10 | tongyi-deep-research-guideOpen-source deep research agent by Alibaba for scholarly research | 4k | Communitybrycewang-stanford | ClaudeChatGPTAhel Desktop |
| 11 | webthinker-deep-researchDeep web research for VCO: multi-hop search+browse+extract with an auditable action trace and a structured report (WebThinker-style). | 4k | Communityforyourhealth111-pixel | ClaudeChatGPTAhel Desktop |
| 12 | deep-research-swarmThe largest open-source medical AI skills library for OpenClaw🦞. | 3k | Communityfreedomintelligence | ClaudeChatGPTAhel Desktop |
| 13 | tooluniverse-literature-deep-researchLets your agent run systematic literature reviews across PubMed, EuropePMC, and bioRxiv with graded, cited reports. | 3k | Communityfreedomintelligence | ClaudeChatGPTAhel Desktop |
| 14 | researchLets your agent research a topic and produce a structured research outline. | 2k | Communityweizhena | ClaudeChatGPTAhel Desktop |
| 15 | research-add-fieldsLets your agent add field definitions to an existing research claude skill outline. | 2k | Communityweizhena | ClaudeChatGPTAhel Desktop |
| 16 | research-add-itemsLets your agent use this research Claude skill to add items to an existing research outline. | 2k | Communityweizhena | ClaudeChatGPTAhel Desktop |
| 17 | research-deepLets your agent run deep research on each outline item using a research claude skill approach. | 2k | Communityweizhena | ClaudeChatGPTAhel Desktop |
| 18 | research-reportWith this research claude skill, your agent turns collected research results into an organized markdown report. | 2k | Communityweizhena | ClaudeChatGPTAhel Desktop |
| 19 | academic-deep-researchLets your agent run thorough academic research with structured methodology and APA citations. | 2k | Communityleoyeai | ClaudeChatGPTAhel Desktop |
| 20 | openakita/skills@baidu-deep-researchLets your agent run in-depth research on complex topics and produce written analysis reports. | 2k | Communityopenakita | ClaudeChatGPTAhel Desktop |
| 21 | gemini-deep-researchLets your agent run deep research tasks that gather and combine information from many web sources. | 1k | Communityopenlair | ClaudeChatGPTAhel Desktop |
| 22 | deep-research-agentLets your agent run a deep research skill that investigates a topic across 100+ sources and writes a report. | 578 | Communityshobcoder | ClaudeChatGPTAhel Desktop |
| 23 | deep-research-teamLets your agent run deep research by coordinating a team of researcher agents to compare and verify sources. | 462 | Communitymalob | ClaudeChatGPTAhel Desktop |
| 24 | github-deep-researchLets your agent do github claude skill style deep research on any GitHub repo via its API. | 241 | Communityhezaohezao | ClaudeChatGPTAhel Desktop |
| 25 | General - Deep Research - Append FieldsLets your agent add new field definitions to an existing novel-writing research outline. | 223 | Communitylornshrimp | ClaudeChatGPTAhel Desktop |