qinyan-academic-skills

Name: qinyan-academic-skills
Author: LeonChaoX

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A curated, multilingual library of 182 installable AI agent skills for end-to-end academic research—spanning literature discovery, scientific writing, grant development, bioinformatics, drug discovery, clinical research, machine learning, and data analysis.

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Python

Installation

# Add to your Claude Code skills
git clone https://github.com/LeonChaoX/qinyan-academic-skills

Getting Started

Guides for using ai agents skills like qinyan-academic-skills.

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is qinyan-academic-skills?

qinyan-academic-skills is an open-source ai agents skill for AI coding assistants such as Claude Code, Codex CLI, and ChatGPT, built by LeonChaoX. A curated, multilingual library of 182 installable AI agent skills for end-to-end academic research—spanning literature discovery, scientific writing, grant development, bioinformatics, drug discovery, clinical research, machine learning, and data analysis. It has 854 GitHub stars.

Is qinyan-academic-skills safe to use?

Yes. qinyan-academic-skills passed SkillsLLM's automated security scan — a dependency vulnerability audit plus prompt-injection heuristics — with no high-severity issues. You can read the full report in the Security Report section on this page.

How do I install qinyan-academic-skills?

Clone the repository with "git clone https://github.com/LeonChaoX/qinyan-academic-skills" and add it to your Claude Code skills directory (see the Installation section above).

What programming language is qinyan-academic-skills written in?

qinyan-academic-skills is primarily written in Python. It is open-source under LeonChaoX on GitHub, so you can review or fork the full source.

Are there alternatives to qinyan-academic-skills?

Yes. SkillsLLM lists many other AI Agents skills you can browse and compare side by side. Open the AI Agents category from the badge at the top of this page, or use the Related Skills and comparison links further down to weigh qinyan-academic-skills against similar tools.

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Qinyan Academic Skills — Nature-style scientific writing workflows

187 installable AI agent skills for academic research, featuring a first-party Nature-style suite for scientific writing, manuscript polishing, peer review, publication figures, and statistics.

English · 简体中文 · 繁體中文 · 日本語 · 한국어

Qinyan Academic Skills equips Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, OpenClaw, and OpenCode with reusable research capabilities. The repository contains 187 skills across 18 domains, including a five-skill workflow for Nature-style scientific writing, academic editing, pre-submission review, scientific visualization, and statistical reporting.

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

🧬 Nature-style scientific writing suite

Move from a defensible scientific claim to a submission-ready manuscript with five focused, composable skills:

Manuscript stage	Skill	Primary output
Argument and drafting	`qinyan-nature-writing`	Evidence-led narrative, section drafts, title, abstract, and submission package
Structural and language revision	`qinyan-nature-polishing`	Concise academic prose with meaning-preservation and anti-overclaim checks
Pre-submission assessment	`qinyan-nature-review`	Prioritized, traceable review findings with stable issue identifiers
Figures and visual evidence	`qinyan-nature-figures`	Reproducible multi-panel figures with export and preflight validation
Study design and statistics	`qinyan-nature-statistics`	Estimand-aware analysis plans, reporting audits, and figure-ready results

Install one skill:

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/LeonChaoX/qinyan-academic-skills/main/install.sh \
  | bash -s -- --skill qinyan-nature-writing

Or explore the complete Nature skills workflow, including routing guidance, installation commands, quality gates, and example prompts.

[!NOTE] “Nature-style” describes editorial and scientific communication goals. This independent project is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or guaranteed acceptance by Nature Portfolio or Springer Nature.

✨ Highlights

Capability	What you get
Research coverage	187 skills spanning literature, writing, life sciences, AI, statistics, databases, and laboratory workflows
Agent portability	One installer for Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Gemini CLI, OpenClaw, and OpenCode
Selective installation	Install the full library, one category, or one named skill
Project isolation	Choose global installation or keep skills inside a single project
Lifecycle management	Search, inspect status, check for updates, and update installed skills
Version-controlled source	Every skill is plain text, reviewable, portable, and easy to customize

🚀 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

🤖 Supported agents

Agent	`--tool` value	Global directory	Project directory
Claude Code	`claude` (default)	`~/.claude/skills/`	`.claude/skills/`
Cursor	`cursor`	`~/.cursor/skills/`	`.cursor/skills/`
Codex	`codex`	`~/.codex/skills/`	`.codex/skills/`
Gemini CLI	`gemini`	`~/.gemini/skills/`	`.gemini/skills/`
OpenClaw	`openclaw`	`~/.openclaw/skills/`	`.openclaw/skills/`
OpenCode	`opencode`	`~/.config/opencode/skills/`	`.opencode/skills/`

🧭 Skill catalog

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

ID	Category	Skills	Focus
—	Qinyan Academic skills	10	Paper search, analysis, citations, and Nature-focused writing, review, figures, and statistics
01	Literature discovery and reference management	10	Scholarly search, reviews, citation workflows, and literature databases
02	Scientific writing and communication	6	Manuscripts, peer review, research proposals, and venue templates
03	Academic presentation and visualization	9	Slides, posters, schematics, infographics, and scientific figures
04	Research methods and scientific reasoning	10	Hypotheses, critical thinking, brainstorming, evaluation, and grants
05	Bioinformatics and genomics	21	Sequences, single-cell analysis, regulatory networks, and variants
06	Cheminformatics and drug discovery	12	Molecular processing, docking, medicinal chemistry, and simulation
07	Clinical medicine and precision health	18	Trials, clinical reports, imaging, variants, and decision support
08	Protein engineering and structural biology	7	Protein language models, structures, domains, and sequence resources
09	Machine learning and artificial intelligence	14	Deep learning, classical ML, forecasting, optimization, and explainability
10	Materials science and computational physics	10	Materials, quantum computing, astronomy, fluids, and simulation
11	Data analysis and statistical modeling	11	Dataframes, statistics, visualization, graphs, and symbolic mathematics
12	Scientific databases	22	Chemistry, genes, proteins, pathways, populations, and patents
13	Laboratory automation and integrations	9	ELNs, cloud labs, robotics, imaging, and workflow platforms
14	Documents and data tools	7	PDF, Word, PowerPoint, spreadsheets, notebooks, and conversion
15	Finance and economic data	6	Markets, filings, fiscal data, economic series, and research reports
16	Geospatial analysis and remote sensing	2	GIS, satellite imagery, spatial analysis, and remote sensing
17	Platforms and infrastructure	3	Resource discovery, cloud compute, and ISO 13485 readiness

First-party Qinyan Academic skills

Skill	Purpose
`qinyan-paper-search`	Search Google Scholar, PubMed, arXiv, and Wanfang through the Qinyan Academic OpenAPI
`qinyan-paper-analysis`	Produce structured, in-depth analysis of individual academic papers
`qinyan-paper-polish`	Improve Chinese and English academic prose while preserving meaning
`qinyan-citation`	Discover sources and format citations in common academic styles
`qinyan-topic-analysis`	Evaluate research topics, evidence landscapes, and promising directions
`qinyan-nature-writing`	Build evidence-led manuscript arguments, sections, and initial-submission materials
`qinyan-nature-polishing`	Restructure, translate, and polish academic prose without changing scientific meaning
`qinyan-nature-review`	Run traceable pre-submission review through conceptual, technical, and evidence lenses
`qinyan-nature-figures`	Design, export, and preflight reproducible publication figures
`qinyan-nature-statistics`	Plan, analyse, audit, and report design-aware manuscript statistics

🔬 Research workflows

Goal	Recommended starting points
Literature search and evidence mapping	`qinyan-paper-search`, `openalex-database`, `pubmed-database`, `literature-review`
Manuscript drafting and revision	`qinyan-nature-writing`, `qi