Research Skills
Claude Code marketplace for academic research workflows and development tooling. Install individual plugins for literature search, grant proposals, manuscript preparation, scientific figures, project lifecycle management, and neuroinformatics.
Install
In Claude Code, type /plugin, select Add marketplace, enter:
neuromechanist/research-skills
Then select which plugins to install. Each plugin is independent.
Install all plugins via CLI
claude plugin marketplace add neuromechanist/research-skills
for p in project grant manuscript opencite scientific-figures neuroinformatics; do
claude plugin install "$p@research-skills"
done
Plugins
| Plugin | Version | Description | Commands |
|---|
| project | 0.2.0 | Project lifecycle: init, workflow, CI/CD, Docker, security, doc-processing | /init-project, /epic-dev, /epic-status, /setup-ci, /release-prep, /doc-process |
| grant | 0.2.0 | NIH/NSF grant proposal writing, review, and figure QA | /grant-write, /grant-review |
| manuscript | 0.2.0 | Academic manuscript peer review, writing, and journal formatting | /paper-review, /manuscript-prep |
| opencite | 0.2.0 | Literature search, citation management, PDF retrieval, literature review synthesis | /opencite |
| scientific-figures | 0.1.1 | Full figure pipeline: icons, plots, composition, visual QA | -- |
| neuroinformatics | 0.1.0 | BIDS conversion/validation, HED annotation, PsychoPy experiment design | /convert-bids, /validate-bids, /design-experiment |
Research Plugins
opencite
Search academic literature, explore citation graphs, download PDFs, and export BibTeX. Wraps the opencite CLI, aggregating Semantic Scholar, OpenAlex, PubMed, arXiv, and bioRxiv. Includes a literature-review skill for synthesizing papers into cohesive reviews with thematic organization and gap analysis.
/opencite search "motor cortex oscillations"
"Find the top 10 most cited papers on brain-computer interfaces"
"Write a literature review on EEG-based BCIs"
grant
Draft and review NIH and NSF grant proposals with mechanism-specific templates (R01, R21, K99, CAREER, etc.). Includes a grant-figure-qa agent that autonomously checks figures for resolution, accessibility, and NIH/NSF compliance. Skills for research strategy guidelines, writing style, budget justification, scoring criteria, and resubmission response.
/grant-write significance --mechanism R01
/grant-review proposal.pdf --mechanism R21
manuscript
Academic manuscript toolkit covering the full lifecycle: writing guidance (IMRAD structure, section templates), peer review (methodology, statistics, reproducibility), and journal-specific formatting (IEEE, Nature, PNAS, Elsevier, LaTeX/BibTeX management). Includes revision response templates.
/paper-review manuscript.pdf
/manuscript-prep "Nature Neuroscience"
scientific-figures
Create publication-quality figures for Nature, Science, PNAS, Cell, and other journals:
- Plan -- target journal, panel layout, color palette
- Create elements -- icons (gpt-image-1.5), plots (matplotlib/seaborn/plotly/ggplot2)
- Compose -- assemble into PDF via react-pdf
- Visual QA -- render to PNG, read the image, verify alignment/labels/overlap, iterate
All elements saved as SVG or transparent PNG. Enforces sans-serif fonts, colorblind-safe palettes, and journal-specific dimensions. Runs on-the-fly via uvx and bunx.
neuroinformatics
Neuroscience data standards, experiment design, and dataset validation:
- BIDS conversion -- convert EEG, EMG, and other modalities to Brain Imaging Data Structure (BIDS) format with proper file naming, JSON sidecars, and metadata
- Experiment design -- scaffold PsychoPy experiments with stimulus presentation, LSL marker integration, and BIDS-compatible output
- BIDS validator agent -- autonomously validate datasets, diagnose errors, and apply fixes
/convert-bids ./raw-data --modality eeg --task rest
/validate-bids ./bids-dataset
/design-experiment "visual oddball ERP paradigm with 2 conditions"
Development Plugin
project
Complete project lifecycle toolkit combining initialization, epic/sprint workflow, and CI/CD management:
neuromechanist