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AI Research Engineering Skills Library

The most comprehensive open-source library of AI research engineering skills for AI agents

Table of Contents

• Our Mission
• Path Towards AI Research Agent
• Available AI Research Engineering Skills
• Demos
• Skill Structure
• Roadmap
• Repository Structure
• Use Cases
• Contributing
• Community

Our Mission

We provide the layer of Engineering Ability that enable your coding agent to write and conduct AI research experiments, including preparing datasets, executing training pipelines, deploying models, and building your AI agents.

System diagram of an AI research agent

Path Towards AI Research Agent

Modern AI research requires mastering dozens of specialized tools and frameworks. AI Researchers spend more time debugging infrastructure than testing hypotheses—slowing the pace of scientific discovery. We provide a comprehensive library of expert-level research engineering skills that enable AI agents to autonomously implement and execute different stages of AI research experiments—from data preparation and model training to evaluation and deployment.

• Specialized Expertise - Each skill provides deep, production-ready knowledge of a specific framework (Megatron-LM, vLLM, TRL, etc.)
• End-to-End Coverage - 83 skills spanning model architecture, tokenization, fine-tuning, mechanistic interpretability, data processing, post-training, distributed training, optimization, evaluation, inference, infrastructure, agents, RAG, multimodal, prompt engineering, MLOps, observability, emerging techniques, and ML paper writing
• Research-Grade Quality - Documentation sourced from official repos, real GitHub issues, and battle-tested production workflows

Available AI Research Engineering Skills

Quality over quantity: Each skill provides comprehensive, expert-level guidance with real code examples, troubleshooting guides, and production-ready workflows.

📦 Quick Install (Recommended)

Install skills to any coding agent (Claude Code, OpenCode, Cursor, Codex, Gemini CLI, Qwen Code) with one command:

npx @orchestra-research/ai-research-skills

This launches an interactive installer that:

• Auto-detects your installed coding agents
• Installs skills to ~/.orchestra/skills/ with symlinks to each agent
• Offers everything, quickstart bundle, by category, or individual skills
• Updates installed skills with latest versions
• Uninstalls all or selected skills

# Interactive installer (recommended)
npx @orchestra-research/ai-research-skills

# Direct commands
npx @orchestra-research/ai-research-skills list      # View installed skills
npx @orchestra-research/ai-research-skills update    # Update installed skills