AI Research Skills plugin for Grok Build
Universal SKILL.md catalog for research workflows: literature review, research design, project memory, manuscript writing, and cross-agent delegation for Claude Code, Codex, Gemini, Cursor, OpenClaw, and generic AI clients.
How to install AI Research Skills in Grok Build
1. Add this repo as a plugin marketplace in Grok Build (once per computer):
grok plugin marketplace add WenyuChiou/ai-research-skills2. Install the plugin:
grok plugin install research-workspace@WenyuChiou/ai-research-skills --trustReview before you trust it. --trust lets this plugin's hooks, MCP servers and scripts run code on your computer. It's a community repo that neither xAI nor GrokStacks has reviewed, so read its code first.
This repo's marketplace has 5 plugins; we checked academic-writing-skills, research-workspace, zotero-skills. Install another the same way: grok plugin install <name>@WenyuChiou/ai-research-skills --trust (names under 'What it contains'). Then start a new Grok session, or press r in /plugins, to load it.
Inside Grok Build: type /plugins, open the Marketplace tab, press a and add WenyuChiou/ai-research-skills, then select research-workspace and press i.
Command format: Grok Build's plugin guide
What we checked: on Oct 19, 2026 it installed with grok 1.0.62 and Grok found 15 skills. That's an install check only: we haven't run it in a live Grok session.
What it contains
Skills (15)
gap-to-topic— Turn a research area into a go/no-go decision dossier for candidate thesis/proposal topics (zero or multiple justified options) — a 3-gate verdict (is the gap open? is it a contribution? is it feasible?) with the evidence laid out so the reliterature-triage-matrix— Turn a list of papers (Zotero collection, Obsidian cluster, manual list) into a compact comparison matrix written to .research/literature_matrix.md, instead of generic per-paper summaries. Use when the user asks to "make a literature matrixnotebooklm-brief-verifier— Compare a downloaded NotebookLM brief against the source bundle research-hub uploaded, and report missed sources, unsupported claims, contradictions, and recommended follow-up prompts. Use when the user asks to "verify this NotebookLM briefpaper-memory-builder— Convert a paper draft + figures + Zotero metadata into reusable .paper/claims.yml and .paper/figures.yml files so the academic-writing-skills skill can do writing, revision, and audit passes without re-reading the manuscript every time. Usepaper-summarize— After research-hub ingests a cluster of cited papers, fill the per-paper Key Findings + Methodology + Relevance sections in BOTH Obsidian markdown and the Zotero child note. Use when the user says "fill the TODO Key Findings/Methodology bloresearch-context-compressor— Inspect a research repository and write a compact `.research/` workspace manifest (project_manifest.yml, experiment_matrix.yml, data_dictionary.yml) so future AI sessions can orient themselves without rescanning the whole repo. Use when theresearch-design-helper— Guide a researcher through 5 Socratic segments — research question sharpening, expected mechanism, identifiability check, validation plan, risk register — and produce `.research/design_brief.md`. Use when the user asks to "frame this researresearch-hub— Operate research-hub workflows for literature discovery, source ingest into Zotero/Obsidian/NotebookLM, dashboard inspection, and vault maintenance. Use when the user asks to find papers and organize them, build a knowledge base, ingest a fresearch-hub-multi-ai— Research-domain router that writes `.coord/multi_ai_plan.md` when one round needs two or more bounded delegates and touches `.research/`, `.paper/`, Zotero, Obsidian, or NotebookLM artifacts. Supported leaves are `codex-delegate` and `antigresearch-project-orienter— Read the .research/ manifest files at a project root and produce a single orientation memo (research question, datasets, current stage, key entrypoints, evidence artifacts, open questions). Use when the user asks to "orient me in this projeresearch-workflow-orchestrator— Run a resumable end-to-end research workflow that automates low-risk work, pauses at explicit human decision gates, records provenance, and routes each stage to the appropriate research-hub skill or MCP tool.zotero-library-curator— Audit and curate a Zotero library — find duplicate DOIs, orphan items missing required tags, propose collection rebinds, identify bloated or under-used collections, generate tag hygiene reports, emit preview-only cleanup plans. Use when theacademic-writing-skills— Plan, outline, draft, review, revise, or proofread academic manuscripts, journal articles, theses, conference papers, abstracts, supplementary materials, and submission packages across disciplines and study designs. Use for extended-outlinepaper-review— Conduct reviewer-style, evidence-safe reviews of academic manuscripts across disciplines using progressive method, domain, review-round, and optional reviewer overlays. Use when the user asks for a critique, scientific review, priority commzotero-skills— Full CRUD on a Zotero library: search, add, update, tag, trash/restore, delete, merge duplicates, and attach PDFs. Writes use pyzotero's Web API even though the separately configured zotero MCP server's tools are read only: call credentials
Plugins in this marketplace (5)
research-workspace— 12 research-hub skills: a resumable human-in-the-loop workflow orchestrator plus literature search, comparison, orientation, context compression, design, verified multi-agent routing, NotebookLM verification, paper memory and summaries, Zotero curation, and gap-to-topic decisions.academic-writing-skills— Lifecycle-aware manuscript development and general scientific review with progressively loaded display provenance, psychometrics, AI/LLM, water, flood, round, and optional reviewer modules.zotero-skills— Full Zotero CRUD: search, add, update, tag, trash/restore, delete, merge duplicates, and attach PDFs via pyzotero. Dual local/Web API routing; writes work even when the separately configured zotero MCP server is read-only.codex-delegate— Minimal synchronous Codex CLI adapter for legacy on-disk briefs, result/sentinel contracts and Bash/PowerShell portability; supervisor scope/test acceptance remains required.antigravity-delegate— Bounded cheap-executor lane for non-honesty-critical mechanical edits through Google Antigravity CLI, with brief-first scope and result verification.
About this listing
AI Research Skills is a community plugin on GitHub by WenyuChiou, written as a Claude Code plugin that Grok Build installs. We install-checked it in Grok; we haven't run it in a live session or reviewed its code. When we installed it, Grok found 15 skills, 5 plugins in this marketplaces. Its license is MIT. We checked commit f5772f8b6241. It's one of 144 listings in the Design category on GrokStacks.
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AI Research Skills FAQ
How do I install AI Research Skills in Grok Build?
Add the repo as a marketplace with grok plugin marketplace add WenyuChiou/ai-research-skills, then run grok plugin install research-workspace@WenyuChiou/ai-research-skills --trust. This repo's marketplace has 5 plugins; we checked academic-writing-skills, research-workspace, zotero-skills. Install another the same way: grok plugin install <name>@WenyuChiou/ai-research-skills --trust (names under 'What it contains'). Then start a new Grok session, or press r in /plugins, to load it.
Is AI Research Skills an official Grok Build plugin?
No. AI Research Skills is a community plugin on GitHub by WenyuChiou, not in xAI's official Grok Build marketplace. We checked that it installs and what Grok loads from it, but haven't run it in a live Grok session or reviewed its code.
What does AI Research Skills include?
According to what Grok loaded in our install check, AI Research Skills includes 15 skills, 5 plugins in this marketplaces: gap-to-topic, literature-triage-matrix, notebooklm-brief-verifier, paper-memory-builder, paper-summarize, research-context-compressor….
Details
- Type
- Plugin
- Category
- Design
- Source
- Community Claude Code plugin, installs in Grok
- License
- MIT
- Author
- WenyuChiou
- Keywords
- academic-writing, agentic-ai, agentskills, ai-research, ai-skills, claude-code, claude-skills, codex, cursor, gemini, literature-review, marketplace
- Source repo
- https://github.com/WenyuChiou/ai-research-skills
- Checked commit
f5772f8b6241- Homepage
- https://github.com/WenyuChiou/ai-research-skills/blob/main/README.md
- Checked by GrokStacks
- Install-checked in Grok Build on Oct 19, 2026; not run in a live session
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