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Comprehensive open-source library of AI research and engineering skills for any AI model. Package the skills and your claude code/codex/gemini agent will be an AI research agent with full horsepower. Maintained by Orchestra Research.

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git clone https://github.com/Orchestra-Research/AI-Research-SKILLs ~/.claude/skills/ai-research-skills
  1. Clone the repository into your ~/.claude/skills directory (or copy the skill folder containing SKILL.md).
  2. Start a new Claude Code session so the skill registry reloads.
  3. Invoke it by name, or let Claude trigger it automatically when the task matches.

If the repo bundles several skills, copy only the folders you need.

Editor's note

AI Research SKILLs is a library of 98 modular skill files, organized across 23 categories, that instruct AI coding agents how to carry out the full lifecycle of machine learning research autonomously. The skills cover topics such as fine-tuning with Axolotl and LLaMA-Factory, post-training with TRL and GRPO, distributed training with Megatron-LM, inference with vLLM, mechanistic interpretability, safety and alignment, and paper writing. An `autoresearch` orchestration skill ties everything together using a two-loop architecture that routes tasks to the appropriate domain skill, taking an agent from literature survey and ideation through experiment execution to manuscript drafting. Installation via `npx @orchestra-research/ai-research-skills` auto-detects Claude Code, Gemini CLI, Cursor, and other agents, then places skill files in `~/.orchestra/skills/` with symlinks per agent. The library targets ML researchers and AI engineers who want an agent to handle infrastructure and framework debugging so they can focus on hypothesis testing rather than tooling.

Installable items

24 items in this repository

PyTorch library for audio generation including text-to-music (MusicGen) and text-to-sound (AudioGen). Use when you need to generate music from text descriptions, create sound effects, or perform melody-conditioned music generation.

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Autonomous AI agent platform for building and deploying continuous agents. Use when creating visual workflow agents, deploying persistent autonomous agents, or building complex multi-step AI automation systems.

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Orchestrates end-to-end autonomous AI research projects using a two-loop architecture. The inner loop runs rapid experiment iterations with clear optimization targets. The outer loop synthesizes results, identifies patterns, and steers research direction. Routes to domain-specific skills for execution, supports continuous agent operation via Claude Code /loop and OpenClaw heartbeat, and produces research presentations and papers. Use when starting a research project, running autonomous experiments, or managing a multi-hypothesis research effort.

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Activation-aware weight quantization for 4-bit LLM compression with 3x speedup and minimal accuracy loss. Use when deploying large models (7B-70B) on limited GPU memory, when you need faster inference than GPTQ with better accuracy preservation, or for instruction-tuned and multimodal models. MLSys 2024 Best Paper Award winner.

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axolotlSkill

Expert guidance for fine-tuning LLMs with Axolotl - YAML configs, 100+ models, LoRA/QLoRA, DPO/KTO/ORPO/GRPO, multimodal support

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Vision-language pre-training framework bridging frozen image encoders and LLMs. Use when you need image captioning, visual question answering, image-text retrieval, or multimodal chat with state-of-the-art zero-shot performance.

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chromaSkill

Open-source embedding database for AI applications. Store embeddings and metadata, perform vector and full-text search, filter by metadata. Simple 4-function API. Scales from notebooks to production clusters. Use for semantic search, RAG applications, or document retrieval. Best for local development and open-source projects.

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clipSkill

OpenAI's model connecting vision and language. Enables zero-shot image classification, image-text matching, and cross-modal retrieval. Trained on 400M image-text pairs. Use for image search, content moderation, or vision-language tasks without fine-tuning. Best for general-purpose image understanding.

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Anthropic's method for training harmless AI through self-improvement. Two-phase approach - supervised learning with self-critique/revision, then RLAIF (RL from AI Feedback). Use for safety alignment, reducing harmful outputs without human labels. Powers Claude's safety system.

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Multi-agent orchestration framework for autonomous AI collaboration. Use when building teams of specialized agents working together on complex tasks, when you need role-based agent collaboration with memory, or for production workflows requiring sequential/hierarchical execution. Built without LangChain dependencies for lean, fast execution.

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Expert guidance for distributed training with DeepSpeed - ZeRO optimization stages, pipeline parallelism, FP16/BF16/FP8, 1-bit Adam, sparse attention

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Provides PyTorch-native distributed LLM pretraining using torchtitan with 4D parallelism (FSDP2, TP, PP, CP). Use when pretraining Llama 3.1, DeepSeek V3, or custom models at scale from 8 to 512+ GPUs with Float8, torch.compile, and distributed checkpointing.

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dspySkill

Build complex AI systems with declarative programming, optimize prompts automatically, create modular RAG systems and agents with DSPy - Stanford NLP's framework for systematic LM programming

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Evaluates code generation models across HumanEval, MBPP, MultiPL-E, and 15+ benchmarks with pass@k metrics. Use when benchmarking code models, comparing coding abilities, testing multi-language support, or measuring code generation quality. Industry standard from BigCode Project used by HuggingFace leaderboards.

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Evaluates NVIDIA Cosmos Policy on LIBERO and RoboCasa simulation environments. Use when setting up cosmos-policy for robot manipulation evaluation, running headless GPU evaluations with EGL rendering, or profiling inference latency on cluster or local GPU machines.

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Evaluates LLMs across 60+ academic benchmarks (MMLU, HumanEval, GSM8K, TruthfulQA, HellaSwag). Use when benchmarking model quality, comparing models, reporting academic results, or tracking training progress. Industry standard used by EleutherAI, HuggingFace, and major labs. Supports HuggingFace, vLLM, APIs.

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Provides guidance for automatically evolving and optimizing AI agents across any domain using LLM-driven evolution algorithms. Use when building self-improving agents, optimizing agent prompts and skills against benchmarks, or implementing automated agent evaluation loops.

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Provides guidance for experiment tracking with SwanLab. Use when you need open-source run tracking, local or self-hosted dashboards, and lightweight media logging for ML workflows.

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faissSkill

Facebook's library for efficient similarity search and clustering of dense vectors. Supports billions of vectors, GPU acceleration, and various index types (Flat, IVF, HNSW). Use for fast k-NN search, large-scale vector retrieval, or when you need pure similarity search without metadata. Best for high-performance applications.

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Fine-tunes and evaluates OpenVLA-OFT and OpenVLA-OFT+ policies for robot action generation with continuous action heads, LoRA adaptation, and FiLM conditioning on LIBERO simulation and ALOHA real-world setups. Use when reproducing OpenVLA-OFT paper results, training custom VLA action heads (L1 or diffusion), deploying server-client inference for ALOHA, or debugging normalization, LoRA merge, and cross-GPU issues.

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Fine-tune and serve Physical Intelligence OpenPI models (pi0, pi0-fast, pi0.5) using JAX or PyTorch backends for robot policy inference across ALOHA, DROID, and LIBERO environments. Use when adapting pi0 models to custom datasets, converting JAX checkpoints to PyTorch, running policy inference servers, or debugging norm stats and GPU memory issues.

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Fine-tune LLMs using reinforcement learning with TRL - SFT for instruction tuning, DPO for preference alignment, PPO/GRPO for reward optimization, and reward model training. Use when need RLHF, align model with preferences, or train from human feedback. Works with HuggingFace Transformers.

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GGUF format and llama.cpp quantization for efficient CPU/GPU inference. Use when deploying models on consumer hardware, Apple Silicon, or when needing flexible quantization from 2-8 bit without GPU requirements.

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gptqSkill

Post-training 4-bit quantization for LLMs with minimal accuracy loss. Use for deploying large models (70B, 405B) on consumer GPUs, when you need 4× memory reduction with <2% perplexity degradation, or for faster inference (3-4× speedup) vs FP16. Integrates with transformers and PEFT for QLoRA fine-tuning.

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README

Skills overview

Full README on GitHub

AI Research Skills Library

The most comprehensive open-source skills library enabling AI agents to autonomously conduct AI research — from idea to paper

98 Skills Powering AI Research in 2026

View All 23 Categories

Autoresearch (1)Ideation (2)ML Paper Writing (2)
Model Architecture (5)Fine-Tuning (4)Post-Training (8)
Distributed Training (6)Optimization (6)Inference (4)
Tokenization (2)Data Processing (2)Evaluation (3)
Safety & Alignment (4)Agents (4)RAG (5)
Multimodal (7)Prompt Engineering (4)MLOps (3)
Observability (2)Infrastructure (3)Mech Interp (4)
Emerging Techniques (6)Agent-Native Research Artifact (3)

Table of Contents

Our Mission

We enable AI agents to autonomously conduct AI research — from literature survey and idea generation through experiment execution to paper writing. The library provides both the research orchestration layer (autoresearch, ideation, paper writing) and the engineering skills (training, evaluation, deployment) needed at each stage.

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 skills library that enables AI agents to autonomously conduct the full research lifecycle — from brainstorming ideas to writing the paper.

  • Autonomous Research - The autoresearch skill orchestrates the entire research workflow using a two-loop architecture, routing to domain skills as needed

  • Specialized Expertise - Each domain skill provides deep, production-ready knowledge of a specific framework (Megatron-LM, vLLM, TRL, etc.)

  • End-to-End Coverage - 98 skills spanning the full AI research lifecycle, from ideation and literature survey to experiments and 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)

For humans — interactive installer with one command:

npx @orchestra-research/ai-research-skills

For AI agents — point your agent to the welcome doc and it handles the rest:

Read https://www.orchestra-research.com/ai-research-skills/welcome.md and follow the instructions to install and use AI Research Skills.

This installs all 98 skills, loads the autoresearch orchestration layer, and starts autonomous research.

What the installer does

  • Auto-detects your installed coding agents (Claude Code, Hermes Agent, OpenCode, Qoder, Cursor, Gemini CLI, etc.)

  • Installs skills to ~/.orchestra/skills/ with symlinks to each agent (falls back to copy on Windows)

  • Offers everything, quickstart bundle, by category, or individual skills

  • Updates installed skills with latest versions

  • Uninstalls all or selected skills

CLI Commands

# 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

Claude Code Marketplace (Alternative)

Install skill categories directly using the Claude Code CLI:

# Add the marketplace
/plugin marketplace add orchestra-research/AI-research-SKILLs

# Install by category (23 categories available)
/plugin install fine-tuning@ai-research-skills        # Axolotl, LLaMA-Factory, PEFT, Unsloth
/plugin install post-training@ai-research-skills      # TRL, GRPO, OpenRLHF, SimPO, verl, slime, miles, torchforge
/plugin install inference-serving@ai-research-skills  # vLLM, TensorRT-LLM, llama.cpp, SGLang
/plugin install distributed-training@ai-research-skills
/plugin install optimization@ai-research-skills
All 23 Categories (98 Skills)
CategorySkillsIncluded
Autoresearch1Autonomous research orchestration — central layer that manages the full lifecycle and routes to all other skills
Ideation2Research Brainstorming, Creative Thinking
ML Paper Writing2ML Paper Writing (LaTeX templates, citation verification), Academic Plotting
Model Architecture5LitGPT, Mamba, NanoGPT, RWKV, TorchTitan
Tokenization2HuggingFace Tokenizers, SentencePiece
Fine-Tuning4Axolotl, LLaMA-Factory, PEFT, Unsloth
Mech Interp4TransformerLens, SAELens, pyvene, nnsight
Data Processing2NeMo Curator, Ray Data
Post-Training8TRL, GRPO, OpenRLHF, SimPO, verl, slime, miles, torchforge
Safety4Constitutional AI, LlamaGuard, NeMo Guardrails, Prompt Guard
Distributed6DeepSpeed, FSDP, Accelerate, Megatron-Core, Lightning, Ray Train
Infrastructure3Modal, Lambda Labs, SkyPilot
Optimization6Flash Attention, bitsandbytes, GPTQ, AWQ, HQQ, GGUF
Evaluation3lm-eval-harness, BigCode, NeMo Evaluator
Inference4vLLM, TensorRT-LLM, llama.cpp, SGLang
MLOps3W&B, MLflow, TensorBoard
Agents4LangChain, LlamaIndex, CrewAI, AutoGPT
RAG5Chroma, FAISS, Pinecone, Qdrant, Sentence Transformers
Prompt Eng4DSPy, Instructor, Guidance, Outlines
Observability2LangSmith, Phoenix
Multimodal7CLIP, Whisper, LLaVA, BLIP-2, SAM, Stable Diffusion, AudioCraft
Emerging6MoE, Model Merging, Long Context, Speculative Decoding, Distillation, Pruning
Agent-Native Research Artifact3ARA Compiler, Research Manager, Rigor Reviewer

View All 98 Skills in Details

🔬 Autoresearch (1 skill) — Central Orchestration Layer
  • Autoresearch - Autonomous research orchestration using a two-loop architecture (inner optimization + outer synthesis). Manages the full lifecycle from literature survey to paper writing, routing to all domain-specific skills. Supports Claude Code /loop and OpenClaw heartbeat for continuous operation (390 lines + 3 refs)

🏗️ Model Architecture (5 skills)
  • LitGPT - Lightning AI's 20+ clean LLM implementations with production training recipes (462 lines + 4 refs)

  • Mamba - State-space models with O(n) complexity, 5× faster than Transformers (253 lines + 3 refs)

  • RWKV - RNN+Transformer hybrid, infinite context, Linux Foundation project (253 lines + 3 refs)

  • NanoGPT - Educational GPT in ~300 lines by Karpathy (283 lines + 3 refs)

  • TorchTitan - PyTorch-native distributed training for Llama 3.1 with 4D parallelism

🔤 Tokenization (2 skills)
  • HuggingFace Tokenizers - Rust-based, <20s/GB, BPE/WordPiece/Unigram algorithms (486 lines + 4 refs)

  • SentencePiece - Language-independent, 50k sentences/sec, used by T5/ALBERT (228 lines + 2 refs)

🎯 Fine-Tuning (4 skills)
  • Axolotl - YAML-based fine-tuning with 100+ models (156 lines + 4 refs)

  • LLaMA-Factory - WebUI no-code fine-tuning (78 lines + 5 refs)

  • Unsloth - 2x faster QLoRA fine-tuning (75 lines + 4 refs)

  • PEFT - Parameter-efficient fine-tuning with LoRA, QLoRA, DoRA, 25+ methods (431 lines + 2 refs)

🔬 Mechanistic Interpretability (4 skills)
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What is Orchestra-Research/AI-Research-SKILLs?

Orchestra-Research/AI-Research-SKILLs is skills for the Claude AI ecosystem. Comprehensive open-source library of AI research and engineering skills for any AI model. Package the skills and your claude code/codex/gemini agent will be an AI research agent with full horsepower. Maintained by Orchestra Research. It has 13.9k GitHub stars and its last recorded update is dated 2026-10-11.

How do I install AI-Research-SKILLs?

You can install AI-Research-SKILLs by cloning the repository (https://github.com/Orchestra-Research/AI-Research-SKILLs) or following the README instructions on GitHub. ClaudeWave also provides quick install blocks on this page.

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