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by lnilya
effortless-academic-skills
Repository of Claude's skills for academics (e.g. writing, reading, and data extraction)
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- 6 skills (6 skills found in its SKILL.md files)
- 6 forks (6 forks)
- 1mo ago last update (Last updated 1mo ago)
Install
Skills CLI
npx skills add lnilya/effortless-academic-skills
Asks which skills and agents to install. Just one: npx skills add lnilya/effortless-academic-skills --skill ea-academic-writer — add -g for every project.
Claude Code
git clone https://github.com/lnilya/effortless-academic-skillscp -r "effortless-academic-skills/skills/ea-academic-writer" ~/.claude/skills/
Copies the ea-academic-writer skill into ~/.claude/skills/ for every project (use .claude/skills/ for one project). Repeat for the other skills listed below.
Plugin
/plugin marketplace add lnilya/effortless-academic-skills
Run inside Claude Code if the repository ships a plugin marketplace, then pick plugins from /plugin.
Skills can run code on your machine — read the SKILL.md first.
What it does
In the author's own words, from each skill's SKILL.md.
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ea-academic-writer
Critique and improve academic writing at the paragraph level, or produce new academic paragraphs from scratch. Use this skill whenever the user pastes academic text and wants feedback, revision suggestions, or a rewrite; when they ask to "improve this paragraph", "critique my writing", "make this more academic", "help me write a paragraph about X", or asks for academic prose with a specific argum…
skills/ea-academic-writer/SKILL.md on GitHub (opens in a new tab) -
ea-atomic-sentences
Extracts atomic sentences from academic papers — identify every cited paper, compress each citation into a single logical claim, group them by sub-topic, and summarize each group. Use this skill whenever the user pastes academic text or uploads a PDF and wants to extract what cited papers actually claimed, map the literature, build a citation map, extract key arguments from a paper, atomize citat…
skills/ea-atomic-sentences/SKILL.md on GitHub (opens in a new tab) -
ea-connected-vault-setup
Organize a sparse, mostly unconnected Markdown/Obsidian vault into a light topic hierarchy. Use when a user wants 5–10 topic root notes, a capitalized `Parents` list assigning notes to topic roots, an embedded Obsidian Base that lists each root's children, and meaningful body-level/`Related` wikilinks that make concept notes navigable without substantive rewriting.
skills/ea-connected-vault-setup/SKILL.md on GitHub (opens in a new tab) -
ea-intro-planner
Plan and scaffold an academic introduction section from source papers, context, or rough notes. Use this skill whenever Ilya wants to structure an intro, outline a paper's opening, map the literature into a writing plan, figure out what paragraphs an introduction needs, or asks "what should my intro cover?", "help me plan my introduction", "outline an intro from these papers", "what topics should…
skills/ea-intro-planner/SKILL.md on GitHub (opens in a new tab) -
ea-obsidian-world-builder
Build a Wikipedia-style Obsidian knowledge network from academic PDFs, or expand an existing one with new papers. Use when the user wants to create a concept network, knowledge graph, or Obsidian world from papers — or add new papers to one already built. Trigger phrases include build an Obsidian world, create a knowledge network, extract concepts into Obsidian, build a knowledge graph, turn pape…
skills/ea-obsidian-world-builder/SKILL.md on GitHub (opens in a new tab) -
ea-results-analyser
Extracts and analyses empirical results from primary research papers, summarising each result, explaining its importance, and decomposing the discussion into supporting or contrasting citations. Use this skill whenever the user pastes a paper, uploads a PDF, or shares a results/discussion section and wants to understand what was found and how it fits the literature. Trigger on phrases like "analy…
skills/ea-results-analyser/SKILL.md on GitHub (opens in a new tab)
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Review before you install
A skill is a set of instructions and scripts your agent will follow, and it can run code on your machine. Read the SKILL.md and any scripts first — this listing is not a security review.