Research tools

Claude Code plugin for reading papers, building literature reviews, recovering recent work, and editing technical prose.

Install

Run these commands in Claude Code:

/plugin marketplace add kdkyum/research-tools
/plugin install research-tools@kdkyum-research-tools

Update

/plugin marketplace update kdkyum-research-tools
/plugin update research-tools@kdkyum-research-tools

Restart Claude Code after an update.

Project directories

The paper skills create these directories when needed:

<project>/
├── knowledge/               # Arxiv paper summaries
└── htmls/                   # Literature review websites
    └── <review-slug>/       # index.html, paper pages, CSS, JavaScript, and figures

Skills

bro

Run /research-tools:bro to restate the last response in plain language. It cuts jargon and shortens the explanation without changing its meaning.

recall

Run /research-tools:recall to rebuild recent context for the active project. It searches Claude Code sessions under ~/.claude/projects/, checks the live repository and GitHub state, and returns a short brief with the current threads, problems, and next action.

The skill matches sessions-index.json entries by their exact projectPath. It searches only the active project unless you name another workspace.

technical-writing

Run /research-tools:technical-writing when writing or reviewing documentation, RFCs, readmes, pull request descriptions, or commit messages. It combines Diataxis document structure, Google developer style, Simplified Technical English, and Global English rules.

unslop

This skill applies to writing tasks. It removes common generated-writing patterns, preserves the intended meaning and tone, and asks for concrete claims and a human voice.

review-papers

This skill activates for requests such as "review these papers", "make a literature review", and lists of several arxiv URLs. It assigns one paper to each subagent, reads TeX source, extracts real figures, creates one page per paper, and builds a static review website at ./htmls/<review-slug>/.

read-arxiv-paper

This skill activates for arxiv URLs and requests to read or summarize a paper. It downloads the TeX source and writes a project-specific summary to ./knowledge/summary_<tag>.md.

Paper sources are cached at ~/.cache/arxiv-papers/knowledge/<arxiv-id>/.

Third-party code

The bro, recall, and technical-writing skills come from Lauren Tan's pstack plugin under the MIT License. The recall skill was adapted for Claude Code's transcript layout. See plugins/research-tools/THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.md.