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Research Wiki

Builds a persistent, per-project research knowledge base of papers, ideas, experiments and claims.

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Repository
wanshuiyin/Auto-claude-code-research-in-sleep
Stars
18,482
Licence
MIT
Files
1 file

What it does

This skill gives an AI agent a long-lived notebook for a research project. Instead of forgetting each paper or idea after a single literature search, the agent stores papers, ideas, experiments and claims as linked pages in a research-wiki folder, and reuses them in later sessions. You can ask it to initialise the wiki, add a paper, query what is known, or check the wiki for problems. It is part of the larger ARIS research-automation toolkit and relies on a helper Python script that the skill expects to find in the project or ARIS repository.

Great for

  • Researchers running a multi-month project who want past papers and failed ideas remembered across sessions
  • Developers already using the ARIS research toolkit who want a structured project knowledge base
  • Students building a field map of a topic and tracking how papers relate to each other

Skip it if

  • Quick one-off literature searches, where a persistent wiki adds clutter rather than value
  • Projects that cannot install the ARIS helper script (tools/research_wiki.py), since the skill hard-fails without it
  • Users who expect the wiki to be automatically accurate: stored notes can carry errors that later sessions repeat, so they need human review

Try asking

  • “Initialise a research wiki for this project”
  • “Add this arXiv paper to the wiki and link it to my existing ideas”
  • “Query the wiki for gaps in the field related to my current method”
  • “Run a lint check on the research wiki and show stats”
Step-by-step guide: how to use Research WikiInstall, first run, examples, tips and FAQs

Install in 3 steps

  1. 1

    Download the skill

    The ZIP contains the 1 original files, the MIT licence and an attribution note.

    research-wiki.zip
  2. 2

    Add it to your agent

    Claude Code (all projects)

    mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && unzip research-wiki.zip -d ~/.claude/skills/

    Claude Code / Agent SDK (this project only)

    mkdir -p .claude/skills && unzip research-wiki.zip -d .claude/skills/

    Claude apps (web/desktop): Settings → Capabilities → Skills → Upload skill, and choose the ZIP.

  3. 3

    Ask for the task

    No special command needed — the agent reads the skill's description and loads it when your request matches. Try one of the prompts above.

Get better results

  • Run the init subcommand once per project before adding papers, so the folder structure and query_pack.md exist.
  • Review generated notes and claims before relying on them, because the wiki persists whatever the agent writes.
  • Keep the wiki inside the project directory under version control so you can audit or roll back changes.

What's inside

  • SKILL.md

Redistributed unmodified from wanshuiyin/Auto-claude-code-research-in-sleep under the MIT licence. The assessment was drafted with AI from the skill's files on 2026-10-29. Skills can instruct your agent to run code — read SKILL.md and any scripts before installing.