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Installation

Install now with skills.sh

The first command lets you choose skills and agent harnesses; the second lists all available skills. The skills.sh CLI installs into the current project by default. Add --global for your user account. It supports Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot, OpenCode, Windsurf and other Agent Skills consumers. Tool permissions and advanced metadata can differ by harness.

Install everything, or only what you need

Curated research bundles

Field bundles install as Claude Code plugins:
Without Claude Code, the checksum-verified standalone installer takes the same bundle names:
The curated bundles are research-essentials, ml-research, ai-research, biology-research, chemistry-research, medicine-research and physics-research. Every category is also a bundle (for example literature-review). Use individual skill names when a bundle is too broad.
Not on npm. There is no research-agent-skills package on the npm registry. npx skills runs the open skills.sh CLI, which installs straight from this GitHub repository.

Alternatives

Installer options via environment variables: RAS_VERSION, RAS_BUNDLE (bundle or category, or all), RAS_HARNESS. The standalone installers also default to global user directories. Vercel’s skills CLI has its own scope prompts and flags; review its choice before installing.

skills.sh discovery

The collection skill indexes all 280 specialist skills. Each specialist remains separately installable. To install the entire collection into this project for Codex, run:
Use another agent name if appropriate, or add --global for a user-wide install. The public repository’s skills/<name>/SKILL.md folders are discoverable by the Vercel skills CLI. The directory page lists skills it has seen through CLI installs. The root skills.sh.json groups those entries by audience; it does not submit unseen skills. Run npx skills add KalarisLabs/research-agent-skills --list to verify repository discovery. Browse the directory listing. The directory’s rankings use the CLI’s anonymous install telemetry.

Python for skill scripts

Skills with a scripts/ folder run Python 3.9+ (many are standard-library only). For skills with dependencies, install uv. npx skills list shows what is installed where.
Last modified on October 19, 2026