INTERMEDIATEπŸ“… Updated 2026-01-20

AI Research SKILLs

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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A comprehensive open-source library of AI research and engineering skills designed to supercharge AI models like Claude Code, Codex, or Gemini. This skill collection transforms your AI agent into a full-fledged AI research agent with complete horsepower.

Key Features

  • 70+ Skills across 18 categories covering the entire AI research lifecycle
  • 115,000+ lines of comprehensive documentation
  • 58 gold-standard skills with extensive references and examples
  • Full coverage from model architecture to production deployment

Skill Categories

  1. Model Architecture - Megatron-Core, LitGPT, Mamba
  2. Tokenization - Advanced tokenization techniques
  3. Fine-Tuning - Axolotl, PEFT, Unsloth
  4. Mechanistic Interpretability - Understanding model internals
  5. Data Processing - Efficient data pipelines
  6. Post-Training - Alignment and safety techniques
  7. Safety Alignment - Responsible AI practices
  8. Distributed Training - DeepSpeed, FSDP, Ray Train
  9. Infrastructure - Modal, SkyPilot, Lambda Labs
  10. Optimization - Flash Attention, GPTQ, AWQ
  11. Evaluation - Model assessment frameworks
  12. Inference Serving - vLLM, TensorRT-LLM, SGLang
  13. MLOps - Production ML workflows
  14. Agents - LangChain, LlamaIndex, CrewAI
  15. RAG - Chroma, FAISS, Pinecone, Qdrant
  16. Prompt Engineering - Advanced prompting strategies
  17. Observability - Model monitoring and tracking
  18. Multimodal - CLIP, Whisper, LLaVA, SAM, BLIP-2, AudioCraft
  19. Emerging Techniques - MoE, Model Merging, Long Context

Use Cases

  • Transform Claude Code into an AI research assistant
  • Build comprehensive AI agents with full research capabilities
  • Accelerate AI research and development workflows
  • Educational resource for learning AI engineering practices

Maintenance

Actively maintained by Orchestra Research with regular updates and community contributions. Licensed under MIT for open use and modification.

Quick Start

Simply integrate these skills into your AI agent's skill set, and it will gain comprehensive knowledge across the entire AI research lifecycle - from model architecture design to production deployment.