ara/orchestra-skills/packages/ai-research-skills

@orchestra-research/ai-research-skills

Install AI research engineering skills to your coding agents (Claude Code, Hermes Agent, OpenCode, Cursor, Gemini CLI, and more).

npx @orchestra-research/ai-research-skills

Features

• 86 skills across 22 categories for AI research engineering
• Auto-detects installed coding agents
• Interactive installer with guided experience
• Global or local install — install globally with symlinks, or per-project with --local for version-controlled, project-specific skill sets
• Works with 9 agents: Claude Code, Hermes Agent, OpenCode, OpenClaw, Cursor, Codex, Gemini CLI, Qwen Code, and shared .agents/

Quick Start

Run the interactive installer:

npx @orchestra-research/ai-research-skills

This will:

1. Detect your installed coding agents
2. Let you choose what to install (everything, categories, or quick start bundle)
3. Download skills from GitHub
4. Create symlinks to each agent's skills directory

Commands

# Interactive mode (recommended)
npx @orchestra-research/ai-research-skills

# Install everything (global)
npx @orchestra-research/ai-research-skills install --all

# Install a specific category
npx @orchestra-research/ai-research-skills install post-training

# List installed skills
npx @orchestra-research/ai-research-skills list

# Update all skills
npx @orchestra-research/ai-research-skills update

Local Installation (per-project)

Install skills directly into your project directory so different projects can have different skill sets:

# Install all skills locally to the current project
npx @orchestra-research/ai-research-skills install --all --local

# Install a category locally
npx @orchestra-research/ai-research-skills install --category post-training --local

# List locally installed skills
npx @orchestra-research/ai-research-skills list --local

# Update local skills
npx @orchestra-research/ai-research-skills update --local

# Uninstall local skills
npx @orchestra-research/ai-research-skills uninstall --local

Local installation copies skills (not symlinks) into agent directories within your project:

my-project/
├── .claude/skills/        # Claude Code picks these up
│   ├── grpo-rl-training/
│   └── vllm/
├── .cursor/skills/        # Cursor picks these up
│   ├── grpo-rl-training/
│   └── vllm/
├── .orchestra-skills.json # Tracks installed skills
└── ...

Benefits:

• Per-project skills: Each project gets only the skills it needs
• Version control: Commit skills to your repo so the whole team has them
• Reproducible: Lock file (.orchestra-skills.json) tracks what's installed

Categories

Category	Skills	Description
Autoresearch	1	Central orchestration — manages full research lifecycle, routes to all other skills
Model Architecture	6	LitGPT, Mamba, TorchTitan, Megatron...
Post-Training	8	GRPO, verl, slime, miles, torchforge...
Fine-Tuning	5	Axolotl, Unsloth, PEFT, Torchtune...
Distributed Training	6	DeepSpeed, FSDP, Megatron...
Inference Serving	4	vLLM, TensorRT-LLM, SGLang...
Optimization	6	Flash Attention, GPTQ, AWQ...
And 15 more...		Ideation, Paper Writing, RAG, Agents, Multimodal...

How It Works

Global Install (default)

1. Canonical Storage: Skills are stored once at ~/.orchestra/skills/
2. Symlinks: Each agent gets symlinks pointing to the canonical copy
3. Auto-activation: Skills activate when you discuss relevant topics

~/.orchestra/skills/       # Single source of truth
├── 06-post-training/
│   ├── verl/
│   └── grpo-rl-training/
└── ...

~/.claude/skills/          # Symlinks for Claude Code
├── verl → ~/.orchestra/skills/.../verl
└── grpo-rl-training → ...

~/.cursor/skills/          # Symlinks for Cursor
└── (same links)

Local Install (--local)

1. Direct Copy: Skills are copied into agent directories within your project
2. Version Control: Files can be committed to git for team sharing
3. Lock File: .orchestra-skills.json tracks what's installed

my-project/
├── .claude/skills/verl/           # Copied for Claude Code
├── .cursor/skills/verl/           # Copied for Cursor
├── .codex/skills/verl/            # Copied for Codex
└── .orchestra-skills.json         # Lock file

Supported Agents

Agent	Config Directory
Claude Code	~/.claude
OpenCode	~/.config/opencode
OpenClaw	~/.openclaw
Cursor	~/.cursor
Codex (OpenAI)	~/.codex
Gemini CLI	~/.gemini
Qwen Code	~/.qwen
Shared Agents	~/.agents
Hermes Agent	~/.hermes

License

MIT - Orchestra Research