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Best Science & data skills in 2026: Top 4 Picks, Ranked

Skills for research, data analysis, machine learning and scientific tooling. Below are the 4 science & data skills we recommend in 2026, ranked by our editor score, GitHub stars, reader upvotes and how often readers click through.

Last updated October 2026 · 4 listings reviewed

The ranking

1

Scientific Agent Skills (K-Dense) Free

Large collection of skills for scientific computing, bioinformatics and research tools

★ 47k · +711 this week · MIT · updated 2026-10-01

7.8/10

What it does Scientific Agent Skills, by K-Dense, is a large collection of skills that turns a general coding agent into a research assistant. The project used to be called Claude Scientific Skills. Each skill gives the agent curated documentation, examples and working patterns for a scientific Python library, database or research method. The agent can still use any package… Read more →

Pros

  • Very broad scientific coverage
  • Ready-made workflows for research libraries

Cons

  • Quality varies between skills
  • Large; install only what you need

Pricing: Free  ·  science research

2

Hugging Face Skills Free

Skills for training, evaluating and publishing models with Hugging Face tools

★ 11k · +20 this week · Apache-2.0 · updated 2026-10-01

7.7/10

What it does Hugging Face Skills is Hugging Face's official set of Agent Skills for machine-learning work on the Hub. The entry point is hf-cli, a skill that teaches the agent the hf command line. With it, the agent can search models, manage datasets and buckets, launch Spaces and run jobs. From there, more specialised workflow skills can be added… Read more →

Pros

  • Official Hugging Face workflows
  • Cross-agent

Cons

  • ML-specific

Pricing: Free  ·  ml hugging face

3

AI Research Skills Open source

98 skills for ML research with coding agents, from ideation and training to paper writing

★ 13k · +160 this week · MIT · updated 2026-06-16

7.6/10

What it does AI Research Skills, from Orchestra Research, is a large skill library for machine learning research and engineering. It aims to let a coding agent take a research project from literature survey and idea generation through experiments to a written paper. A central "autoresearch" skill runs the process in two loops, one for inner optimisation and one for… Read more →

Pros

  • Deep, framework-specific skills for training, serving, evaluation and interpretability
  • Autoresearch orchestrator ties the domain skills into one workflow

Cons

  • Last updated June 2026, so framework details may lag
  • README suggests agents fetch and follow a remote instruction file

Pricing: Open source  ·  machine-learning llm-training fine-tuning research autoresearch

4

Claude Code My Workflow Open source

Forkable Claude Code setup for academics: LaTeX/Quarto slides, R analysis and review gates

★ 1.6k · +9 this week · MIT · updated 2026-09-27

6.3/10

What it does Claude Code My Workflow is a ready-to-fork repository that packages one economist's Claude Code setup for academic work: lecture slides in LaTeX Beamer and Quarto, papers, R and Stata analysis, and replication packages. You fork it, paste a starter prompt, and Claude adapts the configuration to your project. After that you work in what the author calls… Read more →

Pros

  • Specialist reviewers and adversarial critic-fixer loops
  • Reproducibility and claim-verification skills
  • Extensive companion guide

Cons

  • Built for academic research workflows, not general app development
  • Fork-based setup with LaTeX and Quarto prerequisites

Pricing: Open source  ·  academic latex r reproducibility quality-gates

Science & data skills compared at a glance

#NamePricingStarsScore
1Scientific Agent Skills (K-Dense)Free★ 47k7.8
2Hugging Face SkillsFree★ 11k7.7
3AI Research SkillsOpen source★ 13k7.6
4Claude Code My WorkflowOpen source★ 1.6k6.3

How we rank science & data skills

Every listing gets an editor score from 0 to 10 based on usefulness, quality of the instructions or code, maintenance (recent commits, open issues) and adoption (GitHub stars), and we check which apps it really works with. Reader upvotes and click-throughs nudge the order over time, and we remove listings that shut down, go unmaintained or change pricing dramatically. Read our full methodology.

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