Claude Scientific Skills

Synthesizes recent conversations about any topic across Reddit, Hacker News, the open web, and optionally X/Twitter into a single briefing with citations, engagement metrics, and cross-platform pattern analysis.

Conducts patent prior-art searches and landscape intelligence across Google Patents, Espacenet, USPTO, and Lens.org, producing an editable Word document with verdict and ranked closest art.

Generates a strategic NIH funding overview as an editable .docx file, including research positioning analysis, institute mapping, targeted grant discovery, and strategic recommendations for clinical researchers.

Produces a decision-grade dossier on a specific company, person, nonprofit, or government org by testing the user's hypothesis rather than confirming it. Outputs an editable Word document with verdict, identity facts, 12-month activity timeline, network and reputation signals, and red flags.

Orients researchers to an unfamiliar academic field by searching Consensus, building a strategic search plan with PICO or other frameworks, and synthesizing findings into a formatted Word document.

Generates a curated supplementary reading list from any course syllabus using Consensus academic search, producing a professionally formatted .docx with recent peer-reviewed papers per course section.