--- title: "awesome-prompts vs academic-research-skills" type: "comparison" canonical_url: "https://www.graphcanon.com/compare/ai-boost-awesome-prompts-vs-imbad0202-academic-research-skills" tools: ["ai-boost-awesome-prompts", "imbad0202-academic-research-skills"] --- # awesome-prompts vs academic-research-skills *GraphCanon updated Jul 11, 2026* ## Verdict Pick awesome-prompts when license: awesome-prompts is GPL-3.0, academic-research-skills is Other; pick academic-research-skills when license: academic-research-skills is Other, awesome-prompts is GPL-3.0. [awesome-prompts](https://awesomegpt.vip) reports 8.4k GitHub stars, 798 forks, and 35 open issues, last pushed Jul 11, 2026. [academic-research-skills](https://buymeacoffee.com/crucify020v) has 37k stars, 3.0k forks, and 9 open issues, last pushed Jul 11, 2026. Figures are from public GitHub metadata via [awesome-prompts's repository](https://github.com/ai-boost/awesome-prompts) and [academic-research-skills's repository](https://github.com/Imbad0202/academic-research-skills). | | [awesome-prompts](/tools/ai-boost-awesome-prompts.md) | [academic-research-skills](/tools/imbad0202-academic-research-skills.md) | | --- | --- | --- | | Tagline | Curated list of chatgpt prompts from the top-rated GPTs in the GPTs Store. Prompt Engineering, prompt attack & prompt protect. Advanced Prompt Engineering papers. | Academic Research Skills for Claude Code: research → write → review → revise → finalize | | Stars | 8,440 | 37,300 | | Forks | 798 | 3,043 | | Open issues | 35 | 9 | | Language | - | Python | | Adopt for | - | - | | Persona | - | - | | Runtime | - | - | | License | GPL-3.0 | Other | | Categories | LLM Frameworks | Data & Retrieval, LLM Frameworks | ## Trust and health _Sourced signals - not a safety guarantee. No winner column._ | | [awesome-prompts](/tools/ai-boost-awesome-prompts.md) | [academic-research-skills](/tools/imbad0202-academic-research-skills.md) | | --- | --- | --- | | Open issues (now) | 35 | 9 | | Full report | [trust report](/tools/ai-boost-awesome-prompts/trust.md) | [trust report](/tools/imbad0202-academic-research-skills/trust.md) | ## Choose when ### Choose awesome-prompts if… - License: awesome-prompts is GPL-3.0, academic-research-skills is Other. - Tags unique to awesome-prompts: awesome, awesome-list, chatgpt, gpt4. ### Choose academic-research-skills if… - License: academic-research-skills is Other, awesome-prompts is GPL-3.0. - Tags unique to academic-research-skills: academic-pipeline, academic-writing, ai-research, claude. - Also covers Data & Retrieval. ## When NOT to use awesome-prompts - LLM Frameworks: Avoid a framework for a single prompt-and-retrieve call; the abstraction can cost more than it saves. ## When NOT to use academic-research-skills - Data & Retrieval: Skip a heavy ingestion framework when your corpus is small and static; a script plus the embedding API is enough. - LLM Frameworks: Avoid a framework for a single prompt-and-retrieve call; the abstraction can cost more than it saves. ## Common questions ### What is the difference between awesome-prompts and academic-research-skills? awesome-prompts: Curated list of chatgpt prompts from the top-rated GPTs in the GPTs Store. Prompt Engineering, prompt attack & prompt protect. Advanced Prompt Engineering papers.. academic-research-skills: Academic Research Skills for Claude Code: research → write → review → revise → finalize. See the comparison table for live GitHub stats and shared categories. ### When should I choose awesome-prompts over academic-research-skills? Choose awesome-prompts over academic-research-skills when License: awesome-prompts is GPL-3.0, academic-research-skills is Other; Tags unique to awesome-prompts: awesome, awesome-list, chatgpt, gpt4. ### When should I choose academic-research-skills over awesome-prompts? Choose academic-research-skills over awesome-prompts when License: academic-research-skills is Other, awesome-prompts is GPL-3.0; Tags unique to academic-research-skills: academic-pipeline, academic-writing, ai-research, claude; Also covers Data & Retrieval. ### When should I avoid awesome-prompts? LLM Frameworks: Avoid a framework for a single prompt-and-retrieve call; the abstraction can cost more than it saves. ### When should I avoid academic-research-skills? Data & Retrieval: Skip a heavy ingestion framework when your corpus is small and static; a script plus the embedding API is enough. LLM Frameworks: Avoid a framework for a single prompt-and-retrieve call; the abstraction can cost more than it saves. ### Is awesome-prompts or academic-research-skills more popular on GitHub? academic-research-skills has more GitHub stars (37,300 vs 8,440). Stars measure visibility, not whether either tool fits your constraints. ### Are awesome-prompts and academic-research-skills open source? Yes - both are open-source projects on GitHub (awesome-prompts: GPL-3.0, academic-research-skills: Other). ### Where can I find alternatives to awesome-prompts or academic-research-skills? GraphCanon lists graph-backed alternatives at [awesome-prompts alternatives](/tools/ai-boost-awesome-prompts/alternatives) and [academic-research-skills alternatives](/tools/imbad0202-academic-research-skills/alternatives) ([awesome-prompts markdown twin](/tools/ai-boost-awesome-prompts/alternatives.md), [academic-research-skills markdown twin](/tools/imbad0202-academic-research-skills/alternatives.md)), ranked by typed relationship edges rather than popularity votes. ### Is there a machine-readable version of this comparison? Yes. The markdown twin at [this comparison](/compare/ai-boost-awesome-prompts-vs-imbad0202-academic-research-skills.md) mirrors this page for agents and LLM crawlers, with the same stats table and FAQ answers. ### Which is better maintained, awesome-prompts or academic-research-skills? awesome-prompts: Very active. academic-research-skills: Very active. Compare maintenance labels, days since push, and release cadence in the trust section below - stars alone do not measure maintenance. ### Where are the full trust reports for awesome-prompts and academic-research-skills? GraphCanon publishes per-repo trust reports with dated maintenance, provenance, and scan summaries: [awesome-prompts trust report](/tools/ai-boost-awesome-prompts/trust); [academic-research-skills trust report](/tools/imbad0202-academic-research-skills/trust). --- **Machine-readable endpoints** - JSON: [`/api/graphcanon/graph?tool=ai-boost-awesome-prompts`](/api/graphcanon/graph?tool=ai-boost-awesome-prompts) - LLM index: [/llms.txt](/llms.txt) - Full corpus: [/llms-full.txt](/llms-full.txt) _GraphCanon - The knowledge graph for AI development. https://www.graphcanon.com/_