--- title: "academic-research-skills vs LiveCodeBench" type: "comparison" canonical_url: "https://www.graphcanon.com/compare/imbad0202-academic-research-skills-vs-livecodebench-livecodebench" tools: ["imbad0202-academic-research-skills", "livecodebench-livecodebench"] --- # academic-research-skills vs LiveCodeBench *GraphCanon updated Jul 11, 2026* ## Verdict Pick academic-research-skills when license: academic-research-skills is Other, LiveCodeBench is MIT; pick LiveCodeBench when license: LiveCodeBench is MIT, academic-research-skills is Other. [academic-research-skills](https://buymeacoffee.com/crucify020v) reports 37k GitHub stars, 3.0k forks, and 9 open issues, last pushed Jul 11, 2026. [LiveCodeBench](https://livecodebench.github.io/) has 904 stars, 193 forks, and 35 open issues, last pushed Jul 16, 2025. Figures are from public GitHub metadata via [academic-research-skills's repository](https://github.com/Imbad0202/academic-research-skills) and [LiveCodeBench's repository](https://github.com/LiveCodeBench/LiveCodeBench). | | [academic-research-skills](/tools/imbad0202-academic-research-skills.md) | [LiveCodeBench](/tools/livecodebench-livecodebench.md) | | --- | --- | --- | | Tagline | Academic Research Skills for Claude Code: research → write → review → revise → finalize | Official repository for the paper "LiveCodeBench: Holistic and Contamination Free Evaluation of Large Language Models for Code" | | Stars | 37,300 | 904 | | Forks | 3,043 | 193 | | Open issues | 9 | 35 | | Language | Python | Python | | Adopt for | - | - | | Persona | - | - | | Runtime | - | - | | License | Other | MIT | | Categories | Data & Retrieval, LLM Frameworks | Evaluation & Observability, LLM Frameworks | ## Trust and health _Sourced signals - not a safety guarantee. No winner column._ | | [academic-research-skills](/tools/imbad0202-academic-research-skills.md) | [LiveCodeBench](/tools/livecodebench-livecodebench.md) | | --- | --- | --- | | Maintenance | Very active (96%) | Slowing (36%) | | Days since push | 0d | 360d | | Open issues (now) | 9 | 35 | | Owner type | User | Organization | | Full report | [trust report](/tools/imbad0202-academic-research-skills/trust.md) | [trust report](/tools/livecodebench-livecodebench/trust.md) | ## Choose when ### Choose academic-research-skills if… - License: academic-research-skills is Other, LiveCodeBench is MIT. - Tags unique to academic-research-skills: academic-pipeline, academic-writing, ai-research, claude. - Also covers Data & Retrieval. ### Choose LiveCodeBench if… - License: LiveCodeBench is MIT, academic-research-skills is Other. - Tags unique to LiveCodeBench: code-execution, code-generation, code-llms, code-repair. - Also covers Evaluation & Observability. ## 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. ## When NOT to use LiveCodeBench - Last GitHub push was 361 days ago (slowing maintenance, Jul 16, 2025). Validate activity before betting a new project on LiveCodeBench. - Evaluation & Observability: Defer heavyweight eval infra only until you have real traffic - never skip it once users depend on answers. - 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 academic-research-skills and LiveCodeBench? academic-research-skills: Academic Research Skills for Claude Code: research → write → review → revise → finalize. LiveCodeBench: Official repository for the paper "LiveCodeBench: Holistic and Contamination Free Evaluation of Large Language Models for Code". See the comparison table for live GitHub stats and shared categories. ### When should I choose academic-research-skills over LiveCodeBench? Choose academic-research-skills over LiveCodeBench when License: academic-research-skills is Other, LiveCodeBench is MIT; Tags unique to academic-research-skills: academic-pipeline, academic-writing, ai-research, claude; Also covers Data & Retrieval. ### When should I choose LiveCodeBench over academic-research-skills? Choose LiveCodeBench over academic-research-skills when License: LiveCodeBench is MIT, academic-research-skills is Other; Tags unique to LiveCodeBench: code-execution, code-generation, code-llms, code-repair; Also covers Evaluation & Observability. ### 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. ### When should I avoid LiveCodeBench? Last GitHub push was 361 days ago (slowing maintenance, Jul 16, 2025). Validate activity before betting a new project on LiveCodeBench. Evaluation & Observability: Defer heavyweight eval infra only until you have real traffic - never skip it once users depend on answers. LLM Frameworks: Avoid a framework for a single prompt-and-retrieve call; the abstraction can cost more than it saves. ### Is academic-research-skills or LiveCodeBench more popular on GitHub? academic-research-skills has more GitHub stars (37,300 vs 904). Stars measure visibility, not whether either tool fits your constraints. ### Are academic-research-skills and LiveCodeBench open source? Yes - both are open-source projects on GitHub (academic-research-skills: Other, LiveCodeBench: MIT). ### Where can I find alternatives to academic-research-skills or LiveCodeBench? GraphCanon lists graph-backed alternatives at [academic-research-skills alternatives](/tools/imbad0202-academic-research-skills/alternatives) and [LiveCodeBench alternatives](/tools/livecodebench-livecodebench/alternatives) ([academic-research-skills markdown twin](/tools/imbad0202-academic-research-skills/alternatives.md), [LiveCodeBench markdown twin](/tools/livecodebench-livecodebench/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/imbad0202-academic-research-skills-vs-livecodebench-livecodebench.md) mirrors this page for agents and LLM crawlers, with the same stats table and FAQ answers. ### Which is better maintained, academic-research-skills or LiveCodeBench? academic-research-skills: Very active. LiveCodeBench: Slowing. 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 academic-research-skills and LiveCodeBench? GraphCanon publishes per-repo trust reports with dated maintenance, provenance, and scan summaries: [academic-research-skills trust report](/tools/imbad0202-academic-research-skills/trust); [LiveCodeBench trust report](/tools/livecodebench-livecodebench/trust). --- **Machine-readable endpoints** - JSON: [`/api/graphcanon/graph?tool=imbad0202-academic-research-skills`](/api/graphcanon/graph?tool=imbad0202-academic-research-skills) - 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/_