--- title: "academic-research-skills vs yao-open-prompts" type: "comparison" canonical_url: "https://www.graphcanon.com/compare/imbad0202-academic-research-skills-vs-yaojingang-yao-open-prompts" tools: ["imbad0202-academic-research-skills", "yaojingang-yao-open-prompts"] --- # academic-research-skills vs yao-open-prompts *GraphCanon updated Jul 11, 2026* ## Verdict Pick academic-research-skills when tags unique to academic-research-skills: academic-pipeline, academic-writing, ai-research, claude; pick yao-open-prompts when tags unique to yao-open-prompts: ai, chinese-prompts, geo, prompts. [academic-research-skills](https://buymeacoffee.com/crucify020v) reports 37k GitHub stars, 3.0k forks, and 9 open issues, last pushed Jul 11, 2026. [yao-open-prompts](https://yaojingang.github.io/yao-open-prompts/) has 2.6k stars, 425 forks, and 0 open issues, last pushed Jun 27, 2026. Figures are from public GitHub metadata via [academic-research-skills's repository](https://github.com/Imbad0202/academic-research-skills) and [yao-open-prompts's repository](https://github.com/yaojingang/yao-open-prompts). | | [academic-research-skills](/tools/imbad0202-academic-research-skills.md) | [yao-open-prompts](/tools/yaojingang-yao-open-prompts.md) | | --- | --- | --- | | Tagline | Academic Research Skills for Claude Code: research → write → review → revise → finalize | Yao Open Prompts: A Chinese-language AI prompt library for work, learning, content, marketing, and everyday life. | | Stars | 37,300 | 2,610 | | Forks | 3,043 | 425 | | Open issues | 9 | 0 | | Language | Python | Python | | Adopt for | - | - | | Persona | - | - | | Runtime | - | - | | License | Other | Other | | Categories | Data & Retrieval, LLM Frameworks | LLM Frameworks | ## Trust and health _Sourced signals - not a safety guarantee. No winner column._ | | [academic-research-skills](/tools/imbad0202-academic-research-skills.md) | [yao-open-prompts](/tools/yaojingang-yao-open-prompts.md) | | --- | --- | --- | | Maintenance | Very active (96%) | Active (82%) | | Days since push | 0d | 14d | | Open issues (now) | 9 | 0 | | Full report | [trust report](/tools/imbad0202-academic-research-skills/trust.md) | [trust report](/tools/yaojingang-yao-open-prompts/trust.md) | ## Choose when ### Choose academic-research-skills if… - Tags unique to academic-research-skills: academic-pipeline, academic-writing, ai-research, claude. - Also covers Data & Retrieval. - More GitHub stars (37k vs 2.6k) - visibility, not fit. ### Choose yao-open-prompts if… - Tags unique to yao-open-prompts: ai, chinese-prompts, geo, prompts. - Leaner open-issue backlog (0). ## 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 yao-open-prompts - 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 yao-open-prompts? academic-research-skills: Academic Research Skills for Claude Code: research → write → review → revise → finalize. yao-open-prompts: Yao Open Prompts: A Chinese-language AI prompt library for work, learning, content, marketing, and everyday life.. See the comparison table for live GitHub stats and shared categories. ### When should I choose academic-research-skills over yao-open-prompts? Choose academic-research-skills over yao-open-prompts when Tags unique to academic-research-skills: academic-pipeline, academic-writing, ai-research, claude; Also covers Data & Retrieval; More GitHub stars (37k vs 2.6k) - visibility, not fit. ### When should I choose yao-open-prompts over academic-research-skills? Choose yao-open-prompts over academic-research-skills when Tags unique to yao-open-prompts: ai, chinese-prompts, geo, prompts; Leaner open-issue backlog (0). ### 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 yao-open-prompts? 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 yao-open-prompts more popular on GitHub? academic-research-skills has more GitHub stars (37,300 vs 2,610). Stars measure visibility, not whether either tool fits your constraints. ### Are academic-research-skills and yao-open-prompts open source? Yes - both are open-source projects on GitHub (academic-research-skills: Other, yao-open-prompts: Other). ### Where can I find alternatives to academic-research-skills or yao-open-prompts? GraphCanon lists graph-backed alternatives at [academic-research-skills alternatives](/tools/imbad0202-academic-research-skills/alternatives) and [yao-open-prompts alternatives](/tools/yaojingang-yao-open-prompts/alternatives) ([academic-research-skills markdown twin](/tools/imbad0202-academic-research-skills/alternatives.md), [yao-open-prompts markdown twin](/tools/yaojingang-yao-open-prompts/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-yaojingang-yao-open-prompts.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 yao-open-prompts? academic-research-skills: Very active. yao-open-prompts: 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 academic-research-skills and yao-open-prompts? GraphCanon publishes per-repo trust reports with dated maintenance, provenance, and scan summaries: [academic-research-skills trust report](/tools/imbad0202-academic-research-skills/trust); [yao-open-prompts trust report](/tools/yaojingang-yao-open-prompts/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/_