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Academic Research Skills vs Ray

Compare adoption, momentum, maintenance health, and project basics before choosing which tool to evaluate deeper.

Academic Research Skills

Academic Research Skills for Claude Code: research → write → review → revise → finalize

Best matched with other platform tools.

43.5K
Stars
+37.4K
Weekly
85/100
Health
Ray

Ray is an AI compute engine. Ray consists of a core distributed runtime and a set of AI Libraries for accelerating ML workloads.

Best matched with other platform tools.

42.5K
Stars
+72
Weekly
74/100
Health

Quick Take

Adoption

Academic Research Skills has the larger GitHub footprint with 43.5K stars.

Momentum

Academic Research Skills is currently growing faster at +37.4K stars this week.

Maintenance

Academic Research Skills has the stronger automated maintenance signal at 85/100. This is not a security or fit verdict.

Side-by-side evidence

Use these signals to narrow your choice, then confirm setup, license, and fit upstream.

SignalAcademic Research SkillsRay
Evidence statusBasic listing· 2026-10-04 09:17 UTCBasic listing· 2026-10-04 09:18 UTC
GitHub stars43.5K42.5K
Weekly growth+37.4K+72
Health scoreStrong85/100Healthy74/100
Contributors151.6K
Commits per week23.887.6
Open issues183.5K
LanguagePythonPython
LicenseNOASSERTIONApache-2.0
Last commit2026-08-24 04:08 UTC2026-05-11 23:54 UTC
Last releasev3.21.0ray-2.55.1

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