Research & Search Agent Skills

Research agent skills teach AI agents to gather and synthesize information properly: literature reviews, competitive analysis, web research with citations, and structured summaries. Each SKILL.md encodes a method, not just a prompt, so results stay consistent across runs.

Research & Search

928 skills
alirezarezvani
pulse
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.
20.4k · bundle
alirezarezvani
grants
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.
20.4k · bundle
alirezarezvani
patent
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.
20.4k · bundle
alirezarezvani
dossier
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.
20.4k · bundle
alirezarezvani
cs-onboard
Guides a structured founder interview to capture company context across 7 dimensions, generating a persistent context file used by C-suite advisor skills.
20.4k · bundle
alirezarezvani
research
Routes research queries to specialist skills or runs a fallback search-and-synthesize workflow, with deterministic classification and transparent routing decisions.
20.4k · bundle
alirezarezvani
syllabus
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.
20.4k · bundle
alirezarezvani
cto-advisor
Provides technical leadership frameworks for architecture decisions, engineering team scaling, technology strategy, and technical debt assessment.
20.4k · bundle
alirezarezvani
ma-playbook
Provides frameworks for both acquiring companies and being acquired, covering strategic rationale, due diligence, valuation, integration, and negotiation.
20.4k · bundle
alirezarezvani
youtube-full
Extracts YouTube transcripts, searches videos and channels, browses playlists, and monitors channel uploads via the TranscriptAPI service.
20.4k · bundle
alirezarezvani
litreview
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.
20.4k · bundle
alirezarezvani
llm-wiki
Builds and maintains a persistent, interlinked Obsidian knowledge base by incrementally ingesting sources, updating entity/concept pages, and keeping cross-references current.
20.4k · bundle
alirezarezvani
mdr-745-specialist
Classify medical devices under EU MDR 2017/745, build technical documentation, plan clinical evaluations, and manage post-market surveillance and EUDAMED integration.
20.4k · bundle
alirezarezvani
product-research
Plan and synthesize product/user research with method rigor: select the right method for the goal, compute defensible sample sizes with confidence labels, and cluster coded observations into insights while flagging single-source anecdotes.
20.4k · bundle
alirezarezvani
inbox-setup
Interviews users about their email patterns, business context, and priorities to build a structured knowledge base that powers personalized inbox triage.
20.4k · bundle
alirezarezvani
quality-manager-qmr
Provides quality system governance, management review leadership, regulatory compliance oversight, and quality performance monitoring per ISO 13485 Clause 5.5.2 for HealthTech and MedTech companies.
20.4k · bundle
alirezarezvani
clinical-research
Design prospective clinical studies by selecting and classifying endpoints, estimating sample size and power for two-arm designs, and scoring study plans for feasibility with phase-gate decisions.
20.4k · bundle
alirezarezvani
notebooklm
Browser-automates Google's NotebookLM to read notebooks, add sources, generate Studio outputs (Audio/Video Overviews, Mind Maps, Reports), and create new notebooks.
20.4k · bundle
alirezarezvani
research-ops-skills
Routes research planning, funding, scoping, and synthesis inquiries to one of four sub-skills: clinical research, R&D finance, market research, or product research, using a deterministic decision tree.
20.4k
alirezarezvani
competitive-intel
Systematically track competitors, analyze market moves, and produce battlecards, win/loss analysis, and positioning maps for sales, marketing, and product teams.
20.4k · bundle
alirezarezvani
culture-architect
Build, measure, and evolve company culture as operational behavior through workshops, values-to-behaviors translation, culture code creation, health assessments, and stage-appropriate rituals.
20.4k · bundle
alirezarezvani
scenario-war-room
Models cascading what-if scenarios across all business functions to prepare for compound adversity, using a structured six-step framework that maps variables, domain impacts, cascade effects, severity levels, early warning signals, and hedging strategies.
20.4k · bundle
alirezarezvani
competitive-teardown
Analyzes competitor products by synthesizing data from pricing pages, app store reviews, job postings, SEO signals, and social media into structured competitive intelligence. Produces feature comparison matrices, SWOT analyses, positioning maps, UX audits, pricing breakdowns, action plans, and presentations.
20.4k · bundle
huggingface
huggingface-papers
Look up and read Hugging Face paper pages in markdown, and use the papers API for structured metadata such as authors, linked models/datasets/spaces, Github repo and project page.
10.8k
builderio
efficient-fable
Orchestrate token-heavy research, coding, and testing by delegating bounded tasks to cheaper subagents while reserving Claude Fable for architecture, synthesis, and final review.
3.4k · bundle
builderio
read-the-damn-docs
Forces web searches and reading of official docs before implementing, integrating, or debugging third-party APIs, libraries, and services to ensure accuracy and avoid guesswork.
3.4k · bundle
microsoft
microsoft-docs
Query official Microsoft documentation to understand concepts, find tutorials, configuration options, limits, quotas, and best practices for Azure, .NET, M365, Windows, Power Platform, and other Microsoft technologies.
2.7k
microsoft
wiki-researcher
Conducts multi-turn iterative deep research on specific topics within a codebase, tracing actual code paths and grounding every claim in evidence.
2.7k
nvidia
aiq-research
Runs deep research queries through a reachable NVIDIA AI-Q Blueprint backend, handling health checks, job submission, polling, and report retrieval.
2.2k · bundle
nvidia
nv-reason-cxr
Runs chest X-ray reasoning smoke tests using the NV-Reason-CXR-3B model via local inference or a public Hugging Face Space API.
2.2k · bundle
nvidia
nv-generate-ct-rflow
Generates synthetic CT volumes and masks using NVIDIA's rectified-flow pipeline for medical imaging research.
2.2k · bundle
nvidia
physicsnemo-discover
Navigate the PhysicsNeMo repository by discovering model families, datapipes, and examples through live file search, without writing training code.
2.2k · bundle
phuryn
strategy-red-team
Red-team a PRD, roadmap, or strategy by attacking its load-bearing assumptions before reality does, ranking failure modes by impact, likelihood, and cheapness to test.
22.6k
phuryn
summarize-meeting
Transform meeting transcripts into structured summaries with date, participants, topic, key decisions, action items, and open questions.
22.6k
phuryn
market-sizing
Estimate market size using TAM, SAM, and SOM with top-down and bottom-up approaches for market opportunity assessment, investor pitches, or market entry evaluation.
22.6k
phuryn
user-personas
Create detailed, actionable user personas from research data, capturing jobs-to-be-done, pain points, desired gains, and unexpected behavioral insights to guide product decisions.
22.6k

Frequently asked questions

What are Research & Search agent skills?

Research agent skills teach AI agents to gather and synthesize information properly: literature reviews, competitive analysis, web research with citations, and structured summaries. Each SKILL.md encodes a method, not just a prompt, so results stay consistent across runs.

Which Research & Search skills are most installed?

Popular Research & Search skills on SkillMD right now include patent, pulse, cto-advisor. Rankings shift as installs change; sort this page by "Most downloaded" for the live list.

Do Research & Search skills work with Claude Code and Cursor?

Yes. Every skill here ships as a SKILL.md file, an open format that works in Claude Code, Claude.ai, Cursor, Codex, Windsurf, and 60+ other agents. Install one with npx skillmds add <owner>/<name>, or copy the file into your agent's skills directory.