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
kbarbel640-del
web-search
Searches the web for text, news, images, videos, and books using the duckse CLI, returning clean results in text or JSON format.
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kbarbel640-del
sui-knowledge
Answers questions about the Sui blockchain ecosystem, including concepts, tokenomics, validators, staking, and comparisons with other chains.
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pwdev-solucoes
voc-research
Coleta a linguagem literal do público em avaliações, fóruns, redes sociais, tickets de suporte e transcrições de vendas para gerar um banco de frases verbatim que orienta a escrita de copy.
2
pwdev-solucoes
flow-discover
Guides a structured interview and repository research to clarify feature requirements, classify scope, and produce context artifacts for approval before design.
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scoheart
mno
Provides guidance on Hong Kong's four mobile network operators for reference and selection.
2
scoheart
tavily-cli
Performs web search, content extraction, site crawling, URL discovery, and deep research via the Tavily CLI, returning JSON for LLM consumption.
2
scoheart
tavily-map
Discovers and lists all URLs on a website without extracting content, using the Tavily CLI. Faster than crawling, with options for depth, filtering, and natural language instructions.
2
scoheart
exa-web-search-free
Search the web, code, and company information using the free Exa MCP server, with no API key required.
2 · bundle
joshuashepherd
network-map
Reads existing per-leader research files to map co-authorships, endorsements, and organizational ties across movement leaders, producing a cross-leader network graph with clusters, bridges, and isolates.
1
joshuashepherd
alan-article
Writes cornerstone articles in Alan Hirsch's voice with SEO/GEO architecture, corpus research, and citations to drive organic discovery.
1
joshuashepherd
api-data-sources
Researches authoritative APIs and data sources for a project, producing per-API docs, a data catalog, and an integration blueprint for a React + Supabase + Vercel + AI stack.
1
joshuashepherd
affiliation-scrape
Researches a leader's organizational affiliations and fetches logos, producing a JSON record for logo strips and social-proof sections.
1
joshuashepherd
fragmentation-story
Maps where a movement leader's content and relationships live, producing a fragmentation report from existing research files.
1
luokai0
cvs
快速获取 CVS 的品牌历史、业务概览、市场分布和竞争格局等关键信息,适用于产品比较、市场分析和商业报告准备。
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jorcan
plans
Adds Claude's built-in WebSearch as a third research source for the last30days command, enabling zero-config operation while preserving Reddit/X primacy through engagement-adjusted scoring.
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gabrielmoreira
affiliate-check
Queries live affiliate program data from openaffiliate.dev, including program search, commission comparison, cookie days, and top performers, via a persistent local daemon with caching.
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gabrielmoreira
dnasp
Reimplements DnaSP 6 for population genetics analysis of aligned DNA sequences, including nucleotide diversity, haplotype statistics, neutrality tests, linkage disequilibrium, recombination, mismatch distribution, InDel polymorphism, between-population divergence, outgroup-based tests, HKA test, McDonald-Kreitman.
17 · bundle
gabrielmoreira
clinpgx
Query the ClinPGx API for pharmacogenomic gene-drug data, clinical annotations, CPIC guidelines, and FDA drug labels.
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gabrielmoreira
labstep
Queries and displays Labstep electronic lab notebook data — experiments, protocols, resources, and inventory — via labstepPy, with an offline demo mode using synthetic biology data.
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gabrielmoreira
bgpt-mcp
Search scientific papers via the BGPT MCP server and retrieve structured experimental data — methods, results, conclusions, quality scores, and 25+ metadata fields per paper.
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gabrielmoreira
gwas-prs
Calculate polygenic risk scores from direct-to-consumer genetic data using published scoring files from the PGS Catalog and contextualize results against population reference distributions.
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gabrielmoreira
de-summary
Takes pre-computed differential expression results from DESeq2, edgeR, limma, or PyDESeq2 and produces a structured, publication-ready summary with ranked gene lists, biological themes, and key observations.
17
gabrielmoreira
protocols-io
Search, browse, and retrieve scientific protocols from protocols.io via REST API, including private protocols with client token authentication.
17 · bundle
gabrielmoreira
gi-expression
Predicts tissue or cell-type gene expression (log TPM and TPM) from a TSS-centered DNA sequence using the hosted Genomic Intelligence G0 Expression model, conditioned on a free-text cell-type description.
17 · bundle
gabrielmoreira
ukb-navigator
Searches UK Biobank's 12,000+ data fields and publications by natural language query, returning ranked field IDs and descriptions for research questions.
17 · bundle
gabrielmoreira
vcf-annotator
Annotates VCF variants using Ensembl VEP, ClinVar, and gnomAD, ranks them by predicted impact, and generates a reproducible report.
17 · bundle
gabrielmoreira
predexon
Returns structured prediction-market data for Polymarket, Kalshi, Limitless, Opinion, Predict.Fun, dFlow, and UMA oracle via a local API, covering markets, cross-venue search, leaderboards, smart money, wallet analytics, identity clustering, and resolution status.
17
samyakjhaveri
rebuttal
Parses external reviews, enforces coverage and grounding, and drafts a text-only rebuttal under venue limits, managing follow-up rounds.
0
samyakjhaveri
grill-research
Interrogates research plans before evals or published claims, forcing explicit null hypotheses, confound checks, and data verification across four review waves.
0
samyakjhaveri
paper-review-sim
Simulates a NeurIPS/SC/ICSE-style peer review with five reviewer personas (HPC, ML, Stats, Reproducibility, Devil's Advocate) that verify every claim against actual result data before submission.
0
samyakjhaveri
auto-paper-improvement-loop
Iteratively improves a compiled LaTeX paper through two rounds of external LLM review, fix implementation, and recompilation.
0
samyakjhaveri
nature-skills
Provides nine skills for Nature-journal-family academic publishing, covering figure creation, prose polishing, manuscript writing, citation formatting, data availability statements, paper reading, reviewer responses, paper-to-PPT conversion, and academic search via an MCP server.
0
samyakjhaveri
gpt-researcher
Conducts autonomous multi-source research using a planner/executor architecture and an MCP server, with tools for deep research, quick search, report writing, and source retrieval.
0
samyakjhaveri
storm-research
Runs Stanford's STORM pipeline to produce Wikipedia-quality research articles with citations, using Claude models and a search engine API.
0
samyakjhaveri
academic-research
Runs a multi-agent academic research pipeline covering systematic review, LaTeX paper writing, peer review, and end-to-end orchestration with integrity gates.
0
neuralblitz
cell
Explains cellular structures, membrane transport, energetics, signaling, and division, connecting molecular events to organismal function.
1

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 dnasp, web-search, sui-knowledge. 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.