Research & Search
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.
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thedixitjain Skill Mind Review ProcessUse to understand how Mind evaluates a submission — triple-anonymous peer review, quality as the sole criterion, the role of expert referees, and what it means for a journal that receives over 800 submissions a year. Sets expectations and shapes the paper to survive review; it does not contact editors.
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thedixitjain Skill Mlsys SupplementaryUse when deciding what goes into an MLSys appendix versus the 10-page body, exploiting the venue's unlimited separately-uploaded appendix that reviewers are not required to read, organizing configs, traces, extended results, and anonymized code pointers, and keeping supplementary material blinded for the research track.
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thedixitjain Skill Nature Cell BiologyUse when targeting Nature Cell Biology or deciding whether a cell-biology manuscript fits this venue. Encodes the journal's fit, framing, method-and-evidence bar, house style, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics.
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thedixitjain Skill Nature MicrobiologyUse when targeting Nature Microbiology (Nat Microbiol) or deciding whether a microbiology or microbial-ecology manuscript fits this venue. Encodes the journal's fit, framing, method-and-evidence bar, house style, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics.
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thedixitjain Skill Nature NeuroscienceUse when targeting Nature Neuroscience (Nat Neurosci) or deciding whether a neuroscience manuscript fits this venue. Encodes the journal's fit, framing, method-and-evidence bar, house style, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics.
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thedixitjain Skill Nejm Figures TablesUse to build NEJM clinical display items correctly — Table 1 baseline characteristics by group (with standardized differences, not P values), Kaplan-Meier curves with numbers-at-risk, forest plots for subgroups and meta-analyses, and the CONSORT participant flow diagram.
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thedixitjain Skill Oopsla Camera ReadyUse when converting an accepted OOPSLA paper into its PACMPL journal article — final acmsmall formatting within the 25-page revision cap, de-anonymization and Data-Availability Statement updates, ACM open-access and rights steps, hitting the OOPSLA1 (April) or OOPSLA2 (October) issue, and planning the SPLASH talk.
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thedixitjain Skill Operations ResearchUse when targeting Operations Research (OR) or deciding whether an optimization / stochastic-models / queueing / applied-mathematical-modeling manuscript fits this venue. Encodes the journal's fit, framing, method-and-evidence bar, house style, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics.
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garrytan Bundle Perplexity ResearchBrain-augmented web research. Sends brain context about a topic to Perplexity, which searches the web with citations and returns what is NEW vs what the brain already knows. Use for entity enrichment, current-state checks, deal monitoring, and freshness deltas. NOT for simple URL fetches (use web_fetch) or brain-only queries (use gbrain query).
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thedixitjain Skill Podc Review ProcessUse when reasoning about how an ACM PODC submission is evaluated — covering lightweight double-blind review, a program committee that reads proofs, the accept/reject decision with no journal-style revision round, the Brief Announcements track's lighter bar, and how PODC's process differs from DISC, SPAA, and the sequential-theory venues STOC/FOCS/SODA.
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thedixitjain Skill Poq Topic SelectionUse when deciding whether a project fits Public Opinion Quarterly (POQ) and which submission type to target. POQ is the leading journal of public opinion and survey methodology, so the test is a contribution to opinion/communication theory, to current public opinion, or to survey validity — not a generic social-science finding. Helps frame the question; it does not collect data.
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thedixitjain Skill Ppopp SupplementaryUse when deciding what belongs in a PPoPP paper's 10 reviewed pages versus the artifact or appendix, splitting content by decision-criticality so proofs, full core sweeps, and correctness arguments that determine acceptance stay legible in the body, while bulk data and extended runs move out.
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thedixitjain Skill Psci Review ProcessUse when you need to understand how Psychological Science evaluates a manuscript — anonymized peer review, editorial weighting of robustness, transparency, and preregistration quality, desk-reject and decline-without-review patterns, and the Registered Reports route. Use when stress-testing a paper before submission or interpreting a decision letter. Sets expectations and shapes the paper to survive review; it does not contact editors.
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thedixitjain Skill Psci Tables FiguresUse when building tables and figures for a Psychological Science manuscript. The journal uses APA 7th-edition style and asks that tables and figures be embedded within the main text near where they are discussed, and exhibits should show effect sizes and uncertainty. Designs exhibits; it does not run the analysis.
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thedixitjain Skill Qje Topic SelectionUse when scoping or pressure-testing a research question for a Quarterly Journal of Economics (QJE) submission — checks fit, the "big idea" bar, and breadth of the takeaway for QJE's general-interest readership. Diagnoses scope fit; it does not design the empirics.
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thedixitjain Skill Recsys Camera ReadyUse when preparing an accepted ACM RecSys paper for camera-ready, covering ACM two-column de-anonymization and reflow, the ACM Digital Library rights/copyright form, metadata and DOI, integrating rebuttal-promised fixes without overreach, releasing the previously-anonymous code/data repository publicly, and registration and presentation obligations.
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ruvnet Skill Research SynthesizeSynthesize research findings from memory into structured reports with evidence grading, contradiction resolution, and actionable recommendations
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thedixitjain Skill Rje Topic SelectionUse to test whether a research question fits The RAND Journal of Economics (RJE) — the flagship industrial-organization journal with a deliberately narrow applied-microeconomics scope (regulated industries, antitrust/competition, market structure, firm strategy, the economics of organizations). Screens fit before you invest in a full draft.
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brycewang-stanford Skill Rss ReproducibilityUse when strengthening the reproducibility of an RSS (Robotics: Science and Systems) paper whose evidence lives partly on hardware — platform disclosure ledgers, log-backed trial claims, seeds and configs for the computational half, honest replication tiers, and release plans aligned with the free open-access proceedings culture.
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brycewang-stanford Skill Rss Topic SelectionUse when judging whether a robotics project fits RSS (Robotics: Science and Systems), the single-track selective venue whose bar is a scientific claim about robotics, and when routing instead toward ICRA, IROS, CoRL, HRI, WAFR, T-RO, or IJRR based on claim type, evidence shape, and audience.
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thedixitjain Skill Sensys Camera ReadyUse when preparing an accepted SenSys camera-ready — de-anonymizing the double-column ACM final, completing ACM rights and metadata, restoring acknowledgments, landing the awarded ACM artifact badges onto the paper, releasing traces and firmware within their constraints, and planning the in-person talk and demo for the merged audience.
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thedixitjain Skill Sigmod Camera ReadyUse when converting an accepted SIGMOD research paper into its PACMMOD journal version, covering the port from the ACM submission template to PACMMOD format, de-anonymization, per-round issue placement, ACM DL metadata, conference presentation logistics, and the post-acceptance artifact and ARI handoff.
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thedixitjain Skill Smj Topic SelectionUse when scoping or pressure-testing whether a research question is a genuine *strategy* question fit for the Strategic Management Journal (SMJ). Decides fit and sharpens the question; it does not build the theory or run analysis.
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thedixitjain Skill Smr Topic SelectionUse when deciding whether a project clears the Sociological Methods & Research (SMR) bar — a genuine methodological contribution (develop, evaluate, or critically assess a method), not an application dressed as method. Screens fit and scope; does not derive properties or design simulations.
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thedixitjain Skill Spq Research DesignUse when defending the research design of a Social Psychology Quarterly (SPQ) manuscript — laboratory and survey experiments (group processes, status), survey and secondary-data analysis (social structure and personality), or observation/ethnography and interviews (symbolic interaction). SPQ judges each tradition on its own terms but always asks how the design captures the link between structure and the individual. Strengthens the design; it does not write code.
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thedixitjain Skill Ssi Reproducibility当需要为投往《中国科学:信息科学》(Scientia Sinica Informationis, SSI) 的稿件保证实验可重复、结果可复现,并撰写数据/代码可用性叙述时调用。覆盖实验环境与来源固定(数据集版本、工具链、随机种子、硬件平台)、仿真与实测/硅后结果的区分、统计报告与随机性控制、跨子学科(计算机/控制/通信/微电子)的可复现要点,以及诚实的可用性声明。作为国家级大信息学科综合旗舰,本刊强调科学价值与可信证据,与英文姊妹刊 Science China Information Sciences 的开放科学精神一致。
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thedixitjain Skill The Lancet OncologyUse when targeting The Lancet Oncology or deciding whether a clinical oncology manuscript fits this venue. Encodes the journal's fit, framing, method-and-evidence bar, house style, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics.
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thedixitjain Skill Vis ReproducibilityUse when strengthening IEEE VIS reproducibility and open-practices evidence, covering the open-materials statement, anonymized-but-runnable code and stimuli, preregistration of perceptual and user studies, provenance for datasets and rendering pipelines, claim-to-figure mapping, honest degrees of reproducibility, and consistency between what the TVCG paper says and what the supplemental archive contains.
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thedixitjain Skill Webconf ExperimentsUse when designing or auditing the empirical section of a Web Conference (WWW) paper — matching evidence to the claim's scale, choosing datasets with provenance and freshness, blocking temporal and popularity leakage, running honest baselines from the sibling circuit, and deciding when live-platform or user-study evidence is required.
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thedixitjain Skill Ylj Topic SelectionUse when deciding whether a legal-scholarship idea is a fit for The Yale Law Journal (YLJ) and which track it belongs in. It tests generalist significance, timeliness, and novelty potential; it does not draft the thesis or run the formal preemption search.
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thedixitjain Skill Commres Writing StyleUse when drafting or polishing a Communication Research (CR) manuscript so it reads as cumulative social science, follows APA style, and fits the limits (manuscript no more than 45 double-spaced pages inclusive of references). Tightens prose and format; it does not invent content.
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thedixitjain Skill Popdevr Writing StyleUse when drafting or polishing a Population and Development Review (PDR, Wiley / Population Council) manuscript so it reads for a broad demography-and-development audience, follows the journal's house conventions (APA-style references; Free Format first round), and fits typical length norms (Research Articles ~8,000–10,000 words). PDR prizes lucid, essayistic prose. Tightens prose and format; it does not invent content.
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thedixitjain Skill Ssc Topic ProblematicUse when framing or sharpening the research problem (问题意识 / problematic) for 《中国社会科学》 (Social Sciences in China) — elevating a topic from a narrow empirical question to a 重大理论与现实问题, locating the live scholarly controversy, and tying it to China's development / 时代之问. Use before writing the introduction.
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thedixitjain Skill Amann Topic SelectionUse when judging whether a management/organization literature is an Academy of Management Annals (Annals)-scale review topic — mature, important, fragmented, and integrable into a new framework — rather than a narrow review. Decides fit and frames the review's animating problem; it does not gather the literature (amann-literature-synthesis) or write the proposal (amann-proposal-framing).
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thedixitjain Skill Arsoc Topic SelectionUse when judging whether a sociology literature is an Annual Review of Sociology (ARSoc)-scale review topic — mature, broadly important, and genuinely in need of an authoritative cross-subfield synthesis — and framing the review's animating question. Decides fit; it does not gather the literature (arsoc-literature-synthesis) or pitch the Committee (arsoc-proposal-and-commissioning).
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thedixitjain Skill Cfe Literature ReviewUse when drafting or revising the literature-review section for a Journal-of-Finance-and-Economics (《财经研究》) manuscript. 使用时机:综述缺经典理论文献、中英文献配比失衡、写成罗列式而非对话式、"本文位置"段落空泛、或未与本刊近 3 年同主题文章对话时。Covers the three-layer structure(理论—实证—本文位置)、中英配比经验值、对话式改写对照、检索本刊近文的固定动作,以及综述向边际贡献段的衔接模板。
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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 mind-review-process, mlsys-supplementary, nature-cell-biology. Rankings shift as installs change; sort this page by "Most installs" 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@latest add <owner>/<name>, or copy the file into your agent's skills directory.