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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nwave-ai Bundle Nw At Completeness CheckCanonical AT completeness gate — research-anchored 7-category taxonomy (C1-C7) + 15-item mechanical checklist. Paradigm-neutral. Drives acceptance-designer reviewer verdict deterministically.
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nwave-ai Skill Nw Five Whys MethodologyToyota 5 Whys methodology with multi-causal branching, evidence requirements, and validation techniques
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nwave-ai Skill Nw Outcome Kpi FrameworkOutcome KPI definition methodology - synthesizes Who Does What By How Much (Gothelf/Seiden), Running Lean (Maurya), and Measure What Matters (Doerr) into a practical framework for measurable outcome KPIs
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thedixitjain Bundle Ontology Term ResolutionResolve free-text scientific labels to ontology term IDs and validate existing CURIEs against the EBI Ontology Lookup Service (OLS4). Use whenever an ontology identifier must be produced or checked - annotating tissue, cell type, disease, phenotype, assay, chemical, organism, sex, or developmental stage fields; preparing metadata for GEO, ENA, BioSamples, CELLxGENE, HCA, or ISA-Tab submission; auditing a metadata table of term IDs; checking whether a term is obsolete and what replaced it; or mapping between ontologies. Triggers include "ontology term", "ontology ID", "CURIE", "controlled vocabulary", "UBERON", "CL:", "MONDO", "HPO", "EFO", "ChEBI", "NCBITaxon", "GO term", "PATO", "annotate this tissue/cell type/disease", and any request to emit or verify an identifier shaped like PREFIX:0001234.
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thedixitjain Skill Revedres Topic SelectionUse when deciding whether a question is synthesis-worthy and RER-scale before committing to a Review of Educational Research (RER) review or meta-analysis. Tests fit and frames the contribution; it does not run the search (revedres-literature-synthesis) or write the protocol (revedres-proposal-and-commissioning).
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thedixitjain Skill Rje Contribution FramingUse to frame the contribution of a manuscript for The RAND Journal of Economics (RJE) so the industrial-organization advance is legible to the screening Editor and two referees within the hard page caps. Sharpens the one-sentence "so what"; it does not run the analysis.
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thedixitjain Bundle Scientific BrainstormingFacilitates evidence-aware scientific ideation with independent generation, structured discussion, explicit assumptions, transparent evaluation, adversarial review, and decision logs. Use for early-stage research brainstorming or prioritizing candidate directions; hand off empirical validation, study design, ethics or regulatory review, and clinical questions to appropriate experts or skills.
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thedixitjain Skill Securities Market HeraldUse when targeting 《证券市场导报》(Securities Market Herald) or deciding whether a Chinese social-science/econ/management manuscript fits this journal. Applies the journal's fit, framing, method, house-style, official-submission-check, and desk-reject heuristics.
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thedixitjain Skill Siggraph ReproducibilityUse when building the reproducibility story for a SIGGRAPH / TOG paper, covering deterministic result regeneration, scene/mesh/weight provenance, hardware and timing disclosure, floating-point and GPU non-determinism, and a code/data release that a reader or a Graphics Replicability Stamp volunteer can actually run.
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thedixitjain Skill Siggraph Topic SelectionUse before committing a project to SIGGRAPH / SIGGRAPH Asia / TOG, to decide whether the contribution is graphics-shaped and which venue and track fit, routing among SIGGRAPH, SIGGRAPH Asia, direct-to-TOG, and siblings (CVPR/ICCV, CHI/UIST, Eurographics/EGSR/SGP/SCA/HPG/I3D), and whether to aim dual-track or Journal-only.
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thedixitjain Skill Smj Contribution FramingUse when sharpening the contribution claim of a Strategic Management Journal (SMJ) manuscript so it lands as a contribution to *strategy theory*. Frames the "so what"; it does not develop the theory or run analysis.
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thedixitjain Skill Social Sciences In ChinaUse when a manuscript targets 《中国社会科学》(Social Sciences in China) — the CASS flagship and the single most prestigious cross-disciplinary social-science journal in China. Apply to judge fit (思想性 over 技术炫技), to reframe a paper around a 重大问题 + 原创理论 + 中国自主知识体系, or to polish toward its grand-but-rigorous house style. Not for narrow empirical notes.
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thedixitjain Skill Soctheory Review ProcessUse when you need to understand Sociological Theory (ST)'s double-anonymous peer review and interpret a decision letter focused on conceptual novelty and logical soundness. Explains the process and decision types; it does NOT draft the response document (that is soctheory-rebuttal).
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thedixitjain Skill The Astronomical JournalUse when targeting The Astronomical Journal (AJ) or deciding whether an observational astronomy manuscript fits this AAS/IOP 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 The Econometrics JournalUse when targeting The Econometrics Journal (EctJ) or deciding whether an econometrics 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 The Lancet Public HealthUse when targeting The Lancet Public Health or deciding whether a population-health study fits this venue. Encodes the journal's fit, the population-level intervention, epidemiology, and policy evidence bar, reporting-guideline and registration requirements, Lancet specialty house style, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics. Venue-fit aid only, not clinical advice.
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thedixitjain Skill The Philosophical ReviewUse when targeting The Philosophical Review or deciding whether an analytic philosophy manuscript fits this venue. Encodes the journal's fit, the argument-rigor and originality bar, dialectical-engagement expectations, house style and double-blind norms, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics.
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thedixitjain Skill Water Resources ResearchUse when targeting Water Resources Research (WRR) or deciding whether a hydrology / water-science manuscript fits this venue. Encodes the journal's fit, the quantitative water-science contribution bar, data-and-code deposition expectations, AGU house style, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics.
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thedixitjain Skill Ylj Sources And BluebookUse when building and formatting the citation apparatus for a The Yale Law Journal (YLJ) piece — pinpoint cites, Bluebook form, and source support for every assertion. It governs cite construction; the final editorial cite-check and source-pull is ylj-footnotes-and-cite-check.
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thedixitjain Skill Amann Literature SynthesisUse when systematically gathering, coding, and synthesizing a management/organization literature for an Academy of Management Annals (Annals) review — the search-and-coverage methodology and the choice of narrative vs. systematic vs. bibliometric integration. Builds the corpus and synthesis notes; it does not impose the organizing spine (amann-organizing-framework) or write prose.
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thedixitjain Skill Arsoc Literature SynthesisUse when systematically gathering, reading, and synthesizing a large body of sociological research for an Annual Review of Sociology (ARSoc) review — coverage discipline and avoiding citation gaps across theoretical traditions. Builds the evidence corpus and synthesis notes; it does not impose the analytical spine (arsoc-organizing-framework) or write prose (arsoc-writing-style).
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thedixitjain Skill Amanthro Transparency And DataUse when handling research ethics, consent, community accountability, and data/transparency for an American Anthropologist (AA) manuscript — informed consent, anonymization, protection of vulnerable interlocutors, heritage and repatriation obligations, and what (and what NOT) to share. At AA this is an ethics-and-accountability skill grounded in the AAA ethics principles and an ethics of care. Plans the ethics and transparency; it does not grant waivers.
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thedixitjain Skill Neurips Artifact EvaluationUse when packaging NeurIPS code, data, models, demos, benchmarks, or other research artifacts for anonymous review, reproducibility, public release, or MLRC-style artifact scrutiny.
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thedixitjain Skill Advanced Energy MaterialsUse when targeting Advanced Energy Materials (Adv. Energy Mater.) or deciding whether an energy-materials manuscript fits this high-impact Wiley 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 Aerj Theory And FrameworkUse when building the conceptual or theoretical framework for an American Educational Research Journal (AERJ) manuscript. AERJ expects a clear framework that frames the question, guides the design and analysis, and elevates a result into a contribution to understanding. Strengthens the framework; it does not invent theory.
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brycewang-stanford Skill Cjms Empirical ValidationUse when designing the real-data validation of a 《中国管理科学》 (Chinese Journal of Management Science) manuscript — forecasting and financial-engineering strands: data provenance, rolling out-of-sample tests, benchmark batteries, and significance of improvement. Validates methods on data; simulation-based studies belong to cjms-numerical-experiments.
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thedixitjain Skill Cn Sport Journal WorkflowUse when deciding which Chinese sport-science (体育学) journal skill to invoke next, comparing fit across the 12 CSSCI sport-science source journals (《体育科学》《中国体育科技》, the Beijing/Shanghai/Chengdu/Wuhan/Xi'an/Shenyang/Tianjin sport-university journals, 《体育学刊》《体育学研究》《体育与科学》), or routing a sport-science manuscript before venue-specific rewriting. Also use to redirect manuscripts that only use sport as a case back to econ/management or clinical venues.
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thedixitjain Skill Curranthro Review ProcessUse when you need to understand how Current Anthropology (CA) evaluates a manuscript — editorial screening, peer review, and the distinctive CA✩ Treatment in which an accepted Major Article is sent to invited commentators whose signed Comments are published alongside it, followed by the author's Reply. Sets expectations and shapes the paper to survive both review and public commentary; it does not contact editors.
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thedixitjain Skill Duke Mathematical JournalUse when targeting Duke Mathematical Journal (Duke Math. J.) or deciding whether a pure mathematics manuscript fits this top-tier broad-scope Duke University Press venue. Encodes the journal's fit, framing, proof standard, house style, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics.
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thedixitjain Skill Ectj Contribution FramingUse when sharpening a contribution for The Econometrics Journal (EctJ) into a compact leading-case claim with demonstrated applied value, covering the failure mode of incumbent methods, the smallest sharp advance, the applied payoff, and scope guardrails that survive the one-week RES desk screen.
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thedixitjain Skill Environment InternationalUse when targeting Environment International or deciding whether an environmental-exposure/health manuscript fits this venue. Encodes the journal's fit, the population-relevant exposure-health evidence bar, exposome/contaminant expectations, house style, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics.
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thedixitjain Skill Est Revision And RebuttalUse when writing the response to an Environmental Science & Technology (ES&T) revision decision. ES&T decisions are editor-led on the back of typically three expert reviews, so the response must convert each reviewer with evidence and QA/QC while keeping the editor confident. It structures the response letter and revision; it does not fabricate new results.
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thedixitjain Skill Fcr Revision And RebuttalUse when writing the response to a Field Crops Research (FCR) revision decision (major or minor) and revising the manuscript. FCR reviewers commonly press on scope/generality, statistics and G×E, reproducibility detail, and a discussion that interprets rather than repeats. The response must address every point while protecting the contribution. Structures the response letter; it does not fabricate new results.
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thedixitjain Skill Human Resource ManagementUse when targeting Human Resource Management (HRM, Wiley) or deciding whether a strategic HRM / employment-relationship 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 Ijoc Contribution FramingUse when the one-sentence computational/methodological claim of an INFORMS Journal on Computing (IJOC) manuscript is not sharp, or the contribution reads as application rather than computing. Sharpens the "what is new and by how much"; it does not run the experiments that back it.
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thedixitjain Skill Interspeech SupplementaryUse when deciding what accompanies an INTERSPEECH paper beyond its 4 pages — audio sample pages and multimedia for listening-based judgment, what reviewers may ignore versus must see, the references-and-acknowledgments page's strict scope, and packaging extra analyses when no reviewed appendix exists.
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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 nw-at-completeness-check, nw-five-whys-methodology, nw-outcome-kpi-framework. 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.