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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livelybug Skill Pubmed DatabaseDirect PubMed and NCBI E-utilities search workflows for biomedical literature, MeSH queries, PMID lookup, citation retrieval, and API-backed literature monitoring.
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livelybug Skill Literature ReviewSystematic literature-review workflow for academic, biomedical, technical, and scientific topics, including search planning, source screening, synthesis, citation checks, and evidence logging.
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livelybug Skill Scholar EvaluationStructured scholarly-work evaluation for papers, proposals, literature reviews, methods sections, evidence quality, citation support, and research-writing feedback.
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rajanthar Bundle Scientific ResearchPerform scientific and scholarly research workflows across literature review, paper evaluation, PubMed/NCBI, USPTO patent and trademark lookup, and gget bioinformatics queries. Use for academic evidence reviews, biomedical literature, scholar evaluation, patents/IP research, genomics lookup, or the old scientific-db/scientific-thinking/scientific-pkg skills.
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janyork Bundle Using LwcUse when project decisions, code structure, research, incidents, or verified context must survive future coding-agent sessions through LWC memory and graph indexes.
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francostino Bundle Windows AdAuthorized Active Directory and Windows identity attacks: Kerberos abuse, AD CS escalation, BloodHound path analysis, NTLM relay, and domain privilege-escalation research.
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hyhmrright Bundle Brooks TestReview test-suite quality using established testing literature; identify brittleness, mock abuse, unclear fixtures, weak assertions, slow feedback, and maintenance risks.
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agentbody Bundle People DataResearch LinkedIn professional profiles and public business-contact data, including email/phone lookup, people search, and YouTube channel business-email discovery.
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dair-ai Bundle Wiki BuilderCreate and maintain reusable research wikis with source provenance, configurable structure, and local markdown outputs.
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francostino Skill Auto ResearchResearch uncertain questions with an explicit, user-approved web search or ChatGPT consultation, then present options and wait for implementation approval.
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francostino Bundle Edr Bypass ReReverse engineer EDR internals (user-mode hook tables, ETW, AMSI) and study bypass techniques such as direct syscalls, Hell's Gate, and call-stack spoofing. Lab-only red-team research.
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francostino Bundle Wellally TechIntegrate multiple digital health data sources, connect to [WellAlly.tech](https://www.wellally.tech/) knowledge base, providing data import and knowledge reference for personal health management systems.
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francostino Skill Wiki ChangelogGenerate structured changelogs from git history. Use when user asks "what changed recently", "generate a changelog", "summarize commits" or user wants to understand recent development activity.
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xi-kari Bundle Crossframe SuiteUse when the user explicitly invokes CrossFrame Suite for Chinese structural diagnosis workflows across relationships, organizations, public issues, philosophy, research, or essay output.
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linji-x Bundle Spec Driven LoopFreeze PRD, technical design, and acceptance criteria before medium-to-large Codex work; coordinate agents with explicit ownership, then judge delivery from diffs, tests, and evidence.
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hanyuyuan6 Bundle Remote Gpu TrainerDeploy, monitor, and debug long GPU jobs on RENTED/remote instances (AutoDL, RunPod, vast.ai, Lambda, Slurm, K8s): teardown/billing safety, spot resilience, resumable checkpointing, OOM/NaN triage.
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francostino Bundle Scientific WritingThis is the core skill for the deep research and writing tool—combining AI-driven deep research with well-formatted written outputs. Every document produced is backed by comprehensive literature search and verified citations through the research-lookup skill.
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francostino Bundle Citation ManagementManage citations systematically throughout the research and writing process.
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phelan164 Skill Maintain Codex WikiMaintain a review-first engineering wiki with provenance, citation-aware queries, explicit capture and promotion, and deterministic checks.
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sandbaseai Bundle Multi Source SearchCross-validate web research and produce an offline-checkable evidence ledger with explicit source diversity, confidence, conflicts, and gaps.
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francostino Bundle Apify Market ResearchAnalyze market conditions, geographic opportunities, pricing, consumer behavior, and product validation across Google Maps, Facebook, Instagram, Booking.com, and TripAdvisor.
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francostino Skill Efficient Web ResearchProtocol for token-efficient web research. Use when accessing URLs, GitHub repos, or running search queries. Prevents full-page fetching waste.
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ghost011118 Bundle Project State GovernorGovern evidence-backed canonical project state across sessions, branches, reviews, and research cycles without inventing product intent.
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k-dense-ai Skill Claude Scientific SkillsScientific research and analysis skills
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francostino Bundle Browser Extension ReverseAuthorized reverse engineering of Chrome/Firefox extensions: manifest analysis, background workers, content scripts, and extension-based credential or data-exposure research.
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francostino Skill Competitor Ad IntelligenceResearch public competitor ads, analyze creative patterns and landing pages, and produce an evidence-labeled strategic teardown.
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francostino Bundle Comprehensive Review Pr EnhanceGenerate structured PR descriptions from diffs, add review checklists, risk assessments, and test coverage summaries. Use when the user says "write a PR description", "improve this PR", "summarize my changes", "PR review", "pull request", or asks to document a diff for reviewers.
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alterlab-ieu Bundle Alterlab ClinicaltrialsQuery ClinicalTrials.gov via its API v2 to search trials by condition, drug, location, recruitment status, or phase and retrieve trial details by NCT ID. Use when finding interventional or observational studies, checking trial status and eligibility for patient matching, or exporting clinical trial records for research. Part of the AlterLab Academic Skills suite.
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alterlab-ieu Bundle Alterlab PydicomReads, writes, and manipulates DICOM (Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine) medical imaging files with the pydicom Python library. Use when reading/writing/modifying DICOM data, extracting pixel data from CT, MRI, X-ray, or ultrasound images, anonymizing DICOM files, working with DICOM metadata and tags, converting DICOM to other formats, handling compressed DICOM, or processing medical imaging datasets for PACS systems, radiology workflows, and healthcare imaging applications. Part of the AlterLab Academic Skills suite.
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alterlab-ieu Bundle Alterlab Redcap CdiscDesigns validated research data-capture instruments and aligns them to CDISC submission standards. Builds REDCap projects from a requirements spec: instrument and field design, the 18-column data dictionary (Variable/Field Name, Form Name, Field Type, Choices, Branching Logic, Text Validation, Identifier?), field validation (date_ymd, integer, number, email, phone), branching/show-field logic, longitudinal events and survey settings, and lints a data dictionary for common errors. Maps a study to CDISC: CDASH collection fields, SDTM domain mapping (DM, AE, VS, LB, EX, CM, MH across Interventions/Events/Findings classes), and NCI-EVS controlled terminology. Use when the user wants to build a REDCap project, write or lint a data dictionary, set up branching logic or validation, or map a study to CDISC SDTM/CDASH/CDISC CT. For LabArchives ELN bridging use alterlab-labarchive; for Likert/sampling/reliability use alterlab-survey-design. Part of the AlterLab Academic Skills suite.
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alterlab-ieu Bundle Alterlab YokatlasRetrieves Türkiye higher-education program and admission statistics from YÖK Atlas (yokatlas.yok.gov.tr) — quotas (kontenjan), placements (yerleşen), minimum admission scores (taban puan), success ranks (başarı sırası), and per-title academic-staff counts — via the keyless yokatlas-py (>=0.6.0, MIT) wrapper over the JSON API at /api/tercih-kilavuz/ (search, universiteler, universite-programlar), with SearchFilters for puan türü (SAY/SÖZ/EA/DİL/TYT), university type (DEVLET/VAKIF), province, and success-rank ranges. Use when the request mentions YÖK Atlas, program statistics, kontenjan/quota data, taban puan/minimum admission score, başarı sırası/success rank, placement counts, or program staff counts for institutional research, program benchmarking, or student advising. For an academic's CV/profile/affiliation prefer alterlab-yok-akademik; for theses prefer alterlab-yok-tez. Legacy PHP endpoints are dead post-April-2026; only the JSON API is used. Part of the AlterLab Academic Skills suite.
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alterlab-ieu Bundle Alterlab Scholar EvalEvaluates scholarly work with the ScholarEval framework, producing structured assessment across research-quality dimensions (problem formulation, methodology, analysis, and writing) with quantitative rubric scores and actionable feedback. Use when scoring or grading a paper, thesis, or research output against rubric-style criteria, or benchmarking publication readiness across revisions. For checklist-based narrative reviewer reports prefer alterlab-peer-review; for evidence/claim quality and argument soundness use alterlab-scientific-thinking. Part of the AlterLab Academic Skills suite.
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alterlab-ieu Bundle Alterlab Neurokit2Processes and analyzes physiological biosignals with the NeuroKit2 Python toolkit — ECG, EEG, EDA, RSP, PPG, EMG, and EOG signals. Use when processing cardiovascular signals, brain activity, electrodermal responses, respiratory patterns, muscle activity, or eye movements, or when computing heart rate variability (HRV), event-related potentials, complexity measures, autonomic nervous system assessment, or multi-modal physiological signal integration for psychophysiology research. Part of the AlterLab Academic Skills suite.
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alterlab-ieu Bundle Alterlab Parallel WebSearch the web, run deep research, and extract content from known URLs via the Parallel Web Systems Chat API (OpenAI-compatible) and Extract API, returning synthesized summaries with inline citations. Use when running general web searches, current-events/market/technical lookups, broad information gathering, comprehensive research reports, or verifying a specific URL's content (requires PARALLEL_API_KEY). For scholarly paper retrieval or dual-backend academic lookup that auto-routes to Perplexity prefer alterlab-research-lookup instead. Part of the AlterLab Academic Skills suite.
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alterlab-ieu Bundle Alterlab Citation MgmtManages citations for academic research — searches Google Scholar and PubMed for papers, extracts accurate metadata, validates citations, and generates properly formatted BibTeX entries. Use when finding papers, verifying citation information, converting DOIs to BibTeX, checking reference accuracy in scientific writing, or building a bibliography. Part of the AlterLab Academic Skills suite.
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alterlab-ieu Bundle Alterlab Survey DesignComprehensive survey and instrument design assistant supporting questionnaire construction, Likert scale design, question types (open/closed/matrix), response bias mitigation, sampling strategies (probability/non-probability), pilot testing, instrument validation (Cronbach's alpha, factor analysis), online survey tools (Qualtrics, REDCap, Google Forms), interview protocol development, focus group facilitation, mixed-mode surveys, and cultural adaptation of instruments. Use when designing a survey or questionnaire, building Likert scales, planning a sampling strategy, pilot testing, validating an instrument (Cronbach's alpha, factor analysis), developing an interview protocol, improving response rates, or working in Qualtrics or REDCap. For analyzing interview/focus-group data use alterlab-qualitative-methods; for qual+quant integration alterlab-mixed-methods; for test selection/power analysis alterlab-statistical-analysis; for IRB/consent alterlab-research-ethics. Part of the AlterLab Academic Skills suite.
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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 pubmed-database, literature-review, scholar-evaluation. 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.