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 Search First> Research-before-coding workflow. Search for existing tools, libraries, and patterns before writing custom code. Systematizes the "search for existing solutions before implementing" approach. Use when starting new features or adding functionality.
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thedixitjain Bundle Open NotebookSelf-hosted, open-source alternative to Google NotebookLM for AI-powered research and document analysis. Use when organizing research materials into notebooks, ingesting diverse content sources (PDFs, videos, audio, web pages, Office documents), generating AI-powered notes and summaries, creating multi-speaker podcasts from research, chatting with documents using context-aware AI, searching across materials with full-text and vector search, or running custom content transformations. Supports 16+ AI providers including OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Ollama, Groq, and Mistral with complete data privacy through self-hosting.
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thedixitjain Skill Acm MobicomUse when targeting ACM MobiCom (MobiCom) or deciding whether a computer-science manuscript fits this venue. Encodes conference fit, framing, evidence bar, submission-cycle checks, rebuttal posture, and desk-reject risks for mobile networking.
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thedixitjain Skill Acm MobisysUse when targeting ACM MobiSys (MobiSys) or deciding whether a computer-science manuscript fits this venue. Encodes conference fit, framing, evidence bar, submission-cycle checks, rebuttal posture, and desk-reject risks for mobile systems.
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thedixitjain Skill Acm SigcommUse when targeting ACM SIGCOMM (SIGCOMM) or deciding whether a computer-science manuscript fits this venue. Encodes conference fit, framing, evidence bar, submission-cycle checks, rebuttal posture, and desk-reject risks for networking flagship.
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thedixitjain Skill Amj MethodsUse when the research design and method are the bottleneck for an Academy of Management Journal (AMJ) manuscript — matching design (archival, survey, experiment, multi-method, field) and level of analysis to the theoretical question. Designs the study; it does not run the estimation or validity checks (amj-data-analysis).
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thedixitjain Skill Art HistoryUse when targeting Art History (the Association for Art History journal) or deciding whether a theoretically engaged art-history manuscript fits this venue. Encodes the journal's fit as a critically and methodologically reflective venue, the argument and close-analysis bar, primary-source command, Chicago house style, image-rights expectations, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics.
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thedixitjain Skill Asq MethodsUse when choosing and justifying the research design for an Administrative Science Quarterly (ASQ) manuscript — qualitative (grounded-theory, ethnographic, historical) or quantitative — and setting the rigor bar. Designs the study; it does not run the analysis (see asq-data-analysis).
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nousresearch Skill BlogwatcherMonitor blogs and RSS/Atom feeds via blogwatcher-cli tool.
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thedixitjain Skill Cancer CellUse when targeting Cancer Cell or deciding whether a cancer-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 Car MethodsUse when the research design and identification are the bottleneck for a Contemporary Accounting Research (CAR) manuscript — choosing and defending an archival, experimental, analytical, field, or survey design and, for human-participant work, meeting CAR's mandatory ethics-approval verification. Designs the study; it does not run the estimation (car-data-analysis).
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thedixitjain Skill CirculationUse when targeting Circulation (AHA) or deciding whether a cardiovascular 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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davepoon Bundle CompetitorsManages the founder's competitive landscape — discovering competitors, updating existing competitor files, adding new ones, and dispatching ad-hoc research. Use when the founder wants to explore competitors, do competitive research, update a competitor profile, or understand who else is solving their problem.
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thedixitjain Skill Er AbstractUse when drafting or revising the 中文内容提要 (~300 字, official) or English 梗概/Summary for an 《经济研究》 manuscript. Enforces the five-sentence Chinese pattern, the five-element English Summary, and forbids empty-significance phrases. 本技能服务于《经济研究》(Economic Research Journal, ERJ)。
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thedixitjain Skill Er WorkflowUse when deciding which er-* sub-skill to invoke next, or when sequencing manuscript work from topic selection through rebuttal for 《经济研究》 (Economic Research Journal). Routes — does not replace — the specialized skills.
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brycewang-stanford Skill Etp MethodsUse when designing or defending the research design for an Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice (ETP) manuscript — matching a method to an entrepreneurial question and handling the selection, survivorship, and process-observation problems unique to new ventures.
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thedixitjain Skill Hrm MethodsUse when the research design is the bottleneck for a Human Resource Management (Wiley "HRM") manuscript — matching multilevel structure, multi-source/multi-wave timing, construct validity, and common-method-bias defenses to the theoretical claim. Designs the study; it does not run the estimation (hrm-data-analysis).
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thedixitjain Skill InterspeechUse when targeting INTERSPEECH (INTERSPEECH) or deciding whether a computer-science manuscript fits this venue. Encodes conference fit, framing, evidence bar, submission-cycle checks, rebuttal posture, and desk-reject risks for speech processing.
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thedixitjain Skill Isr MethodsUse when choosing and stress-testing the research design for an Information Systems Research (ISR) manuscript — matching the genre (behavioral empirical, analytical-economic modeling, design-science, or multimethod) to the question, and ensuring the design can actually support the IS contribution. Designs the study; it does not execute the estimation/derivation (isr-data-analysis) or frame the contribution (isr-contribution-framing).
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thedixitjain Skill Jar MethodsUse when the research design and identification strategy are the bottleneck for a Journal of Accounting Research (JAR) manuscript — choosing the setting, source of identifying variation, and sample to support a causal accounting claim. Designs the study; it does not run the estimation, clustering, or robustness (jar-data-analysis).
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thedixitjain Skill Jcp MethodsUse when designing or stress-testing the experiments for a Journal of Consumer Psychology (JCP) manuscript — manipulations, controls and confounds, manipulation checks, power, the multi-study chain, and pre-registration. Designs the studies that test the process; it does not analyze them (jcp-data-analysis).
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thedixitjain Skill Jms MethodsUse when the research design is the bottleneck for a Journal of Management Studies (JMS) manuscript — matching design (qualitative case/ethnography, process/longitudinal, survey, archival, experiment, multi-method) to the theoretical question, with qualitative rigor treated as first-class. Designs the study; it does not run the estimation or trustworthiness checks (jms-data-analysis).
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thedixitjain Skill Jom MethodsUse when choosing and defending the research design for a Journal of Operations Management (JOM) empirical study — matching survey, archival/secondary, field, case, experimental, or intervention-based research to the operations question, anticipating the Empirical Research Methods Department's method check, and keeping the design observation-grounded rather than analytical.
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athola Bundle Math ReviewVerifies math-heavy code for algorithmic correctness and numerical stability. Use when reviewing scientific algorithms, ML models, or numerical code.
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thedixitjain Skill Mw Rebuttal用于回应《管理世界》R&R 审稿意见,产出逐条回复信并同步修订正文。Use when 收到《管理世界》退修通知、已有 1—3 份审稿意见和编委意见、需要撰写逐条回复信并对齐正文修改、或处理多位审稿人意见冲突时使用。锚定《管理世界》国务院发展研究中心主办、管理学与经济学并重、规范实证大刊的审稿语境,落实"先修订正文、再写导览式回复信"的顺序原则,对识别、机制、政策三条线实质补强,逐条标注正文修订位置,并审慎控制不接受意见的比例。 本技能服务于《管理世界》(Management World, MW)。
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thedixitjain Skill Mw WorkflowUse when deciding which mw-* sub-skill to invoke next, or when sequencing manuscript work from topic selection through rebuttal for 《管理世界》 (Management World). Routes — does not replace — the specialized skills.
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thedixitjain Skill Nature FoodUse when targeting Nature Food or deciding whether a food-systems manuscript fits this venue. Encodes the journal's fit, the food-systems-significance and transdisciplinary bar, evidence and reproducibility expectations, house style, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics.
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thedixitjain Skill Nejm EthicsUse to confirm clinical ethics and research-integrity requirements for an NEJM submission — IRB/ethics-committee approval and informed consent per the Declaration of Helsinki, ICMJE conflict-of-interest disclosures and authorship criteria, the role-of-the-funding-source statement, and the ICMJE data-sharing statement.
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nwave-ai Skill Nw ResearchGathers knowledge from web and files, cross-references across multiple sources, and produces cited research documents. Use when investigating technologies, patterns, or decisions that need evidence backing.
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thedixitjain Skill Prl MethodsUse when deciding what methodological detail belongs in a Physical Review Letters body versus Supplemental Material, so a physicist can trust the result without the Letter becoming a long paper. Partitions methods; does not design figures or run analysis.
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thedixitjain Skill Prx QuantumUse when targeting PRX Quantum or deciding whether a quantum information science or quantum technology manuscript fits this APS open-access flagship 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 Rt WorkflowUse to sequence a manuscript across venues — which cross-journal toolkit skill to invoke next, from picking a target journal through execution, submission-readiness, simulated review, rebuttal, and the replication package. Routes; it does not replace the per-journal depth packs or the specialized toolkit skills.
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thedixitjain Skill Sci FramingUse when locking the conceptual advance and the "why now" before drafting for Science (AAAS) — converts a correct result into a Science-shaped narrative that leads with the broad advance rather than the background, and seeds the title, abstract, and cover letter.
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thedixitjain Skill Siam ReviewUse when targeting SIAM Review (SIAM Rev.) or deciding whether an applied- or computational-mathematics manuscript fits this expository, broad-readership SIAM venue. Encodes the journal's fit, framing, expository-and-rigor bar, house style, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics.
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thedixitjain Skill Smj MethodsUse when designing the research method for a Strategic Management Journal (SMJ) manuscript — sample, unit of analysis, measures, and the identification strategy. Designs the study; estimation and endogeneity execution live in smj-data-analysis.
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thedixitjain Skill Yt Research'Research competitor YouTube channels, niches, and trending topics for your content strategy. Use this skill whenever the user says "research channels", "analyze competitors", "find trending topics", "niche analysis", "competitive research", "what are other creators doing", "scrape YouTube channels", or wants to understand the competitive landscape for a specific tool or topic area. Use when working with yt research. Trigger with ''yt'', ''research''. '
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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 etp-methods, search-first, acm-mobicom. 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.