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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majiayu000 Bundle BipUnified guidance for using the bipartite reference library CLI. Use when searching for papers, managing the library, or exploring literature via S2/ASTA.
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majiayu000 Bundle CciSearch Claude Collective Intelligence knowledge base for solutions to problems. Use when the user asks about common issues, wants to find existing solutions, or mentions "CCI", "collective intelligence", or "knowledge base".
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majiayu000 Bundle CrmResearch people and companies, add to CRM database with smart linking
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majiayu000 Bundle RpiUse when implementing features from Jira tickets, PRDs, or user requirements. Orchestrates Research-Plan-Implement workflow with quality gates for hallucination, overengineering, and underengineering detection.
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majiayu000 Bundle MitmTrack and summarize man-in-the-middle mentions across local corpora and history; use for MITM audits, searches, and reporting.
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majiayu000 Bundle TechResearch, validate, and set up technology profiles in content/technologies. Handles both new entries and updates to existing ones.
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majiayu000 Bundle VlexInteracts with vLex legal APIs for document search, anonymization, citation extraction, and classification. Use when needing international legal documents, PII removal, or legal text analysis. Requires VLEX_API_KEY environment variable.
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majiayu000 Bundle EpistEpistemological tracking system for managing facts, conclusions, and provenance chains with Git integrity and semantic search. Integrates with Quarto for visual provenance analysis. Use when analyzing data from multiple sources, conducting research, working with metrics/surveys, making data-driven conclusions, or tracking complex findings. Triggers on data analysis (analyze data, metrics, survey, research, findings, insights), conclusions (conclude, recommend, decide, infer), quantitative work (percentage, trend, correlation, statistic), source attribution (according to, based on, from source), or any epistemological tracking. Skip for trivial calculations.
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majiayu000 Bundle GrantTransform research ideas into compelling, fundable grant proposals (NSF, NIH, ERC).
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majiayu000 Bundle OsintOpen source intelligence gathering. USE WHEN OSINT, due diligence, background check, research person, company intel, investigate. SkillSearch('osint') for docs.
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majiayu000 Bundle PulsePULSE is the world's first true AI-powered Integrated Trading Environment (ITE) under **Priced In Research.
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majiayu000 Bundle ReExplicit extra-research mode. Use only when the user says `/re` or clearly asks for a research-heavy pass before coding. This skill should bias Codex toward more source-checking and justification without replacing its normal orchestration.
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majiayu000 Bundle CI FixFix GitHub Actions CI failures using GitHub CLI (gh): inspect runs/logs, identify root cause, patch workflows/code, rerun jobs, and summarize verification. Use when GitHub Actions CI is failing or needs diagnosis.
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majiayu000 Bundle DevcomInvoke DEVCOM_RESEARCH for deep research, cross-disciplinary analysis, and novel problem solving. Use when exploring cutting-edge concepts or investigating patterns that require theoretical foundation.
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majiayu000 Bundle DigestExtract patterns, insights, and knowledge from text content. Use when asked to digest, extract, summarize, analyze patterns in code, conversations, documents, or decisions. Stores extracted knowledge for future retrieval.
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majiayu000 Bundle EthicsResearch ethics, IRB compliance, and data privacy analysis.
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majiayu000 Bundle ReviewQuick code review for files or recent changes, checking for bugs, best practices, and potential improvements
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majiayu000 Bundle DigRefines an active research session by drilling deeper into a subtopic. Use after tome:research to narrow results to a specific channel or angle.
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majiayu000 Bundle OpenalexSearch academic papers via OpenAlex API for open citation data, institutional affiliations, and funding information. Use when user says "openalex search", "search openalex", "open citation graph", or wants comprehensive academic metadata beyond arXiv/Semantic Scholar.
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majiayu000 Bundle De Shaw Computational FinanceBuild trading systems in the style of D.E. Shaw, the pioneering computational finance firm. Emphasizes systematic strategies, rigorous quantitative research, and world-class technology infrastructure. Use when building research platforms, systematic trading strategies, or quantitative finance infrastructure.
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majiayu000 Bundle EditingComprehensive editing framework covering voice consistency, timeline verification, citation coverage, and multi-pass editing strategies for autonomous manuscript refinement.
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majiayu000 Bundle FictionThis skill should be used when the user asks to "write a chapter", "write prose", "continue the story", "develop a character", "review my chapter", "critique my manuscript", "write a synopsis", "summarize my story", "plan my novel", "outline my book", "check for consistency", or mentions fiction writing, novels, short stories, scenes, or narrative craft.
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majiayu000 Bundle ScopingConduct scoping conversation with user to define research question, key findings, and constraints. Generates scope.md that guides all subsequent steps. Second step of writer workflow. Requires inventory.md to exist.
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majiayu000 Bundle SummaryThis skill should be used when providing concise summaries of research paper text. Use for quickly understanding the core content, arguments, and contributions of paper sections targeting top-tier computer science conferences.
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majiayu000 Bundle PatentPatent research and IP landscape: prior-art search, claim mapping, landscape analysis, and freedom-to-operate. Use when conducting a prior-art search, mapping an IP landscape, evaluating patentability, or running an FTO analysis.
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majiayu000 Bundle AstropyCore Python library for astronomy and astrophysics workflows that need Astropy APIs, including units/quantities, coordinates, FITS I/O, tables, time systems, WCS, and cosmology. Use when implementing or debugging astronomical data analysis code with Astropy.
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majiayu000 Bundle IbkrTrade and research options on Interactive Brokers via a local CLI (chains, quotes, Greeks, single-leg and vertical orders). Use when the user asks about option chains, option quotes, or wants to place/cancel option orders on IBKR. Requires IB Gateway running locally. Paper account is the default; live needs --live.
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majiayu000 Bundle BluebookThis skill should be used when the user asks to "cite a case", "format a citation", "check Bluebook format", "cite a statute", "use id. or supra", "format footnotes", "cite a law review article", or needs Bluebook 21st Edition citation guidance. Covers cases, statutes, secondary sources, signals, and short forms.
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majiayu000 Bundle CitationFormats citations and validates source attribution for answers generated from multiple document sources (ChromaDB and web search). Use when adding source references to generated answers, validating citation accuracy, or ensuring quality of source attribution across different source types.
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majiayu000 Bundle DeepplanAtlas skill for Manus AI-inspired persistent planning. USE WHEN complex multi-step task, research project, extended implementation, OR need goal anchoring. Uses filesystem as memory with 3-file structure.
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majiayu000 Bundle DiscoverDiscovery-first development workflow. Use BEFORE creating worktrees for any non-trivial feature. Explores requirements through questions, proposes approaches, validates design incrementally, and generates implementation plans with verification commands.
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majiayu000 Bundle Ericsson Ran Features ExpertExpert knowledge base for Ericsson LTE/NR radio access network features, parameters, counters, and engineering guidelines. Contains 377 features with 6164 parameters, 4257 counters, and activation codes.
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majiayu000 Bundle EvaluateThis skill should be used when evaluating the logical flow, structure, readability, and overall quality of research paper text. Use for assessing academic writing targeting top-tier computer science conferences.
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majiayu000 Bundle Kb QueryInteractive Knowledge Base search with natural language queries. Searches patterns and bug fixes with relevance ranking, quality scoring, and fuzzy matching for typo tolerance. Helps users find solutions quickly without manual browsing through institutional knowledge.
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majiayu000 Bundle MemorizeUse this to save important implementation decisions, patterns, or context to the Nori knowledge base for future sessions.
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majiayu000 Bundle PresenceSurface what needs human attention during complex AI work. Use when context is large, user seems overwhelmed, or after substantial output. Triggers on "what just happened", "summarize progress", "what do I need to know", "lost track", "overwhelmed".
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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 cci, crm, mitm. 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.