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 News SummaryConcise, structured summaries of news articles (~30 sec read time). Captures key points, context, bias/gaps, and open questions. Use when user shares article URL or asks to summarize news content.
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majiayu000 Bundle Nowledge MemUnified CLI for personal knowledge base. This skill should be used when users want to save memories, search past conversations, persist current sessions, or manage stored information. Triggers: 记忆, 知识库, 保存会话, 搜索记忆, recall, remember, save memory, search knowledge, persist session, nm命令.
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majiayu000 Bundle Rpi WorkflowApply a Research → Plan → Implement → Validate workflow with Copilot CLI, including context budgeting and persistent artifacts via /share.
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majiayu000 Bundle Second BrainPersonal knowledge management for Obsidian combining GTD, Zettelkasten, and PARA. Six workflows: (1) Capture - "capture this", "remember this", "save this thought", "note this down" - saves thoughts/tasks to daily inbox without categorization; (2) Process inbox - "process my inbox", "organize captures", "GTD processing" - clarifies items and routes to projects or permanent notes; (3) Daily plan - "plan my day", "what should I work on", "morning planning" - creates prioritized task list based on energy and context; (4) Daily closeout - "daily closeout", "review my day", "evening reflection" - marks progress and drafts tomorrow's plan; (5) Setup - "set up my second brain", "configure vault" - configures vault path and user goals; (6) Excalidraw - "create a diagram", "visualize this", "draw flowchart", "sketch this" - creates .excalidraw.md files with rectangles, ellipses, diamonds, arrows, lines, and text. Proactively offers to capture valuable insights during research conversations.
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majiayu000 Bundle Text AnalystComputational text analysis for sociology research using R or Python. Guides you through topic models, sentiment analysis, classification, and embeddings with systematic validation. Supports both traditional (LDA, STM) and neural (BERT, BERTopic) methods.
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majiayu000 Bundle Topic Ingest将一条已生成的 digest/research 归档到指定 topic,并更新 topic 的 sources/timeline(M2/M3 辅助能力)。
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majiayu000 Bundle Uni ResearchResearch tools via uni CLI. Use when user wants to search the web, find academic papers, browse Reddit, read Hacker News, or look up Wikipedia. Services: exa (web search), arxiv (papers), reddit, hn (Hacker News), wiki (Wikipedia).
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majiayu000 Bundle Us Govt DataAccess official US Government records. Currently supports SEC EDGAR (financial filings) and Federal Register (rule changes). Ensures data provenance from .gov domains.
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majiayu000 Bundle Using GeminiUse when needing to analyze images (screenshots, diagrams, photos), analyze videos (screencasts, recordings), summarize YouTube videos, fetch and analyze web content, or perform web searches with Google. Gemini CLI provides multimodal and web access capabilities Claude lacks natively. Do NOT use for tasks Claude can handle directly (text analysis, code review, file reading of text files).
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majiayu000 Bundle Valyu SearchComplete Valyu API toolkit with Search, Answer, Contents extraction, and DeepResearch. Use for web/academic/financial search, AI-powered answers, content extraction from URLs, and async deep research reports. Supports syntax like "Valyu(command, args)" for search, answer, contents, and deepresearch operations.
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majiayu000 Bundle Web ResearchQuery Pollinations text API with web-search models (gemini-search, perplexity-fast, nomnom, etc.). Use when you need web search grounded answers via Pollinations.
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majiayu000 Bundle Work SummaryCreate factual working journal entries in Notes/WorkingJournal/ after completing analysis work. Use when user asks to "summarize work", "document results", or "create working journal entry". Ensures code is committed, copies figures to attachments, and creates objective summaries with citations.
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majiayu000 Bundle Ad ResearchResearch competitor ads using Meta Ad Library, Google Ads Transparency Center, and TikTok Creative Center. Analyze creative patterns, hooks, offers, and landing pages.
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majiayu000 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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majiayu000 Bundle Job ScraperSearch for job postings across LinkedIn and Indeed. Use when users want to find open roles, monitor hiring signals, identify companies hiring for specific positions, or research competitor hiring activity. Returns job title, company, location, salary, description, seniority level, and direct apply URLs. No login or cookies required.
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majiayu000 Bundle Watch VideoWhen you want to extract content from a video — YouTube, Loom, Vimeo, Riverside, Zoom recording, local MP4, X/IG video, anything yt-dlp supports. Three depth modes user picks per invocation — transcript (just words, fast/free), visual (transcript + ffmpeg frame extraction + Claude vision pass on key moments), multimodal (Gemini native video ingestion if $GEMINI_API_KEY set, else dense Claude vision). Uses MLX-Whisper local on Mac for transcription, falls back to platform-provided transcripts when available (Loom, Riverside, YouTube auto-subs). Saves to ~/Documents/videos/<source>-<slug>-<date>/ and optionally captures summary to second-brain raw/ as call-/meeting-/note-. Triggers on "/watch-video <url>," "watch this video," "transcribe this loom," "analyze this video," "summarize this recording," "key moments from this," "what happened in this video." This skill replaces and broadens the prior youtube-transcript skill.
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majiayu000 Bundle Plan Two[Planning] Research & create an implementation plan with 2 approaches
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majiayu000 Bundle Idea CreatorGenerate and rank research ideas given a broad direction. Use when user says "找idea", "brainstorm ideas", "generate research ideas", "what can we work on", or wants to explore a research area for publishable directions.
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majiayu000 Bundle Blog ResearchResearch legal technology topics for blog posts on alt-counsel (Ang Hou Fu's blog). Use when the user asks to research topics, find sources, fact-check claims, gather statistics, or find expert opinions for blog content. Prioritizes Singapore/ASEAN perspectives and flags US/EU-centric information. Outputs research findings to research.md in the post folder with proper citations.
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majiayu000 Bundle Book IdeationDevelop raw book ideas into structured nonfiction book concepts. Use when the user wants to develop a book idea, has brainstorm documents to refine into a book concept, wants to articulate a book's thesis/promise/reader/transformation, or needs to prepare a book concept for validation and market research. Nonfiction only. Produces a Book Concept Document with all elements needed for downstream skills (idea-validator, market-research, book-architect).
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majiayu000 Bundle Career HelperEnd-to-end career support for job seekers at all levels. Optimizes LinkedIn profiles, rewrites CVs for ATS systems, provides interview preparation with cited answers, researches companies and roles, identifies hiring managers and networking opportunities. When Claude needs to optimize LinkedIn profiles, rewrite CVs for ATS, prepare for interviews, research companies and roles, identify hiring managers, or support job applications and career transitions.
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majiayu000 Bundle Create SourceUse when creating a new walkerOS source. Example-driven workflow starting with research and input examples before implementation.
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majiayu000 Bundle Critical PeerProfessional skepticism with pattern enforcement. Verify before agreeing, challenge violations, propose instead of asking. Concise output, research before asking, answer questions literally.
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majiayu000 Bundle Cross LinkingGuidance for finding and adding bidirectional wikilinks when creating or updating content in the knowledge base. Use when user creates new content or wants to improve discoverability by adding links to related pages. Helps maintain the interconnected graph structure.
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majiayu000 Bundle Cursor DebateRun a research-first, multi-perspective debate to explore complex technical decisions (trade-offs, architecture choices, integration strategies) using concrete codebase evidence. Use when the user asks to "debate" approaches, compare options, or needs a structured exploration before deciding.
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majiayu000 Bundle Debug SessionDocument debugging sessions with hypothesis tracking and knowledge base
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majiayu000 Bundle Deep ResearchUse when user requests research requiring multiple sources, comprehensive analysis, or synthesis across topics - technical research, domain knowledge gathering, market analysis, or learning about complex subjects
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majiayu000 Bundle Dismech TermsSkill for adding and validating ontology term references in the dismech knowledge base. This skill should be used when working with disorder YAML files that need ontology term annotations (HPO for phenotypes, CL for cell types, GO for biological processes, MONDO for diseases, UBERON for anatomical entities). Use this skill when adding phenotype_term, cell_types term, biological_processes term, or other ontology-bound fields to disorder files.
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majiayu000 Bundle Draft Writing論文草稿的撰寫、讀取、引用管理。 LOAD THIS SKILL WHEN: 寫草稿、draft、撰寫、Introduction、Methods、Results、Discussion、引用、citation、字數 CAPABILITIES: write_draft, draft_section, read_draft, list_drafts, insert_citation, sync_references, count_words, get_section_template
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majiayu000 Bundle Honest ForgetGraceful memory compression with integrity — summarize before forgetting, never fabricate
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majiayu000 Bundle Insight PilotLiterature research automation - search papers, code, and blogs, deduplicate, download PDFs, analyze and generate research reports. Supports incremental updates.
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majiayu000 Bundle Mail ExpensesExtract financial transactions, expenses, receipts, payments, and invoices from email. Summarize spending with amounts, merchants, and categories. Use when user asks about expenses, spending, receipts, payments, or financial transactions from email. Arguments: time range like "last 24 hours", "this month", "last week", or a specific date range.
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majiayu000 Bundle News ResearchConduct comprehensive news research and generate professional newsletters. Use when user submits topics for news analysis, sentiment tracking, or competitive media coverage research.
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majiayu000 Bundle Paper WritingScientific manuscript preparation for geoscience journals. Includes IMRAD structure, journal styles (Nature, EPSL, GSA), citation formatting, figure standards, and supplementary materials.
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majiayu000 Bundle Patent SearchAdvanced prior art search using the PatentsView API. Use this skill when users need to search for patents, perform prior art searches, analyze patent landscapes, or find patents by inventor, title, date range, or technical fields. Helps with patent research, freedom to operate analysis, and competitive intelligence.
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majiayu000 Bundle People ResearchPeople research using Exa search. Finds LinkedIn profiles, professional backgrounds, experts, team members, and public bios across the web.
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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 news-summary, nowledge-mem, second-brain. 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.