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 Research AnalystConducts thorough landscape research, competitive analysis, best practices evaluation, and evidence-based recommendations. Expert in market research and trend analysis.
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majiayu000 Bundle Research ArchiveArchive completed research. Moves the research to archive/ and updates its status.
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majiayu000 Bundle Research CaptureCaptures research insights, decisions, and learnings during development. Use after completing spikes, making architectural decisions, or discovering important patterns. Prompts for context and rationale, stores with embeddings for later semantic retrieval. Do NOT use for trivial notes - this is for significant findings worth surfacing later.
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majiayu000 Bundle Research CompanyConducts deep company research and creates a dossier to support applications. Use before applying, interviewing, or for cultural fit assessment.
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majiayu000 Bundle Research StorageResearch file storage conventions and templates for dokhak agents. Use when: (1) saving research results from research-collector or researcher agents, (2) reading cached research files, (3) checking if research exists for a section. Provides directory structure, file format templates, and naming conventions.
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majiayu000 Bundle Research To PlanConvert SOTA research into executable plans. Use when: (1) starting features with unknowns, (2) need current best practices, (3) converting notes to tasks. Searches web for 2026 SOTA, writes RESEARCH.md, generates PLAN.md tasks.
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majiayu000 Bundle Research TriggerNatural language wrapper for research command - automatically triggers /research when users ask questions requiring deep research, best practices lookup, or multi-source information gathering
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majiayu000 Bundle Route ResearcherResearch North American mountain peaks and generate comprehensive route beta reports
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majiayu000 Bundle Source IntegrityUse when processing external sources - validates checksums, metadata completeness, and expiry dates for research sources
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majiayu000 Bundle Start DiscussionStart a technical discussion. Discovers research and existing discussions, offers multiple entry paths, and invokes the technical-discussion skill.
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majiayu000 Bundle Strategy BuilderAnalyzes research queries to determine if new strategies are needed, optimizes existing strategies using Langfuse traces, and generates strategy templates
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majiayu000 Bundle Student FeedbackProvide constructive feedback on political science PhD student work including paper drafts, dissertation chapters, research design memos, and progress updates. Use when the user asks to review, provide feedback on, or brainstorm about student work, particularly when rough notes about initial impressions are provided.
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majiayu000 Bundle Summarize SourceGenerate summaries for unchecked sources in workdesk/sources.md. Supports single URL or batch processing. Use after adding URLs with add-url skill.
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majiayu000 Bundle Vault ManagementManages the Obsidian vault structure, file operations, and folder organization for the Personal AI Employee. Use when creating, moving, or organizing files in the vault, managing folder structures, or maintaining the knowledge base.
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majiayu000 Bundle Power AnalysisCalculate statistical power and required sample sizes for research studies. Use when: (1) Designing experiments to determine sample size, (2) Justifying sample size for grant proposals or protocols, (3) Evaluating adequacy of existing studies, (4) Meeting NIH rigor standards for pre-registration, (5) Conducting retrospective power analysis to interpret null results.
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majiayu000 Bundle Uxui EvaluatorEvaluate interface descriptions against 168 research-backed UX/UI principles. Returns structured findings with severity, remediation, and business impact. API key optional — enriched output requires uxuiprinciples.com API Access.
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majiayu000 Bundle Adr WriteWrite ADR document from discovered candidates with GitHub context research
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majiayu000 Bundle Cook Fast[Implementation] Fast implementation - skip research, minimal planning
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majiayu000 Bundle Meeting MachineEnd-to-end meeting workflow skill. Pre-meeting: research attendees, build agenda, prepare talking points, create pre-read. Post-meeting: process notes into action items, draft follow-up emails, log decisions, update project notes. Useful for preparing for important calls, during post-meeting processing, when following up with attendees, and for building a running decision log. Use when the user says "prepare for meeting", "meeting prep", "process meeting notes", "meeting follow up", "meeting machine", or "prep for my call".
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majiayu000 Bundle Plan ArticleCreate a detailed article outline with section structure, diagram specifications, and teaching flow. Use after research is complete, when planning a blog post structure. Requires research notes to exist.
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majiayu000 Bundle Ctx ResearcherEfficiently research topics using parallel agents via Contextune's /ctx:research command. Use when users ask to research, investigate, find information about topics, compare options, or evaluate libraries/tools. Activate for questions like "research best X", "what's the best library for Y", or "investigate Z".
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majiayu000 Bundle Mochi CreatorCreate evidence-based spaced repetition flashcards using cognitive science principles from Andy Matuschak's research. Use when user wants to create Mochi cards, flashcards, study materials, or mentions learning, memorization, spaced repetition, SRS, Anki-style cards, or knowledge retention. Applies the 5 properties of effective prompts (focused, precise, consistent, tractable, effortful) to ensure cards actually work for long-term retention.
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majiayu000 Bundle Spec WorkflowThis skill should be used when the user asks to "build a feature", "create a spec", "start spec-driven development", "run research phase", "generate requirements", "create design", "plan tasks", "implement spec", "check spec status", "triage a feature", "create an epic", "decompose a large feature", or needs guidance on spec-driven development workflow, phase ordering, or epic orchestration.
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majiayu000 Bundle DistillyBuild and use evidence-grounded local person profiles with Distilly's exact five-tool workflow. Use when a user asks to research, ingest, distill, update, correct, retrieve, or recall a real or fictional person's profile, voice, boundaries, or evidence.
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majiayu000 Bundle Spring RefreshCheck Spring Boot skill content freshness against latest research and flag skills needing updates. Use when running /spring-refresh, or when user mentions "refresh spring skills", "spring boot update check", "skill freshness", "stale spring content", "update spring boot skills".
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majiayu000 Bundle Grant Writing SkillTranslate research vision into funded reality.
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majiayu000 Bundle Arxiv WatcherMonitor arXiv for new papers in specific fields. Get alerts for relevant research.
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majiayu000 Bundle Data FidelityFact-checking and source verification workflow for research documents. Launches parallel fact-checkers, aggregates findings, applies corrections systematically.
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majiayu000 Bundle Mega Research6つの検索API(Tavily/SerpAPI/Brave/NewsAPI/Reddit/Perplexity)を統合した最強リサーチシステム。 深層調査から出典付きレポート生成まで自動実行。 Use when: (1) user says「徹底調査」「深層リサーチ」「完全調査」「mega-research」, (2) user needs multi-source research with citations, (3) user wants market analysis, competitor research, or trend analysis, (4) user mentions「出典付き」「クロス検証」「複数ソース」. Do NOT use for: simple fact-checking (use research-free), single-source lookups, or when API keys are not configured.
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majiayu000 Bundle Novelty CheckVerify research idea novelty against recent literature. Use when user says "查新", "novelty check", "有没有人做过", "check novelty", or wants to verify a research idea is novel before implementing.
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majiayu000 Bundle Omia DatabaseQuery OMIA (Online Mendelian Inheritance in Animals) for inherited disorders and traits cataloged across species. The veterinary equivalent of OMIM. Use for genetic disease research and breed predisposition data.
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majiayu000 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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majiayu000 Bundle Scrapecreators APIProvider reference for collecting public profiles, posts, comments, transcripts, trends, and ad-library data from major social platforms through ScrapeCreators. Use as a dependency of research workflows, not as the final user-facing deliverable.
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majiayu000 Bundle Geo Blog PostUse when writing or editing a blog post optimized for AI citations — covers post structure, frontmatter patterns, content rules, schema requirements, and a pre-publish GEO checklist based on Princeton research.
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majiayu000 Bundle Academic ResearchSystematic academic literature search with source prioritization and APA 7th edition citations. Use when the user needs to research a topic with scholarly sources, verify claims with academic backing, find peer-reviewed evidence, compile research findings, or generate properly cited reports. Triggers: "research [topic]", "what does the research say about...", "find studies on...", "verify this claim...", "literature review", "academic sources for...", "peer-reviewed evidence", "scholarly articles about...", "evidence-based", "cite sources for...". This skill provides basic APA citation capabilities; for advanced citation work (complex source types, edge cases, batch formatting), consider the `apa-style-citation` skill which offers enhanced citation expertise.
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majiayu000 Bundle Acc Eda KnowledgeEvent-Driven Architecture knowledge base. Provides patterns, antipatterns, and PHP-specific guidelines for EDA audits including messaging, pub/sub, and saga patterns.
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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 research-analyst, research:archive, research-capture. 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.