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 Researching MarketsConducts comprehensive market research including industry analysis, competitor analysis, market trends, customer insights, and regulatory landscape. Use when the user requests market research, industry analysis, competitive intelligence, or wants to understand a market or industry.
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majiayu000 Bundle N8n Automationn8n workflow automation for building analytics including SkySpark multi-agent systems, FastAPI tool servers, workflow orchestration, and automated building system alert triage
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majiayu000 Bundle OperationalizeDistill context (research, recon, learnings) into evidence-anchored rules routed to automation shapes. Use when a finished artifact should become skills, gates, or beads.
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majiayu000 Bundle Rule Of 5 UniversalApply Steve Yegge's Rule of 5 iterative review to any artifact - code, plans, research, issues, specs, or documents. Five stages from draft through excellence.
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majiayu000 Bundle Expert Skill CreatorExpert-level guidance for creating high-quality Claude Code skills. Use alongside Anthropic's skill-creator when creating new skills, improving existing skills, or needing guidance on skill content quality. Complements basic skill mechanics with research-driven content development, XML tag structuring, decision frameworks over mechanics, cross-references between skills, and systematic validation.
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majiayu000 Bundle Perplexity ResearchUse when conducting web research with Perplexity API - covers authentication, search strategies, structured output generation, and integration patterns for Claude-interpretable results
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majiayu000 Bundle Playwright ResearchAnalyze UI code changes to plan, create, and maintain Playwright demo videos - change detection, test writing, video recording lifecycle
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majiayu000 Bundle Wiki Research LoopAuto-grow a pro-workflow wiki by running a budget-capped BFS research loop over pluggable source fetchers (web, arXiv, GitHub). Each iteration pops a seed from the queue, fetches sources, drafts a wiki page, dedupes claims against existing pages, enqueues follow-up seeds. Halts on budget cap, depth cap, or convergence. Use when the user says "research <topic>", "grow the <slug> wiki", "auto-research", or wants a knowledge base that builds itself overnight.
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majiayu000 Bundle Analyze Arxiv PaperPerform deep analysis of a research paper to determine its newsworthiness and generate a practitioner-focused summary.
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majiayu000 Bundle Kata Research PhaseResearch how to implement a phase standalone, investigating implementation approaches before planning, or re-researching after planning is complete. Triggers include "research phase", "investigate phase", "how to implement", "research implementation", and "phase research".
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majiayu000 Bundle Synthesize ResearchSynthesize interview notes, feedback, and transcripts into themed research findings with JTBD statements when the user asks to analyze research, synthesize interviews, or make sense of qualitative data
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majiayu000 Bundle Vibe Start InformedDispatches research agents to find real projects, papers, and documented failures before proposing any feature, architecture, or technology choice. Triggers on creative/design tasks, not on implementation of already-designed specs.
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majiayu000 Bundle Brainstorm SkillsDeep iterative research using progressive flow psychology (diverge-analyze-converge-execute) with parallel agents, skeptical analysis, and multi-perspective synthesis. Use for thorough topic exploration, decision-making research, or when you need battle-tested conclusions.
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majiayu000 Bundle Zotero Paper ImportDownload PDFs from Zotero by citation key, cut references, and prepare for Swanki.
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majiayu000 Bundle Architecture Aware InitArchitecture-aware project initialization combining online research with archetype selection.Triggers: project initialization, new project, architecture decision, project setup,which architecture, cho
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majiayu000 Bundle Book Research AssistantPlan, orchestrate, and validate deep research for nonfiction books. Use when an author has completed book architecture and needs to fill research gaps before outlining chapters. Triggers include requests to plan research, generate research prompts, validate research quality, or prepare for drafting. This skill does everything around deep research—planning, prompting, validating, synthesizing—but the actual research execution happens externally via Claude and Gemini deep research. Requires upstream documents from book-architect (Research Gaps Document, Master Architecture Document, Section Blueprints) and book-ideation (Book Concept Document).
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majiayu000 Bundle Bookstrap Plan ResearchAnalyze BRD and existing corpus to identify knowledge gaps, then generate prioritized research tasks for filling those gaps
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majiayu000 Bundle Bookstrap Research PathExecute research workflow orchestration - processes pending research tasks sequentially
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majiayu000 Bundle Brand Naming StrategiesProvides brand naming frameworks, evaluation criteria, and templates for startup naming work. Auto-activates during brand name development, name evaluation, domain checking, and trademark research. Use when discussing brand name, company name, product name, naming strategy, SMILE SCRATCH framework, domain availability, trademark, name evaluation, sound symbolism, or naming matrix.
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majiayu000 Bundle Cc Refactoring GuidanceGuide safe refactoring with research-backed discipline and small-change rigor. Produce refactoring approach, step sequence, and risk assessment. Use when modifying existing code, improving structure without changing behavior, or deciding between refactor, rewrite, or fix-first. Triggers on: code smells, technical debt, just cleaning while I fix, small change treated casually, regression from trivial change, one-line change errors, production down with cleanup urge.
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majiayu000 Bundle Clinical Trial ProtocolGenerate clinical trial protocols for medical devices or drugs through a modular, waypoint-based architecture with research-only and full protocol modes.
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majiayu000 Bundle Composition AI ResearchResearch product compositions using AI and web sources. Use when needing to find what products, substances, or objects are made of - including ingredients, materials, chemicals, and elements. Essential for building composition data.
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majiayu000 Bundle Conference Paper WriterWrite academic conference papers and research submissions
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majiayu000 Bundle Content Research WriterResearch topics thoroughly and write comprehensive, well-structured content including articles, documentation, blog posts, and technical writing with proper citations and sources. Use when writing blog posts, creating technical articles, researching topics, gathering sources, writing documentation, creating educational content, or producing research-backed content.
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majiayu000 Bundle Define Customer ProfileIteratively craft a CUSTOMER.md document that precisely defines your ideal customer profile (ICP). This is the foundational document from which everything else (product, features, brand) derives. Uses parallel research agents and multi-choice workflow with feedback cycles.
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majiayu000 Bundle Edmund Bogen NewsletterTransform raw research into polished newsletter articles for Edmund Bogen's luxury real estate audience. Use when Edmund provides research, data, or topics and needs a complete newsletter article created. Follows Edmund's distinctive dual-perspective voice (Douglas Elliman realtor + St. Andrews Country Club resident) with data-driven analysis that cuts through media narratives.
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majiayu000 Bundle Faion Market ResearcherMarket research: TAM/SAM/SOM sizing, competitor analysis, pricing research, trend analysis.
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majiayu000 Bundle Family History PlanningProvides assistance with planning family history and genealogy research projects.
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majiayu000 Bundle Forensic Hotspot FinderUse when planning refactoring priorities, investigating recurring bugs, identifying which files cause the most bugs, or determining problem areas to fix - identifies high-risk files by combining git change frequency with code complexity using research-backed formula (4-9x defect rates)
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majiayu000 Bundle Grant Application SetupExpert guidance for setting up and organising research grant applications following established patterns for UKRI, EU, and other funding bodies
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majiayu000 Bundle Initiative ArchitectureUse for MASSIVE work requests requiring multi-epic planning. Creates research spikes, documents all unknowns and decisions, builds resumable architecture documents, and structures work into epics and milestones.
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majiayu000 Bundle Life Sciences ConnectorQuery PubMed and scientific databases for protocols, analyze biological data with Biopython, handle HIPAA-compliant data. Use for biology research, protocol searches, sequence analysis, or scientific data handling. Cross-validates sources for high accuracy. Triggers on "PubMed", "biology", "scientific data", "sequences", "protocols", "life sciences", "HIPAA".
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majiayu000 Bundle Market Research ReportsGenerate comprehensive market research reports (50+ pages) in the style of top consulting firms (McKinsey, BCG, Gartner). Features professional LaTeX formatting, extensive visual generation with scientific-schematics and generate-image, deep integration with research-lookup for data gathering, and multi-framework strategic analysis including Porter's Five Forces, PESTLE, SWOT, TAM/SAM/SOM, and BCG Matrix.
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majiayu000 Bundle Mechinterp InvestigatorOrchestrate a systematic research program to investigate and meaningfully label SAE features
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majiayu000 Bundle Monthly Invoice SummaryGenerate client-friendly monthly invoice summaries by analyzing Git commits and time sheet notes. Synthesizes technical work into business-focused bullet points suitable for client invoicing. Use when preparing monthly billing or project status reports. Triggers on "invoice summary", "monthly billing", "summarize work for client".
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majiayu000 Bundle Neurosurgery LiteratureUse when searching for neurosurgery literature, developing PubMed search strategies, identifying MeSH terms, or building systematic search queries. Invoke for literature searching in neurosurgery topics.
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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 researching-markets, n8n-automation, operationalize. 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.