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 Ceo Personal OsUse when building a personal productivity or operating system for a CEO, founder, or executive - when user mentions annual reviews, personal OS, life planning, goal setting systems, executive coaching frameworks, Bill Campbell / Trillion Dollar Coach, startup failure patterns, Good to Great / Level 5 Leadership, Buy Back Your Time, E-Myth / work ON not IN your business, or Customer Development / Steve Blank / get out of the building
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majiayu000 Bundle Academic Research SkillPatterns for thesis writing, dissertations, research papers, literature reviews, and scholarly work.
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majiayu000 Bundle Add Platform Add CapabilitiesUpdates job schema and adapters with any new hook events the platform supports. Use after research to extend DeepWork's hook system.
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majiayu000 Bundle Chain Flow 150Orchestrate skills into dynamic chains for complex tasks. Analyzes the task, discovers available skills, builds an optimal chain, explains why each skill is needed, and executes step-by-step with user confirmation. Use for any complex task requiring multiple thinking/research/analysis steps. Triggers on "plan this", "how to approach", "what's the strategy", "build a plan", or any multi-step problem requiring skill orchestration.
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majiayu000 Bundle Firebase DevelopmentComprehensive Firebase development guidance covering project setup, feature development, debugging, and validation. Auto-detects intent and routes to specialized sub-skills. Patterns extracted from production projects.
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majiayu000 Bundle 52 Execute Refactor 150[52] EXECUTE. Three-stage refactoring workflow: (1) iterative research of refactor/modularization options, (2) plan + risk/edge-case analysis + Scope150 validation, then implement with tests after user confirmation, and (3) apply Scout105 cleanup protocol. Use when asked to refactor, modularize, or restructure code safely.
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majiayu000 Bundle Statistical Analysis Drshailesh88 Integrated ContenRigorous statistical analysis guidance for interpreting and reporting research findings in cardiology content.
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majiayu000 Bundle Skill Forge 150Create new skills when existing ones don't cover the task. Analyze unique requirements, build framework (Frame → Research → Plan → Execute), integrate risks, and declare new skill. Use when facing novel problems that existing skills can't address.
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majiayu000 Bundle 22 Understand Deep 150[22] UNDERSTAND. Deep research from all sources — internal (code, git, logs) AND external (web, docs, best practices). Use when choosing libraries, investigating solutions, understanding legal/technical questions, comparing approaches, or anytime you need comprehensive knowledge from both project context and world knowledge. Triggers on "research", "investigate", "find best approach", "what do others do", "compare options", or complex questions requiring multiple sources.
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majiayu000 Bundle Evaluate Against Architecture PrinciplesUse when user references architecture principles, at start of fresh conversation with design work, before creating any requirements/design/implementation documents, or when reviewing for compliance - grounds problem framing and solution making in all 9 principle categories using citation-manager to extract full context
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majiayu000 Bundle 21 Understand Research 150[21] UNDERSTAND. Deep research workflow for this project using 150% scope (100% core + 50% boundary), evidence-based reasoning, and structured investigation notes. Use when the task requires investigation, root-cause analysis, or mapping unknown areas. Always maintain a research log file that captures findings, hypotheses, and next branches; use web.run when external verification is needed.
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majiayu000 Bundle Render 2Central dispatcher for the canvas/state render fleet. Routes intent to a specialist (`/mycelium:diamond-render`, `/mycelium:ost-render`, `/mycelium:cycle-render`) OR lists what's renderable. Cross-cutting views spanning multiple canvases (opp→sol→cycle traceability, confidence-over-time, cluster-graduation-flow) are research-gated and NOT emitted by default. See `${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/engine/render-conventions.md` for shared conventions.
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majiayu000 Bundle Note 2Quick capture for thoughts, observations, or ideas during research sessions. Use when the user types /note or wants to capture a quick thought without context-switching. Logs timestamped notes to activity.md. Supports both explicit /note command and natural language like "make a note" or "jot down".
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majiayu000 Bundle Polish 2This skill should be used when polishing academic research paper text for grammar, clarity, fluency, and natural phrasing. Specifically designed for non-native English speakers writing for top-tier computer science conferences.
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majiayu000 Bundle Sentry 2Analyze Sentry error monitoring data through read-only API queries to inspect issues, summarize production errors, retrieve event details, and assess application health. Uses a bundled Python script for deterministic API calls with pagination, retry logic, and automatic PII redaction. Trigger when the user asks to investigate Sentry issues, list recent errors, check issue frequency, retrieve event stack traces, or summarize error trends for a project. Requires SENTRY_AUTH_TOKEN environment variable with read-only scopes.
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majiayu000 Bundle Persona 2AI assistant framework for building unique, authentic portfolio websites from scratch. Guides agents through research, design, and implementation phases.
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majiayu000 Bundle Research 3Multi-source comprehensive research using perplexity-researcher, claude-researcher, and gemini-researcher agents. Three modes - Quick (3 agents), Standard (9 agents), Extensive (24 agents with be-creative skill). USE WHEN user says 'do research', 'quick research', 'extensive research', 'find information about', 'investigate', 'analyze trends', 'current events', or any research-related request.
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majiayu000 Bundle Work 3Use when implementing from a plan or spec path, a clear build request, or a single settled ticket. Single-unit executor with two caller modes: orchestrated (stops after implementation and local verification, returns a structured result) and standalone (delegates finalization to review-and-ship). Never commits, pushes, or opens a PR. Don't use for open-ended debugging (use debug), exploration, or read-only research.
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majiayu000 Bundle Github 4Use gh CLI for all GitHub operations - issues, PRs, file content, and repository info
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majiayu000 Bundle Lit Review 2Structured literature search + synthesis with citation extraction, thematic clustering, and gap identification. Use when user says "find papers on X", "do a lit review", "what's the literature on...", "summarize what we know about...", "where's the gap in this field", "review recent work on Y". Produces a written review with BibTeX-ready citations. Uses WebSearch/WebFetch for recent work.
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majiayu000 Bundle Web Search 2Search the web, platforms, and datasets. Use when asked to search, find, look up, research, or discover information from the web, YouTube, Amazon, eBay, news, academic sources, or any online platform.
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majiayu000 Bundle Evaluate 2Analyze a subject from five perspectives with assumption tracking and weighting. Use after research to examine all angles before critique.
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majiayu000 Bundle Openalex 2Search and retrieve scholarly metadata from the OpenAlex API — a free, open catalog of 270M+ works, 90M+ authors, and 100K+ sources. Use this skill whenever the user wants to query OpenAlex for works, authors, institutions, sources, topics, publishers, or funders. Trigger on phrases like "search OpenAlex for X", "find papers in OpenAlex", "OpenAlex works by author Y", "get institution metadata from OpenAlex", "look up this DOI in OpenAlex", "how many works does institution X have in OpenAlex", or any request that specifically involves the OpenAlex API or database. Also trigger when the user pastes an OpenAlex ID (like W1234567890 or A5023888391) or mentions OpenAlex by name in any research context. This skill complements the semantic-scholar skill — use OpenAlex when the user asks for it specifically, when they need institution/funder/topic data that Semantic Scholar doesn't cover, or when they want open-access filtering and aggregation features unique to OpenAlex.
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majiayu000 Bundle Osint 2Gathers intelligence from public sources. Use when searching for usernames, geolocating images, investigating social media, analyzing domains, or solving information gathering challenges.
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majiayu000 Bundle Scout 3Market validation engine for ID8Labs. Transforms raw ideas into validated (or invalidated) opportunities through systematic research. Returns BUILD/PIVOT/KILL verdicts with evidence.
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majiayu000 Bundle Research 4Research a task, problem, bug, or feature by exploring the codebase. Use when starting new work, encountering bugs, or needing to understand how existing implementation relates to a task. Triggers on "research", "investigate", "look into", or requests to understand implementation before making changes.
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majiayu000 Bundle Researching 2Comprehensive research with cited sources. Use for complex research that should be verified and persist.
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majiayu000 Bundle The Oracle 2This skill should be used when the user asks to "use the oracle" or "ask the oracle" for deep research, analysis, or architectural questions. The oracle excels at multi-source research combining codebase exploration and web searches, then synthesizing findings into actionable answers. Use for complex questions requiring investigation across multiple sources, architectural analysis, refactoring plans, debugging mysteries, and code reviews.
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majiayu000 Bundle Gsd Plan Phase 2Orchestrate phase planning with research, planning, and verification loop
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majiayu000 Bundle Strategist 2Use when research direction needs assessment, critical knowledge gaps must be identified, or priorities must be recommended based on impact, dependencies, and effort (especially at project milestones or when scope questions arise)
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majiayu000 Bundle Github 5Manage GitHub issues using gh CLI - create, list, view, update, close, and assign issues. Use when working with GitHub issues, bug tracking, or project management tasks.
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majiayu000 Bundle Linear 2Comprehensive workflow for managing Linear issues. Use when creating, grooming, or working on Linear issues. Handles research-driven issue creation, project matching, feature decomposition into parallelizable sub-tasks, and execution with automatic state management. Proactively helps when user mentions Linear tickets or planning work.
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majiayu000 Bundle Research 5Research topics by verifying actual source content. Use when asked to research or study links and documentation.
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majiayu000 Bundle Exa Research 2Use Exa AI for neural search, content retrieval, and automated deep research. Requires EXA_API_KEY.
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majiayu000 Bundle Tech Blog 2Write technical blog posts with source code analysis OR doc-driven research. Use when user wants to explain system internals, architecture, implementation details, or technical concepts with citations.
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majiayu000 Bundle Market Research 2Manages the founder's market understanding — running initial market research, updating findings, and answering questions about market size, customer segments, buying behavior, pricing benchmarks, and industry trends. Use when the conversation touches market size (TAM/SAM/SOM), who the buyers are and how they make decisions, what people typically pay, industry tailwinds or headwinds, or when the founder wants to understand the broader landscape their idea sits in.
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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 Academic Research Skill, add-platform-add-capabilities, chain-flow-150. 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.