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 Topic Manager 2Expert in managing professional topics stored as structured Google Drive folders and Google Docs. **Use this skill whenever the user mentions "topic", "topics", "update topic", "create topic", "open topic", "one 2 one", "list topics", "describe topics", "summarize topics", "1-2-1", or asks to process meetings, records, or presentations related to topics.**
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majiayu000 Bundle UX Researcher 2Expert in user research, usability testing, feedback analysis, and user-centered design
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majiayu000 Bundle Write Concept 2Use when creating or improving educational concept files - includes curriculum research for new concepts, always updates translations before validation
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majiayu000 Bundle Brainstorming 4Clarify vague requirements through exploratory questioning and option generation before committing to research or implementation.
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majiayu000 Bundle Design Research 2Conducts user experience research and analysis to inform design decisions. Reviews first-party and third-party user data, analyzes industry trends from UX and visual design perspectives, and plans user research studies. Creates personas, customer segments, design principles, design roadmaps, and research discussion guides.
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majiayu000 Bundle User Onboarding 2Guide new users through setting up a Kurt project - understand their goals, map content sources, discover topics with clustering, and organize their knowledge base.
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majiayu000 Bundle Gemini CLI 3Wield Google's Gemini CLI as a powerful auxiliary tool for code generation, review, analysis, and web research. Use when tasks benefit from a second AI perspective, current web information via Google Search, codebase architecture analysis, or parallel code generation. Also use when user explicitly requests Gemini operations.
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majiayu000 Bundle Grammar Checker 2This skill should be used when performing systematic scans of research paper text to identify and fix typos, grammar errors, inappropriate words, and awkward expressions. Use for thorough proofreading and error correction in academic writing for computer science conferences.
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majiayu000 Bundle Interview Prep 2Prepare for journalism interviews with research checklists, question frameworks, and attribution guidelines. Use when preparing to interview sources, planning follow-up questions, or managing interview logistics. Covers consent, recording laws, and professional protocols.
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majiayu000 Bundle Exa Search 2Web toolkit powered by Exa, tuned for scientific and technical content. Use this skill when the user needs to search the web or fetch/extract URL content. Covers: web search (semantic lookups, research, current info — with optional research-paper category and academic domain filtering) and URL extraction (fetching pages, articles, academic PDFs in batch). Use this skill for web-related tasks when the user wants high-quality search or scholarly filtering via category=research paper. Triggers on requests to search, look up, fetch a page, or extract an article.
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majiayu000 Bundle Pr Summary 2Pr Summary
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majiayu000 Bundle Contexts 2Auto-router for context gathering. Detects whether the task needs codebase exploration or external knowledge research and dispatches accordingly. Trigger on "get context", "background on X", "context on X", "how does X work", architectural orientation, or any setup-before-coding request.
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majiayu000 Bundle Prior Art Search 2Search patent databases and academic literature for prior art relevant to an invention. Use when user says "现有技术检索", "prior art search", "专利检索", "check patents", or wants to find relevant prior art.
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majiayu000 Bundle Archivist 2Universal content cataloging system. Save URLs, files, snippets, or voice notes with descriptions, auto-tag everything, make it all searchable. Use when: building a personal knowledge base, saving reference material, or organizing research. NOT for: file backup, website mirroring, or large-scale web scraping.
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majiayu000 Bundle Orthogonal ExaNeural web search - find similar content, extract pages, and run deep research
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majiayu000 Bundle Gsd Research Phase 2Research implementation approach for phase before planning
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majiayu000 Bundle Jira Ticket 2Read Jira tickets, extract requirements, summarize in developer-friendly format, optionally search codebase for related files, and update ticket status with transitions
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majiayu000 Bundle Test Runner 3Run the relevant tests for the current change and summarize results. Use in Flow 3 (Build) and optionally in Flow 4 (Gate).
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majiayu000 Bundle Canvas Design 2Create beautiful visual art in .png and .pdf documents using design philosophy. Use when the user asks to create a poster, piece of art, design, or other static visual piece. Creates original visual designs.
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majiayu000 Bundle Deep Research 4Use PROACTIVELY for comprehensive, multi-source research combining web browsing, codebase exploration, and third-party code analysis. Orchestrates multiple specialized agents using Graph of Thoughts m
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majiayu000 Bundle Skill Creator 5Use when the user has a document (PDF, markdown, book notes, research paper, methodology guide) containing theoretical knowledge or frameworks and wants to convert it into an actionable, reusable skill. Invoke when the user mentions "create a skill from this document", "turn this into a skill", "extract a skill from this file", or when analyzing documents with methodologies, frameworks, processes, or systematic approaches that could be made actionable for future use.
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majiayu000 Bundle Update Readme 2Autonomously audit the entire repository and update the main README with comprehensive, accurate documentation of the current codebase
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majiayu000 Bundle Contract Review 3Review and summarise any contract or legal agreement. Use when asked to review a contract, check an agreement, flag legal risks, or summarise key clauses. Produces a structured review with key terms, flagged clauses, risk rating, and plain English summary. Not a substitute for qualified legal advice.
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majiayu000 Bundle Web Search Tavily 2AI-powered web search, crawling, extraction, and deep research
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majiayu000 Bundle Idea Generation 2Product idea generation and business validation specialist. Use when brainstorming ideas, validating business concepts, analyzing market opportunities, or evaluating product-market fit. Triggers on "idea generation", "business validation", "market analysis", "competitive research".
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majiayu000 Bundle Contract Review 4Review and summarise any contract or legal agreement. Use when asked to review a contract, check an agreement, flag legal risks, or summarise key clauses. Produces a structured review with key terms, flagged clauses, risk rating, and plain English summary. Not a substitute for qualified legal advice.
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majiayu000 Bundle Skill Creator 6Guide for creating effective skills. This skill should be used when users want to create a new skill (or update an existing skill) that extends Claude's capabilities with specialized knowledge, workflows, or tool integrations.
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majiayu000 Bundle UX Researcher 3Expert in understanding user behaviors, needs, and motivations through qualitative and quantitative research methods to drive user-centered design.
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majiayu000 Bundle Knowledge Manager 2Manages a structured knowledge base of patterns, troubleshooting guides, best practices, and workflows. Activates when discovering reusable insights, solving technical problems, or establishing new standards. Records knowledge in categorized files for future reference without bloating global CLAUDE.md.
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majiayu000 Bundle Web Research 3Multi-round web search with low-frequency query generation. Prioritize GitHub/StackOverflow for actionable code, extract AI Overview insights, and perform deep link analysis. Use proactively for complex problems requiring external knowledge or when stuck on implementation challenges.
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majiayu000 Bundle Literature Review 2系統性文獻搜尋、篩選、下載、整理。觸發:文獻回顧、找論文、搜尋文獻、systematic review、literature search、PubMed、找文章、搜paper、review、reference、citation、引用、參考文獻、背景調查、background。
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majiayu000 Bundle Grant Proposal 4Scaffold a research grant proposal (NSF, NIH, ERC, or foundation) by composing existing primitives — pulls identification strategy from an `/interview-me` spec, delegates the data-management plan to `/data-management-plan` and the facilities statement to `/capture-environment`, and emits a funder-requirements checklist. Use when user says "draft a grant", "write a proposal", "NSF proposal", "NIH aims", "ERC application", "foundation grant", "specific aims", or "scaffold a grant proposal". NOT a submission tool — produces a draft the user uploads to the sponsor's portal themselves.
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majiayu000 Bundle Keyword Research 2Keyword research from a seed topic — ideas, real Google volume/CPC, intent, difficulty, clustered into a plan. Use when asked to "find keywords", "keyword research for X", "what should I rank for", or "build a keyword plan".
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majiayu000 Bundle Plan My Day 2Generate an energy-optimized, time-blocked daily plan based on circadian rhythm research and GTD principles
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majiayu000 Bundle Technical Review 2Validate completed implementation against plan tasks and acceptance criteria. Sixth phase of research-discussion-specification-plan-implement-review workflow. Use when: (1) Implementation phase is complete, (2) User wants validation before merging/shipping, (3) Quality gate check needed after implementation. Reviews ALL plan tasks for implementation correctness, test adequacy, and code quality. Produces structured feedback (approve, request changes, or comments) - does NOT fix code.
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majiayu000 Bundle Feature Workflow 2Orchestrate complete or partial feature implementation workflow with configurable phases. This skill should be used to run the full workflow (specification → research → plan → implement → test → fix) or specific phases, coordinating between all feature-implementation skills automatically.
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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 topic-manager, UX Researcher, write-concept. 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.