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 Deep Research 18Run deep research on any topic using parallel AI agents
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majiayu000 Bundle Extract 3Build a codebase knowledge base of business logic, architecture, data flow, and patterns.
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majiayu000 Bundle Research 34Orchestrate parallel scientist agents for comprehensive research with AUTO mode
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majiayu000 Bundle Web Research 5[Research] Broad web search on a topic. Collect sources, validate credibility, build source map. Use when starting any research task.
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majiayu000 Bundle Gitlab Skill 2GitLab integration for fetching issues/MRs, generating executive summaries, performing comprehensive code reviews, and automating issue resolution workflows. Use when working with GitLab issues, merge requests, or when asked to summarize, review, comment on, or resolve GitLab work items.
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majiayu000 Bundle User Interview 5Systematically process user interviews to extract actionable insights. Batch processes interviews and generates research reports.
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majiayu000 Bundle Operationalize 2Distill rich gathered context (research output, recon reports, big learnings) into evidence-anchored rules and route each rule to its automation shape.
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majiayu000 Bundle Codebase Research 2Systematic codebase exploration following the Iron Law - understand the problem before exploring code. Four phases with file-finder and web-researcher agents.
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majiayu000 Bundle Deep Research 20[Research] Deep-dive into top sources from web-research. Extract key findings, cross-validate claims, build evidence base.
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majiayu000 Bundle Research 36Multi-source research across code, discourse, and academic channels.
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majiayu000 Bundle Research Reviewer 2Senior Technical Reviewer for research objectivity. Enforces the "Documentarian" standard, ensuring all findings are unbiased, evidence-backed, and grounded in code.
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majiayu000 Bundle Planning With Files 6Implements Manus-style file-based planning to organize and track progress on complex tasks. Creates task_plan.md, findings.md, and progress.md. Use when asked to plan out, break down, or organize a multi-step project, research task, or any work requiring 5+ tool calls. Supports automatic session recovery after /clear.
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majiayu000 Bundle Scientific Writing 2Core skill for the deep research and writing tool. Write scientific manuscripts in full paragraphs (never bullet points). Use two-stage process with (1) section outlines with key points using research-lookup then (2) convert to flowing prose. IMRAD structure, citations (APA/AMA/Vancouver), figures/tables, reporting guidelines (CONSORT/STROBE/PRISMA), for research papers and journal submissions.
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majiayu000 Bundle Hypothesis Tracking 2Track and manage research hypotheses with confidence levels. Use when the user asks about prior research, wants to validate claims, or queries what is known about a company.
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majiayu000 Bundle Research 42Use when you need to research, analyze, and plan technical solutions that are scalable, secure, and maintainable.
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majiayu000 Bundle Research 43Systematic investigation and root cause analysis. Use when debugging persistent issues, understanding complex systems, or before making architectural decisions.
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majiayu000 Bundle Development Memory 2Build persistent project knowledge using checkpoint/recall. Activates when fixing bugs, making decisions, or investigating past work. Creates automatic knowledge base through systematic checkpointing and semantic recall.
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majiayu000 Bundle Summarize 4Content extraction skill for AI coding agents. YouTube transcripts, podcasts, PDFs, images (OCR), audio/video via the summarize CLI.
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majiayu000 Bundle Summarize Session 3Use at the end of a Claude Code session to create a comprehensive summary note in Obsidian and add a brief reference to the daily note
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majiayu000 Bundle Jira Pm 2Jira project management and issue tracking integration
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majiayu000 Bundle Research 44Research libraries, APIs, and patterns using searchGitHub and Exa tools. Finds real-world implementations and saves structured reports to docs/research/. Use when investigating technologies, debugging issues, or comparing options.
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majiayu000 Bundle Pricing Strategy 5When the user wants help with pricing decisions, packaging, or monetization strategy. Also use when the user mentions 'pricing,' 'pricing tiers,' 'freemium,' 'free trial,' 'packaging,' 'price increase,' 'value metric,' 'Van Westendorp,' 'willingness to pay,' or 'monetization.' This skill covers pricing research, tier structure, and packaging strategy.
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majiayu000 Bundle Us Govt Data 2Access 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 Ln 640 Pattern Evolution Auditor 3Use when auditing architectural patterns through the evaluation platform with mandatory best-practice research, coordinated pattern workers, and structured summaries.
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majiayu000 Bundle User Story Generator 2Generate and validate user stories from various inputs including requirements, research, and feature descriptions. Apply INVEST criteria validation, create acceptance criteria, split large stories, and convert between story formats.
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majiayu000 Bundle Skill Builder 16Generate new Claude Code skills from requirements through guided questions and pattern selection
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majiayu000 Bundle Write Article 2Write the full blog article using research notes, article outline, and generated diagrams. Follows the exact pedagogical style of the DeepSeek chapters. Use when research, plan, and figures are all ready.
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majiayu000 Bundle Research Assistant 3Conduct structured research with sourced summaries, confidence ratings, and hierarchical findings.
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majiayu000 Bundle Statistical Analysis 3Guided statistical analysis with test selection and reporting. Use when you need help choosing appropriate tests for your data, assumption checking, power analysis, and APA-formatted results. Best for academic research reporting, test selection guidance. For implementing specific models programmatically use statsmodels.
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majiayu000 Bundle Web Research 7Use this skill for requests related to web research; it provides a structured approach to conducting comprehensive web research
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majiayu000 Bundle Gsd Research Phase 3Research how to implement a phase (standalone - usually use /gsd:plan-phase instead)
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majiayu000 Bundle Orthogonal Comprehensive EnrichmentEnrich any person or company from any identifier — email, name, LinkedIn URL, domain, company name, Twitter/X handle. Use when asked to enrich, look up, or research a lead, contact, person, or company.
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majiayu000 Bundle Orchestrate 7Wire Commands, Agents, and Skills together for complex features. Use when building features that need research, planning, and implementation phases.
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majiayu000 Bundle Reproduce Bug 2Reproduce a bug from a Linear ticket with a failing test. Expects the full ticket context (title, description, comments) to be provided as input.
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majiayu000 Bundle Deep Research 21Pesquisa aprofundada com metodologia estruturada
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majiayu000 Bundle Deepxiv 2Search and progressively read open-access academic papers through DeepXiv. Use when the user wants layered paper access, section-level reading, trending papers, or DeepXiv-backed literature retrieval.
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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 deep-research, research, web-research. 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.