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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brycewang-stanford Skill Lit Review 2Structured literature search and synthesis for the sewage-house-prices project. Searches top-5 journals, field journals (JEEM, JUE, JREFE, EE), NBER/SSRN, and citation chains. Produces annotated bibliography with proximity scores, gap identification, and BibTeX entries. This skill should be used when asked to "review the literature", "find papers on X", or "lit review".
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brycewang-stanford Skill Lit Review 3Structured literature review using a parallel fleet of Librarian agents. Searches top journals, working paper repositories (NBER, SSRN, IZA), and traces citation chains from key papers. Make sure to use this skill whenever the user wants to survey existing research on a topic — not to find datasets or write a paper. Triggers include: "review the literature", "find related papers", "what's been done on X", "search for papers on", "do a lit review", "find papers about", "what papers should I cite", "who has written about this", "survey the literature", "find prior work on", or any request to locate and summarize academic publications on a topic.
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brycewang-stanford Skill New Project 2Start a new research project by conducting a structured interview to formalize a research idea, then generates research questions with identification strategies and a project spec. Make sure to use this skill whenever the user wants to develop or document a new research idea — not to search for literature or data. Triggers include: "new project", "start research", "I have an idea", "help me develop this", "I want to study X", "help me formalize this idea", "what's my research question", "what identification strategy should I use", "write up my project idea", or when the user describes a topic they want to turn into a paper.
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brycewang-stanford Skill Review Paper 3Comprehensive manuscript review covering argument structure, econometric specification, citation completeness, and potential referee objections. Make sure to use this skill whenever the user wants substantive academic feedback on a paper — not just surface edits. Triggers include: "review my paper", "give me feedback on this draft", "what would a referee say", "anticipate referee objections", "act as a referee", "check my identification strategy", "is my argument convincing", "review this manuscript", "critique my paper", "will this pass review", or any request for deep critique of academic writing beyond typos and grammar.
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brycewang-stanford Skill Validate Bib 2Validate bibliography entries against citations in all source files. Find missing entries and unused references. Make sure to use this skill whenever the user has any concern about bibliography completeness or citation keys. Triggers include: "validate my bib", "check my citations", "find missing references", "I'm getting undefined citation errors", "are all my citations in the bib file", "check for unused references", "my bibliography is broken", "missing bib entries", "citation not found", or after adding new references from a lit review or before submission.
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brycewang-stanford Skill Lit Review 4Structured literature search and synthesis with citation extraction and gap identification
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brycewang-stanford Skill Review Paper 4Comprehensive manuscript review covering argument structure, econometric specification, citation completeness, and potential referee objections
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brycewang-stanford Skill Commit 3Stage, commit, create PR, and merge to main. Use for the standard commit-PR-merge cycle.
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brycewang-stanford Bundle Research Ideation 3Generate research questions from economic phenomena
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brycewang-stanford Skill Lit Review 5Structured literature search and synthesis with citation extraction and gap identification.
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brycewang-stanford Skill Ml Paper Writing 3Write ML/AI research papers targeting NeurIPS, ICML, and ICLR venues
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brycewang-stanford Skill Interview Me 2Interactive interview to formalize a research idea into a structured specification with hypotheses and empirical strategy.
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brycewang-stanford Skill Review Paper 5Comprehensive manuscript review covering argument structure, identification strategy, econometric specification, citation completeness, and potential referee objections.
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brycewang-stanford Skill Validate Bib 4Validate bibliography entries against citations in all manuscript files. Find missing entries and unused references.
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brycewang-stanford Skill Compile Latex 3Compile a LaTeX manuscript with pdflatex (3 passes + bibtex). Use when compiling the research paper.
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brycewang-stanford Skill Data Analysis 4End-to-end R data analysis workflow from exploration through regression to publication-ready tables and figures.
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brycewang-stanford Skill Stata Data Cleaning 2Clean, transform, and validate messy research data using Stata
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brycewang-stanford Skill Robustness Checks 2Sequential robustness checks in Stata with confounder blocks
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brycewang-stanford Skill Devils Advocate 2Challenge research design decisions, assumptions, and methodology choices with specific critical questions. Helps strengthen the paper before submission.
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brycewang-stanford Skill Nber Working Papers API 2Access NBER working papers and economic research datasets
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brycewang-stanford Skill Stata Accounting Research 2STATA code patterns for empirical accounting and finance research
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majiayu000 Bundle What Did I Get DoneSummarize authored commits over a user-specified time period into a concise update
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modbender Skill PzThe Paperzilla CLI (pz) for searching, filtering, and browsing high-signal academic papers. Use when the user wants to check their research feeds, list projects, or find new papers. Note: Requires a Paperzilla account.
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modbender Skill Personal Knowledge BaseHelp users build a personal knowledge base by organizing whatever they send into structured notes.
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modbender Bundle CirfInteractive crypto deep-research framework with human-AI collaboration for superior research outcomes
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modbender Bundle CrifInteractive crypto deep-research framework with human-AI collaboration for superior research outcomes
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modbender Bundle EbayBuy, sell, and flip on eBay with listing optimization, pricing research, shipping calculations, and scam detection.
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modbender Bundle KagiUse the Kagi API (Search API + FastGPT) for web research when you want higher-quality results than Brave/Google, or when Brave Search is rate-limited. Triggers: “search with Kagi”, “Kagi search”, “use FastGPT”, “Kagi FastGPT”, “Kagi summarize”, or when you want programmatic web search via Kagi’s API token.
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modbender Skill LoreSearch and ingest knowledge from Lore, a research repository with citations
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modbender Bundle NblmUse this skill to query your Google NotebookLM notebooks directly from Claude Code for source-grounded, citation-backed answers from Gemini. Browser automation, library management, persistent auth. Drastically reduced hallucinations through document-only responses.
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modbender Bundle Tldw Youtube Video SummarizerExtract and summarize YouTube video transcripts quickly and efficiently.
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modbender Bundle ArxivSearch, download, and summarize academic papers from arXiv. Built for AI/ML researchers.
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modbender Bundle DnoteSave, retrieve, and manage notes using Dnote CLI. Use when the user wants to capture information, search existing notes, reference saved knowledge, or organize notes into books. Supports adding notes, searching with full-text, viewing books/notes, editing, and removing notes. Perfect for building a personal knowledge base.
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modbender Skill KrumpA dance skill designed to teach OpenClaw agents the fundamentals of Krump, including its history, fam system, music, crews, events, and other related topics. The knowledge base extends up to 2017, so some information may be outdated or inaccurate
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modbender Skill Tweet WriterWrite viral, persuasive, engaging tweets and threads. Uses web research to find viral examples in your niche, then models writing based on proven formulas and X algorithm optimization. Use when creating tweets, threads, or X content strategy.
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modbender Bundle SolvrSearch and contribute to Solvr — a knowledge base for developers and AI agents.
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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 lit-review, lit-review, new-project. 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.