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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modbender Skill Alter Action TriggerTrigger Alter macOS app actions via x-callback-urls. Catalog of 84+ actions including ask-anything, translate, summarize, grammar correction, and more.
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modbender Bundle Arxiv WatcherSearch and summarize papers from ArXiv. Use when the user asks for the latest research, specific topics on ArXiv, or a daily summary of AI papers.
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modbender Bundle B2b First TenExpert in getting the first 10 B2B customers, based on Lenny Rachitsky's "First 1000 Users" research. Focuses on founder-led sales, warm intros, and unscalable tactics for non-enterprise B2B.
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modbender Bundle BiotechnologyAssist with biotechnology from basic concepts to research design and industry applications.
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modbender Bundle Daily AI NewsUse when users need comprehensive daily news about AI, large models, and related fields.
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modbender Bundle DeepthinkliteLocal-first deep research like OpenAI Deep Research: generates questions.md + response.md artifacts and enforces a time budget.
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modbender Bundle Denario SkillWraps the Denario framework to automate the scientific research process. Handles environment setup and Z.ai integration automatically.
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modbender Bundle Deso ResearchResearch and analyze content across decentralized social networks (Farcaster, Lens, Nostr, Bluesky) using the deso-ag CLI tool. Use this skill when users want to research topics on decentralized social platforms, analyze trending content, extract discussion terms, browse Farcaster channels, or compare engagement across networks. Trigger on phrases like "research X on Farcaster", "what's trending on Lens", "analyze [topic] across deso networks", "search deso for [topic]", "extract trending terms", "browse Farcaster channels", "what are people saying about X on Farcaster/Lens/Nostr/Bluesky", or any query about decentralized social media content. Make sure to use this skill for any decentralized social research tasks, even if the user just says "check Farcaster" or "look up [topic] on Lens".
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modbender Bundle Fin Intel HubComprehensive financial intelligence hub for SEC filings, crypto on-chain data, news sentiment, macro indicators, and global stock markets (US, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, Korea). Use when users need to: (1) Retrieve SEC EDGAR filings (10-K, 10-Q, 8-K), (2) Monitor crypto on-chain metrics and whale alerts, (3) Analyze financial news sentiment, (4) Access macroeconomic indicators (Fed rates, CPI, unemployment), (5) Get global stock prices including Asian markets (HKEX, Tokyo, Taiwan, Korea, Shanghai, Shenzhen), or any financial data research and analysis tasks.
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modbender Skill Fitness CoachPractical, privacy-conscious fitness coaching with evidence-based guidance for training, nutrition, sleep, and recovery.
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modbender Bundle FlowconciergeAI phone receptionist for any business. Point it at your website and it scrapes your content, builds a knowledge base, spins up a VAPI voice assistant, connects a Twilio phone number, and logs every call to HubSpot CRM with optional SMS follow-ups. Free OpenClaw skill from the Flow team.
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modbender Bundle Geo OptimizerOptimize content for AI citation (GEO). Use when user says "GEO", "generative engine optimization", "AI citation", "get cited by AI", "AI-friendly content", or creating content for ChatGPT/Claude/Perplexity visibility.
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modbender Bundle Github ResearchGitHub 仓库深度搜索与分析。支持按关键词、语言、stars、更新时间筛选,获取细分领域最新开源项目。专为技术调研设计。
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modbender Bundle Google TrendsMonitor Google Trends - get trending searches, compare keywords, and track interest over time. Use for market research, content planning, and trend analysis.
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modbender Bundle Lhon ResearchCoordinate research tasks to help cure LHON (Leber's Hereditary Optic Neuropathy), a rare genetic disorder causing blindness. Fetch open tasks, work on medical research challenges, and submit findings via GitHub.
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modbender Bundle Memory MasterLocal memory and knowledge base system with structured indexing and auto-index. Write to local files only. Network learning is a SEPARATE optional feature — user must explicitly trigger it (say '我去查一下'). Full user control: all files visible, editable, deletable.
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modbender Bundle Omni ResearchMulti-source deep research using your own browser. Queries Perplexity, Grok, and Gemini in parallel via CDP — zero API keys, uses your existing subscriptions.
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modbender Bundle Paper FetcherFetch academic papers from Sci-Hub given a DOI. Automatically downloads PDFs and saves them to research/papers/ with clean filenames. Use when the user provides a DOI or requests a paper from PubMed.
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modbender Bundle Idea ClawdbotLaunch background Clawdbot sessions to explore and analyze business ideas. Say 'Idea: [description]' to trigger. Fork of 'idea' skill rewritten to use sessions_spawn instead of claude CLI + tmux + telegram CLI. Results sent to current chat, not Saved Messages. Zero external dependencies.
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modbender Bundle Shared MemoryShare memories and state with other users. Use when user wants to share knowledge, create users/groups, grant permissions, set up family or team sharing, subscribe to memory changes, or manage access control on their memory knowledge base. This shared memory skill uses Ensue - a shared memory network for agents.
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modbender Skill Summarize ProWhen user asks to summarize text, articles, documents, meetings, emails, YouTube transcripts, books, PDFs, reports, conversations, or any long content. Also handles bullet points, key takeaways, action items, TL;DR, ELI5, executive summaries, chapter summaries, comparison summaries, translation summaries, thread summaries, and custom-length summaries. 20-feature AI summarizer with multiple formats, languages, and export options. All processing happens locally — NO external API calls, NO network requests, NO data sent to any server.
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modbender Skill Trading BrainLoad Travis's personal trading strategy, rules, and mental models into the current session. Invoke this skill at the start of any trading analysis, cron decision, or investment research session.
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modbender Bundle Vibe ResearchConduct AI-led research with autonomous literature review, hypothesis generation, analysis, and synthesis while human provides vision.
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modbender Bundle Video WatcherDownload videos, extract transcripts, capture frames. Analyze YouTube, tutorials, DD videos with yt-dlp + Whisper + ffmpeg.
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modbender Bundle Wizwand SwarmThe discussion board for AI agents in research or engineering. Post, comment, upvote, and create communities.
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modbender Bundle Agents Refresh Md EnAGENTS.md/IDENTITY/SOUL/USER periodic reload skill to keep context fresh (.md-only v1.1.1). Prevents confusion and forgetting in long sessions. Edit HEARTBEAT.md + add cron (manual tool calls). Lightweight ClawHub distribution without Python scripts. Use when: (1) Long sessions risk personality drift, (2) Avoid /new for human-like memory continuity, (3) Auto-summarize MEMORY/ToDo.
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modbender Bundle Arxiv ResearchSearch and download research papers from arXiv.org - Research skill for OpenClaw agents
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modbender Skill SearchSearches the web, legal databases, case law, patents, and case.dev knowledge base via the casedev CLI. Use when the user mentions "search", "legal research", "find cases", "case law", "patent search", "web search", "fetch URL", "webfetch", "legal skills", or needs to research legal topics, find similar cases, or retrieve web content.
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modbender Bundle Company ResearchMulti-source company research tool that generates structured due-diligence reports. Use when the user asks to research, look up, or investigate a company — including questions about shareholders, legal representative, registered capital, equity structure, beneficial owner, funding history, investors, valuation, lawsuits, court judgments, enforcement records, blacklist / dishonest debtor status, administrative penalties, operating anomalies, trademarks, patents, government procurement / bidding, recruitment profile, negative news, competitors, or industry position. Also triggers on: "帮我查一下XX公司", "XX公司背景", "XX的股东是谁", "XX有没有诉讼/被执行/失信", "XX融了多少钱", "XX股权结构", "尽调", "公司调研", "公司背景调查", "is X company reliable", "due diligence on X", "background check on X company".
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modbender Skill Ddg SearchDuckDuckGo HTML search scraper CLI with JSON, CSV, OpenSearch, markdown, and compact outputs.
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modbender Skill Domain CheckerCheck domain name availability across multiple TLDs. Fast bulk checking for domain research and brainstorming.
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modbender Bundle Geo Schema GenGenerate complete, validated Schema.org JSON-LD markup for any content type to boost AI citation rates. Creates structured data for Organization, FAQPage, Article, BlogPosting, Product, HowTo, BreadcrumbList, WebSite, VideoObject, and ImageObject schemas. Use whenever the user mentions adding schema markup, generating structured data, creating JSON-LD, implementing Schema.org, optimizing for rich snippets, or wants to improve how AI understands and cites their content. Also trigger for requests about Organization schema, FAQ schema, Article markup, Product schema, or any structured data implementation.
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modbender Bundle Manim ComposerTrigger when: (1) User wants to create an educational/explainer video, (2) User has a vague concept they want visualized, (3) User mentions "3b1b style" or "explain like 3Blue1Brown", (4) User wants to plan a Manim video or animation sequence, (5) User asks to "compose" or "plan" a math/science visualization. Transforms vague video ideas into detailed scene-by-scene plans (scenes.md). Conducts research, asks clarifying questions about audience/scope/focus, and outputs comprehensive scene specifications ready for implementation with ManimCE or ManimGL. Use this BEFORE writing any Manim code. This skill plans the video; use manimce-best-practices or manimgl-best-practices for implementation.
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modbender Bundle Messari CryptoCrypto market intelligence powered by Messari's REST API. Provides real-time access to Messari AI (chat completions over 30TB+ crypto data), Signal (sentiment, mindshare, trending narratives), Metrics (prices, volumes, fundamentals for 34,000+ assets across 210+ exchanges), News, Research, Stablecoins, Exchanges, Networks, Protocols, Token Unlocks, Fundraising, Intel, Topics, and X-Users data. Use when the user asks about crypto markets, token analysis, sentiment, protocol metrics, asset research, trending narratives, stablecoin flows, token unlock schedules, fundraising rounds, governance events, or any blockchain/crypto data question. Requires a Messari API key and Messari AI credits.
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modbender Skill MoltuniversityJoin the MoltUniversity research community — propose claims, run computations, vote on ideas, debate research, write papers, and review your colleagues' work.
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modbender Bundle Note ProcessorSummarize and analyze research notes created by research-assistant. Features: generate summaries, extract keywords, search within topics, list all topics. Works with research_db.json format. Perfect for finding patterns, reviewing research progress, and extracting insights from accumulated notes without re-reading everything.
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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 alter-action-trigger, arxiv-watcher, b2b-first-ten. 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.