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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openlair Bundle News Idea BriefingRead the latest news feed results (server/data/news-results-*.json), cluster items by topic, and generate grounded research idea seeds with citations. Use when the user wants to turn their daily news into actionable ideation proposals, or when invoked by the proactive research scout (Option C).
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techygarg Skill Knowledge PrimingLoad project-specific context -- tech stack, architecture overview, directory layout, trusted sources, and conventions -- so that all skills operate with awareness of what this project actually is. Use when a knowledge base document exists, or when the user asks about the project's tech stack, architecture, conventions, framework, directory layout, or says 'tell me about this project', 'what are we using?', 'what's our stack?', or 'what framework is this?'. Use the knowledge-priming-refiner to create a knowledge base document.
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varnan-tech Bundle Vc FinderTakes a startup product URL or description, detects the industry and funding stage, identifies 5 comparable funded companies, searches who invested in those companies (Track A), finds VCs who publish investment theses about this space (Track B), and returns a ranked sourced list of relevant investors with deep-dives and outreach hooks. Use when asked to find investors for a startup, identify which VCs fund products like mine, research who backs companies in my space, build a VC target list, or find investor-market fit.
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wentorai Skill Output CardsJSON schema reference for 6 structured output card types used by the Research-Claw dashboard: paper_card, task_card, progress_card, approval_card, file_card, monitor_digest. Read this before outputting any structured card for the first time in a session.
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beita6969 Skill Legal AnalysisAnalyze legal contracts, extract clauses, and perform legal research with structured frameworks
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beita6969 Skill Scienceclaw IeExtract structured information from scientific texts: entities, relations, data tables, methods, results. Use when: (1) parsing papers for key data, (2) extracting experimental parameters, (3) building knowledge graphs from literature, (4) NER on scientific documents, (5) extracting methods/results sections. NOT for: summarization (use scienceclaw-summarization), full text retrieval (use scienceclaw-retrieval).
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luongnv89 Skill Blog DraftDraft a blog post from ideas and resources. Use when users want to write a blog post, create content from research, or draft articles. Guides through research, brainstorming, outlining, and iterative drafting with version control.
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openlair Skill Aris Grant ProposalDraft a structured grant proposal from research ideas and literature. Supports KAKENHI (Japan), NSF (US), NSFC (China, including 面上/青年/优青/杰青/海外优青/重点), ERC (EU), DFG (Germany), SNSF (Switzerland), ARC (Australia), NWO (Netherlands), and generic formats. Use when user says "write grant", "grant proposal", "申請書", "write KAKENHI", "科研費", "基金申请", "写基金", "NSF proposal", or wants to turn research ideas into a funding application.
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openlair Bundle Inno Grant ProposalHelp professors and researchers write, revise, adapt, and polish grant proposals for US agencies (NSF, NIH, DOE, DARPA, NASA) and Chinese agencies (NSFC 国自然). Use this skill whenever the user mentions grants, proposals, funding applications, 基金申请, 本子, R01, R21, CAREER, 面上, 青年基金, specific aims, 立项依据, broader impacts, or wants to plan, draft, review, or resubmit any research funding proposal — even if they don't explicitly say "grant". Also use this skill when the user wants to adapt a previous proposal for a new submission. Six-phase workflow: profiling → planning → drafting → quality review → simulated peer review → submission prep.
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rlaope Skill Omh Achievements[omh] Hermes achievements observation workflow: summarize hermes-achievements badges, tiers, recent unlocks, and progress from local plugin artifacts. Use when the user says: achievements, achievement, badges, badge, my badges, show achievements, achievement summary, unlocked badges.
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rlaope Skill Omh Web Research[omh] Web lookup lane - settle a current-facts question in one cited retrieval round with retrieval dates and source-quality notes; for pre-spec grounding across reference implementations use `research`. Use when the user says: web-research, web research, web search, search the web, internet search, look up, look up sources, latest sources.
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taracodlabs Bundle Financial ResearchResearch stocks, companies, and market data using real-time financial APIs
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travisjneuman Skill Travel PlannerTravel destination research and daily itinerary creation with logistics planning, budget tracking, and experience optimization. Use when planning trips, creating travel itineraries, comparing destinations, or organizing travel logistics.
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varnan-tech Bundle Noise2blogTurns rough notes, bullet points, voice transcripts, or tweet dumps into a polished, publication-ready blog post. Optionally enriches with Tavily research to add supporting data and credibility to claims. Use when asked to write a blog post from notes, turn rough ideas into an article, expand bullet points into a full post, clean up a voice transcript into a blog, or repurpose a tweet thread as an article. Trigger when a user says "write a blog post from this", "turn these notes into a post", "expand this into an article", "make this publishable", "I have rough notes write a blog", or "clean up this transcript".
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wentorai Skill Workspace SopWorkspace file management, git versioning, directory conventions, and CLI execution safety rules for the Research-Claw workspace.
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gabrielmoreira Skill Hn SummarizeFetch and summarize Hacker News / hckrnews.com top stories, articles, and their comment threads. Use when asked to summarize HN front-page stories, a specific HN story plus its discussion, or "the top N from hckrnews".
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agricidaniel Bundle Blog ClusterSemantic topic cluster planning and automated execution engine for claude-blog. Performs SERP-based keyword research, groups keywords by search intent and SERP overlap, builds a hub-and-spoke cluster architecture, generates an interactive SVG cluster map, and executes the full cluster by orchestrating blog-write calls with shared cluster context and automatic internal-link injection. Fills the strategy-to-execution gap: blog-strategy plans the blueprint, blog-cluster builds the house. Use when user says "blog cluster", "topic cluster", "content cluster", "cluster plan", "cluster execute", "pillar content", "hub and spoke", "content ecosystem", "cluster map".
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anbeime Skill Content Research Writer内容创作者、技术写作员在撰写博客、深度文章或技术文档时,使用此技能可开启全流程写作协作。它能帮你研究资料、构建大纲、逐段打磨并自动添加引用,快速优化Hook,让你高效产出高质量内容,告别孤军奋战!
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beita6969 Skill Crossref SearchAcademic metadata search via CrossRef API. Use when: user needs DOI resolution, citation counts, journal metadata, or publisher info. NOT for: full-text access or downloading papers.
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beita6969 Skill Openalex SearchOpen academic metadata via OpenAlex API. Use when: user needs author profiles, institution data, concept mapping, or open citation data. NOT for: full-text search or downloading papers.
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beita6969 Skill ReproducibilityPromotes research reproducibility through guidance on pre-registration, open data/code sharing, replication study design, computational reproducibility, and open science best practices; trigger when users discuss replication, open science, pre-registration, data sharing, or research transparency.
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beita6969 Skill Research EthicsGuides research ethics compliance including IRB protocol preparation, informed consent document drafting, research integrity standards, data management plans, and ethical considerations for human/animal subjects; trigger when users discuss IRB, ethical approval, consent forms, or responsible conduct of research.
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beita6969 Skill Skill EvolutionTrack and improve skill effectiveness over time using VOYAGER-style skill library patterns. Use when: analyzing which tools/strategies worked best, proposing skill improvements, or storing reusable research patterns. NOT for: active research tasks or immediate problem-solving.
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beita6969 Skill Ssrn EconpapersSearch social science research papers across SSRN, RePEc/IDEAS, CrossRef, and Semantic Scholar. Use when: (1) finding working papers in economics, finance, law, or political science, (2) searching RePEc for economics papers, (3) querying CrossRef for social science journal articles, (4) retrieving citation metadata for social science research. NOT for: natural sciences (use arxiv-search or pubmed-search), computer science preprints (use arxiv-search), general academic search (use semantic-scholar).
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gabrielmoreira Bundle Clinical Trial FinderFind clinical trials for a gene, variant, or condition from ClinicalTrials.gov + EUCTR, with FHIR R4 output
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creminiai Bundle Skillpack CreatorCreate a reusable SkillPack from a successful completed task. Use when the user wants to convert a one-off research, coding, analysis, or content workflow into a distributable local SkillPack with `skillpack.json`, local skills under `skills/`, starter prompts, start scripts, and an optional zip package.
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ilang-ai Bundle Niche AwesomeNiche-Awesome — Solve the #1 problem for beginners building AI products: not knowing what to build. A complete 6-step BRD (Business Requirements Document) research process for niche product selection and market validation. You do the searching, AI does the analysis. Works with any AI, no coding required.
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melandlabs Bundle Openloomi Memoryopenloomi Memory tools - search and manage the holistic context (people, projects, decisions, knowledge base, chat insights). Triggers: memory search, knowledge base, search documents, list insights, who is John, what did we decide about X, tiered memory, knowledge graph, people/projects/decisions, search-all, conversation memory
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nyldn Bundle Octopus ResearchThorough research across multiple sources — use for complex topics needing broad synthesis
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openlair Skill Aris Comm Lit ReviewCommunications-domain literature review with Claude-style knowledge-base-first retrieval. Use when the task is about communications, wireless, networking, satellite/NTN, Wi-Fi, cellular, transport protocols, congestion control, routing, scheduling, MAC/PHY, rate adaptation, channel estimation, beamforming, or communication-system research and the user wants papers, related work, a survey, or a landscape summary. Search Zotero, Obsidian, and local paper folders first when available, then search IEEE Xplore, ScienceDirect, ACM Digital Library, and broader web in that order.
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openlair Skill Aris Research RefineTurn a vague research direction into a problem-anchored, elegant, frontier-aware, implementation-oriented method plan via iterative GPT-5.4 review. Use when the user says "refine my approach", "帮我细化方案", "decompose this problem", "打磨idea", "refine research plan", "细化研究方案", or wants a concrete research method that stays simple, focused, and top-venue ready instead of a vague or overbuilt idea.
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openlair Bundle Inno Idea GenerationFacilitates structured brainstorming sessions, conducts comprehensive research, and generates creative solutions using proven frameworks. Trigger keywords - brainstorm, ideate, research, SCAMPER, SWOT, mind map, creative, explore ideas, market research, competitive analysis, innovation, problem solving, feature generation
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rlaope Skill Omh Source Finder[omh] Source candidate inventory - prepare typed source candidates and acquisition status before downstream work; use ulw-research to fetch and cite them, or research-brief to turn them into a decision-ready brief. Use when the user says: source-finder, source finder, source acquisition, source intake, find papers and datasets, find datasets and repos, find papers, find arxiv link.
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simstudioai Bundle Add ConnectorAdd or update a Sim knowledge base connector for syncing documents from an external source, including auth mode, config fields, pagination, document mapping, tags, and registry wiring. Use when working in `apps/sim/connectors/{service}/` or adding a new external document source.
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wentorai Skill Channels GuideConfiguration, troubleshooting, and operational guide for Research-Claw IM channels (Telegram, Discord, WeChat, Feishu, Slack, WhatsApp). Covers dashboard UI flow, bot token setup, QR login, config.patch restart behavior, enable/disable/delete, common errors (401, ABI, plugins.allow), and diagnostic procedures.
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yeachan-heo Skill ResearchInvestigate an open question and return grounded, sourced findings
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 inno-grant-proposal, knowledge-priming, blog-cluster. 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.