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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beita6969 Skill Semantic ScholarSearch Semantic Scholar for academic papers across all disciplines with citation graph analysis. Use when: (1) finding papers across disciplines, (2) citation/reference graph traversal, (3) author search, (4) paper recommendations, (5) large-scale bibliometric analysis. NOT for: specific database access (use pubmed for biomedical, arxiv for preprints).
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dazuck Bundle Create BriefingCreate shareable briefing documents from sessions, research, or learnings.
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hkuds Skill CLI Anything SiyuanSiYuan (思源笔记) CLI — manage notebooks, documents, blocks, and search your knowledge base from the terminal.
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neolabhq Skill QuerySearch the FPF knowledge base and display hypothesis details with assurance information
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openakita Bundle Openakita Skills Youtube SummarizerSummarize YouTube videos by extracting transcripts and generating structured notes. Use when the user wants to summarize a YouTube video, extract key points from a talk, create study notes from a lecture, or get timestamps for important moments. Supports multiple URL formats and languages.
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openlair Skill Aris Semantic ScholarSearch published venue papers (IEEE, ACM, Springer, etc.) via Semantic Scholar API. Complements /aris-arxiv (preprints) with citation counts, venue metadata, and TLDR. Use when user says "search semantic scholar", "find IEEE papers", "find journal papers", "venue papers", "citation search", or wants published literature beyond arXiv preprints.
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sergeyklay Bundle Research ItInvestigate a technical question with a detective's discipline - gathering evidence from primary sources, cross-referencing independent confirmations, and never accepting the first plausible answer. Use when asked to investigate, research, fact-check, verify, deep-dive, or 'find out the truth' about a technology, claim, system, or behaviour. Also use before any explanation of a real-world system, library, or protocol that depends on external facts. Establishes source priority, scales effort to question complexity, triangulates every implementation claim across at least two independent sources, reports conflicts between sources, and refuses to cite training data as evidence. Do NOT use for opinion questions, code generation independent of external facts, internal refactoring, or trivial lookups the user could do themselves.
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snarktank Bundle Daily Task ManagerManage {{OWNER_NAME}}'s day-to-day task list using a single canonical workspace file that stays synced across sessions and heartbeats. Use when the user asks to add, remove, complete, defer, reprioritize, summarize, or review current tasks / todos; when a heartbeat or check-in should reference the live task list; or when task state was mentioned in another session and must be reflected centrally.
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travisjneuman Skill Customer SuccessSupport workflows, ticketing systems (Zendesk, Intercom), knowledge base design, chatbot design, and metrics (CSAT, NPS). Use when building support infrastructure, designing help centers, or optimizing customer experience.
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wentorai Skill Citation StylesConcrete citation format templates for 6 major academic styles: APA 7th, IEEE, Harvard, MLA 9th, Chicago 17th, and GB/T 7714-2015. Provides copy-paste-ready patterns with field placeholders for journal articles, books, conference papers, and more.
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wentorai Skill Imap Smtp EmailRead, search, and manage email via IMAP protocol. Send email via SMTP. Supports Gmail, Outlook, 163.com, 126.com, QQ Mail, and any standard IMAP/SMTP server with multi-account support.
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agricidaniel Bundle Blog DiscourseResearch what people are actually saying about a topic in the last 30 days across Reddit, X / Twitter, YouTube, Hacker News, dev.to, Medium, and other public discourse platforms. API-free; uses WebSearch with platform-targeted site operators plus recency filters. Produces DISCOURSE.md (a structured brief) and JSON output the writer can consume. Complements blog-researcher (which focuses on authority sources) with a recency-and-engagement lens. Use when user says "blog discourse", "discourse research", "what are people saying about", "research what people are saying", "voice of customer", "social listening", "30-day research", "trend research", "what's the discussion on", "real-time research", "practitioner discourse", "/blog discourse".
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ant-design Bundle Antd Create PrCreate pull requests for ant-design using the repository's official PR templates. Use this skill when the user asks to create/open a PR, draft PR title/body, summarize branch changes for a PR, or otherwise prepare PR content. Judge by intent rather than fixed phrases; short colloquial requests still count if they are about creating a PR rather than discussing PR concepts.
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beita6969 Skill Citation AnalysisAnalyze citation networks, compute bibliometric indicators, and identify research fronts. Use when: user asks about citation patterns, h-index, co-authorship networks, research trends, or bibliometric analysis. NOT for: literature searching (use literature-search) or writing papers (use paper-writing).
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beita6969 Skill Experiment DesignDesign scientific experiments including sample size calculation, randomization, control groups, blinding, and study protocols. Covers RCTs, quasi-experiments, factorial designs, A/B tests, survey design, and observational studies. Use when user asks to design an experiment, calculate sample size, plan a study, set up controls, or create a research protocol. Triggers on "design experiment", "sample size", "power analysis", "study design", "control group", "randomization", "A/B test", "factorial design", "survey design".
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beita6969 Skill Literature SearchComprehensive multi-database scientific literature search orchestrating Semantic Scholar, OpenAlex, arXiv, PubMed, and CrossRef. Use when: (1) systematic literature review, (2) finding all relevant papers on a topic, (3) checking state of the art, (4) building comprehensive bibliographies. NOT for: single-database queries (use specific search skills), data analysis (use code-execution).
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beita6969 Skill Systematic ReviewOrchestrates a systematic review and meta-analysis workflow following PRISMA 2020 guidelines, from protocol development through multi-database search, screening, data extraction, and evidence synthesis. Use when conducting evidence-based reviews, meta-analyses, or scoping reviews. NOT for single-study analysis or narrative literature surveys.
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dotnet Skill Merge Into BranchCreate a merge branch from a chosen base, merge a chosen source/upstream branch into it, resolve common Roslyn conflicts (`.xlf`, `.resx`, compiler codegen), and summarize the resolutions.
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microsoft Skill Rpi PlanCreate one evidence-based RPI implementation plan from supplied context, research, drafts, and decisions. Use when implementation planning is needed.
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nexu-io Skill Kami DeckA lab-meeting deck on gut-microbiome links to sleep quality — the design, the results, the caveats, and the next experiment. Built as a decision-grade academic research deck for lab group, PI.
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openakita Bundle Openakita Skills Changelog GeneratorAutomatically creates user-facing changelogs from git commits by analyzing commit history, categorizing changes, and transforming technical commits into clear, customer-friendly release notes. Use this skill whenever the user mentions changelogs, release notes, version updates, "what changed", product updates, app store descriptions, or needs to summarize recent development work for non-technical audiences.
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wentorai Skill Academic WritingAcademic writing expert specializing in scholarly papers, literature reviews, research methodology, and thesis writing with strict academic standards.
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wu-yc Skill Medrxiv SearchSearch medRxiv medical preprints with natural language queries. Powered by Valyu semantic search.
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allens0104 Skill Content SummaryShort alias for content-search-summarization. Use this to search public content platforms, rank the top relevant items, and summarize them with links.
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ant-design Bundle Antd Commit MsgGenerate a single-line commit message for ant-design by reading the project's git staged area and recent commit style. Use when the user asks for a commit message, says "msg", "commit msg", "写提交信息", or wants one-line text that covers all staged changes. Output should match the repository's existing commit style and summarize all staged changes in one line.
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beita6969 Skill Asreview ScreeningScreen papers for systematic reviews using ASReview active learning. Use when: user has a large set of papers to screen for inclusion/exclusion, wants to prioritize relevant papers, or needs to reduce manual screening workload. NOT for: searching papers (use literature-search) or meta-analysis (use meta-analysis).
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beita6969 Skill Wikidata KnowledgeQuery Wikidata for structured knowledge using SPARQL and entity search. Use when: (1) finding structured facts about entities (people, places, organizations), (2) querying relationships between entities, (3) cross-referencing external identifiers (Wikipedia, VIAF, GND, ORCID), (4) building knowledge graphs from linked data. NOT for: full-text article content (use Wikipedia API), scientific literature (use semantic-scholar), geospatial data (use OpenStreetMap).
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euxx Skill Gh Fix CIDebug failing GitHub Actions CI checks on the current branch's PR using the gh CLI — inspect logs, summarize root cause, and propose a focused fix plan before implementing.
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gabrielmoreira Bundle Github Fix IssueAnalyze and fix GitHub issues in the current repository, including issue research, scoped implementation, and testing. Use when the user asks to fix, investigate, or work on a GitHub issue by number or URL. Create branches, commits, pushes, or pull requests only when the user explicitly requests those delivery actions.
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microsoft Skill Rpi QuickSequence Research, Plan, Implement, Review, and Follow-up for an RPI task. Use when one workflow should coordinate the full delivery lifecycle.
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openlair Skill Aris Formula DerivationStructures and derives research formulas when the user wants to 推导公式, build a theory line, organize assumptions, turn scattered equations into a coherent derivation, or rewrite theory notes into a paper-ready formula document. Use when the derivation target is not yet fully fixed, the main object still needs to be chosen, or the user needs a coherent derivation package rather than a finished theorem proof.
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rohitg00 Bundle Wiki Research LoopAuto-grow a pro-workflow wiki by running a budget-capped BFS research loop over pluggable source fetchers (web, arXiv, GitHub). Each iteration pops a seed from the queue, fetches sources, drafts a wiki page, dedupes claims against existing pages, enqueues follow-up seeds. Halts on budget cap, depth cap, or convergence. Use when the user says "research <topic>", "grow the <slug> wiki", "auto-research", or wants a knowledge base that builds itself overnight.
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wentorai Skill Cnki Paper DetailExtract full paper details from a CNKI paper page including title, authors, affiliations, abstract, keywords, fund, classification. Use when the user needs detailed information about a specific paper.
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beita6969 Bundle Citation ManagementComprehensive citation management for academic research. Search Google Scholar and PubMed for papers, extract accurate metadata, validate citations, and generate properly formatted BibTeX entries. This skill should be used when you need to find papers, verify citation information, convert DOIs to BibTeX, or ensure reference accuracy in scientific writing.
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beita6969 Skill Deep Research SwarmCOPYRIGHT NOTICE
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beita6969 Skill Psychology ResearchConduct psychological research analysis including mental health, cognitive science, and behavioral studies
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 blog-discourse, antd-create-pr, academic-writing. 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.