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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xbtlin Skill Industry ResearchAI Berkshire skill: 行业投资研究:产业链全景扫描 + 四大师个股分析框架. Source: skills/industry-research.md.
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beita6969 Skill Scienceclaw GenerationGenerate scientific hypotheses, experimental designs, and paper drafts. Use when: user asks to propose hypotheses, design experiments, or write scientific content. NOT for: data analysis or literature search.
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gabrielmoreira Bundle Omics Target Evidence MapperAggregate public target-level evidence across omics and translational sources for research triage.
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galaxy-dawn Bundle Research IdeationThis skill should be used when the user asks to "brainstorm research ideas", "use 5W1H framework", "identify research gaps", "conduct gap analysis", "start research project", "conduct literature review", "define research question", "select research method", "plan research", or mentions research project initiation phase. Provides comprehensive guidance for research startup workflow from idea generation to planning.
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silverstein Skill Minutes IngestExtract facts from meetings and update your knowledge base — person profiles, chronological log, and index. Use when the user asks "ingest my meetings", "update my knowledge base", "extract facts from meetings", "sync meetings to wiki", "backfill knowledge", or wants their PARA/Obsidian/wiki profiles updated from conversation data.
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tobihagemann Skill Update DependenciesUpgrade project dependencies with breaking change research for major version updates. Use when the user asks to "update dependencies", "upgrade packages", "upgrade dependencies", "update deps", "upgrade deps", "update npm deps", "update Swift packages", "cargo update", "go get updates", "bundle update", or "pip upgrade".
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travisjneuman Skill Grant Proposal BuilderNonprofit and research grant proposal assembly with structured sections, budget templates, and evaluation alignment. Use when writing grant proposals, funding applications, or research funding requests.
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wentorai Skill Research Tools Router科研工具能力入口:文档解析、OCR、知识图谱、代码执行与数据采集。Use for research software, diagrams, scraping, notebooks, OCR, and graphs.
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beita6969 Skill Social Science AnalysisSocial science research methods including survey design, qualitative analysis, content analysis, network analysis, psychometrics, and mixed methods. Covers sociology, psychology, political science, education, and communication studies. Use when user designs surveys, analyzes qualitative data, does content analysis, builds scales, or uses mixed methods. Triggers on "survey design", "qualitative analysis", "content analysis", "Likert scale", "thematic analysis", "grounded theory", "factor analysis", "SEM", "structural equation", "psychometrics", "interview coding".
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gabrielmoreira Bundle Scvi ToolsDeep generative models for single-cell omics. Use when you need probabilistic batch correction (scVI), transfer learning, differential expression with uncertainty, or multi-modal integration (TOTALVI, MultiVI). Best for advanced modeling, batch effects, multimodal data. For standard analysis pipelines use scanpy.
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gabrielmoreira Bundle Thesis OutlineBuild a defensible thesis or dissertation outline — argument-first structure, chapter by chapter, with the through-line visible. Use when asked to outline my thesis, structure my dissertation, plan my capstone, or organize my research into chapters. Produces a full outline: the one-sentence thesis, chapter map with each chapter's job and claim, evidence allocation, and the risk register of weak links an examiner would probe.
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wentorai Skill Academic Deep ResearchMethodical research assistant for exhaustive investigations through systematic research cycles. Best for literature reviews, competitive analysis, trend reports, and comprehensive topic exploration.
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wentorai Bundle Composition Skills9 academic writing skills. Trigger: writing paper sections, structuring arguments, academic prose. Design: section-by-section guides (abstract, intro, methods, discussion) with templates.
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xbtlin Skill Investment ResearchAI Berkshire skill: 投资研究:巴菲特-芒格-段永平-李录 四大师综合分析框架. Source: skills/investment-research.md.
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beita6969 Skill Scienceclaw VerificationVerify scientific claims, check calculations, validate experimental designs, and fact-check citations. Use when: (1) checking a claim against evidence, (2) validating statistical analyses, (3) verifying experimental reproducibility claims, (4) fact-checking references, (5) adversarial review of research. NOT for: generating new content (use scienceclaw-generation), simple QA (use scienceclaw-qa).
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beita6969 Skill Scientific SummarizationSummarize and simplify scientific literature, educational content, and research papers
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hkuds Skill CLI Anything UnrealinsightsCapture Unreal Engine traces, inspect Trace Store files, keep Unreal Insights GUI open, and export/summarize timing/counter data.
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kochetkov-ma Skill My ClaudeDocument your Claude Code installation - setup, architecture, web research. Triggers - my claude, installation docs.
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rlaope Skill Omh Best Practice Research[omh] Hermes adaptation for bounded official/upstream best-practice research. Use when the user says: best-practice-research, best practice, official docs, upstream guidance, what do the docs say, check the docs.
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travisjneuman Skill Customer Persona BuilderData-driven customer persona development combining market research, user behavior analysis, and segmentation frameworks. Use when creating buyer personas, ideal customer profiles (ICPs), or user archetypes.
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varnan-tech Bundle Competitor Pr FinderGive it your product URL or description. It finds your top 5 competitors, runs three-track PR research across all of them (editorial, podcasts, communities), identifies which channels appear most frequently, looks up the journalist or host for each, and returns a tiered outreach list with story angles and ready-to-send cold pitch drafts tailored to your product. Use when asked to find PR opportunities, discover where competitors got featured, build a media outreach list, find which journalists cover my space, or get pitch templates for press coverage.
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wentorai Skill Research Domains Router科研学科能力入口:医学、生命科学、理工、社科与人文。Use for domain-specific databases, methods, terminology, compliance, and research workflows.
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wentorai Skill Research Methods Router科研方法能力入口:研究设计、系统综述、证据评价、同行评议与基金。Use for methodology, deep research, reviews, evidence grading, and funding.
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wentorai Skill Research Writing Router科研写作能力入口:论文结构、润色、引用、LaTeX 与投稿模板。Use for academic composition, editing, citation styles, typesetting, and venues.
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wentorai Bundle Methodology Skills12 research methodology skills. Trigger: study design, methodology selection, scientific reasoning, mentoring. Design: rigorous methods frameworks covering qualitative, quantitative, and mixed approaches.
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beita6969 Skill Scienceclaw SummarizationSummarize scientific papers, datasets, experimental results, and literature reviews. Use when: (1) condensing research papers, (2) creating literature reviews, (3) summarizing experimental findings, (4) meta-analysis synthesis, (5) creating executive summaries of research. NOT for: information extraction (use scienceclaw-ie), full paper retrieval (use scienceclaw-retrieval), or writing new content (use scienceclaw-generation).
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gabrielmoreira Bundle Company IntelResearch a company, industry, or competitor set using web search and seven analytical lenses. Use when you need structured intel that feeds downstream PM skills.
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fabioc-aloha Skill MeditationConsolidate session learning into permanent architecture — extract patterns into skills, instructions, prompts, or memory
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jparkerweb Bundle AI Assist Git PrAdaptive GitHub PR lifecycle skill — create PRs, write/update descriptions, investigate review comments (Copilot + human) with research and batch approval, and check merge readiness. Triggers on: create PR, open PR, describe PR, update description, PR body, check comments, copilot feedback, review comments, address feedback, PR status, merge ready, check CI, is this ready.
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kunagent Skill Scholar ResearchSearch, screen, synthesize, and cite scholarly literature and author metadata.
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gabrielmoreira Bundle Job Story MapperWrite Jobs-to-be-Done (JTBD) job stories and map customer jobs across functional, social, and emotional dimensions. Use when defining user needs, writing job stories, conducting JTBD research, or reframing features around customer outcomes. Produces a job story map with opportunity scoring, pain intensity ratings, and product opportunity analysis.
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gabrielmoreira Skill Sop Meeting PrepPrepare an S&OP cycle readout that surfaces the demand-supply gaps and forces the three decisions the meeting must make. Use when asked to prep an S&OP meeting, build the executive S&OP deck, summarize demand vs supply for the monthly cycle, or prepare a supply review readout. Produces a gap table, scenario levers with costs, an inventory projection, a decisions-required list, and a pre-read package.
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opensensenova Bundle Sn Deep Research用于用户请求深度研究、系统性研究、竞品分析、方案对比、趋势分析或事实核查时。**遇到以下任一情况就主动使用本 skill,不要自行搜几条就回答**:①用户出现触发词:深度研究 / 深度调研 / 深入研究 / 全面研究 / 系统研究 / 调研 / 调查 / 尽调 / 行业研究 / 市场研究 / 竞品分析 / 政策研究 / 技术研究 / 趋势研究 / 事实核查 / 写一份研究报告 / 调研报告 / 深度报告 / research / deep research;②请求需要跨多来源取证、多维度对比、交叉验证才能给出可靠结论;③用户要求产出报告、白皮书、行业分析或尽调文档;④话题涉及最新政策/市场/产品/价格/法规,需要系统核查。无核验要求的简单常识问答不使用。模糊或宽泛的"研究/了解一下 X"也优先触发。仅不用于:一句话摘要、已给定单一来源的整理、纯文字润色改写。
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sgharlow Bundle Research SynthesisSynthesize multiple sources — articles, reports, notes, transcripts — into one structured brief with themes, agreements, contradictions, and gaps. Use when the user says "synthesize this research", "combine these sources", "what do these articles agree on", or has a folder of collected material and needs one coherent picture.
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travisjneuman Skill Literature Review PlannerStructured literature review planning with systematic methodology, source evaluation, and synthesis frameworks. Use when planning academic literature reviews, research surveys, systematic reviews, or scoping reviews.
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varnan-tech Bundle Xquik X Tweet ScraperRun Xquik's Apify Actor for X searches, posts, timelines, conversations, lists, articles, and engagement research.
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 composition-skills, cli-anything-unrealinsights, industry-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.