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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wentorai Bundle Econometrics Skills10 econometrics skills. Trigger: causal analysis, regression models, treatment effects, panel data. Design: method-centric guides with R/Python code and diagnostic tests.
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wu-yc Skill Tooluniverse Drug ResearchGenerates comprehensive drug research reports with compound disambiguation, evidence grading, and mandatory completeness sections. Covers identity, chemistry, pharmacology, targets, clinical trials, safety, pharmacogenomics, and ADMET properties. Use when users ask about drugs, medications, therapeutics, or need drug profiling, safety assessment, or clinical development research.
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affitor Bundle Competitor SpyReverse-engineer successful affiliate strategies from competitors. Use this skill when the user asks about spying on competitors, researching what other affiliates promote, analyzing competitor affiliate sites, understanding how top affiliates in a niche make money, or says "what programs does X promote", "how does [site] make money", "what affiliate strategy does this site use", "spy on competitor affiliates", "reverse engineer affiliate site", "copy what works in my niche", "who are the top affiliates in X niche", "what content gets traffic in my niche", "competitor affiliate analysis".
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affitor Skill Submit ProgramResearch an affiliate program and create a verified listing for openaffiliate.dev. Use this skill when the user asks anything about listing a program, adding an affiliate program to the directory, submitting a program to list, creating a listing, documenting an affiliate program, sharing an affiliate program, writing a program profile, posting a program to openaffiliate.dev, or contributing a new program. Also trigger for: "list a program", "add affiliate program", "submit program to list", "create listing for X", "document affiliate program", "share affiliate program", "write a listing", "post to openaffiliate.dev", "add X to the directory", "register an affiliate program", "publish affiliate program", "new program listing", "profile this affiliate program", "catalog this program".
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beita6969 Skill Scienceclaw ClassificationClassify scientific content by discipline, methodology, topic, and quality. Use when: user asks to categorize papers, methods, or research outputs. NOT for: simple keyword tagging or non-scientific content.
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cnfjlhj Bundle Question RefinerUse when a research question is still vague and must be clarified into a structured deep-research brief before actual literature research or execution. Skip this if the user already has a concrete paper draft or a ready-to-run research specification.
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dtsola Skill Video Podcast MakerUse when the user gives a topic and wants an automated video podcast created, or asks to learn visual design patterns from a reference video/image. Produces 4K video via research → script → TTS → Remotion → MP4 + BGM.
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jeremylongworth-source Bundle Ticket TriageClassify and prioritize customer support tickets. Use when Codex is asked to triage support requests, assign severity, identify customer impact, summarize ticket facts, route ownership, detect missing information, or prepare next support actions.
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gabrielmoreira Skill Research ProtocolWrite a structured research protocol or study design document. Use when asked to write a research protocol, study protocol, research plan, methodology section, or research proposal. Produces a complete protocol with objectives, methodology, ethical considerations, and analysis plan.
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supermldev Skill Market ResearchResearch market context, competitive landscape, and user needs to inform product decisions. Use when the user says 'research the market', 'analyse competitors', or 'understand user needs'.
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aiming-lab Skill Source EvaluationUse this skill when presenting information from external sources, citing research, or answering factual questions. Assess source credibility and recency before relying on it.
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galaxy-dawn Bundle Zotero Obsidian BridgeUse this skill when Zotero is the literature source of truth and the project KB should receive source notes under Sources/Papers plus project-linked synthesis in Knowledge and Writing.
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gabrielmoreira Skill Mind MapTurn a topic, brainstorm, or document into a structured mind map. Use when asked to brainstorm around a theme, organize ideas, break a topic into branches, or summarize something as a mind map. Produces a ready-to-render Mermaid mindmap (renders live, exportable as PNG/SVG) plus a short note on the structure chosen.
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gabrielmoreira Skill Ambiguity ResolverStructure vague opportunities and unclear briefs into actionable one-page problem statements. Use when asked to clarify a vague brief, frame an undefined problem, make sense of an unclear opportunity, or when the user says 'we need to figure out what to do about X' or 'I've been asked to look into Y'. Produces a structured problem brief with reframed questions, scoped boundaries, and a minimum viable research plan.
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gabrielmoreira Skill Delay Claim LetterDraft a construction delay notice or delay claim letter with contract clause citation, cause classification, and critical-path impact narrative. Use when asked to write a delay notice, put the owner or GC on notice of delay, draft a time extension request, respond to weather or owner-caused delay, or paper a delay for a claim. Produces a notice/claim letter with the excusable-compensable classification, critical-path impact narrative, quantum placeholder, reservation of rights, and a records-preservation list.
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gabrielmoreira Skill Summarize AnythingTurn a long article, email thread, document, or transcript into a tight summary you can act on — the gist, the key points, and what it means for you. Use when asked for a TL;DR, to summarize this, give me the gist, or the key takeaways. Produces a one-line TL;DR, the key points as scannable bullets, any decisions/action items with owners, and open questions — faithful to the source, with nothing invented and important caveats kept.
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gabrielmoreira Skill Thread To DecisionLand a sprawling chat thread on an actual decision — the summarize-and-fork move (positions restated, the question isolated), the decider-and-deadline injection, and the recorded close that ends the forty-message orbit. Use when asked this thread is going in circles, get a decision out of this discussion, summarize where we landed, or why do our threads never conclude. Produces the thread summary with positions attributed, the isolated decision question, the closure message, and the decision record.
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varnan-tech Bundle Meeting Brief GeneratorTakes a company name and optional contact, runs targeted research via Tavily, synthesizes a 1-page pre-call brief with Gemini, and optionally saves it to Notion. Use when asked to prepare for a meeting, research a prospect before a call, generate a company brief, create a pre-call summary, or write a meeting prep doc. Trigger when a user says "prepare me for a meeting with", "research this company before my call", "generate a meeting brief for", "I have a call with X tomorrow", or "create a prospect brief for".
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gabrielmoreira Skill Building Screening RubricsCollaboratively build and refine paper screening rubrics through brainstorming, test-driven development, and iterative feedback
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gabrielmoreira Skill Evaluating Paper RelevanceTwo-stage paper screening - score OpenAlex abstracts, then deep dive into OA full text for specific data extraction
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gabrielmoreira Skill Tooluniverse Target ResearchGather comprehensive biological target intelligence from 9 parallel research paths covering protein info, structure, interactions, pathways, expression, variants, drug interactions, and literature. Features collision-aware searches, evidence grading (T1-T4), explicit Open Targets coverage, and mandatory completeness auditing. Use when users ask about drug targets, proteins, genes, or need target validation, druggability assessment, or comprehensive target profiling.
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gabrielmoreira Bundle Scientific Problem SelectionThis skill should be used when scientists need help with research problem selection, project ideation, troubleshooting stuck projects, or strategic scientific decisions. Use this skill when users ask to pitch a new research idea, work through a project problem, evaluate project risks, plan research strategy, navigate decision trees, or get help choosing what scientific problem to work on. Typical requests include "I have an idea for a project", "I'm stuck on my research", "help me evaluate this project", "what should I work on", or "I need strategic advice about my research".
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gabrielmoreira Bundle Company ResearchCreate a company research brief with executive quotes, product strategy, and org context. Use when preparing for interviews, competitive analysis, partnerships, or market-entry work.
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gabrielmoreira Bundle X APISearch X (Twitter) posts, pull user profiles, fetch specific tweets, and read reply threads for sentiment, news, and event research. Triggers on 'X', 'Twitter', 'tweets about', 'sentiment on', 'what are people saying about', 'historical tweets', or any request to read public X content.
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gabrielmoreira Skill Nlp Research Repo PackagingAligns Python interpreter and pinned deps before installing NLP research repos from requirements.txt or environment.yml. Use when cloning or reproducing NLP papers, debugging torch/transformers conflicts, or setting up research envs. Not for greenfield app packaging, unbounded pip upgrade, or overwriting system Python.
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gabrielmoreira Skill Hn DigestPull the current Hacker News front page, top comments, or a topic search with zero API keys — the official Firebase API and Algolia search via curl, digested instead of dumped. Use when asked what's on Hacker News, summarize HN today, what's the discussion on this story, or has HN covered some topic. Produces a ranked digest with scores and comment counts, the discussion's actual argument threads when asked, and the rerunnable commands.
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gabrielmoreira Skill Candidate ScorecardTurn interview notes into a structured candidate scorecard and hire recommendation. Use when asked to write an interview scorecard, a candidate evaluation, an interview debrief, or to summarize feedback into a hire/no-hire call. Produces a per-competency assessment with evidence and ratings, an overall recommendation with confidence, and the open questions for the next round — evidence-based, bias-aware, and decision-ready.
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gabrielmoreira Skill Knowledge GardeningKeep a team knowledge base alive — the gardener role and its weekly half-hour, the rot signals (stale pages, orphans, duplicates) and their fixes, the capture funnels that feed the garden, and the pruning that keeps search useful. Use when asked our wiki is a graveyard, who maintains the knowledge base, set up knowledge management that lasts, or people can't find anything anymore. Produces the gardener rotation, the weekly tending routine, the rot triage, and the capture funnels.
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gabrielmoreira Skill Net Worth StatementProduce a personal net-worth statement — assets minus liabilities — and a way to track it. Use when asked to calculate net worth, summarize finances, or set up net-worth tracking. Produces a categorized assets/liabilities statement, the net-worth figure, liquidity and debt ratios, and a tracking cadence. Educational, not regulated financial advice.
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gabrielmoreira Skill Research Repo SetupSet up a research repository the team actually reuses — the atomic-insight format (finding + evidence + source + date), the tagging that makes old research findable by new questions, and the check-the-repo-first norm that stops re-researching. Use when asked set up a research repository, we keep re-learning the same things, where do our user insights live, or make past research findable. Produces the repo structure, the insight-entry format, the intake funnel from studies, and the reuse norms.
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gabrielmoreira Skill Salary BenchmarkingBuild a defensible salary range for a role — what it actually pays given the market, location, level, and your value — so you can ask, counter, or set pay with a real number. Use when asked what should I be paid, is my salary fair, research market pay for [role], or how much to ask for. Produces a structured way to research the range from multiple sources, the factors that move your number (level, location, industry, skills, company size), where you likely sit in the band, and how to frame the number — flagging that pay data varies and should be triangulated, not taken from one source. Not the same as running the negotiation.
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gabrielmoreira Bundle Sn Deepresearch CLI一键启用 SenseNova-Skills-DeepResearch,用于行业与市场研究、竞品分析、政策或技术调研、商业尽调、趋势分析、方案对比、事实核查,以及研究报告、白皮书等交付场景。用户提出深度研究、调研、调查、尽调、research/deepresearch,或任务需要跨来源取证、多维度比较和交叉验证时主动使用;Skill 会完成环境检查、SenseNova-Skills-DeepResearch 安装或升级、Harness 与 Search/Camofox 准备、参数确认、研究启动和 Web 进度提示。简单常识问答、单一来源整理和纯文字润色不使用。
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gabrielmoreira Bundle Cellxgene CensusQuery the CZ CELLxGENE Census programmatically for versioned public single-cell and spatial transcriptomics data. Use when you need population-scale cell metadata, gene expression slices, Census summary counts, source H5AD URIs/downloads, embeddings, spatial Census data, or reference atlas comparisons across organisms, tissues, diseases, assays, and cell types. For analyzing your own local single-cell data use scanpy, anndata, or scvi-tools.
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gabrielmoreira Skill SummarizationSummarize documents, articles, conversations, code, and technical content into concise, accurate summaries. Use when user asks to summarize, condense, create a TL;DR, write an executive summary, extract key points, or distill content. Trigger when user says things like "summarize this", "give me the key points", "TL;DR", "what are the main takeaways", "condense this", "brief me on this", or provides long content asking for a shorter version. Also trigger for meeting notes summaries, research paper abstracts, and changelog summaries. Do NOT trigger for rewriting or paraphrasing at similar length, translation, or content generation from scratch.
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gabrielmoreira Bundle Xquik X Follower ScraperRun Xquik's Apify Actor for X followers, following, verified audiences, lists, communities, and overlap research.
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gabrielmoreira Skill Tooluniverse Drug RepurposingIdentify drug repurposing candidates using ToolUniverse for target-based, compound-based, and disease-driven strategies. Searches existing drugs for new therapeutic indications by analyzing targets, bioactivity, safety profiles, and literature evidence. Use when exploring drug repurposing opportunities, finding new indications for approved drugs, or when users mention drug repositioning, off-label uses, or therapeutic alternatives.
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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 market-research, source-evaluation, econometrics-skills. 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.