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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gabrielmoreira Skill Revision Strategy PlannerBuilds prioritized manuscript revision plans for major or minor revisions by separating comments that require experiments, analyses, clarification, restructuring, or wording changes.
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gabrielmoreira Skill Hierarchical Clustering PlotUse when building a sample-level hierarchical clustering dendrogram from a bulk expression matrix and sample annotation table, especially for QC, batch inspection, or sample similarity assessment. Trigger keywords: hierarchical clustering, dendrogram, sample QC, batch inspection, sample similarity. NOT for: differential expression testing, gene clustering heatmaps, single-cell clustering workflows.
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gabrielmoreira Skill Figure First Paper ReaderReads a paper figure by figure before re-integrating the full narrative, so the user can identify the core findings quickly and check whether each visual actually supports the authors' main claims. Always separate figure content, figure-linked claim, evidentiary strength, and unsupported interpretation. Never fabricate references, PMIDs, DOIs, figure content, panel labels, result values, or study details that were not actually provided.
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gabrielmoreira Skill High Value Paper ScreenerQuickly judges whether a biomedical paper is worth deep reading by screening for question fit, design quality, sample adequacy, methodological novelty, and reproducibility value.
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gabrielmoreira Skill Case Control Study PlannerDesign a structured case-control study framework with explicit source population logic, control selection rules, matching decisions, exposure measurement planning, and bias-control checkpoints.
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gabrielmoreira Skill Network Tox Docking Research PlannerGenerates complete network toxicology + molecular docking research designs from a user-provided toxicant and disease/phenotype. Always use this skill when users want to investigate how an environmental toxicant, endocrine disruptor, heavy metal, food contaminant, pharmaceutical residue, or consumer product chemical may contribute to a disease through shared molecular targets, hub genes, pathways, and docking evidence. Trigger for:"network toxicology study", "toxicology mechanism paper", "target prediction + PPI + docking", "environmental pollutant and disease mechanism", "hub genes and docking for toxicant", "Lite/Standard/Advanced toxicology plan", "CTD + SwissTargetPrediction + GeneCards + STRING", "CB-Dock2 docking study", "triclosan/BPA/cadmium/PFAS + disease". Also triggers for Chinese phrasings:"网络毒理学研究设计"、"毒物机制论文"、"靶点预测+PPI+对接"、"环境污染物与疾病机制". Trigger even for casual phrasings like "I want to study how chemical X affects disease Y" or "help me design a toxicology paper". Always output four workload confi
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gabrielmoreira Skill Identify Canadian Logistics JurisdictionIdentify federal, provincial, territorial, modal, product, workplace, and activity jurisdiction for Canadian logistics research.
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gabrielmoreira Skill Statistical Problem FormulationFormulate statistical research problems with formal notation, target parameters, assumptions, hypotheses, evaluation criteria, and theory targets.
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gabrielmoreira Skill Grant Specific Aims WriterWrites Specific Aims pages for grant applications. Use when drafting or revising the Specific Aims page (NIH R01/R21/R03), NSF Project Summary, or equivalent for any major funding agency. Also triggers on "write my specific aims", "help me draft specific aims for NIH", "what should a specific aims page include", "NSF project summary", "write my grant aims", or "how do I structure an R01".
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gabrielmoreira Skill Results Section StructurerOrganizes biomedical figures, analyses, and result blocks into a clear Results section structure with disciplined narrative ordering and evidence-aware presentation.
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gabrielmoreira Skill Elastic Net Feature SelectionUse when selecting predictive genes or other molecular features from bulk expression matrices for binary case-vs-control classification with elastic net logistic regression, including coefficient path and cross-validation plots. Trigger keywords: elastic net, glmnet, feature selection, binary classification, lambda.min, lambda.1se. NOT for: survival/Cox modeling, multiclass outcomes, single-cell data, or non-expression tables.
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gabrielmoreira Skill Result Reliability CheckerAssesses whether study results are trustworthy by auditing design integrity, sample structure, statistical handling, bias control, validation chain, and claim discipline. It identifies where results are robust, fragile, overfit, under-validated, or overclaimed. Always separate reported findings from reliability judgment. Never fabricate references, PMIDs, DOIs, trial identifiers, study features, or validation claims.
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gabrielmoreira Skill Aim And Hypothesis DesignerDesigns primary aims, secondary aims, and testable hypotheses from broad biomedical research ideas. Use this skill when a user needs to convert a loose study idea into a tighter protocol-framing structure with clear aim hierarchy, hypothesis discipline, and separation between hypothesis-driven and exploratory components. Always keep aims answerable, non-overlapping, and aligned to the intended evidence type and study scope.
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gabrielmoreira Skill Identify Us Logistics JurisdictionIdentify federal, state, territorial, modal, product, workplace, and activity jurisdiction for United States logistics research.
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gabrielmoreira Skill Introduction Section WriterWrites the full Introduction section of a biomedical manuscript based on an approved or sufficiently clear study logic, while preserving evidence boundaries and introduction discipline.
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gabrielmoreira Skill Reference Integrity CheckerChecks whether manuscript references are accurately matched to claims, appropriately scoped, and not overextended, misquoted, or second-hand cited.
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gabrielmoreira Skill Estimate Immune Score AnalysisUse this skill to compute ESTIMATE immune-related microenvironment scores from a bulk expression matrix, generate an ESTIMATE score heatmap, and optionally generate group-wise ESTIMATE score boxplots plus significance tables when a sample group file is supplied. Trigger keywords: ESTIMATE, immune score, stromal score, tumor microenvironment score. NOT for: immune cell deconvolution, single-cell analysis, differential expression, clinical diagnosis.
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gabrielmoreira Skill Biomarker Landscape ScannerScans the biomarker landscape of a disease area by biomarker type, clinical/research use case, evidence layer, validation status, and maturity level. Use this skill when a user wants a field-level biomarker evidence map rather than a generic literature summary. Always separate exploratory biomarkers from externally validated or clinically embedded biomarkers, and never imply clinical maturity without explicit evidence support.
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gabrielmoreira Skill Clinical Question ClarifierClarifies a vague clinical or biomedical research idea into a structured, bounded, searchable, researchable, and testable question. Always use this skill whenever a user has an early-stage clinical or research thought, an over-broad topic, an ill-defined evidence question, or an unclear problem statement that must be translated into a question framing suitable for literature retrieval, evidence synthesis, gap analysis, study design, or downstream protocol planning. Never jump straight to answering the substantive medical question unless the user explicitly asks for that. Focus first on question framing, boundary setting, and downstream-ready formulation.
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gabrielmoreira Skill Medical Research Gap FinderIdentifies real, evidence-audited, topic-specific research gaps in medical research by first retrieving and verifying literature from trusted sources, then mapping the current evidence landscape, rejecting pseudo-gaps, and converting only medium/high-confidence gaps into study-ready research opportunities. Always require real literature retrieval before formal gap claims. Never fabricate references, metadata, or findings.
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gabrielmoreira Skill Endpoint Definition DesignerDesigns primary, secondary, and exploratory endpoints for biomedical and clinical research protocols. Always use this skill when a user needs to translate study aims into operational endpoint definitions with event rules, assessment timing, composite logic, interpretability, and protocol-stage auditability. Focus on endpoint precision, feasibility, clinical meaning, ambiguity reduction, and implementation readiness rather than generic study design advice.
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gabrielmoreira Skill Validation Strategy DesignerDesigns internal, external, temporal, and functional validation strategies at the protocol stage for medical research studies.
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gabrielmoreira Skill Research Canadian Powered Equipment SafetyPrepare Canadian powered industrial equipment safety research briefs for forklifts, lift trucks, conveyors, AGVs, AMRs, and ASRS interfaces.
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gabrielmoreira Skill Graphical Abstract GeneratorConverts a biomedical study storyline into a graphical abstract and, when direct image capability is available, generates the graphical abstract directly; otherwise it falls back to prompts, Mermaid flowcharts, or designer-facing briefs.
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gabrielmoreira Skill Title And Abstract OptimizerOptimizes manuscript titles and abstracts for information density, factual accuracy, and submission fit in biomedical research writing.
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gabrielmoreira Skill Gsva Analysis And VisualizationUse this skill to run GSVA or ssGSEA pathway-level differential analysis from a bulk expression matrix and a sample group file, then generate a heatmap from the saved GSVA result object. Trigger keywords: GSVA, ssGSEA, pathway enrichment, KEGG pathway analysis, MSigDB. NOT for: gene-level differential expression, single-cell analysis, methylation analysis, clinical diagnosis.
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gabrielmoreira Skill Preprint Surveillance FinderTracks the latest preprints and emerging research topics related to your topic across bioRxiv, medRxiv, and arXiv. Use when a user wants to discover what is being published right now before it reaches journals, monitor competitor directions, spot new methodology trends, or get an early-warning scan of a research area. Triggers on phrases like "what's new in X", "latest preprints on Y", "emerging topics in Z", "monitor bioRxiv for", or "what are people working on in this field".
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gabrielmoreira Skill Translational Study BlueprintDesigns a translational blueprint for moving a biomedical finding toward diagnosis, prognosis, treatment response prediction, patient stratification, or therapeutic development, with explicit translational milestones, validation thresholds, and feasibility-sensitive route framing.
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gabrielmoreira Skill Case Control Study Quality Assessment NosClinical Research Bias Assessment - Case-Control Study (NOS) v2.3.0. Use when you need to assess the bias of a case-control study using the Newcastle-Ottawa Scale (NOS) criteria, or when evaluating the quality of a medical paper.
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gabrielmoreira Skill Research Canadian Commercial Vehicle SafetyPrepare Canadian commercial-vehicle safety research briefs for motor carrier, driver, vehicle, maintenance, and hours-of-service context.
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gabrielmoreira Skill Research Us Powered Equipment SafetyPrepare United States powered industrial truck and powered equipment safety research briefs for logistics operations.
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gabrielmoreira Skill Differential Expression AnalysisUse when analyzing bulk RNA-seq or microarray expression data to identify differentially expressed genes between two biological groups (case vs control), with volcano plots and heatmap visualization. NOT for:single-cell RNA-seq, methylation analysis, non-expression data.
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gabrielmoreira Skill Unmet Clinical Need ExtractorExtracts concrete unmet clinical needs from guidelines, reviews, real-world studies, and clinical-practice evidence. Use this skill when a user wants to turn broad medical research value into specific clinical pain points such as weak early detection, poor risk stratification, treatment-response heterogeneity, monitoring gaps, diagnostic delay, undertreatment, overtreatment, or implementation failure. Always ground unmet-need claims in retrieved evidence and distinguish true care gaps from generic statements of importance.
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gabrielmoreira Skill Dialog EngineeringCSAR Loop and structured conversation patterns for effective AI dialog -- Clarify, Summarize, Act, Reflect
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gabrielmoreira Skill Research Us Commercial Vehicle SafetyPrepare United States commercial-vehicle safety research briefs for motor carrier, driver, vehicle, maintenance, and hours-of-service context.
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gabrielmoreira Skill Research Us Hazardous Materials RulesPrepare PHMSA and DOT hazardous-materials research briefs for United States logistics without classifying or certifying hazmat.
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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 case-control-study-planner, case-control-study-quality-assessment-nos, revision-strategy-planner. 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.