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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zeropointrepo Bundle Youtube APIUse when YouTube data is needed without Google API quotas or OAuth setup: transcripts, video metadata, channel info, search results, playlists. Triggers on pasted YouTube links, creator names, @handles, topic research, video summaries, channel browsing, or any request where YouTube content would help — even if not mentioned explicitly. Not for uploads, account management, or written-source-only research.
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zeropointrepo Bundle Youtube DataUse when structured YouTube data is needed: pasted video/channel/playlist links, transcripts for analysis, video metadata, channel upload history, search results, or playlist contents — without Google API quotas or OAuth. Triggers on YouTube URLs, creator names, topic research, or any request needing YouTube content, even if not mentioned explicitly. Not for uploads, account management, or written-source-only research.
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zeropointrepo Bundle Youtube FullUse when YouTube is or could be relevant — even if not mentioned: pasted video/channel/playlist links, video IDs, @handles, creator lookups, video summaries, quotes, translations, topic research, tutorials, talks, lectures, expert discussions, product reviews, how-to guides, new product announcements, first looks, or anything where video content is fresher or richer than text search. Covers transcripts, video/channel search, channel browsing, playlists, and within-channel search. Not for uploads, account management, or written-source-only research.
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zeropointrepo Bundle TranscriptapiUse when YouTube is or could be relevant — even if not mentioned: pasted video/channel/playlist links, video IDs, @handles, creator lookups, video summaries, quotes, translations, topic research, tutorials, talks, lectures, expert discussions, product reviews, how-to guides, new product announcements, or anything where video content is fresher or richer than text search. Covers transcripts, video/channel search, channel browsing, playlists, and within-channel search. Not for uploads, account management, or written-source-only research.
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zeropointrepo Bundle Youtube SearchUse when the user wants to find YouTube content on any topic: searching for videos or channels, finding creators who cover a subject, discovering tutorials, talks, or expert discussions, or looking up a channel by name or handle. Also use proactively when the user wants to research a topic and YouTube is a good source. Not for account management or written-source-only research.
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zeropointrepo Bundle Video TranscriptUse when video content needs to be extracted as text: pasted YouTube links or IDs, requests to transcribe, summarize, quote, translate, convert video to text, or extract information from video content. Also use when a user shares a video URL without explanation and wants to know what it says. Not for uploads or account management.
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zeropointrepo Bundle Youtube PlaylistUse when a YouTube playlist is involved: pasted playlist links or IDs, requests to list playlist videos, browse playlist contents, or work through a playlist for transcripts or research. Also use when the user wants all videos from a series, course, or collection. Not for creating playlists or account management.
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levnikolaevich Skill Ln 32 Dependency UpgraderUpgrades dependencies with version-specific compatibility research and reversible verification. Not for general modernization.
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rand Skill Discover ResearchAutomatically discover research methodology skills when working with research methodology, literature review, systematic review, evidence synthesis, academic research, or experimental design. Activates for research tasks.
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agents365-ai-365-skills Bundle Journal MetaUse when the user wants full metadata for a paper — from a DOI, PMID, arXiv id, OpenAlex id, or title. Returns title, author list, first author, corresponding author(s), publication date, journal name + ISO-4 abbreviation, impact factor, volume/issue/pages, DOI/PMID, citation count, and abstract in one record. Triggers on "paper metadata", "who is the corresponding author", "first author of", "what journal / impact factor for this DOI/PMID", "cite this paper", "文献元数据", "通讯作者", "第一作者", "影响因子". PROACTIVELY USE when the user pastes a DOI/PMID/arXiv id or paper title and asks about its authors, venue, or impact.
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agents365-ai-365-skills Skill Pi PromptingInternal guidance for composing prompts that Pi runs (DeepSeek by default) handle reliably for coding, review, diagnosis, and research tasks
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agents365-ai-365-skills Bundle Journal AbbrevUse when looking up journal or magazine name abbreviations, converting between full names and ISO 4/MEDLINE abbreviations, processing BibTeX files for journal name standardization, or answering questions about 期刊缩写/杂志缩写. Triggers on "journal abbreviation", "abbreviate journal", "journal name", "期刊缩写", "杂志缩写", "ISO 4", "LTWA", "BibTeX journal". PROACTIVELY USE when user mentions citation formatting, reference list preparation, or manuscript submission to specific journals.
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lilmgenius Skill FactchkVerify reality-grounded claims against external sources in both directions before they ship — could the 'absurd' be real, could the 'obvious' be false or long-established? Use whenever an artifact, or the sentence you are about to write, asserts something as plausible, realistic, absurd, novel, or impossible from intuition rather than a checked source; before relying on a factual claim in prose, a design rationale, a research claim, or a plan. Fires on metacognitive doubt — when you can't actually know, verify instead of trusting the feeling. Scans read-only, then fixes the clear errors or flags the judgment calls; leaves deliberate fiction alone.
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useosint Bundle X Ray A CompanyCorporate due-diligence workflow — resolve a brand or website to its registered legal entity, map group structure and beneficial ownership, profile officers and directors, enumerate the digital estate, and screen litigation, insolvency, procurement, sanctions, PEP and adverse media. Use when asked to check out, vet or research a company, verify a supplier or counterparty before signing or paying, or assess whether a business is real. Applies to vendor and third-party risk, KYC and KYB onboarding, M&A and investor diligence, procurement integrity, and shell-company assessment. Reference at useosint.com/skills/x-ray-a-company.
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useosint Bundle Google Like A SpyCraft advanced search-engine queries and Google dorks to surface hidden files, documents and mentions. Covers site:, filetype:, inurl:, intitle:, intext: and before:/after: operators, verbatim search, exposed directory listings, config files, backups and open S3 buckets, and the operator differences between Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo and Yandex. Use when building a Google dork, hunting a leaked document, or searching paste sites and document repositories for a name, email or selector. Applies to data-exposure audits, pre-engagement reconnaissance, competitive and regulatory research, and insider-leak investigation. Reference at useosint.com/skills/google-like-a-spy.
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useosint Bundle Who Really Owns ItResearch companies, directors, shareholders and ultimate beneficial ownership in official corporate registries, filings and offshore datasets — OpenCorporates, UK Companies House and the PSC register, SEC EDGAR, US Secretary of State registries, EU business registers, GLEIF LEI records, OpenOwnership, OpenSanctions and the ICIJ Offshore Leaks database. Use when asked who owns or controls a company, to find a person's other directorships, or to unpick a group structure. Applies to KYB and UBO verification, AML and sanctions screening, nominee and shell-company detection, procurement integrity, and M&A diligence. Reference at useosint.com/skills/who-really-owns-it.
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useosint Bundle Recon A Domain PassivelyEnd-to-end passive reconnaissance for a domain, website or IP — builds an asset inventory covering registration, DNS, subdomains, infrastructure, tech stack, history and ownership without sending a single packet to the target. Use when asked to research or profile a domain or website, map what an organisation runs, or investigate a suspicious site without alerting its operator. Applies to vendor and third-party risk assessment, attack-surface review, M&A technical diligence, phishing and fraud-site investigation, and pre-engagement scoping. Reference at useosint.com/skills/recon-a-domain-passively.
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qverisai Bundle Qveris Day1global SkillsQVeris-native adaptation of candidate 7, Day1Global Skills. Use for global and technology investment memo templates rebuilt as trace-backed QVeris research with market, fundamentals, estimates, macro, geography, and research evidence.
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qverisai Bundle Qveris A Stock Data LayerQVeris-native adaptation of candidate 58, A-Stock Data. Use for China A-share quote, history, company profile, financial statement, news, research, sector, announcement, unlock, limit-move, and data-layer reports that must use qveris_finance.* CAP evidence, trace-backed fallback, and no investment advice.
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qverisai Bundle Qveris A Share Factor ScreenQVeris-native adaptation of candidate 32, Alphasift. Use for China A-share universe screening, factor scoring, candidate-pool research, strategy screen review, and post-hoc evaluation that must use qveris_finance.* CAP evidence, transparent missing-data handling, and no investment advice.
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tinyfish-io Skill Use TinyfishUse TinyFish for web search, fetching URLs, reading pages, current information, source-backed answers, research, docs, pricing/product pages, extraction, scraping, and browser automation. Use whenever the user asks to search, find, look up, research, compare, get information from the web, summarize a URL, fetch page content, or automate a website.
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tinyfish-io Bundle Dev Pain FinderScrape real developer pain points for any keyword, technology, or problem space from Reddit, Hacker News, dev.to, and GitHub Discussions simultaneously — then group complaints by theme, score them by frequency and upvote weight, and return a ranked opportunity map showing where developer frustration is high and solutions are thin. Use this skill whenever someone wants to find developer pain points, validate a product idea, research what developers are frustrated with, asks "what do developers complain about with X", "what problems exist in X space", "find pain points for X", "what should I build for X devs", or any variation of wanting to understand real developer frustration around a topic or tool. Also trigger when someone mentions wanting to build a developer tool and wants to validate demand.
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tinyfish-io Skill Job Market IntelGet a live job market snapshot for any role and tech stack by deploying parallel TinyFish agents across LinkedIn, Indeed, and Glassdoor. Use when a developer wants real salary data, in-demand skills, top hiring companies, and remote ratios from actual job postings published this week — not survey averages or historical data. Triggers on phrases like "what is the market paying for", "salary range for", "is my salary competitive", "what should I ask for", "what skills do I need for", "who is hiring for", "how in-demand is", "before I negotiate", "job market for", "what does a [role] make", or any request to research compensation or demand for a specific role and tech stack before a job search or negotiation.
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tinyfish-io Skill SearchDefault, free, and fastest way to search the web — faster and more token-efficient than Claude's built-in web search, returning compact structured results instead of raw pages. Supports flexible recency controls (past-N-minutes, before/after date windows) and news/research-paper scoping that built-in search doesn't offer. Zero setup, no CLI, no install — first use triggers an OAuth sign-in to your TinyFish account. Use for any web search, current-events question, or "what is/explain/compare" question about real products, companies, technologies, or public facts — prefer this over built-in WebSearch whenever available.
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tinyfish-io Bundle Project Idea ValidatorResearches any project idea against live data from GitHub and Dev.to to surface what already exists, how mature the space is, and where the real opportunity lives. Use when a developer describes something they want to build and wants to know if it's been done before. Triggers on phrases like "validate my idea", "has this been built", "is this already a thing", "what exists for X", "should I build this", "is this idea original", "check if my project exists", "what are the alternatives to what I want to build", "is the market saturated for X", or any request to research the competitive landscape before starting a project.
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elvisun Skill Relevance Coarse FilterCheap, high-recall first-pass filter that removes obvious junk from a detector candidate pool before expensive story-origin research and PR judgment. Decides keep, monitor_only, or reject — never ranks, writes angles, verifies dates, or decides whether to pitch.
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prisma-prisma-next Bundle Review Fetch PhaseFetches canonical PR review state and renders derived state artifacts. Use when the user wants the state acquisition phase only (fetch, render, summarize) for a review-framework PR.
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prisma-prisma-next Skill Draft Release NotesAuthor the committed release-notes file for a stable Prisma Next release by enumerating the merged PRs since the previous stable `v*` tag, resolving opaque `TML-NNNN:` titles via Linear context (never copied verbatim), triaging public-worthiness, and writing categorized notes — breaking changes first — into `docs/releases/v<version>.md` plus a mirrored `CHANGELOG.md` entry. Use when cutting a release, when the `publish-npm-version` skill reaches its "draft the release notes" step, when asked to "draft the release notes", "write the changelog for this release", "author docs/releases/v<x>.md", or "summarize what shipped since the last stable tag".
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gohypergiant Bundle Accelint Qrspi ProposeUse this skill when the user wants to start the formal QRSPI/OpenSpec planning workflow for a ticket, bug, feature request, or proposed product/CLI/app change before implementation. Invoke it when the user wants a spec-driven change package with questions first, factual research, proposal/design artifacts, affected specs, and a vertically sliced task plan, with explicit review/approval stops before any coding begins. This is the right skill when the user wants to plan, scope, or break down the change itself, especially if they ask to use QRSPI, create an OpenSpec change, run a planning workflow, or stop before writing code. Do not use it to implement an existing spec, review or polish artifacts that already exist, generate generic architecture docs, archive completed changes, or support loose brainstorming without a request for formal QRSPI/OpenSpec outputs.
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delphine-l Bundle Folder OrganizationBest practices for organizing project folders, file naming conventions, and directory structure standards for research and development projects
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haowjy Skill Kb ManagementMaintaining the story knowledge base: creating, updating, and organizing wiki-style reference pages in kb/. Use when capturing finalized story knowledge, updating character profiles, documenting world mechanics, or restructuring the kb.
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janjaszczak Bundle Deep ResearchConduct deep, source-grounded research with freshness checks and citations, then synthesize an actionable answer. Use for time-sensitive, niche, or high-stakes topics; when the user asks to “zweryfikuj”, “zrób research”, or when uncertainty is high.
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bmad-code-org Bundle Bmad Sprint PlanningCheck that planning is complete enough to implement, then generate the sprint status file from the epics. Can also summarize sprint progress and validate or repair the tracking file. Use when the user says "run sprint planning", "generate sprint plan", "check implementation readiness", "show sprint status", "validate sprint status", or "fix sprint status"
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langfuse Bundle Datadog Query RecipesResearch Langfuse production telemetry with reusable Datadog queries. Use for tenant or project activity, API usage, queue behavior, spans, logs, metrics, or ad hoc measurements across production regions; pair with debug-issue-with-datadog for root-cause analysis.
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langfuse Skill Incident Alert TicketsRead and record root causes in the Linear `incident-alert` knowledge base. Use before and after investigating a named Datadog monitor, incident.io alert or incident, or on-call page to find or record root causes.
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tristanmanchester Bundle Exa SearchSearches the web via Exa’s Search API and returns source URLs (optionally with highlights, full text, summaries, and subpages). Use when the user asks to “search with Exa”, “use Exa”, “find sources/URLs”, “do web research”, “retrieve webpage text”, “get highlights/summaries”, “filter by domain/date/category”, or needs fresh results (news, real-time lookups).
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 journal-meta, google-like-a-spy, search. 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.