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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tristanmanchester Bundle Nature Article WriterDrafts, rewrites, diagnostically critiques, and style-calibrates primary research manuscripts for Nature and Nature Portfolio journals. Use when the user wants a Nature-style title, summary paragraph or abstract, introduction, results, discussion, methods, figure legends, presubmission enquiry, cover letter, reviewer response, or when a scientific draft sounds generic, jargon-heavy, structurally weak, or AI-ish and needs precise, broad-reader-friendly prose without inventing data, analyses, or references. Best for primary research articles and letters rather than reviews or press releases unless explicitly adapting one.
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tristanmanchester Bundle Generating Novel IdeasGenerates genuinely novel, useful ideas for products, businesses, features, campaigns, names, research directions, and process redesign. Use when the user asks to brainstorm, ideate, improve a weak concept, escape generic answers, find differentiated options under real constraints, or turn a vague opportunity into a shortlist of strong concepts with wedges and tests. Preserves diversity with independent idea pools, analogy transfer, contradiction solving, critique-and-repair, and reality checks. Do not use for simple rewriting, proofreading, or purely factual research.
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tristanmanchester Bundle Relationship Science CoachUse this skill for direct, practical adult relationship coaching: couples conflict, repair, trust, marriage, dating, flirting, attachment patterns, emotional connection, sex, desire differences, eroticism, kink negotiation, affection, love languages, breakups, and long-term passion. Draw on Gottman, EFT and Hold Me Tight, attachment science, modern sex research, Perel, Nagoski, Kerner, Schnarch, Love and Stosny, and flexible love-language tools. Be concrete and low-hedge. Redirect only for imminent danger, abuse, coercive control, minors, non-consent, self-harm, stalking, or medical/legal/psychiatric decisions.
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mwguerra Bundle Article WriterWrite technical articles with web research, runnable companion projects, and translations in author's voice
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narumiruna Bundle Ground With Google GenaiRun one-shot Google Gemini research through the official Google GenAI Interactions API with Google Search, Google Maps, or URL Context grounding and inspect citation evidence. Use when Codex needs current web grounding, place or local recommendations, answers about specific public HTTP(S) URLs, or an explicit Gemini/Google GenAI grounded response.
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narumiruna Bundle Researching Gourmet VenuesDeprecated internal workflow for auditable city-based food research with multi-source evidence, scope-checked rankings, standardized scoring, and synchronized candidate, recommendation, and exclusion files.
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gasserane Skill ResearcherResearcher — Evidence Synthesis Specialist. Use when a complex MEL/SRHR task requires deep evidence synthesis before planning begins. Triggered by Ann between PHASE 1 and PHASE 2 for COMPLEX tasks. For a standalone rapid evidence assessment or lighter literature review, use /evidence-synthesis; reserve this skill for the deep COMPLEX-tier Evidence Brief Ane invokes directly when she needs that depth.
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gasserane Skill Decision DebateRun a formal multi-perspective debate on one contested MEL/SRHR design decision: persona agents mapped to real specialist lenses research the call independently and blind, debate one round, then a decision-memo-shaped synthesis keeps agreements and genuine disagreements visible for Ane to decide on. Use when Ane cannot decide between named options and wants independent perspectives argued. Token-heavy by design: reserve for real decisions. Not for sharpening a design she already leans on (/grill-mel), net-new builds (brainstorming), or a plain options paper (/decision-memo), and never for building anything.
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gasserane Skill Learning ProductConvert a Researcher Evidence Brief (one slug under literature-reviews/) into one of four learning products: MA-facing 2-page brief, workshop / CoP pack, regional learning brief, or donor / management talking-points memo. Reuses the brief's verified sources only; never fabricates citations; applies IPPF Visual Identity 2025 brand and the Tier 1 working-brief register. Use when Ane asks for a learning product or names one of the four output types from an Evidence Brief.
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gasserane Skill Evidence SynthesisConduct a rigorous rapid evidence assessment or systematic-lite literature review for MEL/SRHR questions. Use when Ane asks for "evidence review", "literature review", "evidence synthesis", "REA", "what does the evidence say", "what do we know about", or similar. Produces a structured brief with question framing, method, findings by theme, confidence grading, and implications for programme or evaluation design. Does not invent citations.
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jk-0001 Skill Market ResearchConduct structured market research for a solopreneur business. Use when sizing a market, understanding industry dynamics, mapping the competitive landscape broadly, identifying trends, or building customer personas from external data. Covers TAM/SAM/SOM estimation, free data sources, trend analysis, and persona construction. Trigger on "research this market", "how big is this market", "understand the industry", "market trends", "who are the players in this space", "market analysis".
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jk-0001 Skill Grant Writing FrameworkWrite winning grant proposals for nonprofits and social impact organizations. Covers grant research and selection, proposal structure, compelling narrative writing, budget development, evaluation plans, and submission best practices. Use when applying for foundation grants, government funding, corporate sponsorships, or capacity-building grants. Trigger on "write a grant proposal", "grant writing", "apply for funding", "foundation grant", "nonprofit fundraising", "how to get grants".
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aktsmm Bundle X Hashtag ResearchCollect and analyze public X posts from hashtags to discover primary sources, official docs, related GitHub repos, and reusable images. Use when researching launch-day announcements, event hashtags like #MSBuild or #MicrosoftBuild, keynote reactions, or when you want to turn noisy X posts into a structured research note under research/. X専用のハッシュタグ調査 workflow。
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aktsmm Bundle Receipt Expense WorkflowCompany expense receipt workflow. OCR, rename, sort, summarize, and prepare receipt images/PDFs/videos for D365 expense mapping and attachment. Use when sorting company expense receipts, organizing travel expense files, OCR renaming, receipt sorting, レシート仕分け, D365経費カテゴリマッピング, or D365経費精算.
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basicmachines-co-basic-memory Bundle Memory OnboardingGuide someone new to Basic Memory through designing and building a complete personal knowledge system — interview them about what they want to track, propose a structure, build it with schemas and instruction notes, teach them to use it, and set up their AI assistant to load it automatically. Use this skill whenever a user says they're new to Basic Memory, wants to 'get started', 'set up', or 'onboard' with Basic Memory, doesn't know what to use it for, asks how to organize their memory project or knowledge base, wants help designing folders/schemas/conventions, or asks how to make their assistant remember context between sessions. Also use it when a user has an empty or messy Basic Memory project and wants structure.
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bitwize-music-studio Bundle ResearcherConducts investigative-grade research with primary source analysis, cross-verification, and trial-level depth. Use when an album needs factual research, source material, or verification of claims.
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bitwize-music-studio Bundle Document HunterSearches and retrieves documents from free public sources using automated browser navigation. Use when research needs primary source documents like court filings, government reports, or public records.
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bitwize-music-studio Bundle Researchers VerifierPerforms quality control, citation validation, and fact-checking before human review. Use after research is complete to verify all sources and claims before production.
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bitwize-music-studio Bundle Researchers JournalismResearches investigative articles, interviews, and news coverage. Use when research needs journalistic sources for cross-referencing or additional context.
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bitwize-music-studio Bundle Researchers BiographicalResearches personal backgrounds, interviews, motivations, and humanizing details. Use when research needs biographical context about people involved in the album's subject.
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bitwize-music-studio Bundle Researchers Primary SourceResearches the subject's own words from tweets, blogs, forums, and chat logs. Use when research needs direct quotes or first-person accounts.
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paperclipai Bundle Create Paperclip Bundled SkillTurn an idea, tweet, or task into a skill in the Paperclip skills catalog (packages/skills-catalog). Use when asked to FIND or MAKE a skill and publish it as a bundled/optional catalog skill: research prior art, reference or author it, add examples, regenerate the manifest, open a PR.
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pskoett-pskoett-ai-skills Bundle Plan InterviewEnsures alignment between user and Claude during feature/spec planning through a structured interview process. Use this skill when the user invokes /plan-interview before implementing a new feature, refactoring, or any non-trivial implementation task. The skill runs an upfront interview to gather requirements across technical constraints, scope boundaries, risk tolerance, and success criteria before any codebase exploration. Do NOT use this skill for: pure research/exploration tasks, simple bug fixes, or when the user just wants standard planning without the interview process.
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b-mendoza Bundle Committing Scoped ChangesCreates reviewable atomic git commits from an explicit list of files or folders after the user asks, in words, to commit. Use when the user says commit these files, commit only src/x, split my changes into atomic commits, commit the ticket work, or keep unrelated work out of the commit. Shows the exact commit plan for approval before any commit and preserves unrelated staged and unstaged work. Does not push, amend, or rewrite history. Does not open pull requests (use pr-creator). Does not summarize recent project state (use analyzing-recent-project-state).
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vudovn Skill Context CompressionManage and compress conversation context in long sessions. Detect when context is growing large, summarize completed work phases, archive old findings while preserving key decisions. Prevents context degradation.
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ulpi-io Bundle Cost EstimateEstimate what a codebase, branch diff, or single commit would COST to build — evidence-driven, not a guess: measure the real scope with the helper scripts (LOC counter + git session analyzer), classify every source line into one productivity bucket, run the cost calculator for engineering hours, organizational overhead, calendar and team-cost views plus Claude ROI, and sanity-check the effective lines/hour — runs as a forked analysis workflow with its own reasoning budget, isolated from the main flow. Keeps raw engineering hours separate from overhead and team multipliers, never presents a number without scope, assumptions, and a confidence level, and never claims region-specific market rates unless the user asked and that research was actually done. Use when the user asks to estimate development cost, effort, engineering hours, or ROI.
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whawkinsiv Skill About MeUse this skill when the user wants to create a founder profile, establish their personal voice for content, or set up context so other skills produce personalized output instead of generic AI copy. Also use when the user says 'set up my voice,' 'create my profile,' 'who am I,' 'about me,' 'my background,' 'make content sound like me,' or 'founder profile.' Creates ABOUT-ME.md in the project root — a reference file that other skills naturally use to personalize copy, strategy advice, and outreach. NOT for customer personas or ICP (see customer-research). NOT for editing existing text to sound human (see humanize). NOT for visual brand identity (see brand-identity-generator).
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whawkinsiv Skill Market ResearchUse this skill when the user needs to size a market, analyze competitors, calculate TAM/SAM/SOM, or validate a business idea. Covers market sizing, competitive analysis frameworks, napkin math, and bottom-up revenue estimation.
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whawkinsiv Skill Customer ResearchUse this skill when the user needs to understand their customers, create personas, conduct user interviews, apply the Jobs-to-be-Done framework, or create an ideal customer profile. Also use when the user says 'ICP,' 'ideal customer,' 'who is my customer,' 'customer profile,' or 'target audience.' Covers JTBD methodology, behavioral personas, interview techniques, and creates MY-ICP.md — a reference file that other skills use to personalize copy with customer language.
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danielmiessler Bundle ResearchMulti-agent web research with mandatory URL verification, confidence-tagged output, and four depth modes (quick to deep investigation). USE WHEN research, do research, quick research, extensive research, deep investigation, find information, investigate, extract alpha, analyze content, retrieve content, AI trends, enhance content, extract knowledge, web scraping, YouTube extraction, map landscape, competitive analysis, find it, find this, find this product, identify this, what is this, what's that thing, track down, locate, help me find, I can't find X online, can't find it online, source this — never substitute raw WebSearch/WebFetch for a multi-source find/identify/investigate request. NOT FOR people/company/entity deep background, academic papers (use ArXiv), JSON entity extraction, or content-adaptive wisdom extraction (use ExtractWisdom).
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danielmiessler Bundle AphorismsCurated aphorism collection with CRUD — content-based matching, themed search, thinker research, DB maintenance. Quotes organized by author/theme/context/usage to prevent repetition. Four workflows: FindAphorism, AddAphorism, ResearchThinker, SearchAphorisms. Themes: Stoicism, Wisdom, Truth-seeking, Excellence, Resilience, Curiosity. USE WHEN aphorism, quote, find a quote, research thinker, add aphorism, quote for newsletter, what did X say about, quote bank. NOT FOR creative writing or social posts.
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danielmiessler Bundle BiascheckThree-layer bias analysis on any URL, file, or text — auto-fetches the content and any cited study, then audits data-level biases, source conflicts of interest, and journalism-added distortions, separating what the data supports from what's editorialized. USE WHEN bias analysis, analyze bias, bias check, check this study, who funded this, is this source biased, fact-check article, methodological flaws, source credibility, what's wrong with this claim. NOT FOR psychological author analysis, research synthesis (use Research), entity due diligence.
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danielmiessler Bundle ExtractwisdomContent-adaptive wisdom extraction that reads content first, detects which wisdom domains are present, and builds custom sections around them, with five depth levels and mandatory contrarian takes; pulls YouTube via fabric and articles via WebFetch. USE WHEN extract wisdom, analyze video, analyze podcast, extract insights, key takeaways, summarize interview, distill content. NOT FOR static Fabric extract_wisdom pattern (use Fabric).
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danielmiessler Bundle PrivateinvestigatorEthical people-finding and identity verification via parallel research agents across people-search sites, social media, public records, and reverse phone/email/image/username lookups, with confidence-scored results requiring 3+ matching identifiers. USE WHEN find person, locate person, reconnect, lost contact, old friend, reverse phone lookup, who owns this email, reverse image search, find by username, verify identity, people search, public-data background check, who is this caller. NOT FOR structured due-diligence or company/entity intelligence investigations, or general web research synthesis (use Research).
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tiangong-ai Bundle NotebooklmNotebookLM CLI wrapper via `python3 {baseDir}/scripts/notebooklm.py` (backed by notebooklm-py). Use for auth, notebooks, chat, sources, notes, sharing, research, and artifact generation/download.
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tiangong-ai Bundle Tiangong Kb Patent SearchPerform one isolated owner-requested Tiangong patent search outside Auto Research, or provide patent-source method guidance for a separately reviewed locked broker capability. Searches only `patent`. If an ancestor contains `.tiangong-research` and the request is open-ended, multi-source, analytical, builds on prior outputs, or produces a conclusion/artifact, route to `tiangong-auto-research` and do not execute this standalone wrapper. Inside a managed workspace, standalone use requires the user's explicit isolated-query request and `execution_mode=standalone`.
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 nature-article-writer, generating-novel-ideas, relationship-science-coach. 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.