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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terminalskills Bundle AI ScientistBuild AI agents that automate scientific research — hypothesis generation, experiment design, data analysis, and paper writing using agentic tree search. Use when: automating research workflows, generating and testing hypotheses, building AI-powered research assistants.
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terminalskills Bundle Validate IdeaValidate a business idea before building — market research, competitor analysis, customer interviews, and demand signals. Use when: evaluating a startup idea, deciding whether to build something, assessing market opportunity.
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terminalskills Bundle Dexter FinanceBuild autonomous financial research agents that analyze stocks, SEC filings, earnings calls, and market data to produce investment reports. Use when: automating investment research, building AI-powered stock analysis, creating financial due diligence agents.
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benedictking-tavily-web Bundle Tavily WebWeb research skill using Tavily API for search, extract, crawl, map, and structured research tasks. Use when you need latest information, extract content from URLs, or discover site structure. Triggers: tavily, web search, search web, latest info, extract, crawl, map, research, 搜索网页, 查资料, 最新
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kesslerio Bundle Academic Deep ResearchTransparent, rigorous research with full methodology — not a black-box API wrapper. Conducts exhaustive investigation through mandated 2-cycle research per theme, APA 7th citations, evidence hierarchy, and 3 user checkpoints. Self-contained using native OpenClaw tools (web_search, web_fetch, sessions_spawn). Use for literature reviews, competitive intelligence, or any research requiring academic rigor and reproducibility.
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liang121 Bundle Video SummarizerDownload videos from 1800+ platforms (YouTube, Bilibili, Twitter/X, TikTok, Vimeo, Instagram, etc.) and generate complete resource package with video, audio, subtitles, and AI summary. Actions: summarize, download, transcribe, extract video content. Platforms: youtube.com, bilibili.com, twitter.com, x.com, tiktok.com, vimeo.com, instagram.com, twitch.tv. Outputs: MP4 video, MP3 audio, VTT subtitles with timestamps, TXT transcript, MD AI summary. Auto-installs uv, yt-dlp, ffmpeg. Python dependencies managed by uv.
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magicseek Bundle NblmUse this skill to query your Google NotebookLM notebooks directly from Claude Code for source-grounded, citation-backed answers from Gemini. Browser automation, library management, persistent auth. Drastically reduced hallucinations through document-only responses.
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prathamlearnstocode Bundle Paper2codeConverts an arxiv paper into a minimal, citation-anchored Python implementation. Trigger when user runs /paper2code with an arxiv URL or paper ID, says "implement this paper", or pastes an arxiv link asking for implementation. Flags all ambiguities honestly. Never invents implementation details not stated in the paper.
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bassimeledath Bundle DispatchDispatch background AI worker agents to execute tasks via checklist-based plans. Use when the user says 'dispatch' to delegate work to background agents, e.g. 'dispatch sonnet to review this', 'dispatch opus to fix the bug', 'dispatch a worker to research X'.
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grasseed Skill Gemini Research Browser UseUse Chrome DevTools Protocol to allow the AI to "ask Gemini" or "research with Gemini" directly. This uses the user's logged-in Chrome session, bypassing API limits and leveraging the web interface's reasoning capabilities.
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skindhu Bundle Us Stock ResearcherUS Stock Investment Research Assistant. Supports Gemini Deep Research or Claude Native Deep Research (7-Phase + GoT). Use when analyzing 10-K/10-Q reports or generating investment research reports.
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davis7dotsh Bundle Btca CLIOperate the btca CLI for local resources and source-first answers. Use when setting up btca in a project, connecting a provider, adding or managing resources, and asking questions via btca commands. Invoke this skill when the user says "use btca" or needs to do more detailed research on a specific library or framework.
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donnfelker Bundle Generate Release NotesThis skill should be used when the user asks to "generate release notes", "generate changelog", "create release notes", "write changelog", "what changed since last release", "prepare release notes", "update changelog", or "summarize changes from git history". Parses conventional commit messages to produce categorized, well-formatted release notes or changelog entries.
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blitzreels Skill Blitzreels X VideoTurn an X or Twitter post, native X video, thread, conversation, or current trend into short-form video with BlitzReels. Use when the user provides an x.com URL or asks to research X and create clips, a faceless explainer, a trend response, or platform-ready video.
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luwill Bundle Lit SearchRuns an exhaustive time-windowed literature search over a research topic and delivers a quality-tiered DOI list plus a matching formatted reference list, with measurable recall (gold-set recall, PRISMA counts, citation-closure saturation). Use for systematic reviews / SLR, 开题报告, 挑战赛调研, or any "把某方向近 N 年文献检索全/理一遍/梳理一遍/查全" request. Builds the corpus — not for reading or summarizing the papers themselves, and not for writing the review text. Not for casual "find me a few papers" lookups.
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luwill Bundle Medical Imaging ReviewUse when the user asks to plan, conduct, document, synthesize, or draft a medical imaging AI narrative review or method survey, scoping review, or systematic review with qualitative synthesis, including protocol design, literature search, screening, extraction, risk-of-bias appraisal, or evidence synthesis. Do not use this skill to perform a meta-analysis or umbrella review; route those requests to a specialized evidence-synthesis methods workflow.
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rkreddyp Skill Industry ResearchComprehensive industry research skill providing methodologies, frameworks, and best practices for analyzing industry trends, key companies, market dynamics, and industry-specific developments across consumer, tech, healthcare, and finance sectors
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stripe Skill Financial InsightsReads a user's Link financial data — transactions, balances, and wallet sources — so agents can answer questions about spending and available source capabilities. Use when the user says "check my balance", "how much did I spend", "show my transactions", "what accounts are connected", "summarize my spending", "recent purchases", or asks about their financial activity, account balances, or linked sources.
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defillama Skill Token ResearchComprehensive token analysis combining price, market cap, unlock schedule, DeFi deposits, and yield opportunities. Use when the user asks to analyze a token, research a token, check token fundamentals, or wants full token intelligence including vesting and DeFi usage.
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hkustdial Bundle Tech Paper TemplateStructures a technical paper's full logical skeleton using a thinking-template table (research background, limitations, key idea or goal, challenges, methodology modules, contributions), positions the paper as Technique or New Problem/Setting, and runs a four-point self-consistency check. Use when the user is brainstorming a paper, discussing progress with an advisor, or planning the paper before drafting. Also use for 'paper skeleton', 'paper logic chain', 'thinking template', 'paper-structure planning'.
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fetcher-sh Skill Google SearchA Google Search API alternative and SERP API alternative on fetcher.sh — pay-per-call in USDC via x402, or prepaid credits with a Bearer key, no API key application. Use when the user wants programmatic Google search results as clean JSON, including Google's own operators — site:, filetype:, intitle:, and quoted exact phrases — plus pagination, language (hl), and country/region scoping. Also covers rank tracking input, competitive research, and search-result monitoring without Google's own Custom Search API quota and billing.
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hyperb1iss Skill ResearchUse this skill when gathering and evaluating evidence for a technical decision, SOTA analysis, or codebase investigation. Activates on mentions of research, investigate, evaluate options, what's the best, compare alternatives, state of the art, deep dive, explore the landscape, or find out how.
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senpi-ai Bundle Senpi Trader ResearchResearch Hyperliquid traders to copy — rank the best track records and vet a specific trader before mirroring. Use for "who should I copy?", "find good traders", "is this trader any good?", "should I copy 0x…?", "best traders this month", "top copy strategies". Use this instead of piecing together discovery_get_trader_history / discovery_get_trader_state + leaderboard yourself. A hidden engine (scripts/research.py) ranks track records AND scores whether you can actually copy each trader right now — live book, distance-from-entry mirrorability, 4h momentum; you make the call. Requires a USER-scoped Senpi token.
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zuoa Skill Research Paper Writer用于辅助撰写中文学术科研论文的完整技能。当用户提出论文方向、研究题目、想写一篇论文、需要帮助构建论文框架、完善论文逻辑、撰写摘要/引言/方法/实验/结论等章节时,必须触发此技能。即使用户只说"帮我写篇论文"、"我想研究这个方向"、"帮我确定题目"、"帮我写摘要",也应触发。面向中文学术语境,特别适合工学、农学、计算机、信息技术等应用型方向的期刊或会议论文。
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modelstudioai-skills Bundle Financial ExpertUse when users need China or Hong Kong securities, funds, fund managers, company financials, valuation, global macro or industry time series, broker research, announcements, financial news, or enterprise-risk data. Triggers include 选股、基金筛选、基金经理、净利润、营收、ROE、估值、 GDP、CPI、核心 PCE、行业产销价、研报、公告、财经新闻、工商与司法风险。
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poemswe Skill Grant WritingYou must use this when drafting grant proposals, refining research aims, or aligning projects with agency priorities.
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poemswe Skill Research ManagerUse this when starting a new research project or managing a complex, multi-step research workflow.
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poemswe Skill Critical AnalysisYou must use this when analyzing claims, evaluating evidence, or Identifying logical fallacies in research.
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poemswe Bundle Literature ReviewYou must use this when synthesizing existing knowledge, identifying research gaps, or tracing the evolution of scientific ideas.
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poemswe Skill Research SynthesisYou must use this when merging findings from multiple studies into a coherent narrative with grounded evidence.
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poemswe Skill Qualitative ResearchYou must use this when designing qualitative studies, developing coding schemes, or performing thematic analysis.
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poemswe Skill Research MethodologyYou must use this when matching research questions to appropriate designs, sampling strategies, or validity controls — or when a research problem is stuck and needs creative reframing (cross-domain analogies, first-principles deconstruction).
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apify Skill Apify Ads IntelligenceResearch, spy on, and analyze ads across Meta (Facebook & Instagram), Google (Ads Transparency Center + paid search results), TikTok (Ads Library + Creative Center), LinkedIn Ad Library, and X (Twitter — promoted tweets, best-effort) using Apify Actors. Use when user asks about competitor ads, ad library research, winning creatives, ad copy analysis, landing page audits from ads, cross-platform ad audits, brand transparency checks, or any task involving paid ad creatives, advertiser data, or ad targeting from public ad libraries.
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narcooo Bundle Inkos Long Market Research长篇网文市场、榜单、平台趋势与对标研究。Use for evidence-based long-form fiction market research, not for ordinary drafting.
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narcooo Bundle Inkos Short Market Research商业短篇市场、平台样本、标题与移动端阅读趋势研究。Use for evidence-based short-fiction market research.
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charlie947 Skill Niche ResearchSurface the 20 most relevant stories in a niche from the last 7 days using Claude for Chrome. Verified dates, real links, shareable angles. Claude drives the browser to scroll Reddit, X and run Google searches — exactly like a human researcher would. Use this skill whenever the user says "research my niche", "what's trending", "find stories", "this week's news", "content research", or drops a niche and asks what's happening in it. Requires the Claude for Chrome extension to be enabled for live browsing.
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 tech-paper-template, ai-scientist, validate-idea. 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.