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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ghaida Skill InvestigateGuide and conduct user research — from planning through synthesis. Interview scripts, survey design, usability test plans, diary studies, contextual inquiry. Plus synthesis: affinity mapping, thematic coding, insight extraction. Trigger when: planning user research, writing interview guides, designing usability tests, creating surveys, synthesizing research findings, "what should we research?", "how do I test this?", "write an interview guide", or any question about understanding users through evidence.
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mikubaka88 Bundle Ccf CommonMaintain shared CCFA routing, handoffs, task modes, evidence rules, sources, and artifact contracts. Use only for skill-family maintenance and auditing. Ordinary research tasks belong to their specialist skills.
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mikubaka88 Bundle Ccf Idea ReviewerAssess research ideas for value, novelty, insight, and mechanism. Use for 思路审核, 靠谱吗, 值得做吗, 创新够不够, idea review, scoring, and ranking; no numeric-score request is needed. Default to concept-only review without experiment assessment, including ideas extracted from manuscripts. Developing an idea belongs to ccf-idea-optimizer; evaluating manuscript evidence or writing belongs to ccf-paper-reviewer.
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mikubaka88 Bundle Ccf Idea OptimizerDevelop and optimize rough CCF research ideas into problems, insights, mechanisms, and evidence plans. Use for 优化idea, 具象化idea, 找方向, 方向探索, and rescue routes when development is the requested deliverable. Judging whether an idea is worthwhile, novel, or coherent belongs to ccf-idea-reviewer even without scores; manuscript edits belong to ccf-paper-writer.
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mikubaka88 Bundle Ccf Literature MonitorScan recent arXiv/OpenReview papers, venue feeds, labs, and competitors for overlap. Use for 竞品监控, 新论文追踪, 论文跟踪, and recurring novelty watch. Give dated evidence and changes since the prior scan. Broad related-work retrieval belongs to ccf-literature-searcher.
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mikubaka88 Bundle Ccf Experiment DesignerDesign CCF experiment protocols and evidence schemas: datasets, baselines, metrics, ablations, and result-table contents. Use for 设计实验, 消融, benchmark planning, and 结果表证据结构. Preserve real values. Table styling/rendering belongs to ccf-visual-composer; broad retrieval belongs to ccf-literature-searcher.
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mikubaka88 Bundle Ccf Literature SearcherFind and verify external literature, prior art, datasets, benchmarks, and citation candidates. Use for 文献检索, 相关工作, benchmark搜索, and research opportunity maps. Recurring recent-paper watch belongs to ccf-literature-monitor; existing-citation audits, manuscript assessment, and result schemas have separate owners.
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cyrusagents Skill InvestigateResearch the codebase to answer questions. Search for relevant files, gather context, and provide clear answers.
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prisma-orm 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-orm Skill Draft Release NotesAuthor the committed release-notes file for a Prisma 8 release (stable or `8.0.0-rc.N`) by enumerating the merged PRs since the previous release `v*` tag (stable or `-rc.N`), 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 release".
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google Skill Mantis Structural IndexBuilds a content-addressed semantic-unit index from source code for structural context. Use when a pinned or live codebase is available and structural cross-reference data would improve research quality. Don't use for findings analysis, patching, or reporting.
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markpitt Bundle Gcse Art TutorGCSE Art and Design (Fine Art) tutor and revision assistant for 15–16 year old students preparing for 2026 exams across AQA, Edexcel, OCR, and Eduqas/WJEC boards. Use when a student asks for help with their art GCSE, sketchbook, portfolio, artist research, annotations, ESA preparation, understanding assessment objectives, or the 10-hour exam. Also triggers on "GCSE Art", "art sketchbook", "ESA themes", "portfolio help", "art annotations", or "Fine Art GCSE".
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markpitt Bundle Gcse English Literature TutorGCSE English Literature tutor and revision assistant for 15–16 year old students preparing for 2026 exams across AQA, Edexcel, OCR, and Eduqas boards. Use when a student asks for help with set texts (Macbeth, An Inspector Calls, Jekyll and Hyde, poetry anthology), analysing writer's methods, writing literature essays, comparing poems, revising for GCSE English Literature, practising past paper questions, or understanding themes and characters.
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artivilla Bundle Central StationThis skill should be used when the user asks about Central Station threads, community discussions, support questions, feature requests, or wants to search Railway's community knowledge base. Use for queries like "search central station", "find threads about", "what are people asking about", "recent support threads", or "central station topics".
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volcengine-openviking Skill Knowledge GraphCompile documents, notes, web content, transcripts, research materials, or code repositories into an evidence-grounded, visualization-ready knowledge graph with semantically typed entity nodes, statement-level provenance, and typed relationship edges. Use with ov compile to create or incrementally refresh `entities/*.md` node artifacts and a root `relations.jsonl` edge file for people, organizations, groups, animals, places, products, projects, systems, services, documents, events, and other identifiable things.
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volcengine-openviking Skill Knowledge DistillationCompile one or more OpenViking knowledge bases or document collections into topic-organized, evidence-grounded high-level knowledge, including cross-source findings, trends, changes, drivers, comparisons, implications, and uncertainties. Use with ov compile when the user asks to distill or synthesize a knowledge base, compare multiple collections, or derive higher-order insights such as changes across financial reports; do not use for document-by-document summaries.
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hexbee Bundle Research Content Router将“研究 + 内容生产”任务按 A/B/C 分级调度,先收敛受众/目标/载体/角度,再走 Research→Synthesis→Content 流水线,输出可发布内容与证据链。适用于需要结论可信、结构稳定、可复用素材沉淀的写作任务。
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hexbee Bundle Longitudinal Cross Sectional ResearchWrite deep research reports that combine longitudinal history with cross-sectional comparison. Use when asked to analyze a company, product, technology, protocol, organization, market category, or person by tracing origins, milestones, strategy shifts, and then comparing it with current competitors, peers, substitutes, or the surrounding landscape.
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shoootyou Skill Gsd Research PhaseResearch how to implement a phase (standalone - usually use COMMAND PREFIX plan-phase instead)
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cklxx Bundle OpenseedWhen the user wants to research academic papers → search ArXiv, extract PDFs, summarize/review/Q&A, generate experiment code.
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jorgealves Bundle Clinical Trial Schema DesignerAnalyzes clinical trial protocols and generates CDISC-compliant (SDTM/ADaM) data schemas. Use when designing data ingestion pipelines for clinical research or preparing regulatory submissions.
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zernie Skill Deep ResearchUse when the user asks to research a topic in depth, map a competitive/market landscape, run a multi-source investigation, or "fan out" parallel research agents — anything where many findings must be gathered and then NOT lost. Enforces durable, detail-preserving research (write full findings to disk; keep a full appendix beside the synthesis).
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google-deepmind Bundle Pubmed DatabaseSearch PubMed for scientific literature, including published clinical trials. Fetch abstracts and full text. Link published research to biological databases (gene, protein, nucleotide, PubChem) to discover associations between papers and specific compounds or genes. Verify medical spelling, match raw citations, and cache result sets for bulk processing. Interfaces NCBI E-utilities and PMC BioC APIs.
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google-deepmind Bundle Literature Search BiorxivBrowse, filter, and download life sciences, biology, and medical preprints from bioRxiv and medRxiv. Supports fetching paper metadata by DOI, and browsing by date range with category and keyword filters. Keyword filtering is local, so date ranges MUST be narrow (1-4 weeks) with a category to prevent timeouts.
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open-mercato Bundle Om Spec WritingWrite and review feature specifications to staff-engineer standards. Skeleton-first drafting with a hard Open Questions gate, research against market leaders, an implementation breakdown into phases and steps that feeds om-auto-create-pr, and a severity-ranked architectural review format. Use when starting a new spec or reviewing one.
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mindmorass Skill Web ResearchWeb search with automatic Qdrant storage for building persistent knowledge
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mindmorass Skill Research PatternsKnowledge retrieval and research patterns using Qdrant for stored knowledge
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mindmorass Skill Transcript SummarizerSummarize meeting transcripts into structured notes with decisions, action items, and key topics.
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civitai Bundle FreshdeskInteract with Freshdesk support platform - search/view/update tickets, reply to customers, add notes, look up contacts, and manage Knowledge Base articles. Use when you need to manage support tickets, look up customer information, or work with KB content.
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cline-skills Bundle Exa SearchDeep research powered by Exa. Use for lead generation, literature reviews, deep dives, competitive analysis, or any query where one search falls short, including phrases like 'research this', 'find everything about', 'find me all', or 'deep dive on'.
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recoupable-skills Bundle Recoup Research The WebResearch anything on the open web — quick ranked search, deep cited narrative, read specific URLs, and enrich any entity (label, venue, brand, person) into structured facts. Use for "search the web", "deep research [topic]", "what does this URL say", "enrich [company/label/person]", or as the fallback when structured artist data is thin. Not artist-only. For metrics on a known artist use recoup-research-artist-overview.
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recoupable-skills Bundle Recoup Release Track DropConfirm a release actually dropped and build a launch-day alert — checks whether the single/album went live and surfaces the first-day signals. Use for "did [artist]'s single drop", "launch alert", or "watch for the drop". Idempotent and dated; saves to the release workspace. For ongoing weekly streaming-spike watching use recoup-research-weekly-brief.
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recoupable-skills Bundle Recoup Research Find TalentFind emerging or unsigned artists you don't already track — A&R scouting that fans out from an anchor artist and sizes candidates, plus "why did this song go viral". Use for "find emerging artists", "A&R scouting", "who should we sign", "scout new talent in [genre]", or "why did [song] go viral". For research on an artist you already have, use recoup-research-artist-overview.
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recoupable-skills Bundle Recoup Song Placement PitchTurn one song into placement materials from its audio — a playlist/editorial pitch and a music-supervisor sync brief, grounded in the song's actual sound. Use for "playlist pitch", "pitch to Spotify", "sync brief", or "where could this be placed". Requires a public audio URL. For catalog-wide playlist strategy (no audio) use recoup-research-playlist-targets.
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recoupable-skills Bundle Recoup Research Weekly BriefThe recurring "what changed this week" update for an artist — streaming/social deltas vs the last run, milestones, and a spike/drop check. Use for "weekly brief", "what's new this week", "what changed for [artist]", or "are streams spiking or dropping". Recurring and dated; diffs against your own prior file. For a one-time full sweep use recoup-research-artist-overview.
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recoupable-skills Bundle Recoup Research Find ContactsFind music-industry people — managers, A&R, press, label and booking contacts — and draft outreach you can send. Use for "find the manager for [artist]", "who's the A&R at [label]", "find press contacts", or "draft outreach to [person]". Drafts only; never sends. To research an artist's metrics and audience use recoup-research-artist-overview.
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 investigate, ccf-common, ccf-idea-reviewer. 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.