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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mvanhorn-printing-press-libra Skill Pp ExtronEvery Extron spec sheet and user manual, browsable and searchable offline with revision tracking no other Extron tool has. Trigger phrases: `download the Extron manual for`, `get the spec sheet for that projector`, `find the latest Extron doc revision`, `check what Extron literature is new`, `pull the Extron docs for this rack`, `use extron`, `run extron`.
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mvanhorn-printing-press-libra Skill Pp GrantsFind open US federal research funding and benchmark award sizes — Grants.gov open opportunities plus awarded NIH RePORTER and NSF grants, keyless. Trigger phrases: `open research grants`, `grants.gov search`, `NIH funding for`, `NSF awards for`, `grant deadline before`, `use grants`, `run grants`.
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mvanhorn-printing-press-libra Skill Pp ZillowPrinting Press CLI for Zillow. Sync official Zillow Research housing datasets and analyze markets without scraping Zillow.com.
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mvanhorn-printing-press-libra Skill Pp EverbeeEtsy niche research whose scores come with their evidence attached — seeded search, honest confidence, and a local store that turns repeat research into trends. Trigger phrases: `research the dad shirt niche on Etsy`, `is this Etsy niche low competition`, `find low-competition Etsy sub-niches under dad`, `what tags do winning Etsy listings use for this niche`, `size up the competitors in this Etsy niche`, `use everbee`, `run everbee`.
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mvanhorn-printing-press-libra Skill Pp YoutubeA self-maintained competitor-monitoring machine for YouTube: the read surfaces that matter for market and competitor research plus a local databank of channel histories, snapshots, comments, and packaging assets - market data hours old, not weeks. Trigger phrases: `monitor my youtube competitors`, `which competitor videos are gaining views right now`, `find fresh breakout videos in a niche`, `youtube packaging and thumbnail analysis data`, `mine youtube comments for audience signal`, `new niche research workspace`, `switch youtube api key`, `backfill youtube channel history`, `get the transcript of this youtube video`, `use youtube`, `run youtube`.
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mvanhorn-printing-press-libra Skill Pp GovspendUse public-sector spending and opportunity research commands over USAspending, Grants.gov, and SAM.gov. Trigger phrases: federal vendor spend, USAspending awards, SAM.gov opportunities, Grants.gov search, procurement research, govspend-pp-cli.
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mvanhorn-printing-press-libra Skill Pp OpenalexSearch OpenAlex's catalog of 250M+ scholarly works, authors, sources, institutions, topics, keywords, publishers, and funders. Trigger phrases: `find scholarly papers on`, `look up research by <author>`, `citations for <work>`, `use openalex`.
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mvanhorn-printing-press-libra Skill Pp ProducthuntRead Product Hunt from your terminal — works token-free for the daily skim, unlocks a launch-day cockpit and a marketer research desk in one onboarding step. Trigger phrases: `what launched on product hunt today`, `find ai launches on product hunt this week`, `how is my product hunt launch tracking`, `compare these product hunt launches`, `summarize the comments on this product hunt post`, `what does a good product hunt launch look like at hour 6`, `use producthunt`, `run producthunt`.
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mvanhorn-printing-press-libra Skill Pp Company GoatLook up startups across SEC Form D, GitHub, Hacker News, Companies House, YC, and Wikidata in one command — including the SEC fundraising data hidden behind paid Crunchbase tiers. Trigger phrases: `look up this startup`, `research <company>`, `what does <company> do`, `form D for <company>`, `is <company> still active`, `compare <a> and <b>`, `use company-goat`, `run company-goat-pp-cli`.
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mvanhorn-printing-press-libra Skill Pp KdpnichefinderEvery KDP Niche Finder bucket as a local research database — rank niches across buckets Trigger phrases: `find a kdp niche`, `rank kdp niches`, `which book niche is rising`, `kdp niche research`, `best low-content book niche`, `use kdpnichefinder`, `run kdpnichefinder`.
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mvanhorn-printing-press-libra Skill Pp Retraction CheckerCheck whether a paper is retracted, why, and what the current research says now — keyless, over Crossref and OpenAlex. Trigger phrases: `is this paper retracted`, `check retraction`, `check this DOI`, `scan my bibliography for retractions`, `what replaced this retracted paper`, `use retraction-checker`, `run retraction-checker`.
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mvanhorn-printing-press-libra Skill Pp Scientific ConsensusAggregate PubMed, OpenAlex, Crossref, and Europe PMC into evidence summaries, consensus scores Trigger phrases: `what does the evidence say about`, `scientific consensus on`, `is there consensus that`, `evidence pyramid for`, `research gaps in`, `compare the evidence for`, `use scientific-consensus`, `run scientific-consensus`.
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mvanhorn-printing-press-libra Skill Pp Zotero Research LibraryYour entire Zotero research library, searchable offline — version-based incremental sync into SQLite with full-text search no other Zotero tool has. Trigger phrases: `search my Zotero library`, `what does my library say about`, `find papers about`, `sync my Zotero library`, `what did I add to Zotero this week`, `get the citation for`, `use zotero-research-library`, `run zotero cli`.
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aiskillstore Bundle LearnExtract and persist insights from the current conversation to the knowledge base
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aiskillstore Bundle Using LwcUse when substantive project work, structural code questions, research, planning, debugging, architecture, decisions, document ingest, incident recovery, or verified context and results should survive future sessions; also when the user invokes $using-lwc or asks to search, update, repair, configure, or maintain an LWC Wiki, physical document graph, or CodeGraph index.
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aiskillstore Bundle SummarizeSummarize CLI: URLs, files, YouTube, transcripts, media, extraction, and JSON output.
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aiskillstore Bundle Team Research팀 에이전트 병렬 리서치 오케스트레이터. 프로젝트 시작 전 기술 스택, 아키텍처, 경쟁 제품을 리서처 서브에이전트로 병렬 조사하고 결과를 취합한다. '/team-research', '팀 리서치', '리서치해줘', '사전 조사' 등 언급 시 호출
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aiskillstore Bundle ViralhuntDiscover what's trending/going viral across TikTok, Instagram, X, Facebook, Pinterest, Bluesky, Douyin, Reddit, Mastodon, Tumblr, Hacker News and news RSS, learn the best time to post on each network from measured viral posts, find the top hashtags, trending sounds and best communities, and schedule or publish posts to the user's own connected social accounts — powered by the ViralHunt.io API. Use this whenever the user wants to find viral or trending content in a niche, research what's performing on social right now, ask when or where to post, or draft/schedule/publish social posts across networks.
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aiskillstore Bundle UX DesignerExpert UX design assistance for user research, wireframing, prototyping, and design strategy. Use when: creating wireframes, conducting user research, building prototypes, designing user flows, writing UX copy, reviewing designs for usability, creating personas, planning usability tests, or when user mentions UX design, user experience, wireframes, prototypes, user research, information architecture, or design systems.
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aiskillstore Bundle Scholar EvaluationEvaluate academic papers, research proposals, literature reviews, and scholarly writing with a structured ScholarEval rubric.
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aiskillstore Bundle Entity OptimizerUse when the user asks to "optimize entity presence", reconcile an entity identity, or update canonical Knowledge Graph facts; audits and maintains machine-facing identity, sameAs, schema, disambiguation, and AI-recognition evidence through the entities registry. Not for page-level AI-citation readiness - use geo-content-optimizer; not for human-facing brand canon - use narrative-registry. 实体优化/知识图谱
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aiskillstore Bundle Keyword ResearchUse when the user asks to "find keywords", "挖词", or "搜什么词"; prioritizes search volume, keyword difficulty, intent, and topic clusters from provided or connected data. Not for competitor-relative coverage gaps — use content-gap-analysis. 关键词研究/内容选题
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aiskillstore Bundle Domain Authority AuditorUse when auditing domain authority, trust, or citation credibility; runs a peer-relative 40-item CITE profile with evidence coverage and verified manipulation/penalty veto checks. Not for page-level content quality — use content-quality-auditor; not for backlink profiling alone — use offsite-signal-analyzer. 域名权威/网站可信度
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aiskillstore Bundle Semantic Scholar Library FeedWork with a user's Semantic Scholar account to read Research Feeds, inspect private Library folders, add papers to folders, and resolve Semantic Scholar paper records from identifiers such as arXiv IDs.
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aiskillstore Bundle Advise Project ApproachResearch and advise on the best way to approach a software project, including architecture, tech stack, implementation strategy, pricing/operating-cost tradeoffs, benchmark research, and comparisons with similar real-world projects. Use before building, mid-build, or after completion when the user asks for project strategy, optimal approach, research comparables, similar projects, stack selection, vendor/service choice, repo analysis, architecture critique, implementation feedback, or a prioritized improvement plan. Avoid for narrow single-bug debugging or isolated file edits unless the user asks for broader project direction.
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modbender Bundle Exa FullExa AI search + Research API. Supports web/code search, content extraction, and async multi-step research tasks with outputSchema.
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modbender Bundle Exa PlusNeural web search via Exa AI. Search people, companies, news, research, code. Supports deep search, domain filters, date ranges.
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modbender Bundle Using HivemindInteract with the Hivemind collective knowledge base — a shared memory layer for agents. Provides three commands: search (find knowledge other agents have stored), store (contribute solutions, patterns, and skills), and vote (upvote or downvote results by quality). Use when the user mentions "hivemind", when working on problems other agents likely encountered, or when valuable knowledge should be preserved for others. Requires curl and jq.
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modbender Bundle Idea2mvpDiscover product ideas, validate them, and build MVPs. Search trending tools across Product Hunt, GitHub, Indie Hackers, XiaoHongShu, V2EX, SSPAI, etc. Validate feasibility via market research and competitive analysis. Build MVPs. Send reports via email. Triggers: 'find ideas', 'search products', 'trending tools', 'product ideas', 'validate my idea', 'build MVP', 'market research', 'competitive analysis', 'indie hacker', 'send email', '找想法', '搜产品', '找灵感', '产品调研', '验证想法', '构建MVP', '发邮件', '发送报告'.
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modbender Bundle LightragSearch and manage knowledge bases using LightRAG API. Supports multiple servers, context-aware writing, and direct information retrieval. Use when the user wants to query a LightRAG-powered knowledge base or use it as context for tasks.
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modbender Skill MedicineSupport medical understanding from patient education to clinical practice and research.
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modbender Skill Meme CogDeep reasoning makes better comedy. #1 on DeepResearch Bench (Feb 2026). AI meme generation with audience targeting, trend research, and multi-angle humor. Create memes, viral content, reaction images, and internet humor that actually land.
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modbender Bundle Para PkmManage PARA-based personal knowledge management (PKM) systems using Projects, Areas, Resources, and Archives organization method. Use when users need to (1) Create a new PARA knowledge base, (2) Organize or reorganize existing knowledge bases into PARA structure, (3) Decide where content belongs in PARA (Projects vs Areas vs Resources vs Archives), (4) Create AI-friendly navigation files for knowledge bases, (5) Archive completed projects, (6) Validate PARA structure, or (7) Learn PARA organizational patterns for specific use cases (developers, consultants, researchers, etc.)
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modbender Bundle ParallelHigh-accuracy web search and research via Parallel.ai API. Optimized for AI agents with rich excerpts and citations. Supports authenticated/private sources.
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modbender Bundle RaindropSearch, list, and manage Raindrop.io bookmarks via CLI. Use when the user wants to find saved links, browse collections, add new bookmarks, organize with tags, move bookmarks between collections, or work with their Raindrop library. Supports reading (search, list, get, tags) and writing (add, delete, move, update, bulk operations).
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modbender Skill ShoppingHelp users make better purchase decisions — research, comparison, timing, and avoiding buyer's remorse.
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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 domain-authority-auditor, semantic-scholar-library-feed, advise-project-approach. 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.