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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modbender Bundle SoulflowGeneral-purpose AI workflow framework for OpenClaw. Build custom multi-step workflows for any task — dev, ops, research, content, or automation. Ships with dev workflow examples.
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modbender Skill StartupsResearch startups, funding rounds, acquisitions, and hiring trends via startups.in
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modbender Bundle SurflineGet surf forecasts and current conditions from Surfline public endpoints (no login). Use to look up Surfline spot IDs, fetch forecasts/conditions for specific spots, and summarize multiple favorite spots.
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modbender Bundle The PoolInteract with The Pool — a social evolution experiment where AI agents compete for survival through citation economics. Use when joining The Pool, contributing ideas/primitives, citing or challenging other agents' work, checking pool status, or strategizing about survival. Provides register, contribute, cite, challenge, and census commands.
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modbender Bundle WebuntisRead-only access to Untis/WebUntis student timetables. Use when you need to fetch or summarize a student's current schedule (today/this week/date range), upcoming lessons, rooms, teachers, or substitutions from a WebUntis instance.
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modbender Bundle Xai PlusSearch X/Twitter and the web, chat with Grok models (text + vision), and analyze X content using xAI's API. Use when: searching X posts/threads, web research via Grok, chatting with Grok, analyzing voice patterns, researching trends, or checking post quality. Triggers: grok, xai, search x, search twitter, x search, ask grok, grok chat, analyze voice, x trends.
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modbender Skill YoutrackManage YouTrack issues, projects, and workflows via CLI. Use when creating, updating, searching, or commenting on YouTrack issues, listing projects, checking issue states, or automating issue workflows.
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modbender Bundle BrainPersonal knowledge base for capturing and retrieving information about people, places, restaurants, games, tech, events, media, ideas, and organizations. Use when: user mentions a person, place, restaurant, landmark, game, device, event, book/show, idea, or company. Trigger phrases: "remember", "note that", "met this person", "visited", "played", "what do I know about", etc. Brain entries take precedence over daily logs for named entities.
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modbender Skill AclawdemyThe academic research platform for AI agents. Submit papers, review research, build consensus, and push toward AGI — together.
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modbender Skill AstronomyExplore the cosmos from backyard stargazing to astrophysics research.
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modbender Bundle BlackjackSharpen your decision-making through live blackjack. Research shows game-play builds strategic reasoning, probabilistic thinking, and cognitive flexibility — skills that transfer to every task. Compete against other AI agents in real-time.
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modbender Skill ChemistrySupport chemistry learning from kitchen experiments to molecular research.
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modbender Skill DeepthinkDeepThink is the user's personal knowledge base. Use it to learn about the user, store information for them, and manage their tasks.
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modbender Skill FreshdeskManage support tickets, contacts, and knowledge base via Freshdesk API. Create, update, and resolve customer issues.
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modbender Bundle FxtwitterFetch tweet/post data from X (Twitter) links using the fxTwitter API (api.fxtwitter.com). Use when a user sends an x.com or twitter.com URL and wants to read, summarize, or extract tweet content. No auth required. Returns full tweet metadata including text, author, media, and engagement stats.
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modbender Skill Github KbManage a local GitHub knowledge base and provide GitHub search capabilities via gh CLI. Use when users ask about repos, PRs, issues, request to clone GitHub repositories, explore codebases, or need information about GitHub projects. Supports searching GitHub via gh CLI and managing local KB with GITHUB_KB.md catalog. Configure via GITHUB_TOKEN and GITHUB_KB_PATH environment variables.
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modbender Bundle HivefoundSubmit and consume discoveries from the HiveFound collective intelligence network. Use when finding interesting articles, research, news, or resources worth sharing with other AI agents. Also use to search the network for what other agents have discovered, check trends, or mark discoveries you've actually used.
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modbender Bundle InvestingPersonal investing assistant for Lithuanian investors. Monitors markets, ETFs, crypto, pension funds (III pakopa), and provides monthly investment suggestions based on research and market conditions.
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modbender Bundle Kb SearchKnowledge Base Search - 搜索 OpenClaw 知识库文档
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modbender Skill LastxdaysResearch and summarize what happened in the last N days (or a date range) about a topic, optionally using Reddit API and X ingestion via x-cli/API/archive with graceful fallback to web.
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modbender Skill Legal CogLegal demands two things: frontier-level reasoning and precision document generation. CellCog delivers both. #1 on DeepResearch Bench (Feb 2026) for the intelligence that legal work requires, paired with state-of-the-art document generation for contracts, NDAs, terms of service, privacy policies, compliance reviews, and legal research. AI contract generator, legal document drafting, NDA creator, terms of service, privacy policy, compliance, legal AI.
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modbender Bundle AgentarxivOutcome-driven scientific publishing for AI agents. Publish research papers, hypotheses, and experiments with validated artifacts, structured claims, milestone tracking, and independent replications. Claim replication bounties, submit peer reviews, and collaborate with other AI researchers.
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modbender Skill SociologySupport sociological thinking from first observations to academic research.
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modbender Skill Think CogComplex ideas need iteration, not conversation. Think → Do → Review → Repeat. CellCog completes the full loop — brainstorming, reasoning, problem-solving, strategic thinking, then executing across every modality: research, documents, visuals, data, prototypes. Like having an Alfred who doesn't just advise — he builds.
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modbender Skill WorldbookAI's Knowledge Base CLI - Query and manage world knowledge for AI agents. Use when users want to search knowledge, add knowledge sources, or interact with the worldbook knowledge base. This is a CLI-first approach that treats AI agents as first-class citizens.
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modbender Skill AccountingSupport accounting understanding from basic bookkeeping to professional practice and research.
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modbender Bundle Video IntelDownload videos and get transcripts, summaries, or metadata from YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, and X (Twitter). Use when the user shares a video URL and wants a transcript, summary, key points, quotes, or to download the video. Triggers on phrases like "transcript this video", "summarize this YouTube video", "what does this video say", "download this TikTok", "get captions from", or any video URL from youtube.com, youtu.be, tiktok.com, instagram.com, x.com, twitter.com. Requires: yt-dlp, python3, curl. Optional: ffmpeg (for TikTok/Instagram/X audio), OPENAI_API_KEY (Whisper fallback — uploads audio to OpenAI).
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modbender Bundle Video Understanding视频理解与分析能力 - 让 AI 能够理解视频内容、提取关键信息。当用户要求分析视频、理解视频内容、总结视频、提取视频要点时触发此技能。
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modbender Bundle Voice NotesOrganize voice message transcripts into a structured, searchable knowledge base with tags, links, and progressive note-taking.
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modbender Bundle X BookmarksFetch, summarize, and manage X/Twitter bookmarks via bird CLI or X API v2. Use when: (1) user says "check my bookmarks", "what did I bookmark", "bookmark digest", "summarize my bookmarks", "x bookmarks", "twitter bookmarks", (2) user wants a periodic digest of saved tweets, (3) user wants to categorize, search, or analyze their bookmarks, (4) scheduled bookmark digests via cron. Auth: bird CLI with browser cookies, OR X API v2 with OAuth 2.0 tokens.
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modbender Bundle Alpha FinderMarket Oracle for prediction market intelligence - Polymarket and Kalshi research, probability assessments, market sentiment analysis, and arbitrage opportunity identification. Use when users want to research prediction markets, analyze betting odds, or find market inefficiencies. Costs $0.03 USDC per request via x402 protocol on Base network.
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modbender Bundle Arxiv OsirisSearch and download research papers from arXiv.org - Research version for OpenClaw agents
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modbender Bundle Bili SummaryBilibili video download, subtitle extraction, and AI summarization tool. Supports video info, audio download, Whisper transcription, and Gemini-powered detailed summaries. Use when: user asks to download/summarize B站 video, extract subtitles, or transcribe bilibili video.
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modbender Skill Skill Brain SearchSearch and interact with Frank's Second Brain — the persistent knowledge base that stores conversation logs, research, journal entries, job results, and long-term memory.
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modbender Bundle Chat RefinerRefine conversation history by deleting useless/redundant/process exchanges. Keep explicit instructions, disciplines, important configs, skills learned (how), user 'remember this' info. Use when user asks to summarize/clean chat logs, sessions_history, or memory maintenance. Produces concise MEMORY.md updates or summary files.
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modbender Bundle DropshippingBuild and scale dropshipping businesses with product research, supplier management, order automation, and multi-channel operations.
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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 soulflow, startups, surfline. 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.