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 FamilysearchSearch, explore, and analyze family history using the FamilySearch API and offline GEDCOM files. Use when the user asks about genealogy, ancestors, family trees, family history research, pedigree charts, or wants to look up relatives. Supports live FamilySearch API queries (person search, ancestry/descendancy, relationships, historical records) and offline GEDCOM file parsing (search, profiles, narrative biographies, statistics). Trigger on: "search my family tree", "who are my ancestors", "tell me about [ancestor name]", "family tree", "GEDCOM", "genealogy", "FamilySearch".
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modbender Skill FlaresolverrBypass Cloudflare protection — use when curl/summarize gets 403 or Cloudflare blocks
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modbender Skill Geepers DataFetch structured data from 17 authoritative APIs — arXiv, Census Bureau, GitHub, NASA, Wikipedia, PubMed, news, weather, finance, FEC, and more — through a single endpoint. Use when you need real data from authoritative sources for research, visualizations, or analysis.
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modbender Skill HappenstanceSearch your professional network and research people using the Happenstance API.
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modbender Bundle Tavily Search使用Tavily API进行智能网络搜索。无需信用卡,每月1000次免费查询。支持AI增强的搜索结果和深度研究模式。Use when: 需要高质量搜索结果、学术研究、或不想绑定信用卡的场景。
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modbender Bundle Kb CollectorKnowledge Base Collector - save YouTube, URLs, text to Obsidian with AI summarization. Auto-transcribes videos, fetches pages, supports weekly/monthly digest emails.
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modbender Skill Lead Magnets Free To Paid Conversion FrameworkDesign lead magnets that attract qualified prospects and convert them to paying customers. Sources: Hormozi ($100M Leads), Funnelytics, BusySeed (500+ clients), LeadsPicker research. All outputs go...
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modbender Bundle Osint SocialInvestigate a username across 1000+ social media platforms and websites using social-analyzer. Use this skill whenever the user wants to look up, investigate, trace, or find where a specific username exists online — including OSINT research, background checks on online handles, verifying if someone uses the same username across platforms, or checking their own digital footprint. Triggers on phrases like "查一下这个用户名", "帮我找 X 在哪些平台", "investigate username", "OSINT lookup", "social media footprint", "trace this account", "find all accounts for X". Always use this skill when a username investigation is requested, even if the user just says "look up [name]" or "check if [name] exists on social media".
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modbender Bundle Product HuntLaunch, hunt, and research products on Product Hunt with timing, assets, engagement, and anti-manipulation practices.
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clin-c Bundle Paper SkillEnd-to-end, Chinese-first academic research and publication workflow for reading papers, literature reviews, research framing, manuscript planning and writing, Chinese-English translation, LaTeX, figures, citation verification, reporting-guideline checks, journal selection, peer review, rebuttals, revisions, and submission packages. Use for SCI, IEEE, Nature-family, IJCAI, TRO, theses, systematic reviews, clinical/observational/animal studies, and any task where claims, evidence, references, manuscript files, or journal requirements must be checked rather than invented.
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teng-lin Bundle NotebooklmInstall, authenticate, troubleshoot, and operate Gemini Notebook through the notebooklm-py CLI or typed async Python API. Use for notebook and source management, grounded chat and research, and artifact generation or download when the user mentions Gemini Notebook, notebooklm-py, the notebooklm CLI, or its Python API. Do not use for the generic Gemini API or unrelated content creation.
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alchaincyf Bundle Darwin SkillDarwin Skill 2.0 (达尔文.skill 2.0): autonomous skill optimizer, v2.0 integrates Microsoft Research SkillLens (arXiv 2605.23899) 9-dim rubric + SkillOpt (arXiv 2605.23904) validation-gated design + human-in-the-loop checkpoints. Evaluates SKILL.md files using a 9-dimension rubric (structure + effectiveness + meta-skill blacklists), runs hill-climbing with git version control, spawns independent judge agents for blind evaluation, validates improvements through test prompts with auto-break on diminishing returns, and generates visual result cards. Use when user mentions "优化skill", "skill评分", "自动优化", "auto optimize", "skill质量检查", "达尔文", "darwin", "帮我改改skill", "skill怎么样", "提升skill质量", "skill review", "skill打分".
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samaritanoc Bundle Contact NinjaResearches and enriches contact information via web search and browser-based OSINT, then writes the enriched contact to the user's Google Contacts. Use whenever the user asks to add, save, look up, research, find, enrich, or fill in details for a contact: including phrases like "add to contacts", "save [person] to my contacts", "find their info", "look up [person]", "enrich this contact", "fill in the blanks", or any request that combines a person reference with intent to save it. Fills first/last name, company, job title, email, phone, address, birthday, company website, LinkedIn, social media profiles, and profile photo. Requires Google Contacts OAuth (one-time setup per user).
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gy-hou Bundle Kb SetupUse when 用户说“帮我搭知识库”“初始化知识库”“setup my wiki/knowledge base”,在新建 karp-wiki 模板仓库首次开始且 `.karp-wiki/config.json` state 未完成,或显式调用 Claude `/kb-setup`、Codex `$kb-setup`;不用于日常 ingest/query/lint。
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nyldn Bundle Flow DefineMulti-AI requirements scoping using available external providers (Double Diamond Define phase). Priority triggers: octo define, octo scope, co-define, co-scope. DO NOT use for implementation, research, review/validation, or built-in commands.
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openakita Bundle Openakita Skills Baidu SearchBaidu Web Search skill for real-time Chinese web information retrieval. Breaks through static knowledge base limitations to get the latest news and information. Use when user needs to search the Chinese web for current information.
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rlaope Bundle Ulw Research[omh] Deep research engine - grounding for specs and decisions: study open-source reference implementations with pinned refs, gather live web evidence with citation discipline, verify contested claims, and distill a decision-grounding dossier that planning consumes; for a decision brief use research-brief, for upstream guidance use best-practice-research. Use when the user says: research plan, literature review, research literature, review recent papers, deep research, deep-research, exhaustive research, saturation research.
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udecode Skill Major TaskWork heavyweight framework or library tasks with planning-first research, selective deep analysis, and rigorous handoff
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wentorai Skill Codex CLIReference for using OpenAI Codex CLI to handle complex coding tasks. Use when Research-Claw needs to delegate multi-file projects, iterative debugging, or complex code generation to a specialized AI coding tool. Trigger words: codex, coding CLI, delegate coding, complex project.
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zhayujie Skill Knowledge WikiManage the personal knowledge wiki. Use when the user shares articles, documents, or asks to organize knowledge; when a conversation produces insights worth preserving as structured knowledge; or when the user asks about the knowledge base.
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agricidaniel Bundle WikiInitialize, adopt, and route work for a separate Obsidian knowledge vault through the portable claude-obsidian core. Use for vault setup, scaffolding, workspace selection, cross-project configuration, or choosing the correct wiki sub-skill. Triggers: /wiki, set up wiki, scaffold vault, create knowledge base, adopt this vault, Obsidian vault, second brain setup, persistent wiki.
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ar9av Skill Wiki CaptureSave the current conversation as a permanent, structured wiki note. Use this skill when the user says "save this", "/wiki-capture", "capture this", "file this conversation", "preserve this", "add this to my wiki", or wants to turn what was just discussed into lasting knowledge. The skill classifies the content, rewrites it as declarative knowledge (not a chat transcript), and places it in the correct vault category. Also supports a fast QUICK MODE (`/wiki-capture --quick`, "quick capture", "capture this finding", "save this bug fix", "save this gotcha", "drop this to raw", "quick save to wiki") that drops findings to the `_raw/` staging area in under 60 seconds with no manifest or index writes — used by the session-end Stop hook to auto-preserve findings. Accepts inline named-vault routing like "@research save this" via the shared Config Resolution Protocol.
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beita6969 Skill Dblp SearchComputer science bibliography via DBLP API. Use when: user asks about CS publications, author publication lists, or venue (conference/journal) metadata. NOT for: non-CS publications or citation counts.
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beita6969 Skill Ncbi EntrezQuery NCBI E-utilities for GenBank sequences, gene info, SNPs, ClinVar variants, and literature links. Use when the user needs nucleotide/protein sequences from GenBank, gene summaries, variant data, or cross-database links. NOT for protein annotations (use UniProt), 3D structures (use PDB), or pathway mapping (use KEGG).
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beita6969 Skill Peer ReviewConducts structured peer review of scientific manuscripts including methodological evaluation, statistical assessment, clarity analysis, and constructive feedback generation following journal-specific guidelines; trigger when users ask for manuscript critique, reviewer reports, or feedback on research papers.
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gabrielmoreira Skill Claw Semantic SimSemantic Similarity Index for disease research literature using PubMedBERT embeddings
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gabrielmoreira Bundle Pubmed SummariserSearch PubMed for a gene name or disease term and generate a structured research briefing of the top recent English-language papers.
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penpot Skill Make A PlanPlanning flow — research the subject of this session, produce an implementation plan with the planner skill, resolve open questions with the user in plain language, and save the final plan to .agents/plans/. Use it when the user asks to plan, design, or break down a task, in any phrasing.
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rlaope Skill Omh Jit Learn[omh] Just-in-time learning workflow: select and confirm an immediate learning target, research credible sources, and prepare an application-first brief without popularity ranking. Use when the user says: jit-learn, learn next, learn now, blocker-specific learning target, highest-leverage learning target, immediate learning payoff, immediately applicable learning brief, source-backed learning brief.
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rohitg00 Skill OrchestrateWire Commands, Agents, and Skills together for complex features. Use when building features that need research, planning, and implementation phases.
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ufomiao Skill WorkflowProfessional AI programming assistant with structured workflow (Research -> Ideate -> Plan -> Execute -> Optimize -> Review) for developers
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wentorai Skill Search SopStandard operating procedure for academic literature search. Covers local library search, 18 academic database APIs (L1), web_fetch direct access (L1.5), browser RPA for CNKI/Google Scholar (L2), and optional API services (L3). Includes domain routing, recency protocol, search iteration protocol (evaluate → refine → re-search up to 3 rounds), and Zotero/EndNote import bridges.
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wentorai Skill Survey SopStandard operating procedure for research survey and project execution. Covers deep reading methodology, information synthesis, paper evaluation, citation integrity, cross-module coordination (Library↔Tasks↔Workspace↔Monitor), and research project lifecycle (Phase 2-4).
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wentorai Skill Wentor APIAccess Wentor platform academic services — paper Q&A search, structured paper search, and AI figure generation. Requires a Wentor API token.
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agricidaniel Bundle Blog FlowFLOW framework integration for bloggers. Evidence-led content workflow using the Find, Optimize, Win loop with stage-specific AI prompts from the FLOW knowledge base (30 blog-applicable prompts, CC BY 4.0). Use when user says "FLOW", "FLOW framework", "blog flow", "evidence-led blogging", "find optimize win", or wants stage-specific blog prompts.
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ar9av Skill Wiki ResearchAutonomously research a topic via multi-round web search, synthesize findings, and file structured results into the Obsidian wiki. Use this skill when the user says "/wiki-research [topic]", "research X", "find everything about Y", "do a deep dive on Z", "autonomous research on X", or wants comprehensive, web-sourced knowledge on a topic filed directly into their wiki.
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 claw-semantic-sim, osint-social, wiki. 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.