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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drshailesh88 Bundle Cardiology Newsletter WriterCreate evidence-based cardiology newsletters for thought leadership in Eric Topol's authoritative Ground Truths style. Use when the user wants to analyze trending medical topics with engagement predictions, conduct data-driven topic selection, research medical literature using PubMed, or write comprehensive well-referenced newsletters that build professional authority as an interventional cardiologist. Handles complete workflow from trend analysis to final draft with smooth analytical flow between topics.
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rampstackco Bundle Content RepurposingCross-format content adaptation. Turning one substantial piece into many derivative formats (blog series, email sequences, social posts, webinars, podcasts, video shorts) without losing the original's value or producing AI-slop variants. The discipline of adaptation per medium rather than mass-blast distribution. Triggers on content repurposing, content adaptation, cross-format content, content atomization, content multiplication, content distribution across formats, source-piece-to-derivative, video shorts from blog, email from whitepaper, podcast from article, blog series from research. Also triggers when a flagship piece is shipping but the team has not planned how to extend it across formats, when repurposing is happening but the derivatives feel mass-produced, or when AI-assisted repurposing is producing slop variants of strong source pieces.
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rampstackco Bundle Evidence Based ReviewsProduce honest product reviews and buying guides without fabricated first-hand experience, using disclosed evidence tiers: verified specs, owner-experience synthesis at scale, expert triangulation, and hands-on only when true. Use this skill whenever the user wants to write product reviews or buying guides without hands-on access, set up a review methodology, add evidence disclosure to review content, align reviews with Google's reviews system or FTC affiliate disclosure expectations, or decide when Review and Product schema are honest to use. Triggers on product review, buying guide, best-of list, review methodology, evidence basis, hands-on testing, we tested, affiliate review site, review disclosure, methodology block, original research, reviews system. Also triggers when review content claims testing that did not happen, or when an affiliate site needs a trust mechanism that survives scrutiny.
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bahayonghang-academic-writing-ski Bundle Typst PaperTypst paper assistant for existing .typ manuscripts in English or Chinese. Use for compile/export diagnosis, venue formatting, BibTeX/Hayagriva checks, grammar, logic, abstract/title, tables, pseudocode, related work, research-gap framing, adaptation, de-AI polish, translation, and submission readiness; use LaTeX skills for .tex.
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bahayonghang-academic-writing-ski Bundle Bib Search CitationSearch and cite from local BibTeX/BibLaTeX .bib libraries, including Zotero exports. Use to find, filter, preview, export, or generate LaTeX/Typst citation snippets by topic, author, year, venue, DOI, arXiv ID, keywords, abstract, fields, recency, or claim support. Do not use for manuscript writing or polishing.
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bradautomates Bundle X ResearchResearch high-performing X/Twitter content from tracked accounts using Apify's Tweet Scraper V2. Identifies outlier tweets, trending topics, and content patterns to inform content strategy. Use when asked to: - Find trending tweets or content in a niche - Research what's performing on X/Twitter - Identify high-performing tweet patterns - Analyze competitors' X content - Generate content ideas from X trends - Run X/Twitter research Triggers: "x research", "twitter research", "find trending tweets", "analyze x accounts", "what's working on twitter", "content research x", "tweet analysis"
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bradautomates Bundle Content PlannerOrchestrate comprehensive content research across X, Instagram, YouTube, and TikTok platforms. Runs all research skills in parallel via subagents, then aggregates findings into actionable content plans and platform-specific intelligence playbooks. Use when asked to: - Create a content plan for social media - Research content across all platforms - Generate content ideas from multiple sources - Build a content strategy playbook - Aggregate research from X, Instagram, YouTube, TikTok - Run comprehensive content research - Create platform playbooks Triggers: "content plan", "content planner", "research all platforms", "comprehensive research", "content strategy", "multi-platform research", "create playbooks", "aggregate research"
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bradautomates Bundle Tiktok ResearchResearch high-performing TikTok videos from tracked accounts using Apify's TikTok Scraper. Identifies outlier content, analyzes top 5 videos with AI, and generates reports with actionable hook formulas. Use when asked to: - Find trending TikTok content in a niche - Research what's performing on TikTok - Identify high-performing video patterns - Analyze competitors' TikTok content - Generate content ideas from TikTok trends - Run TikTok research - Find viral TikToks - Analyze hooks and content structure Triggers: "tiktok research", "tt research", "find trending tiktoks", "analyze tiktok accounts", "what's working on tiktok", "content research tiktok", "tiktok analysis", "tiktok trends"
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bradautomates Bundle Youtube ResearchResearch high-performing YouTube videos in a niche using TubeLab's outlier detection API. Identifies outlier videos, analyzes top 3 relevant videos with AI, and generates reports with actionable hook formulas. Use when asked to: - Find trending videos in a YouTube niche - Research competitor content - Discover viral video patterns - Generate content ideas based on what's working - Run YouTube research - Find outlier videos - Analyze hooks and content structure Triggers: "youtube research", "find outlier videos", "research YouTube trends", "what videos are performing well", "find content ideas for my channel", "youtube trends"
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bradautomates Bundle Instagram ResearchResearch high-performing Instagram content (posts and reels) from tracked accounts using Apify's Instagram Scraper. Identifies outlier content, analyzes top 5 videos with AI, and generates reports with actionable hook formulas. Use when asked to: - Find trending Instagram content in a niche - Research what's performing on Instagram - Identify high-performing reel patterns - Analyze competitors' Instagram content - Generate content ideas from Instagram trends - Run Instagram research - Find viral reels - Analyze hooks and content structure Triggers: "instagram research", "ig research", "find trending reels", "analyze instagram accounts", "what's working on instagram", "content research instagram", "reel analysis", "instagram trends"
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cookjohn Bundle Gs ExportExport Google Scholar paper(s) to Zotero via BibTeX. Gets citation data from Google Scholar's cite dialog, then pushes to Zotero desktop. Supports single or batch export.
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cookjohn Skill Gs SearchSearch Google Scholar for academic papers by keywords. Returns results with title, authors, journal, year, citation count, and full-text links. Use when the user wants to search Google Scholar.
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cookjohn Skill Gs Cited ByFind papers that cite a given Google Scholar paper. Tracks citation chains using data-cid (cluster ID). Use when user wants to see who cited a specific paper.
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gitbookio Skill Cr ReviewReview GitBook change requests from Claude Code by calling the GitBook REST API directly with curl (no CLI) — the reviewer-side companion to cr-create (the authoring side over the same API). Discover the change requests that need review (filter by who opened them, by space, or across a whole org), get the GitBook app link to review the diff, summarize what actually changed in a CR, then leave comments and optionally submit a review verdict (approve / request changes). Use this whenever someone wants to review docs change requests over the raw API (curl/HTTP), asks "what CRs are open / waiting on me / opened by <person>", "show me the change requests in <space>/<org>", "summarize what changed in this CR", "review this change request", "leave a comment on a CR", or "approve / request changes on a CR". For the authoring side (create a CR, push content, request reviewers, fix comments) over the API, use cr-create instead.
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kukapay Bundle Market SentimentAggregate news from popular cryptocurrency RSS feeds, analyze sentiment of articles, and calculate an overall market sentiment score with detailed explanation. Use when assessing crypto market sentiment for trading decisions, research, or monitoring trends from RSS sources.
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kukapay Bundle Yield OpportunitiesComprehensive tool for finding and analyzing DeFi yield opportunities across protocols, chains, and asset types. Use when users want to earn yield on crypto assets (staking, lending, liquidity farming, aggregators). Supports exhaustive parallel research using librarian agents, direct web searches, and GitHub repository analysis.
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davidkiss Skill InvestigatorUse this skill when the user asks to "analyze", "research", "how do I", or "what's the best way" to understand project context, impact of potential actions, and root causes of issues.
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ejirocodes Bundle Exa EntitiesExa.ai company and people search for lead generation, competitive intelligence, and data enrichment. Use when searching for companies, finding people profiles, building lead gen tools, or implementing Websets for data collection at scale. Triggers on: Exa company search, Exa people search, category company, lead generation, company research, profile search, LinkedIn profiles, Websets API, data enrichment, company lookup, find companies, competitive intelligence, recruiting, talent search, 1B profiles.
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silupanda Bundle Academic ResearcherExpert-level academic research and LaTeX paper writing with IEEE/APA citation support. Creates peer-reviewed research papers, literature reviews, and theses with proper scholarly standards.
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zc277584121-mygitplugin Skill Git Summarize WeeklySummarize weekly GitHub contributions for writing weekly reports
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crustdata Bundle Account ResearchKnow a company completely. Opens by asking your goal and where your context lives (CRM? call recorder? team chat? email?), then routes to 4 modes - account deep-dive & plan (external + your internal history with them), org chart (who runs it), tech stack & wedge, competitive battlecard. Use for "tell me about <company>", "account plan for <company>", "org chart for <company>", "what's their tech stack", "battlecard for <competitor>", "how do we beat <X>", "research this account".
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giulioco Bundle Learn CraftGenerate a deep, book-grounded skill for any subject the user wants to master. Researches the canonical books on the topic, downloads them as PDFs (using the bundled `scripts/libgen.py` downloader), reads them in parallel via subagents, then synthesizes the books across each other into a concept-organized knowledge base — not a shelf of book summaries. Output is a tight `SKILL.md` plus per-concept `frameworks/` files (the working knowledge base, organized by idea) plus per-book `references/` deep-dives (the citation layer). Trigger whenever the user says they want to "learn X", "master X", "build a skill for X", "study X", "get smarter at X", "make me a skill on X", "I want to be good at X", "teach me X", "create a coach for X", or asks for help internalizing the canonical thinking on a craft, discipline, methodology, or domain. Don't trigger for "make a skill that does Y" (workflow automation — use /skill-creator). Trigger for "make a skill that helps me think like Y" (knowledge synthesis — that's this skill
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motion-team Skill Brand IntakeRuns a structured brand intake interview and then conducts web research to build a comprehensive brand context document. Use this whenever the user says they're working on a new client, wants to build brand context, or says "run brand intake", "conduct brand research" or "build brand context for [brand]". Also trigger when the user starts a creative strategy workflow for a brand that doesn't yet have a context document in the project. This must run BEFORE any Creative Strategy Engine, Hook Writing, or other execution work — it is the prerequisite context layer for all downstream creative strategy.
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tavily-ai Skill Tavily CLISet up, authenticate, update, troubleshoot, or choose between Tavily CLI web commands. Use when the user asks about the Tavily CLI, installing Tavily skills, first-time setup, authentication, keyless limits, CLI updates, or which Tavily command to use. For an ordinary web task, use the specific search, extract, map, crawl, research, or dynamic-search skill instead.
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cookjohn-cnki-skills Bundle Cnki ExportExport paper from CNKI and push to Zotero, or save as RIS file. Use when user wants to save a paper to Zotero or export citation data.
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entireio Skill Using EntireUse as the FIRST action on any research, investigation, or codebase-understanding request — "research X", "investigate X", "look into X", "dig into X", "search X", "explore X", "understand X", "why is this like this" — before Glob, Grep, or Read. Recorded intent lives in Entire checkpoints on the server, not in local files, so an empty or unfamiliar working copy is not a reason to skip it. Routes to the right Entire sub-skill (search, recall, explain, what-happened, replay, teach, review, session-handoff).
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agentara Skill Doctor StrangeDoctor Strange — causal sand-table simulation via parallel universe subagents. Models actors, incentives, constraints, feedback loops, state changes, and failure modes before rendering how a future event may unfold step by step, like a human mentally rehearsing multiple futures. Stores simulations as persistent memory for later recall. TRIGGER when: user explicitly asks to simulate / rehearse / play out a scenario; user says "推演", "模拟", "预演", "imagine", "what if", "run through", "play this out", "what could go wrong"; user faces a high-stakes upcoming decision and is uncertain how it will unfold. DO NOT TRIGGER when: user wants factual lookup or research; user wants analysis of a past event (use regular memory); user wants a simple recommendation without simulation; user is debugging code or doing technical work unrelated to decision-making. Three modes: SIMULATE (run a new forward simulation), RECALL (surface past simulations as soft priors), MANAGE (list/void/re-run stored simulations).
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agentara Skill Engineering Change DescriptionsUse when writing, rewriting, or reviewing PR/CL descriptions, commit messages, or code-change summaries that explain what changed and why. TRIGGER on "write PR description", "improve this commit message", "summarize this diff", "CL description", "change description", or "make this PR/CL description easier to review". DO NOT TRIGGER for code review, PR splitting, code restructuring, user-facing changelogs, or reviewer replies unless the requested output is a change description.
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getsentry Bundle Warden ServiceQueries and summarizes the Warden Service read API. Use when asked to inspect, search, summarize, or export Warden runs, findings, costs, outcomes, repositories, skills, or memories through Warden Service.
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srinitude Bundle Starting PointUse when a request prescribes a method, tool, metric, or artifact that may not reach the result the user described, or when doing the request as written would leave that result unproved: "A/B test the signup button color" for a conversion problem, "add a cache" for a slow page, "the focused tests passed, announce the release". Also use when a stated constraint contradicts itself, when an unknown fact would have to be invented to finish, or when an external or irreversible step needs an authorization decision. Keywords: right approach, wrong metric, root cause, outcome versus output, what counts as done, proof, is this worth doing. Not for a literal edit, format, translation, or lookup whose method is the deliverable. Not a replacement for the design, debugging, research, or writing method that performs the work. Use the reify skill instead when the request is still too vague to have any method or outcome yet.
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asmartbear Skill Asb Carol ObservationsFacilitates the first step of a proven ideal-customer (ICP) method: gathering raw, honest, specific observations about what a company and product actually are — before any judgment about strengths or weaknesses. Walks the user through twelve unsparing question categories (what customers praise, the complaint with no defense, what separates your most profitable customers, and more) — or processes a team's write-storm notes one observation at a time — and records the results in OBSERVATIONS.md (numbered O1, O2, …), vivid and unevaluated. For a company operating online, it first scans public reviews and press into an External Research section that seeds it. Load when the user wants to figure out their ideal customer, take an honest look at their company, run a strengths-and-weaknesses exercise from scratch, or says 'who is our Carol' or 'what are we actually good at.' Do NOT load to classify observations into strengths and weaknesses (the next step), or for personal self-reflection unrelated to a company.
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dig1t Skill Roblox Research MethodologyUse when forming or testing a hypothesis in a Roblox game project — investigating a bug's root cause, proposing a mechanism ("I think the CFrame flips because..."), deciding whether a fix or feature idea is proven or still a hunch, designing a playtest or Studio experiment, wondering whether to keep digging or stop, retiring an idea, or asked "how do we know that?", "is this verified?", "should we try X?". Also when an investigation keeps producing partial fixes that don't stick.
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gear-foundation Bundle Vara SkillsUse when a builder needs the top-level router for the provisional standard Gear/Vara Sails skill pack across Codex, Claude, or OpenClaw. Covers standard Sails apps and ethexe-specific work via dedicated skills. Do not use for non-Sails programs or broad protocol research.
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gear-foundation Bundle Gear Message ExecutionUse when a builder needs to design or debug Gear message flow, replies, delayed execution, reservations, or waitlist behavior inside a standard Gear/Vara Sails app. Do not use for Vara.eth or ethexe-first work, non-Sails repositories, or broad protocol research.
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huangwb8 Bundle Research Guide Updater当用户明确要求"更新项目指南""同步指南""沉淀洞见到指南",或要求使用旧名 guide-updater skill 时使用。将对话中新产生的可复用写作洞见实时沉淀到项目指南文件,保持术语口径一致、结构稳定、可检验与可复现。调用时必须指定指南文件路径。
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huangwb8 Bundle Research Literature Radar发现、筛选并长期归档重要研究论文;当用户要求按主题寻找经典、rising star、社区精选、热点或顶会/顶刊论文时使用。采用分层发现策略,调用 research-literature-search 完成其中的关键词/数据库检索,再由本 skill 负责多渠道汇总、idea-level 价值判断、论文类型分类、跨轮次跟踪和论文库归档。
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 engineering-change-descriptions, academic-researcher, doctor-strange. 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.