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.

Research & Search

928 skills
baofeng-tech
gmail-lead-desk-plugin
Requires AISA_API_KEY. Uses the supplied AISA_API_KEY to send requests to https://api.aisa.one. Native-first ClawHub plugin for `gmail-lead-desk`. Ships the packaged AIsa skill with an `openclaw.plugin.json` manifest and a Claude-compatible bundle fallback. Gmail Lead Desk — standalone sales/CS Gmail skill via the AISA gateway: OAuth connect, scan unread leads, summarize threads, draft template replies (default draft-only), archive with labels. Keywords: Gmail Lead Desk, Gmail, lead desk, sales, customer support, follow-up, unread, inquiry summary, draft reply, archive, OAuth, AISA, connected account, thread_id. Use when: the user needs this workflow's domain-specific automation or guidance.
1 · bundle
manojbajaj95
youtube-content
Plan new YouTube videos with optimized titles, thumbnails, and hooks. Use when planning a video, writing or reviewing opening hooks, generating title and thumbnail concepts, or creating a production-ready video plan backed by research.
88
alterlab-ieu
alterlab-brenda
Access the BRENDA enzyme database via its SOAP API to retrieve kinetic parameters (Km, kcat, Ki), reaction equations, organism data, and substrate-specific enzyme information indexed by EC number. Use when looking up enzyme kinetics, turnover numbers, or substrate specificity for biochemical research and metabolic pathway analysis. Part of the AlterLab Academic Skills suite.
60 · bundle
alterlab-ieu
alterlab-biorxiv
Search the bioRxiv preprint server and retrieve paper metadata or download PDFs via its API. Use when finding life sciences preprints by keywords, authors, DOI, date ranges, or categories, or when conducting a biology literature review of not-yet-peer-reviewed work. Part of the AlterLab Academic Skills suite.
60 · bundle
alterlab-ieu
alterlab-thesis-supervisor
Supervises theses and dissertations end to end — structure guidance from proposal through defense, chapter-by-chapter writing support (introduction, literature review, methodology, results, discussion), supervision strategies, committee management, defense and viva voce preparation, timeline planning, feedback integration, examiner-expectation guidance, and formatting (APA 7, Chicago, university styles). Use when the request mentions thesis, dissertation, supervision, defense preparation, viva, proposal defense, thesis structure, thesis chapter, literature review chapter, methodology chapter, results chapter, discussion chapter, thesis timeline, committee, thesis formatting, or dissertation proposal. Part of the AlterLab Academic Skills suite.
60 · bundle
alterlab-ieu
alterlab-fred
Queries the FRED (Federal Reserve Economic Data) API for 800,000+ economic time series from 100+ sources, covering GDP, unemployment, inflation, interest rates, exchange rates, housing, and regional data. Use for macroeconomic analysis, financial research, policy studies, economic forecasting, fetching U.S. or international economic indicators by FRED series ID, and academic research requiring historical economic time series. Part of the AlterLab Academic Skills suite.
60 · bundle
casemark
legal-memo
Drafts U.S. internal legal memoranda using IRAC structure to analyze issues, synthesize authority, assess risks, and recommend strategy. Use when asked to draft a research memo, internal memo, issue analysis, case strategy memo, or any IRAC-based legal analysis.
34
bouclem
astropy
Astropy is the core Python package for astronomy, providing essential functionality for astronomical research and data analysis.
7
nous-hermeshub
grants
NIH grant research skill for clinical researchers. Grill-me intake (research idea + career stage + preliminary data + environment + submission posture + known institute targets) locks down the funding strategy before any search runs. Runs a 5-face...
1
lovits
last30
Deep research across Reddit, X/Twitter, Hacker News, YouTube, Polymarket, and the web from the last 30 days. Synthesizes findings into a grounded, cited briefing. Use when: researching trends, doing competitive analysis, answering 'what's the latest on X', or comparing tools/products.
0 · bundle
lovits
arxiv-watcher
Search and summarize papers from ArXiv. Use when the user asks for the latest research, specific topics on ArXiv, or a daily summary of AI papers.
0 · bundle
jrennie99-glitch
summarize
Summarize or extract text/transcripts from URLs, podcasts, and local files (great fallback for “transcribe this YouTube/video”).
0
ekatasingh1107
meeting-prep
Pre-meeting research and talking points generator. Researches the person and company, pulls CRM history, and generates a structured briefing with agenda, talking points, objection handlers, and recommended asks.
2 · bundle
ekatasingh1107
linkedin-researcher
Research top-performing LinkedIn content in your niche and generate a content playbook
2 · bundle
26bb
deepapi
Use DeepAPI for supported scraping, research, and email workflows with explicit credentials and approval.
0
ichichuang
polymarket
Query Polymarket prediction market data — search markets, get prices, orderbooks, and price history. Read-only via public REST APIs, no API key needed.
0 · bundle
ichichuang
blogwatcher
Monitor blogs and RSS/Atom feeds for updates using the blogwatcher-cli tool. Add blogs, scan for new articles, track read status, and filter by category.
0 · bundle
michaelschecht
statistical-analysis
Guided statistical analysis with test selection and reporting. Use when you need help choosing appropriate tests for your data, assumption checking, power analysis, and APA-formatted results. Best for academic research reporting, test selection guidance. For implementing specific models programmatically use statsmodels.
0 · bundle
peteedoo
user-personas
Create refined user personas from research data — 3 personas with JTBD, pains, gains, and unexpected insights. Use when building personas from survey data, creating user profiles from research, or segmenting users for product decisions.
0
brycewang-stanford
b2
VS-Enhanced Evidence Quality Appraiser - Prevents Mode Collapse with context-adaptive quality assessment Enhanced VS 3-Phase process: Avoids automatic tool application, delivers research-specific evaluation strategies Use when: appraising study quality, assessing risk of bias, grading evidence Triggers: quality appraisal, RoB, GRADE, Newcastle-Ottawa, risk of bias, methodological quality
1k
brycewang-stanford
hud
Diverga HUD (Heads-Up Display) management skill. Configure and manage the research project statusline display. Supports multiple presets: research, checkpoint, memory, minimal. Triggers: "hud", "statusline", "display settings"
1k
brycewang-stanford
stata-accounting-research
STATA code pattern library for empirical archival accounting research. Provides tested syntax from 126 peer-reviewed JAR (Journal of Accounting Research) replication files (2017-2025). Use when the user asks procedural questions like "How do I implement [method]?" or "Show me code for [technique]" — including: entropy balancing, propensity score matching (PSM), difference-in-differences (DiD), regression discontinuity (RDD), instrumental variables (IV), event studies (CAR/BHAR), survival analysis, Fama-MacBeth regressions, bootstrap, quantile regression, reghdfe/xtreg/areg, clustering standard errors, fixed effects, esttab/outreg2 table formatting, winsorization, leads/lags. Users can specify their variables (e.g., treatment, outcomes, controls) and receive adapted syntax. NOTE: This skill provides code patterns from published papers, not research design advice.
1k · bundle
brycewang-stanford
check-citations
Verify academic citations against CrossRef, Semantic Scholar, and OpenAlex. Detects AI-hallucinated references, chimeric citations, and suspicious patterns.
1k · bundle
brycewang-stanford
research-refine
Turn a vague research direction into a problem-anchored, elegant, frontier-aware, implementation-oriented method plan via iterative GPT-5.4 review. Use when the user says "refine my approach", "帮我细化方案", "decompose this problem", "打磨idea", "refine research plan", "细化研究方案", or wants a concrete research method that stays simple, focused, and top-venue ready instead of a vague or overbuilt idea.
1k
brycewang-stanford
slfg
Full autonomous research workflow using swarm mode for parallel execution
1k · bundle
brycewang-stanford
coding-guidelines
Standardized Python & Stata coding practices for empirical research projects
1k
sickn33
deepapi
Use DeepAPI for supported scraping, research, and email workflows with explicit credentials and approval.
45.1k
86606675
orchestrate-research-evidence
Orchestrates evidence-based research across local PDFs, scholarly search, citation-context tools, web sources, and code repositories to produce traceable syntheses with counterevidence audits.

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 orchestrate-research-evidence, alterlab-brenda, alterlab-biorxiv. Rankings shift as installs change; sort this page by "Most downloaded" 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 add <owner>/<name>, or copy the file into your agent's skills directory.