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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alpacalabsllc Bundle Environmental AnalysisResearch climate, sun, flood, seismic, soil, contamination, and topography for a site. Use for environmental site analysis or hazard questions tied to a location.
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jagreehal Bundle Research FirstResearches existing code, docs, and prior art before proposing designs or writing code. Use this skill when entering an unfamiliar area, choosing a library, or before design-exploration when facts are missing. Do not use when/for executing an already-researched implementation plan, or debugging with a live failing signal (use debugging-methodology).
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shaowei-g Bundle Mr Pr SummaryDraft concise, accurate merge request and pull request summaries from a branch diff. Use when the user asks to "create MR summary", "create PR summary", "write merge request description", "summarize this branch", "summarize the diff for review", or wants a paste-ready overview of changes, testing, and notable risks based on the current branch, target branch, commits, and local uncommitted edits.
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aperivue Bundle Lit SyncSync research references from .bib files to Zotero library + Obsidian literature notes. Extract cross-cutting concept notes when enough literature accumulates. Works after /search-lit or standalone.
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aperivue Bundle Search LitLiterature search and citation management for medical research. Searches PubMed, Semantic Scholar, and bioRxiv/medRxiv with verified citations. Anti-hallucination — every reference verified via API before inclusion. Generates BibTeX entries.
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aperivue Bundle OrchestrateGeneral-purpose research orchestrator. Routes ambiguous or multi-step requests to the right skill(s) from the medsci-skills bundle. Use when the user describes a research goal without naming a specific skill, or when a task spans multiple skills.
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flurdy Bundle Wrap UpEnd-of-session handoff — summarise today's commits, PRs, and beads, warn about uncommitted/unpushed work (across all repos in a multi-repo workspace, and in worktrees), and emit a paste-ready resume block. Run before leaving the client.
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sandbaseai-sandbase-skills Bundle Xiaohongshu Research通过 SandBase 搜索笔记、分析创作者、追踪话题趋势、研究用户行为。适用于小红书内容研究、种草分析、达人发现、竞品监控、话题追踪等场景。
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sandbaseai-sandbase-skills Bundle Akta Company ResearchResearch companies with employee reviews, product reviews, industry classification, and competitive landscape through Akta. Covers company enrichment, employee satisfaction signals, product feedback, industry mapping, and news monitoring.
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sandbaseai-sandbase-skills Bundle China Social ResearchResearch any topic across China's major social platforms — Weibo, Douyin, Xiaohongshu, Bilibili, and Zhihu — simultaneously. Aggregates discussion volume, sentiment, key opinion leaders, and platform-specific trends for comprehensive China market intelligence.
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sandbaseai-sandbase-skills Bundle Local Market ResearchResearch local markets by combining Google Maps reviews, Xiaohongshu local content, Weibo discussions, and web search. Covers customer sentiment by location, local competition analysis, neighborhood trends, and location-specific brand perception.
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sandbaseai-sandbase-skills Bundle Academic Trend ResearchResearch emerging academic trends by combining scholarly databases, web sources, and news to identify rising research areas, breakthrough papers, and shifting scientific consensus. Ideal for R&D teams tracking frontier science.
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sandbaseai-sandbase-skills Bundle Apollo Company ResearchSearch companies, enrich profiles with firmographic data, find job postings, and track company news through Apollo. Covers company search, detailed enrichment (industry, size, funding, tech stack), hiring activity, and news monitoring for B2B sales intelligence.
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sandbaseai-sandbase-skills Bundle Github Profile ResearchResearch GitHub user profiles including repositories, contributions, languages, stars, and activity patterns. Useful for developer talent sourcing, open-source community research, and technical due diligence on engineering teams.
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sandbaseai-sandbase-skills Bundle Product Review ExtractorExtract and analyze product reviews from e-commerce and review sites. Aggregates ratings, identifies common themes in positive and negative feedback, and surfaces actionable product insights from customer voices across platforms.
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sandbaseai-sandbase-skills Bundle Wechat Channels ResearchSearch videos, analyze channel profiles, track live streams, and research content engagement on WeChat Channels (Video Accounts). Covers video search, channel profiling, live stream monitoring, comment analysis, and content collections.
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matsuni-kk-mini-app-agent Skill Web Research要件や技術情報の確からしさをWeb検索で検証する。「調べて」「検索して」「確認して」「最新情報」を依頼されたときに使用する。
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aperivue Bundle Review PaperScaffold and draft medical/AI literature reviews (narrative, scoping PRISMA-ScR, or systematic). Asks for the spine axis, builds a 7-part skeleton with a required Intro scope/non-overlap block, a summary-table stub, an evaluation-metrics critique subsection, and reporting-guideline wiring. Reuses the self-review RV1-RV9 narrative-review probes for QC. Does not invent citations.
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matsuni-kk-mini-app-agent Bundle Chatgpt Parallel ResearchBrowser Controller拡張機能を使ってChatGPT 5.2 Thinkingで3並列以上のウェブ検索・ブレスト・情報収集を実行する。難問にはHeavy thinking(heavy/extended)を使用。指定時のみChatGPT Proで深い考察・ファクトチェック。マルチターン継続(chat)、再取得(recover)、ファイル添付、タブ管理にも対応。「ウェブ検索」「横断検索」「並列検索」「ブレスト」「情報収集」「リサーチ」「再取得」「追加質問」を依頼されたときに使用する。
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aperivue Bundle Analyze StatsStatistical analysis for medical research papers. Generates reproducible Python/R code with publication-ready tables and figures. Supports diagnostic accuracy, inter-rater agreement, meta-analysis, survival analysis, survey data, group comparisons, regression, propensity score, and repeated measures.
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aperivue Bundle Intake ProjectIntake and normalize a new radiology research project. Classifies project type, summarizes current state, identifies missing inputs, recommends next steps, and scaffolds lightweight project memory files.
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aperivue Bundle Manage ProjectResearch project management for medical manuscripts. Scaffold project structure, track writing progress across phases, maintain project memory files, generate submission checklists and backwards timelines. Commands: init, status, sync-memory, checklist, timeline.
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aperivue Bundle Write ProtocolIRB/ethics committee research protocol generator. Produces 4 core sections (Background, Study Design, Sample Size, Statistical Plan) with full prose, plus 6 skeleton sections with TODO markers for institution-specific content. Integrates outputs from design-study, calc-sample-size, and search-lit.
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aperivue Bundle Calc Sample SizeInteractive sample size calculator for medical research. Decision-tree guided test selection, reproducible R/Python code, effect size interpretation, and IRB-ready justification text. Supports diagnostic accuracy, agreement, proportions, continuous outcomes, survival, ANOVA, logistic regression, and non-inferiority/equivalence designs.
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aperivue Bundle Define VariablesLiterature-grounded variable operationalization for observational research. Turns a data dictionary + research question into a citation-backed table of exposure/outcome/covariate definitions, cutoffs, and DB variable mappings. Prevents ad-hoc phenotype definitions that invite reviewer rejection. Bridges /search-lit output into /write-protocol Methods.
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spartan-stratos Skill Market ResearchRun market research, competitive analysis, investor due diligence, and industry scans. Use when the user wants market sizing, competitor comparisons, fund research, or tech scans.
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aselimc Bundle Citation ManagementComprehensive citation management for academic research. Search Google Scholar and PubMed for papers, extract accurate metadata, validate citations, and generate properly formatted BibTeX entries. This skill should be used when you need to find papers, verify citation information, convert DOIs to BibTeX, or ensure reference accuracy in scientific writing.
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sentientsprite Skill SummarizeSummarize or extract text/transcripts from URLs, podcasts, and local files (great fallback for “transcribe this YouTube/video”).
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digital-stoic-org Bundle BrainstormDivergent-convergent brainstorming with research, ideation, and trade-off analysis. Use when exploring options, generating ideas, comparing approaches. Triggers include "brainstorm", "explore options", "ideate", "compare approaches".
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inspirai-store Bundle Article HotspotUse when user wants to research trending topics or viral articles before writing — triggers on "找热点", "抓热点", "热点分析", "爆款分析", "analyze hot topics", "find trending", "research hotspots", "最近有什么爆款", or when the user is about to write and wants angle/structure inspiration from currently viral pieces. Searches the web for current trends in the user's domain, decomposes viral titles (conflict / question / number / negation), maps article structures (hook / body / interaction), and outputs differentiable angles.
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inspirai-store Bundle Web Reader智能网页阅读器 - 抓取文章/下载视频并归档,支持分析、摘要、衍生。Triggers: '下载这篇文章', '抓取文章', '保存文章', 'fetch URL', '分析这篇文章', '摘要', '总结文章', '下载视频', '抓取微信文章', '抓取飞书文档', '把这个链接保存下来', '下载B站视频', 'download article', 'analyze article', 'summarize'.
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bitwarden Skill Shepherding An InitiativeFive-phase umbrella playbook for an initiative shepherd. Dispatches to phase-deep skills (Research, PoC, Scoping, Implementation) at the right moment.
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bitwarden Skill Running A Proof Of ConceptPhase 3 (Proof of Concept) deep-dive playbook — validates the Research recommendation in real Bitwarden code and drafts the ADR.
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ninehills Skill LearnRuns a six-phase research workflow that turns unfamiliar domains, source bundles, or collected material into publish-ready output. Use when users ask in any language to research, study, deep-dive, compile sources, synthesize unfamiliar material, or turn a source bundle into a coherent reference. Not for quick lookups or single-file reads.
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bitwarden Skill Running An Architectural AssessmentPhase 2 (Research) deep-dive playbook — drafts the Architectural Assessment.
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uw-ssec Bundle DevcontainersDevelopment container configuration for VS Code and GitHub Codespaces including devcontainer.json, features, multi-container setups, and language-specific templates for reproducible research environments.
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 environmental-analysis, research-first, lit-sync. 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.