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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yantyx Skill Web SearchUse this skill whenever the user wants to search the web, look up current information, research a topic, find recent news, verify facts, or answer questions that may have changed since the knowledge cutoff. Trigger on phrases like "search for", "look up", "find out", "what's the latest on", "is X still", "who currently", "recent news about", "check if", or any question that requires up-to-date or real-time information. Also trigger when the user asks about prices, stock quotes, weather, sports scores, current events, recent product releases, or anything where recency matters. Use this skill proactively — if there's any chance the answer has changed recently, search rather than relying on training data alone.
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uhudsavasindankacanokcu2-legal-skills-for-claude Skill Legal Doc SummarizerSummarize long legal documents (contracts, terms of service, privacy policies, court filings, leases) into plain-English key points, obligations, deadlines, and red flags. Use when the user pastes or uploads a long legal/dense document and wants the gist, key dates, obligations, or "what does this actually say".
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jonmagic Bundle Knowledge HygieneRuns bounded, evidence-first reviews of old or confusing GitHub issues with complete primary-artifact research, current-state corroboration, conversational approval, exact writes, and verification. Use when deciding whether to keep, update, connect, consolidate, deprecate, close, or escalate lingering issues. Do not use for ordinary sprint triage, creating issues, or bulk stale automation.
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doiiarx Bundle Server Md管理个人 SERVER.md 运维知识库。Use this skill whenever the user mentions ~/SERVER.md, SERVER.md, 服务器清单, server inventory, tailnet nodes, self-managed servers, WSL/Windows/Ubuntu host notes, or asks Claude to create, locate, update, summarize, or use a personal server runbook. It helps Claude find the canonical SERVER.md across WSL, Windows, native Ubuntu, and remote hosts; preserve progressive disclosure by splitting details into reference files; summarize local machine and managed servers without leaking secrets; and turn server notes into safe operational checklists.
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veyralabsgroup Bundle Meeting PrepResearch a prospect company and generate a sales meeting brief in minutes. Extracts business context, likely pain points, decision-maker signals, and specific questions to ask. No API keys required.
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veyralabsgroup Bundle Cold OutreachResearch a prospect and generate a personalized cold outreach sequence. First message, two follow-ups, and a break-up message. Based on real signals from their website, not generic templates.
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darwin-agent Skill Tau2 Playbookτ²-bench-specific benchmark guidance (Sierra Research; retail / airline / telecom). Multi-turn dialogue eval with multiplicative reward (DB × action × NL-assertion) and pass^k reliability metric. Catalogues tau2 failure modes and techniques from public writeups, mapped to HarnessX's four levers (config / control / action / instruction). Use when forming a hypothesis or scanning for which intervention fits a pattern seen in tau2 trajectories.
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jaccen Skill 3dgs Experiment PlannerDesign rigorous experiments for 3DGS research papers. Recommends datasets, baselines, metrics, ablation matrices. Targets CVPR/ICCV/ECCV/SIGGRAPH/TVCG. Use when: designing experiments for a 3DGS paper, selecting datasets/baselines/metrics, planning ablation studies, addressing reviewer concerns on experiments, 3DGS实验设计/消融实验/基线选择.
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revgrowth1 Skill ResearchRun validated search processes against a company or person. USE WHEN user says "research" OR "research [company]" OR "deep research" OR "find info on" OR "company research" OR "people research" OR wants structured company intelligence.
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revgrowth1 Skill Situation MineMine prospect situations for diagnostic messaging using Stealth Offer framework. USE WHEN user says "situation mine" OR "mine situations" OR "research [company] for outreach" OR "find angles for [company]" OR "diagnostic messaging for".
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blockrunai-blockrun-mcp Skill Exa ResearchUse when researching products, finding academic papers, discovering competitors, reading webpage content, or getting cited answers grounded in real web sources. Use over generic search when semantic relevance matters.
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vm0-ai Skill Tech DebtResearch repository technical debt or create an issue from verified findings when requested
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ceshine Skill Youtube ToolsFetch transcripts and create structured watching guides / summaries for YouTube videos. Use when the user asks to (1) get, fetch, extract, or download a transcript or captions from a YouTube video URL, or (2) summarize, create a watching guide, or produce a structured summary of a YouTube video. Trigger on youtube.com/watch, youtu.be, or youtube.com/shorts links.
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llblab Bundle Brain StormCollaborative idea-to-design and inquiry protocol. Use for product/architecture exploration, research-style question shaping, feature design, standards, specs, UX concepts, module boundaries, and non-trivial behavior changes when uncertainty matters.
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nvidia Skill Respond To IssueResearch and draft a response to a GitHub issue or question from an external contributor.
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jaaaackielai Bundle AutoresearchRun autonomous deep learning experiments in a loop: modify code, train with fixed time budget, evaluate against a single metric, keep or discard, repeat indefinitely. Use when setting up overnight autonomous research, running hyperparameter sweeps, architecture search, or any iterative experiment loop on a single GPU. Triggers include 'run autoresearch', 'autonomous experiments', 'experiment loop', or 'overnight training'.
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jaaaackielai Skill Software BrainstormingUse before implementing features, building components, or modifying code behavior. Explores software design requirements, architecture, and technical constraints. For research hypothesis generation or experimental design, use scientific-brainstorming instead.
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jaaaackielai Bundle Scientific BrainstormingUse when generating research hypotheses, exploring interdisciplinary connections, challenging scientific assumptions, overcoming creative blocks in research, or designing experiments before data collection. For software feature design or implementation planning, use software-brainstorming instead.
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deevsdeevs Bundle Arxiv SearchSearch arXiv preprint repository for research papers in physics, mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology, finance, and statistics. Use when finding academic papers, preprints, ML research, scientific publications. Triggers: arxiv, preprint, research paper, academic paper, scientific literature.
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deevsdeevs Bundle Venue ExpertThis skill should be used when the user asks about "market microstructure", "exchange mechanics", "order book", "auction", "NBBO", "Reg NMS", "trading venue", "halt", "LULD", "tick size", "maker-taker", "price-time priority", "SIP", "direct feed", "TRF", "wholesaler", "PFOF", "best execution", "trade-through", "ISO", "opening cross", "closing cross", "NOII", "ITCH", "OUCH", or mentions specific exchanges (Nasdaq, NYSE, CME, Binance, SHFE, DCE, CZCE, CFFEX, INE, etc.). For Chinese futures: "CTP", "综合交易平台", "夜盘", "night session", "看穿式监管", "position limits", "持仓限额", queue position in Chinese markets, or Chinese product codes (rb, cu, sc, if, ic, i, j, ta, ma, etc.). Provides hierarchical venue expertise for research and debugging trading systems.
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doyajin174 Bundle OrchestratorSingle entry point for all tasks. Classifies the user's request, selects the right skill, invokes it via Skill tool, tracks progress in a state file, and reports back. User-invocable only — invoke via /orchestrator command. Do NOT auto-trigger on generic words like "해줘" or "만들어". This skill is a PURE ROUTER — it NEVER writes code, fixes bugs, or does research itself.
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vernonoy Skill Alpha AutopilotAutonomous factor research loop. Auto-mine, evaluate, register, monitor, and retire factors. 自动化因子研究闭环。自动挖掘、评估、注册、监控和退役因子。 Triggers: "run autopilot", "autonomous mode", "自动驾驶", "自动挖掘并监控", "alpha-autopilot"
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tempuss Bundle Web ResearchUse when researching markets, analyzing competitors, comparing technologies, or finding case studies. Ensures all findings include credible sources and URLs.
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cyrup-ai Skill Web SearchPerform DuckDuckGo web searches and return structured results. WHEN: User wants to "search the web", "find information online", "look up", "research topic". WHEN NOT: Know exact URL (use browser_navigate), crawling sites (use scrape_url).
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rezkam Bundle PerplexitySearch, research, chat, and analyze files through Perplexity WebUI. Use when the user asks to use Perplexity, Perplexity WebUI, GPT thinking models through Perplexity, current-news research, cited web research, source-focused search, or file analysis.
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shareai-lab Bundle Deep Architecture ResearchDeeply research technical architecture, source code, mechanisms, SDKs, frameworks, project comparisons, and system-design options across repositories, history, official docs, issues, discussions, and high-quality community signals. Use when the user asks for deep research, source-level understanding, architecture comparison, mechanism satisfaction, or evidence for designing a system. Always map the question and obtain confirmation before beginning substantive research; skip for simple factual lookups or straightforward implementation tasks.
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yugasun Bundle AI News CollectorAutomatically collect and summarize daily AI industry news, trends, and hot topics from platforms like GitHub (trending repos), X/Twitter (AI influencers/hashtags), and AI news aggregators. Use this skill when the user asks for "today's AI news", "AI industry updates", "what's trending in AI", or wants a daily digest of AI developments.
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lucanerlich Bundle IngestIngest fresh source documents into the AI Wiki knowledge base. Use whenever the user asks to ingest, process, import, or "catch up" new sources in raw/ — clippings or PDFs awaiting processing, or says "add this to the wiki". Reads each source in full, then creates/updates source, entity, concept, and topic pages, refreshes index.md / overview.md / log.md, and marks sources processed. Queries Index.base and Glossary.base through the Obsidian CLI to find existing pages and avoid duplicates instead of reading large files into context.
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lucanerlich Bundle SearchSearch the AI Wiki knowledge base by keyword and return all relevant pages and sources, ranked, with wikilinks and one-line descriptions. Use whenever the user asks to find, look up, search for, or "what do we have on" a topic in the wiki, lists keywords to research, or asks a question the wiki likely answers. Queries Index.base and Glossary.base plus full-text search through the Obsidian CLI for context efficiency, reads only the top matches, and offers to synthesize the answer into an analysis page.
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lucanerlich Skill Session SummarySummarize the current coding session and write structured notes into Obsidian. Use when the user says "summarize session", "write session notes", "session debrief", "log what we did", "write a summary", or asks to document what happened in the session.
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kevinslin Bundle Learning CaptureExtract and consolidate key learnings, insights, and actionable takeaways from the current conversation session. Use when the user wants to capture, summarize, or document what was learned during the chat, create study materials from discussions, or save important discoveries and decisions for future reference. Triggers include requests like "capture learnings," "summarize what we discussed," "create notes from this conversation," "what did I learn today," or "document our key findings."
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dimitri-vs Bundle Codex ReviewGet an independent review from Codex CLI (OpenAI, native Windows) as a second opinion. Use after implementing features, completing plans, finishing research/analysis, or anytime an unbiased third-party perspective would help - including non-code contexts like decisions, strategies, parenting situations, financial plans, or advice quality-checks. Runs 1-5 minutes in background (longer for complex reviews). Invoke when user asks for a sanity check, second opinion, or Codex review.
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dimitri-vs Bundle Web ResearchPerform web research using OpenAI APIs. Fast mode uses gpt-5.5 with web_search and medium reasoning for quick lookups (~1-2 min). Normal/deep modes use gpt-5.6-sol with web_search + code interpreter at high/xhigh reasoning effort for comprehensive multi-step research. Invoke when user needs current web information or thorough research on a topic.
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ztsalexey Bundle SummarizeSummarize URLs or files with the summarize CLI (web, PDFs, images, audio, YouTube).
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zeyuzhangzyz Skill Oss TestsBuild the smallest effective automated test loop for a repository. Use when the user says "add tests", "make this CI-safe", "cover the important paths", or wants a minimal but meaningful test strategy with mocks instead of secrets or live services for either product code or research code.
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nealcaren Bundle R AnalystR statistical analysis for publication-ready sociology research. Guides you through phased workflows for DiD, IV, matching, panel methods, and more. Use when doing quantitative analysis in R for academic papers.
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 knowledge-hygiene, server-md, tau2-playbook. 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.