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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anygenio-anygen-skills Skill Anygen Deep ResearchUse this skill any time the user wants in-depth research or comprehensive analysis on any topic. This includes: industry analysis, competitive landscape mapping, market sizing, trend analysis, technology reviews, investment research, sector overviews, due diligence, benchmark studies, patent landscape analysis, regulatory analysis, and academic surveys. Also trigger when: user says 帮我调研一下, 深度分析, 行业研究, 市场规模分析, 竞争格局, 技术趋势, 做个研究报告. If deep research or comprehensive analysis is needed, use this skill.
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anygenio-anygen-skills Skill Anygen Financial ResearchUse this skill any time the user wants financial analysis, earnings research, or investment-related reports. This includes: earnings call summaries, quarterly financial analysis, stock research, equity research reports, financial due diligence, company valuations, DCF models, balance sheet analysis, income statement breakdowns, cash flow analysis, SEC filing summaries, investor memos, portfolio analysis, IPO analysis, M&A research, and credit analysis. Also trigger when: user says 分析财报, 做个估值, 股票研究, 财务尽调, 现金流分析, 收入分析, 季度财务分析. If financial research or analysis is needed, use this skill.
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kingkongshot Bundle PensieveProject knowledge base and workflow router. knowledge/ caches explored file locations, module boundaries, and call chains for reuse; decisions/maxims are established architecture decisions and coding standards to follow, not relitigate; pipelines are reusable workflows; short-term/ stages new conclusions until promotion or deletion. Use self-improve after completing work to capture new insights. Provides seven tools: init, upgrade, migrate, doctor, self-improve, refine, and sync-instructions.
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uizze Skill UI RadarFind and compare real UI examples from UIZZE’s 800,000+ web and iOS screens. Use for UI inspiration, UI research, design references, comparable apps, user flows, layouts, navigation, components, interaction states, and product patterns before designing or redesigning an interface.
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broadinstitute Skill Draft Pull Request DescriptionUse this whenever the user wants to open a pull request (PR), draft a PR, or summarize their branch for merging. Fills out the project PR template.
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bigph00t Skill Research DetailGet detailed information about a specific research finding or observation. Use when injected research mentions "[/research-detail ID]" for more sources and context.
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bigph00t Skill Research StatusCheck the status of the research service and recent research history.
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jeandiable Bundle Survey WritingTaxonomy-focused literature review and survey paper writing. Given a research field or topic, searches comprehensively for papers, builds a multi-level taxonomy, and drafts a complete survey with introduction, background, per-category deep dives, comparison tables, and future directions. Unlike literature-survey, this skill focuses purely on organizing existing work — no cross-domain exploration or idea generation. Use when the user wants to "write a survey", "create a literature review", "organize papers into a taxonomy", or "draft a related work section".
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ddaanet Bundle GroundGround claims with external research before asserting methodology. Triggers on "ground", "create a scoring system", "design a methodology", "build a framework", or "synthesize best practices". Parallel diverge-converge research preventing confabulated structures.
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jeandiable Bundle Literature SurveyComprehensive topic-driven literature survey for AI/ML research. Searches arXiv, Semantic Scholar, and DBLP for recent papers (default: last 1 year), identifies research gaps, performs cross-domain exploration, and proposes 2-3 innovation directions with feasibility assessment. Use this skill when the user wants to survey a research topic, find related work, identify research gaps, or generate research ideas. Also use when the user says "literature review", "related work search", "find papers about", or "what's the latest on".
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ferrumclaudepilgrim Skill Scope FramingBefore starting any research task, define what decision the research serves, what "done" looks like, and what is out of scope. Prevents research that answers the technically correct question but not the operationally relevant one.
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vdustr Skill Macos Clean UninstallCleanly uninstall applications on macOS with thorough research and cleanup. Use when the user asks to "uninstall", "remove", "delete", or "clean up" an application, program, CLI tool, or package on macOS. Also trigger when the user wants to check what residual data an app has left behind, asks to "check leftover files", or mentions cleaning up after an app removal. Boundary: macOS only. Not for Linux/Windows, removing SIP-protected system apps, or clearing browser data.
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octagonai-octagon-mcp-server Skill Octagon Analyst MasterRoute broad company, sector, valuation, filings, transcript, and market data questions into the right Octagon workflow. Use when the user wants full-scope investment research or when multiple Octagon skills may be needed.
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octagonai-octagon-mcp-server Skill Prediction Markets AnalysisGenerate Kalshi prediction market research reports or fetch structured event history. Use when the user mentions Kalshi, prediction markets, market probability, expected return, or event history.
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jorgenbuilder Bundle Forum ResearchResearch and read content on forum.dfinity.org (Discourse). Use when the user asks to browse, search, summarize, or analyze Dfinity forum topics or users. Read-only access with authenticated browsing and JSON endpoints.
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pipecat-ai Bundle Provider ResearchResearch every provider behind Pipecat's services for new models and API affordances, writing per-service reports and local branches for clear-cut updates; publishing is scripts/provider-watch/publish.py's job, run outside this skill
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obviously-not Skill Patent ValidatorTurn your concept analysis into search queries — research the landscape before consulting an attorney. NOT legal advice.
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obviously-not Skill Code Patent ValidatorTurn your code scan findings into search queries — research existing implementations before consulting an attorney. NOT legal advice.
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zeroclaw-labs Skill Changelog GenerationChangelog generation skill for ZeroClaw releases. Use this skill when the user wants to generate a changelog, prepare release notes, or summarize what changed between versions. Trigger on: 'generate changelog', 'changelog for v0.7.x', 'prepare release notes', 'what changed since <tag>', 'write the changelog', 'CHANGELOG-next', 'release notes for the next release'.
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briansunter Skill Repo Meta ResearchUse when researching Pokemon TCG Pocket meta trends to update the user-facing skills. Activates when user mentions updating meta, researching meta, refreshing tier lists, updating skills, or meta research. Covers data sources, research workflow, and how to propagate findings into skills/REFERENCE.md files.
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datahub-project-analytics-agent Skill Publish AnalysisUse this skill when the user wants to publish, share, save, or preserve a completed data analysis so others in the org can find it. Saves as a versioned Analysis document in the DataHub knowledge base, organised under a folder hierarchy that reflects whether the content is private, team-scoped, or global.
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vincenthopf Bundle LearningsMANDATORY at two points in every session: (1) BEFORE debugging or investigating any non-trivial problem — search LEARNINGS.md first, the answer may already exist as a draft or confirmed fix. (2) AFTER solving any non-trivial problem — document it as a new draft or promote an existing draft to confirmed. Also invoke at session start to scan for relevant confirmed knowledge. This skill manages a hierarchical knowledge base where fixes earn trust through repetition: [DRAFT] (first observation) → [CONFIRMED] (verified a second time) → or [INVALIDATED] (proven wrong). Confirmed entries can regress to [REGRESSION] if they stop working. Triggers: debugging, fixing bugs, discovering SDK quirks, finding workarounds, performance tuning, resolving test failures, platform-specific issues. If you solve something and don't document it here, that knowledge is lost forever.
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ghostscientist Skill Paper To IntuitionTransforms an academic paper into deep, multi-layered understanding. Use when asked to explain a paper, break down a research paper, understand an arXiv paper, or build intuition for a technical concept from a paper. Generates explanations at multiple levels plus visual intuition diagrams.
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ghostscientist Skill Reviewer 2 SimulatorCritiques your paper draft as a skeptical reviewer would. Use when asked to review a paper draft, find weaknesses in a paper, prepare for peer review, anticipate reviewer criticism, or stress-test research before submission. Identifies weak claims, missing baselines, unclear explanations, and overclaims.
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ghostscientist Skill Research Taste DeveloperDevelops intuition for what makes research "good" versus "incremental." Use when asked about research taste, how to identify good research, what makes a paper impactful, how to develop research intuition, or how to pick important problems. Analyzes patterns in highly-cited work and what top researchers do differently.
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ghostscientist Skill Research Question RefinerHelps transform a vague research interest into a concrete, tractable research question. Use when asked to refine a research idea, develop a research question, scope a research project, or figure out what to work on. Walks through systematic refinement with feasibility analysis.
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ghostscientist Skill Experiment Design ChecklistGenerates a rigorous experiment design given a hypothesis. Use when asked to design experiments, plan experiments, create an experimental setup, or figure out how to test a research hypothesis. Covers controls, baselines, ablations, metrics, statistical tests, and compute estimates.
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abdullah1854 Skill Session HandoffPreserves context across sessions and IDE switches. Activates for "save session", "handoff", "continue later", "switching IDE", "save context", "what did we do", "summarize session", "end session".
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dupe-com Skill Dupe ResearchStart AI-powered product research tasks on dupe.com. Kick off deep product research with archetype-based personas, track progress, and get comprehensive reports with product recommendations, pricing, and editorial articles. Use when the user wants to research, compare, or find the best products in a category.
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scalebrick Skill KeywordsResearch high-intent TikTok and Instagram search keywords using ScaleBrick's framework. Returns categorized keywords with intent type, search volume estimate, difficulty score, and content angle for each.
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nikgor Skill Image Providers ResearchResearch current API docs for DALL-E 3, Grok Aurora, and Nano Banana image providers. Use when implementing or updating provider clients (openai_image_tool.py, grok_image_tool.py, nano_banana_image_tool.py), when checking supported parameters (sizes, quality, style), or when debugging provider API errors. Produces ProviderCapabilities reference for the registry.
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toruai Skill ScoutMap unfamiliar code or research an approach before planning, read-only and fast.
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toruai Skill Dev FinishClose out a session — summarise what changed, capture what was learned, and prepare the commit.
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zirui-song Skill Verify ClaimsUse before the user reads any draft, memo, literature review, or results write-up — runs an adversarial verification pass that hunts factual errors, unsourced claims, and numbers that don't match the underlying code or output files. Every claim is either cited to an exact file:line or marked UNVERIFIED. Trigger phrases include "verify this draft", "check my numbers", "adversarial verification pass", "did you make this up".
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zirui-song Skill Stata PreflightUse before editing or running any Stata .do file in the user's research projects. Checks for missing `<your-stata-username>` username path branches, `cap`-suppressed esttab calls, and other recurring Stata pitfalls. Catches issues that otherwise surface only as silent failures (no log produced, lost estimates).
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benjaminhaeberli Skill ChangelogatorGenerate a changelog from git commits. Use when the user asks to generate a changelog, prepare release notes, summarize commits, prepare a release, suggest a version bump, or review changes since last tag. Also use when the user mentions "changelog", "release notes", "what changed", "version bump", or "semver".
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 session-handoff, anygen-deep-research, anygen-financial-research. 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.