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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happy-technologies-llc Skill Sourcing SummarizationSummarize sourcing events including bid comparisons, vendor evaluations, negotiation status, award recommendations, and RFP/RFQ process support
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jimmc414 Bundle Research GrantsWrite competitive research proposals for NSF, NIH, DOE, and DARPA. Agency-specific formatting, review criteria, budget preparation, broader impacts, significance statements, innovation narratives, and compliance with submission requirements.
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jimmc414 Bundle Venue TemplatesAccess comprehensive LaTeX templates, formatting requirements, and submission guidelines for major scientific publication venues (Nature, Science, PLOS, IEEE, ACM), academic conferences (NeurIPS, ICML, CVPR, CHI), research posters, and grant proposals (NSF, NIH, DOE, DARPA). This skill should be used when preparing manuscripts for journal submission, conference papers, research posters, or grant proposals and need venue-specific formatting requirements and templates.
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happy-technologies-llc Skill Incident Activity SummarizationSummarize incident activity streams including work notes, comments, state changes, assignment history, and communications into concise narratives for handoffs, escalations, and management reviews
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happy-technologies-llc Skill Purchase Order SummarizationSummarize purchase orders with line items, delivery status, receipt tracking, budget impact analysis, and late delivery risk identification
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jimmc414 Bundle Scientific WritingWrite scientific manuscripts in full paragraphs (never bullet points). Use two-stage process: (1) create section outlines with key points using research-lookup, (2) convert to flowing prose. IMRAD structure, citations (APA/AMA/Vancouver), figures/tables, reporting guidelines (CONSORT/STROBE/PRISMA), for research papers and journal submissions.
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jimmc414 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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jimmc414 Bundle Hypothesis GenerationGenerate testable hypotheses from observations. Use for formulating research questions, designing experiments, exploring competing explanations, developing predictions, and proposing mechanisms. Triggers: generate hypothesis, formulate hypothesis, research question, experimental design, competing explanations, mechanistic hypothesis, testable predictions, scientific inquiry.
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magnus919 Bundle TempestQuery hyper-local weather from a WeatherFlow Tempest station over its REST API and the hub's local UDP broadcast: current conditions, forecast, historical observations, and real-time decoded datagrams (obs_st, rapid_wind, evt_precip, evt_strike, hub_status). Use when the user asks about weather, temperature, rain, wind, humidity, or forecast data from their own Tempest/WeatherFlow station, or wants to parse the hub's UDP port 50222 broadcast. Do not use this skill for generic or city forecasts without a Tempest station (public weather services serve those), for Shakespeare's play The Tempest or other literature questions, or for weather hardware from other vendors - the REST endpoints require a personal-use token and the UDP broadcast only exists on a Tempest hub's LAN.
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magnus919 Bundle GutenbergSearch, download, and extract public-domain books from Project Gutenberg. Look up books by ID or keyword via gutendex, download plain-text and EPUB editions, strip licensing boilerplate, extract clean text from EPUB for illustrated works, and classify fiction vs non-fiction. Ships a portable CLI script with zero external dependencies. Use when the user says "gutenberg", "public domain", "download a book", "classic literature", "free ebook", "gutenberg.org", or names any public-domain title or author. Do not use this skill for unrelated requests; route to the nearest named specialist.
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writer Bundle Collateral Risk SummariesAssess and summarize collateral risk for secured lending decisions including real estate, equipment, inventory, and receivables. Use when evaluating collateral adequacy, preparing collateral risk sections for credit memos, monitoring collateral value deterioration, reviewing appraisals, or assessing liquidation recovery scenarios.
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writer Bundle Capital Adequacy SummariesSummarize capital adequacy positions including CET1, Tier 1, Total Capital ratios, RWA decomposition, leverage ratio, and capital planning. Use when preparing capital reports, explaining ICAAP narratives, analyzing RWA movements, or summarizing capital buffer compliance for ALCO or board reporting.
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writer Bundle Care Pathway SummarizationSummarize patient care journeys across encounters into concise clinical pathway narratives with key milestones, transitions, and outcome tracking. Use when reviewing longitudinal patient records, preparing care coordination summaries, generating transition-of-care documents, or analyzing patient journeys across multiple providers and settings.
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magnus919 Bundle Research And VaultChain web research, atomic extraction, and durable note capture when the same research-to-notes sequence must repeat. Do not use this skill to design or evaluate an investigation; use `research-methodology` for research questions, methods, and evidence assessment.
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magnus919 Bundle Research MethodologyPlan, conduct, evaluate, and synthesize rigorous research investigations with credible evidence and a traceable method, including source-to-claim closure for media evidence. Do not use this skill for repeated source extraction and durable note orchestration; use `research-and-vault` for that capture workflow, or `ffmpeg` for media operations.
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writer Bundle Diagnostic Support SummariesGenerate evidence-based diagnostic summaries by synthesizing clinical findings, test results, and differential diagnoses with supporting literature and diagnostic criteria. Use when building differential diagnosis lists, summarizing diagnostic workups, preparing case presentations, or supporting clinical reasoning with evidence synthesis.
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writer Bundle Voice Of Customer SummarizerSummarize customer feedback at scale across surveys, reviews, social media, and support interactions using NLP-driven theme extraction to produce actionable executive summaries with quantified sentiment trends.
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magnus919 Bundle Verification MethodologyVerify work against explicit criteria using direct, source-faithful evidence, reproducible checks, and clear verdicts. Use before declaring an artifact, implementation, or claim complete; do not use for exploratory research without pass/fail criteria.
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prorise-cool Bundle Company ResearchCreate a company research brief with executive quotes, product strategy, and org context. Use when preparing for interviews, competitive analysis, partnerships, or market-entry work.
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bookforge-ai Bundle Warrant TesterTest the warrants in a research argument — the general principles that connect reasons to claims. Use this skill when a reader might accept a reason as true but still deny it is relevant to the claim, the argument contains a logical leap between a reason and a claim that no stated principle explains, the user needs to decide whether to state a warrant explicitly or leave it implicit, the argument needs to identify which type of warrant is being used (experience-based, authority-based, system/definitional, cultural, methodological) so it can be challenged or defended appropriately, the user is writing for an audience outside their field who will ask "but why does that reason matter to your claim?", a warrant appears to be too broad and needs qualification before it can survive challenge, competing warrants exist and the argument must show why its warrant should prevail, or the user suspects their argument is flawed but cannot identify where — surfacing the implicit warrant often reveals the problem. This skill
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athola Skill ResearchRuns multi-source research across GitHub, HN, Reddit, arXiv, and Semantic Scholar. Use when surveying a technical topic across multiple channels.
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bookforge-ai Bundle Source EvaluatorEvaluate, triage, and actively read a set of research sources — books, articles, and online materials — by applying a dual-axis relevance-and-reliability screen, source-type skim protocols, and a two-pass active reading method that extracts data, arguments to respond to, and generative agreements and disagreements. Use this skill when you have a candidate source list and need to cut it to a workable set, when you need to verify that a source is credible before citing it, when you are reading sources to find a research problem or refine a hypothesis, when you need to take notes that accurately capture what a source argues without misrepresenting it, or when you must identify where sources agree and disagree so you can position your own argument within a field's conversation.
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bookforge-ai Bundle Prose Clarity ReviserRevise dense, unclear prose into clear, readable sentences by applying four diagnostic principles — characters-as-subjects, actions-as-verbs, old-before-new information flow, and complexity-last sentence endings. Use this skill whenever the user shares a draft passage, paragraph, or document and asks you to make it clearer, more readable, easier to follow, less dense, less academic-sounding, or better written — even if they don't use those words. Also triggers on: "can you revise this," "this feels clunky," "my advisor said this is unclear," "make this flow better," "my writing sounds stilted," or any request to improve prose style in research papers, reports, essays, grant proposals, or professional documents. Apply all four principles end-to-end; return a revised version with brief annotations showing what changed and why.
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bookforge-ai Bundle Research Paper PlannerBuild a storyboard-based plan for a research paper and turn it into a first draft. Use this skill when the user has assembled a research argument — a main claim with supporting reasons, evidence, and acknowledgments — and now needs to organize it into a coherent, reader-ready structure before writing. Triggers include: user has a thesis and evidence but does not know how to order the sections; user suspects their draft is organized as a research narrative (what they found first) rather than as an argument (what readers need); user's draft summary-hops across sources without asserting their own claim (patchwork writing); user wants a working introduction sketch to start drafting; user is staring at a blank page and cannot begin; user needs to decide where to state their main point — end of introduction or end of paper; user wants to know whether to order reasons by importance, complexity, familiarity, or contestability. This skill does NOT build the underlying argument from scratch — use research-argument-buil
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bookforge-ai Bundle Counterargument HandlerAnticipate, acknowledge, and respond to reader objections and alternative views in a research argument. Use this skill when the user has a draft argument or storyboard and needs to identify which objections readers will predictably raise, wants to decide which objections to acknowledge and which to set aside, needs vocabulary and sentence templates for introducing and responding to counterarguments without weakening their position, has discovered a flaw in their argument and does not know how to handle it honestly, is building a cause-and-effect argument and needs to address competing causes, has made claims with counterexamples that readers will invoke, uses key terms that readers may define differently and needs to address definitional scope, or wants to avoid either ignoring objections (seeming ignorant) or acknowledging too many (losing argumentative focus). This skill is the detailed companion to research-argument-builder — use it after assembling the argument's core structure (claim, reasons, evidence)
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bookforge-ai Bundle Research Problem FramerTransform a research question into a fully framed research problem that readers recognize as worth solving, using the condition+consequence structure and the So What? cascade test. Use this skill when the user has a research question but cannot explain why readers should care about the answer, has completed the 3-step significance formula but the Step 3 consequence still feels abstract or weak, is writing an introduction and the reader's "So what?" objection keeps coming back, cannot tell whether their project is pure or applied research and whether that matters for their introduction, wants to verify that solving their conceptual problem actually serves a practical one, has a research question that feels personally interesting but lacks community relevance, is being asked by an advisor or reviewer "why does this matter?", needs to state a research problem in formal proposal or introduction language, wants to understand the difference between a research question (condition) and a research problem (condition +
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bookforge-ai Bundle Research Argument BuilderBuild a complete, structured research argument from a framed problem — assembling all five elements (claim, reasons, evidence, acknowledgment/response, warrant) using the Claim→Reason→Evidence chain. Use this skill when the user has a research problem or framed question and needs to construct the supporting argument that justifies their answer, has a working thesis or claim but does not know how to assemble the reasons and evidence that make it hold, needs to identify which of the five claim types (fact, definition, cause, evaluation, policy) their main claim is and what kind of evidence each type demands, wants to evaluate whether their claim is specific and significant enough to anchor an argument, cannot tell whether a statement is a reason or evidence and keeps treating soft generalizations as hard data, has evidence but cannot determine whether it meets the quality standards (accurate, precise, sufficient, representative, authoritative) their readers will apply, needs to plan their argument visually usin
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bookforge-ai Bundle Research Question FormulatorTransform a broad topic into a focused, answerable research question with built-in significance using the 3-step sentence-completion formula (topic → direct question → So What?). Use this skill when the user has a subject or area of interest but no specific question, has a vague topic like "climate change" or "leadership" and needs to narrow it to something researchable, says they don't know what their paper is really about, is collecting too many notes without a clear direction, wants to know if their research question is worth asking, needs to test whether their topic is too broad (4-5 words = too broad), has a yes/no question that won't drive analysis, is asking a settled-fact question that doesn't open inquiry, wants to move from aimless reading to targeted evidence gathering, has a draft thesis but lost track of what question it answers, or is stuck at the beginning of a research project and doesn't know where to start — even if they never use the phrase "research question formulation." This skill handle
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bookforge-ai Bundle Argument Organization ReviserRevise the structural organization of a research paper draft by applying a four-level top-down procedure — Frame (intro/conclusion alignment), Argument (section reasons + evidence ratios), Paper Organization (key-term threading + section signals), and Paragraphs (topic sentence placement + length). Use this skill whenever the user has a complete draft and asks to revise, reorganize, or strengthen its structure — not its prose style. Triggers include: user shares a draft paper and asks for structural feedback; user says sections feel disconnected or the argument is hard to follow; user's introduction and conclusion seem to contradict or not reinforce each other; user suspects their sections lack clear points or bury them in the middle; user cannot tell whether their evidence-to-reasoning ratio is balanced; user's paragraphs open with evidence rather than claims; user is preparing to submit and wants a final organizational pass. Also triggers on: "revise my structure," "does my argument hold together," "my advi
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aradotso-trending-skills Skill Cabinet AI Knowledge BaseAI-first knowledge base and startup OS with file-based storage, AI agents, scheduled jobs, and embedded apps
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oimiragieo Bundle QutipQuantum physics simulation library for open quantum systems. Use when studying master equations, Lindblad dynamics, decoherence, quantum optics, or cavity QED. Best for physics research, open system dynamics, and educational simulations. NOT for circuit-based quantum computing—use qiskit, cirq, or pennylane for quantum algorithms and hardware execution.
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aradotso-trending-skills Skill Gpt Pp Team Protocol ReplayEnd-to-end protocol replay toolkit for ChatGPT Team subscription with hCaptcha solver and anti-fraud research tools
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aradotso-trending-skills Skill Gpt Agreement Payment ReplayEnd-to-end protocol replay toolkit for ChatGPT Plus/Team/Pro subscription with hCaptcha visual solver and anti-fraud empirical research
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gptomics Bundle Bio Clinical Databases Tumor Mutational BurdenCalculates tumor mutational burden from WES/WGS/panel data with Friends of Cancer Research harmonization equations, per-assay calibration (FDA 10/Mb = 7.8 TSO500 = 8.4 OncomineTML), synonymous/indel/germline filtering, hypermutator tiering, blood TMB, and integration with HLA-LOH and neoantigen quality (Luksza 2017 fitness). Use when assessing ICI eligibility under tumor-specific cutoffs (McGrail 2021), comparing tissue vs bTMB, or auditing TMB-H reporting against ESMO 2024 and FDA pembrolizumab pan-tumor 2020.
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oimiragieo Bundle LamindbThis skill should be used when working with LaminDB, an open-source data framework for biology that makes data queryable, traceable, reproducible, and FAIR. Use when managing biological datasets (scRNA-seq, spatial, flow cytometry, etc.), tracking computational workflows, curating and validating data with biological ontologies, building data lakehouses, or ensuring data lineage and reproducibility in biological research. Covers data management, annotation, ontologies (genes, cell types, diseases, tissues), schema validation, integrations with workflow managers (Nextflow, Snakemake) and MLOps platforms (W&B, MLflow), and deployment strategies.
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oimiragieo Bundle NetworkxComprehensive toolkit for creating, analyzing, and visualizing complex networks and graphs in Python. Use when working with network/graph data structures, analyzing relationships between entities, computing graph algorithms (shortest paths, centrality, clustering), detecting communities, generating synthetic networks, or visualizing network topologies. Applicable to social networks, biological networks, transportation systems, citation networks, and any domain involving pairwise relationships.
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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 sourcing-summarization, incident-activity-summarization, purchase-order-summarization. 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.