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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haibarakiku Bundle Research ScholarResearch Scholar
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wonsukchoi Bundle Parking Enforcement OfficerUse when a task needs the judgment of a Parking Enforcement Officer — timing and documenting a metered-parking overstay, deciding whether a vehicle meets a scofflaw boot/tow threshold, checking whether a "no parking" citation will survive a sign-compliance challenge, verifying a disabled placard against registry records, or preparing a citation's evidence packet for an administrative hearing.
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wonsukchoi Bundle History Teacher PostsecondaryUse when a task needs the judgment of a History Teacher, Postsecondary — deciding coverage vs. depth for a survey syllabus vs. an upper-division seminar, grading a primary-source research paper for thesis strength and citation integrity, verifying a suspicious or fabricated quote/citation in a student paper, or building a document-based sourcing exercise for a lower-division survey.
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wonsukchoi Bundle Agricultural Sciences ProfessorUse when a task needs the judgment of a tenure-track or tenured Agricultural Sciences faculty member at a land-grant university — deciding whether to submit a grant this cycle versus wait, allocating time across the teaching/research/extension appointment split, diagnosing a stalled graduate student or field trial, or drafting a tenure-and-promotion dossier narrative.
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wonsukchoi Bundle Biology ProfessorUse when a task needs the judgment of a Biology Professor at a research university — writing or defending an NIH/NSF grant budget, deciding authorship order on a paper, navigating an IACUC or biosafety protocol, mentoring a PhD student through a stalled project, or converting a course when active-learning data doesn't match student pushback.
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wonsukchoi Bundle Medical ScientistUse when a task needs the judgment of a Medical Scientist doing preclinical/translational research — designing an in vitro or in vivo experiment, fitting and interpreting a dose-response curve, judging whether an efficacy signal survives replication and assay-quality scrutiny, deciding a go/no-go on program progression, or scoping a GLP-vs-exploratory study. Distinct from a clinical-data-manager (owns trial data integrity, not research design) and a biostatistician (owns statistical methodology for the analysis this role's data feeds into, not the biological research question itself).
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wonsukchoi Bundle Postsecondary EducatorUse when a task needs the judgment of a Postsecondary Educator — designing a course from learning objectives backward, building or applying a grading rubric, responding to a grade appeal or academic-integrity case, or allocating time across a teaching/research/service load.
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wonsukchoi Bundle Natural Sciences ManagerUse when a task needs the judgment of a Natural Sciences Manager (R&D lab director, science department head) — allocating research budget/headcount across competing projects, deciding whether to kill or continue a research program, evaluating a grant/publication strategy tradeoff, or managing the tension between scientific rigor and delivery deadlines.
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wonsukchoi Bundle Library Science ProfessorUse when a task needs the judgment of a Library Science Professor (postsecondary LIS/iSchool faculty) — responding to an ALA accreditation site-visit finding, redesigning a required course after section pass rates diverge, allocating pre-tenure time across research/teaching/service, calibrating adjunct-taught sections against a shared rubric, or mapping curriculum to the ALA Core Competences of Librarianship.
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onfire7777 Bundle Gh Fix CIUse when a user asks to debug or fix failing GitHub PR checks that run in GitHub Actions. Uses `gh` to inspect checks and logs, summarize failure context, draft a fix plan, and implement only after explicit approval. Treats external providers (for example Buildkite) as out of scope and reports only the details URL. Do NOT use for addressing PR review comments (use gh-address-comments) or general CI outside GitHub Actions.
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onfire7777 Bundle ResearcherUser research specialist. Responsible for interview design, question guides, usability test planning, qualitative data analysis, persona creation, and journey mapping. Complements Echo's UI validation. Use when user research design and analysis are needed.
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onfire7777 Skill Tavily WebWeb search, content extraction, crawling, and research capabilities using Tavily API
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onfire7777 Bundle Research Claim MapUse when verifying claims before decisions, fact-checking statements against sources, conducting due diligence on vendor/competitor assertions, evaluating conflicting evidence, triangulating source credibility, assessing research validity for literature reviews, investigating misinformation, rating evidence strength (primary vs secondary), identifying knowledge gaps, or when user mentions "fact-check", "verify this", "is this true", "evaluate sources", "conflicting evidence", or "due diligence".
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onfire7777 Bundle Statistical AnalysisStatistical analysis toolkit. Hypothesis tests (t-test, ANOVA, chi-square), regression, correlation, Bayesian stats, power analysis, assumption checks, APA reporting, for academic research.
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onfire7777 Bundle Printing Press ReprintRegenerate an existing printed CLI from scratch under the current Printing Press, with prior research and prior novel features carried into the novel-features subagent's reprint reconciliation rather than dropped on the floor. Pulls the CLI from the public library if it isn't local, recommends reuse-vs-redo of prior research based on age, then hands off to /printing-press with the right context. Use when a machine upgrade would benefit a published CLI more than manual polish. Trigger phrases: "reprint <api>", "regenerate <api>", "redo the <api> CLI", "rebuild <api> from scratch", "this CLI would benefit from a reprint".
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onfire7777 Bundle UX Researcher DesignerUX research and design toolkit for Senior UX Designer/Researcher including data-driven persona generation, journey mapping, usability testing frameworks, and research synthesis. Use for user research, persona creation, journey mapping, and design validation.
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onfire7777 Skill Content Research WriterAssists in writing high-quality content by conducting research, adding citations, improving hooks, iterating on outlines, and providing real-time feedback on each section. Transforms your writing process from solo effort to collaborative partnership.
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haibarakiku Bundle Visiting ScholarExpert visiting scholar specializing in cross-institution research collaboration, academic exchange programs, fellowship applications, and host institution integration
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haibarakiku Bundle Investment AnalystExpert Investment Analyst with deep expertise in equity research, fundamental analysis, valuation methodologies (DCF, comparable analysis, precedent transactions), investment thesis construction, and due diligence. Specializes in identifying variant perception and generating alpha through rigorous research. Use when: equity-research, valuation, fundamental-analysis, financial-modeling,
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haibarakiku Bundle Prosecutor AssistantProsecutor assistant specializing in case preparation, legal research, and prosecution support. Use when preparing criminal cases, researching case law, or supporting prosecution efforts
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haibarakiku Bundle Cell Culture TechCell Culture Technician
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haibarakiku Bundle Ecommerce SellerA world-class e-commerce seller and consultant specializing in Amazon FBA/FBM, Shopify DTC, and multi-channel commerce. Covers product research (BSR, demand/competition analysis), listing Use when: ecommerce, Amazon, Shopify, product-sourcing, listing-optimization.
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haibarakiku Bundle Instrument ManagerSenior instrument manager with 10+ years experience in centralized research facility management. Expert in HPLC, GC-MS, NMR, TEM, SEM, confocal microscopy, and other major analytical instruments
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haibarakiku Bundle Academic TranslatorExpert academic translator with 15+ years experience in scientific paper translation, language editing, and publication preparation
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haibarakiku Bundle Animal ExperimenterSenior animal experiment technician with 10+ years experience in rodent and small animal research. Expert in surgical procedures, handling/restraint, drug administration, and IACUC compliance. Specializes in
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haibarakiku Bundle Graduate SupervisorExpert-level Graduate Supervisor with deep knowledge of doctoral mentoring, thesis supervision, research methodology guidance, and academic career development
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onfire7777 Skill Collab ModesSet the collaboration style for a session — step-by-step (guided), deep-think (research-first recommendations), or pair (equal partners switching roles). Use when starting complex work, wanting a different interaction pattern, or when the current back-and-forth isn't productive. Triggers on: 'let's pair', 'walk me through', 'think deeply about', 'step by step', 'collaboration mode', 'work together on'.
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onfire7777 Skill Deep ResearchMulti-source deep research with evidence grading and contradiction detection. Use for any question requiring thorough investigation, competitive analysis, technology evaluation, or fact-finding across multiple sources. Triggers on: 'research this', 'deep dive into', 'investigate', 'what does the evidence say', 'compare options', 'find out about', 'analyze the landscape'.
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onfire7777 Bundle Proto PersonaCreate a proto-persona from current research, market signals, and team knowledge. Use when you need a working customer profile before deeper validation.
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onfire7777 Bundle Chat SummarizerGenerate a comprehensive, AI-optimized summary of the current AI session. Use when the user asks to summarize this chat, create a session summary, generate a handoff document, capture what was done, or save progress for continuation in a new chat or another AI client.
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onfire7777 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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onfire7777 Bundle Scientific BrainstormingResearch ideation partner. Generate hypotheses, explore interdisciplinary connections, challenge assumptions, develop methodologies, identify research gaps, for creative scientific problem-solving.
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onfire7777 Bundle Communication StorytellingUse when transforming analysis/data into persuasive narratives—presenting to executives, explaining technical concepts to non-technical audiences, creating customer-facing communications, writing investor updates, announcing changes, turning research into insights, or when user mentions "write this for", "explain to", "present findings", "make this compelling", "audience is". Invoke when information needs to become a story tailored to specific stakeholders.
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onfire7777 Bundle Brainstorm Diverge ConvergeUse when you need to generate many creative options before systematically narrowing to the best choices. Invoke when exploring product ideas, solving open-ended problems, generating strategic alternatives, developing research questions, designing experiments, or when you need both breadth (many ideas) and rigor (principled selection). Use when user mentions brainstorming, ideation, divergent thinking, generating options, or evaluating alternatives.
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onfire7777 Bundle Scientific Critical ThinkingEvaluate research rigor. Assess methodology, experimental design, statistical validity, biases, confounding, evidence quality (GRADE, Cochrane ROB), for critical analysis of scientific claims.
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onfire7777 Skill Deep Research Scholarly Analysis EngineComprehensive research methodology combining scholarly research, scientific data analysis, evidence synthesis, source evaluation, and systematic review practices for producing research-grade outputs.
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 research-scholar, parking-enforcement-officer, history-teacher-postsecondary. 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.