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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mkurman 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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mkurman Bundle Imaging Data CommonsQuery and download public cancer imaging data from NCI Imaging Data Commons using idc-index. Use for accessing large-scale radiology (CT, MR, PET) and pathology datasets for AI training or research. No authentication required. Query by metadata, visualize in browser, check licenses.
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mkurman Bundle Statistical AnalysisGuided statistical analysis with test selection and reporting. Use when you need help choosing appropriate tests for your data, assumption checking, power analysis, and APA-formatted results. Best for academic research reporting, test selection guidance. For implementing specific models programmatically use statsmodels.
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mkurman Bundle Market Research ReportsGenerate comprehensive market research reports (50+ pages) in the style of top consulting firms (McKinsey, BCG, Gartner). Features professional LaTeX formatting, extensive visual generation with scientific-schematics and generate-image, deep integration with research-lookup for data gathering, and multi-framework strategic analysis including Porter Five Forces, PESTLE, SWOT, TAM/SAM/SOM, and BCG Matrix.
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mkurman Bundle UX ResearchUse this skill when planning user research, conducting usability tests, creating journey maps, or designing A/B experiments. Triggers on user interviews, usability testing, user journey maps, A/B test design, survey design, persona creation, card sorting, tree testing, and any task requiring user experience research methodology or analysis.
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mkurman Bundle Scientific BrainstormingCreative research ideation and exploration. Use for open-ended brainstorming sessions, exploring interdisciplinary connections, challenging assumptions, or identifying research gaps. Best for early-stage research planning when you do not have specific observations yet. For formulating testable hypotheses from data use hypothesis-generation.
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mkurman Bundle Literature Search BiorxivBrowse, filter, and download life sciences, biology, and medical preprints from bioRxiv and medRxiv. Supports fetching paper metadata by DOI, and browsing by date range with category and keyword filters. Keyword filtering is local, so date ranges MUST be narrow (1-4 weeks) with a category to prevent timeouts.
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mkurman Bundle Literature Search OpenalexQuery the OpenAlex scholarly database for research papers, authors, institutions, topics, sources, publishers, funders, geo-locations, and keywords. Use when searching academic papers, resolving DOIs, downloading open-access PDFs, finding an author's publications, aggregating bibliometric data (citation counts, h-index, impact factor), exploring the research taxonomies, or performing DOI lookups.
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mkurman Skill Review MiningWhen the user wants to research customer pain points, complaints, or sentiment using review platforms like Trustpilot, G2, Capterra, or app stores. Also use when the user mentions "what are users saying", "competitor reviews", "pain points", or "voice of customer research".
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mkurman Bundle Literature Search EuropepmcSearch Europe PMC for scientific literature and download open-access full texts and PDFs. Retrieve full-text XML/plain text by PMCID, get citation lists and bibliography.
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mkurman Bundle Gdm Science BundleVendor of the google-deepmind/science-skills bundle (37 skills for scientific research). Use when a user asks about any of: AlphaGenome single-variant effect analysis (RNA-seq / DNase / ChIP / TF effects, splicing disruption, UBERON/CL ontology resolution for non-coding variants), AlphaFold DB fetch and analyze, ChEMBL bioactivity queries, ClinicalTrials.gov lookups, ClinVar variant interpretation, dbSNP, EMBL-EBI Ontology Lookup Service (OLS4), ENCODE cCREs, Ensembl REST, Foldseek structural search, gnomAD, GTEx, Human Protein Atlas, InterPro, JASPAR transcription-factor profiles, literature search (arXiv / bioRxiv / EuropePMC / OpenAlex), NCBI sequence fetch (EFetch), openFDA, OpenTargets, PDB, protein sequence MSA / similarity search, PubChem, PubMed, PyMOL structural visualization, QuickGO, Reactome, STRING, UCSC conservation & TFBS, UniBind, UniProt, or any workflow combining them. Always read the per-skill SKILL.md under skills/<name>/ and invoke Python only through `uv run`.
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mkurman Skill HydraConfiguration framework for complex applications (Hydra). Dynamic hierarchical configuration by composition and override via CLI, YAML, and structured configs. Use for ML experiment management, multi-environment deployment, hyperparameter sweeps, and reproducible research workflows. Integrates with PyTorch Lightning, Weights & Biases, MLflow, and Optuna.
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mkurman Skill FredapiFederal Reserve Economic Data (FRED) API client. 800,000+ US and international economic time series: GDP, inflation, unemployment, interest rates, industrial production. Direct data access for macro research.
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mkurman Skill YfinanceYahoo Finance market data downloader. Stock prices, options chains, fundamentals, dividends, splits, earnings, institutional holders, and financial statements. Quick data ingestion for quant research and backtesting.
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mkurman Bundle Neurokit2Comprehensive biosignal processing toolkit for analyzing physiological data including ECG, EEG, EDA, RSP, PPG, EMG, and EOG signals. Use this skill when processing cardiovascular signals, brain activity, electrodermal responses, respiratory patterns, muscle activity, or eye movements. Applicable for heart rate variability analysis, event-related potentials, complexity measures, autonomic nervous system assessment, psychophysiology research, and multi-modal physiological signal integration.
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mkurman Bundle InfographicsCreate professional infographics using Nano Banana Pro AI with smart iterative refinement. Uses Gemini 3 Pro for quality review. Integrates research-lookup and web search for accurate data. Supports 10 infographic types, 8 industry styles, and colorblind-safe palettes.
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mkurman Bundle Paper LookupSearch 10 academic paper databases via their REST APIs to find research papers, preprints, and scholarly articles. Covers biomedical literature (PubMed, PMC full text), preprint servers (bioRxiv, medRxiv, arXiv), multidisciplinary indexes (OpenAlex, Crossref, Semantic Scholar), open access aggregators (CORE, Unpaywall). Use this skill whenever the user wants to search for research papers, find citations, look up articles by DOI or PMID, retrieve abstracts or full text, check open access availability, find preprints, explore citation graphs, search by author or keyword, or access any scholarly literature database. Also trigger when the user mentions PubMed, PMC, bioRxiv, medRxiv, arXiv, OpenAlex, Crossref, Semantic Scholar, CORE, Unpaywall, or asks about paper metadata, citation counts, journal articles, manuscript lookups, literature reviews, or systematic searches. Even if the user just says "find papers on X" or "what's been published about Y" or "look up this DOI", this skill should activate.
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mkurman Bundle Parallel WebSearch the web, extract URL content, and run deep research using the Parallel Chat API and Extract API. Use for ALL web searches, research queries, and general information gathering. Provides synthesized summaries with citations.
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mkurman Bundle Open NotebookSelf-hosted, open-source alternative to Google NotebookLM for AI-powered research and document analysis. Use when organizing research materials into notebooks, ingesting diverse content sources (PDFs, videos, audio, web pages, Office documents), generating AI-powered notes and summaries, creating multi-speaker podcasts from research, chatting with documents using context-aware AI, searching across materials with full-text and vector search, or running custom content transformations. Supports 16+ AI providers including OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Ollama, Groq, and Mistral with complete data privacy through self-hosting.
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kevinzai Skill Deep ResearchMulti-source deep research with parallel agents, citation tracking, and synthesis into structured deliverables.
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kevinzai Skill Large ContextStrategy for work that exceeds a single context window — use Opus 5's native 1M window first, then reduce, then chunk-and-synthesize, then hand execution to the Codex CLI.
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kevinzai Skill Data IngestionIngest, process, and summarize large documents, codebases, or datasets into structured, actionable summaries.
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kevinzai Skill Spec InterviewStructured 5-7 question interview to create detailed project specifications before writing any code.
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kevinzai Skill Trend AnalysisAnalyze trends in technology, markets, or usage patterns using data signals, community sentiment, and trajectory modeling.
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kevinzai Skill Literature ReviewAcademic and technical literature review with source evaluation, structured synthesis, and citation management.
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kevinzai Skill Competitive AnalysisAnalyze competing products, tools, or libraries with feature comparison, SWOT analysis, and strategic recommendations.
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kevinzai Skill Ccc KnowledgeKnowledge compounding — search past lessons, view learning history, browse by category. Use when the user says 'what did we learn', 'past lessons', 'knowledge base',…
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kunanonj Skill Cursor Plugin Teamkit Get Pr CommentsFetch and summarize review comments from the active pull request
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kunanonj Skill Cursor Plugin Teamkit What Did I Get DoneSummarize authored commits over a user-specified time period into a concise update
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fridrichmethod Bundle Literature Search BiorxivBrowse, filter, and download life sciences, biology, and medical preprints from bioRxiv and medRxiv. Supports fetching paper metadata by DOI, and browsing by date range with category and keyword filters. Keyword filtering is local, so date ranges MUST be narrow (1-4 weeks) with a category to prevent timeouts.
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fridrichmethod Bundle Literature Search OpenalexQuery the OpenAlex scholarly database for research papers, authors, institutions, topics, sources, publishers, funders, geo-locations, and keywords. Use when searching academic papers, resolving DOIs, downloading open-access PDFs, finding an author's publications, aggregating bibliometric data (citation counts, h-index, impact factor), exploring the research taxonomies, or performing DOI lookups.
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fridrichmethod Bundle Literature Search EuropepmcSearch Europe PMC for scientific literature and download open-access full texts and PDFs. Retrieve full-text XML/plain text by PMCID, get citation lists and bibliography.
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fridrichmethod Bundle Bio Genome Intervals Coverage AnalysisCalculate read depth and coverage across genomic intervals using bedtools genomecov and coverage. Generate bedGraph files, compute per-base depth, and summarize coverage statistics. Use when assessing sequencing depth, creating coverage tracks, or evaluating target capture efficiency.
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mittuled Bundle Competitive Deep DiverThis skill conducts deep-dive competitive analysis on specific competitors or categories. Use when asked to analyse a competitor's product, pricing, or strategy in depth. Also consider when a competitor launches a major feature or enters an adjacent market. Suggest when sales encounters a new competitor in deal cycles repeatedly.
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mittuled Bundle Market Research SynthesiserThis skill synthesises primary and secondary market research into actionable strategic insights. Use when asked to consolidate research findings, produce market landscape summaries, or extract strategic implications from research data. Also consider when multiple research sources provide conflicting signals. Suggest when strategic planning needs a unified view of market dynamics.
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mkurman Skill Market ResearchWhen the user needs to estimate market size, understand market dynamics, or validate that a market opportunity is large enough to pursue.
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 citation-management, imaging-data-commons, statistical-analysis. 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.