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 Skill Investor ResearchWhen the user wants to identify, evaluate, or prioritize potential investors for a fundraising round. Also activates when the user asks "who should I pitch?", "find me investors", "build an investor list", or mentions VC/angel targeting.
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mkurman Skill User Research SynthesisWhen the user has raw customer interview transcripts, survey responses, support tickets, or other qualitative data and needs to extract actionable insights.
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kevinzai Bundle PaperclipInteract with the Paperclip control plane API to manage tasks, coordinate with other agents, and follow company governance. Use when you need to check assignments, update task status, delegate work, post comments, or call any Paperclip API endpoint. Do NOT use for the actual domain work itself (writing code, research, etc.) — only for Paperclip coordination.
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dingxingdi Bundle Element Complete SummarizationUse this skill when the user wants a summary that captures the core facts cleanly instead of giving a vague gist. Trigger it for requests like “summarize the article but keep who/when/what happened/what resulted,” “don’t miss the key outcome,” or “compress the news without dropping important details.” It is especially useful when summaries often sound smooth but leave out the most important factual element.
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dingxingdi Bundle Recursive Hierarchical AggregationUse this skill when the user provides a request involving a massive amount of data, logs, or dense, high-resolution artifacts (like a giant technical diagram) that are far too large or complex for a single context window. It is triggered by layman requests like "summarize all these hundreds of logs," "break this complex map down into bits," "make a summary of summaries," or "digitize this entire layout piece by piece." Trigger it for phrases such as "it's too much data to read," "get a bird's-eye view," "scan all the elements across the whole project," or "chunk everything up and tell me the main points."
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dingxingdi Bundle Epistemic Vigilance And Source IntegrityUse this skill when you need to write or verify a document where every claim MUST be anchored to a specific, ID-verified source and checked for boundary-condition accuracy. Trigger it for requests like “verify these technical findings,” “ensure no fake citations are included,” “check the boundary conditions of this device design,” or “map every claim to a retrieved span.” It is critical for enforcing ‘closed-world citation’ (abstaining rather than guessing) and auditing the formal alignment between retrieved evidence and final claims.
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dingxingdi Bundle Hierarchical Symbolic Subgoal DecompositionUse this when the user wants to solve a large, multi-faceted project by breaking a distal goal into a sequence of abstract middle-states, sub-goals, or typed nodes like research versus writing. Trigger it for requests like 'break this big project into different types of steps', 'recursively decompose this goal until you have simple steps', 'give me a high-level strategy and then the moves to do it', or 'organize a plan where composition steps wait for reasoning steps.'
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ashutoshsrivastava17 Skill Search StrategyPlan and execute a multi-source search strategy for complex queries that require searching across multiple enterprise tools with different query syntaxes, filters, and relevance models. Decomposes broad questions into targeted sub-queries and merges results into a ranked answer set. TRIGGER when: user asks to plan a search, needs help finding something complex, wants a search strategy, asks "how should I search for X", or has a multi-faceted research question.
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ashutoshsrivastava17 Skill Lessons LearnedConduct lessons learned sessions with structured retrospectives, knowledge capture, pattern identification, action items, and knowledge base updates. Turn project experiences into organizational learning assets. TRIGGER when: user says /lessons-learned, "lessons learned", "retrospective", "post-mortem", "after-action review", "project retrospective", or asks about capturing learnings from a project or program.
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fridrichmethod Bundle Academic Paper StrategistSystematic strategic planning framework for philosophy and interdisciplinary academic papers targeting preprint platforms (PhilArchive, arXiv, PhilSci-Archive). Use when users want to: (1) plan a paper on a specific topic, (2) identify research gaps and assess originality, (3) develop optimized paper outlines, (4) prepare for preprint submission, or (5) understand platform requirements and writing standards. Triggered by phrases like 'plan a paper on,' 'help me design a paper about,' 'identify research gaps in,' 'is this idea original,' or when users need structured research planning. The skill guides through three phases: Platform Analysis (identifying target venue and studying sample papers), Theoretical Framework (AI-driven literature search and gap identification), and Outline Optimization (structured design with reviewer-perspective self-assessment). Each phase includes quality evaluation standards and validation checkpoints.
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fridrichmethod Bundle Pubmed DatabaseSearch PubMed for scientific literature, including published clinical trials. Fetch abstracts and full text. Link published research to biological databases (gene, protein, nucleotide, PubChem) to discover associations between papers and specific compounds or genes. Verify medical spelling, match raw citations, and cache result sets for bulk processing. Interfaces NCBI E-utilities and PMC BioC APIs.
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fridrichmethod Skill Scientific ManuscriptHigh-impact scientific manuscript preparation for journals like Nature, Blood, Cell. Use when writing abstracts, introductions, methods, results, discussions, or figure legends. Includes citation management, statistical reporting standards, ICMJE guidelines, and journal-specific formatting for hematology/oncology publications.
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fridrichmethod Bundle Medical Imaging ReviewWrite comprehensive literature reviews for medical imaging AI research. Use when writing survey papers, systematic reviews, or literature analyses on topics like segmentation, detection, classification in CT, MRI, X-ray, ultrasound, or pathology imaging. Triggers on requests for "review paper", "survey", "literature review", "综述", "systematic review", or mentions of writing academic reviews on deep learning for medical imaging.
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fridrichmethod Skill Mpn Research AssistantMyeloproliferative neoplasm (MPN) research expertise including JAK2/CALR/MPL mutations, myelofibrosis, polycythemia vera, essential thrombocythemia. Use for MPN literature search, driver mutation analysis, PPM1D pathway analysis, fibrosis markers, megakaryocyte biology, clinical trial data interpretation, and translational research.
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fridrichmethod Skill Leads Literature MiningReview Automator
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fridrichmethod Bundle Bio Variant Calling Clinical InterpretationClinical variant interpretation using ClinVar, ACMG guidelines, and pathogenicity predictors. Prioritize variants for diagnostic and research applications. Use when interpreting clinical significance of variants.
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paperclipai Skill ArticleWrite long-form articles synthesized from research and analysis
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paperclipai Skill Rss DigestAggregate and summarize RSS feed updates
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paperclipai Skill Idea CaptureCapture and catalog new ideas from conversations and research
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paperclipai Skill Paper DigestScan and summarize recent academic papers from Semantic Scholar
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paperclipai Skill Tweet DigestCurate and summarize tweets from tracked accounts and topics
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paperclipai Skill Reddit DigestMonitor and summarize activity from tracked subreddits
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paperclipai Skill Wallet DigestSummarize activity for watched blockchain wallets
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paperclipai Skill Research BriefFocused research analysis on a specific topic with sources
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paperclipai Skill Hacker News DigestCurate and summarize top Hacker News stories
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paperclipai Skill User PersonasCreate refined user personas from research data — 3 personas with JTBD, pains, gains, and unexpected insights
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paperclipai Skill Summarize MeetingSummarize a meeting transcript into structured notes with date, participants, topic, key decisions, summary points, and action items
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paperclipai Skill Summarize InterviewSummarize a customer interview transcript into a structured template with JTBD, satisfaction signals, and action items
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paperclipai Skill Ideal Customer ProfileIdentify the Ideal Customer Profile (ICP) from research data with demographics, behaviors, JTBD, and needs
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dingxingdi Bundle Long Video SummarizationUse this skill when the user wants 'summarize the whole video', 'tell me what happened in the second half', 'explain the development of the situation', 'give the main developments', or when parsing the overarching narrative of fast-paced commercials and trailers. Trigger it when the desired answer must integrate many moments across a long duration into one coherent account, connect the dots between separate events located far apart, or trace the overarching thematic/plot arc of a complex or rapidly edited video.
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ashutoshsrivastava17 Skill Demo PrepPrepare product demos — audience research, demo flow, feature-to-pain mapping, objection preparation, and follow-up strategy. TRIGGER when: user says /demo-prep or asks about demo preparation.
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ashutoshsrivastava17 Skill StandupGenerate a standup update from recent git commits, GitHub activity, and project context. Summarize what was done, what is in progress, and what is blocked. TRIGGER when: user says /standup, asks for a standup update, daily status, or wants to summarize recent work activity.
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ashutoshsrivastava17 Skill User ResearchPlan, structure, and document user research — interview guides, survey design, usability test plans. TRIGGER when: user says "plan research", "interview guide", "survey questions", "usability test", "research plan", or needs to design a study.
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ashutoshsrivastava17 Skill Research SynthesisSynthesize user research into actionable themes, insights, and recommendations. TRIGGER when: user says "synthesize research", "analyze interviews", "find patterns", "research themes", "insight mapping", or has raw research data to distill.
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ashutoshsrivastava17 Skill Meeting NotesCapture, structure, and extract action items from meeting transcripts, rough notes, or verbal summaries. Produce clean, shareable meeting records. TRIGGER when: user says /meeting-notes, "summarize this meeting", "meeting recap", "extract action items", "clean up these notes", or "meeting summary".
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sethdford Skill Spike PlanDesign research spikes to investigate technical uncertainty before committing to large implementation efforts. Use when feasibility is unclear or approach is unproven.
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 investor-research, user-research-synthesis, paperclip. 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.