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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alivirgo Skill Summarize Meetings Into DecisionsHow to extract high-signal Decision Records and rationale from messy meeting transcripts, filtering out 90% of chronological conversational chatter.
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sethdford Skill Empathy MapBuild a 4-quadrant empathy map (Says, Thinks, Does, Feels) to synthesize user research into actionable insights. Use when you need to quickly capture and share user understanding across the team.
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sethdford Skill Journey MapCreate an end-to-end user journey map with stages, touchpoints, emotions, pain points, and opportunity areas. Use when mapping the full user experience for a product, feature, or service.
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sethdford Skill User PersonaCreate refined user personas from research data with demographics, goals, frustrations, and behavioral patterns. Use when synthesizing user research into actionable persona profiles for design decisions.
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sethdford Skill Jobs To Be DoneMap user Jobs-to-Be-Done with functional, emotional, and social dimensions plus outcome expectations. Use when reframing product decisions around user motivations rather than features.
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sethdford Skill Affinity DiagramOrganize qualitative research data into an affinity diagram with themes, clusters, and insight statements. Use when synthesizing large amounts of qualitative data from interviews, observations, or surveys.
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sethdford Skill Diary Study PlanDesign a diary study plan with prompts, duration, participant criteria, and analysis framework. Use when you need to understand user behavior over time in natural contexts.
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sethdford Skill Interview ScriptCreate a structured user interview script with warm-up, core exploration, and wrap-up sections. Use when preparing for user research interviews to ensure consistent, insightful conversations.
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sethdford Skill Card Sort AnalysisAnalyze card sorting results to inform information architecture and navigation structure. Use after conducting open or closed card sort studies.
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sethdford Skill Summarize InterviewSummarize a user interview transcript into structured insights with key themes, quotes, and action items. Use after conducting user interviews to extract and share findings efficiently.
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sethdford Skill Usability Test PlanDesign a usability test plan with tasks, success metrics, participant criteria, and facilitation guide. Use when planning moderated or unmoderated usability testing sessions.
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thedaviddias Bundle External LinksUse when auditing content pages for citation quality, suggesting authoritative sources to link for factual claims, or reviewing whether a page's external link attributes (nofollow, noopener) are correctly set.
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s3yed Skill Venicevenice — Venice AI Research (Isolated Subagent)
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s3yed Skill Web ResearchResearch any topic via web search, content extraction, and multi-source synthesis. Covers DuckDuckGo lite scraping, browser-based extraction, and parallel delegated research.
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tomevault-io Bundle Safari TabsInteract with Safari browser tabs, reading list, bookmarks, and history via AppleScript. Use when the user asks to analyze, organize, summarize, deduplicate, close, export, or manage their Safari tabs. Also handles reading list, bookmarks, and history searches. Triggers include "my tabs", "open tabs", "Safari tabs", "clean up my browser", "what tabs do I have open", "organize my tabs", "too many tabs", "reading list", "bookmarks", "browser history", "export tabs". Requires macOS with Safari. Use when this capability is needed.
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wyre-ai Skill Freshdesk Knowledge BaseFreshdesk Solutions knowledge base: the three-level categories -> folders -> articles hierarchy, article fields and draft/published status, finding an article by walking that tree (there is no KB search tool), and the MSP workflow of suggesting relevant KB articles to deflect or resolve a ticket, through the Freshdesk REST API v2.
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fabioc-aloha Skill Grant WritingTranslate research vision into funded reality.
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fabioc-aloha Skill Cognitive LoadDon't overwhelm — chunk, scaffold, summarize first.
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fabioc-aloha Skill Legal ComplianceLegal research, contract analysis, regulatory compliance, and case law citation for legal professionals.
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fabioc-aloha Skill Academic ResearchResearch project scaffolding, thesis/dissertation writing, literature reviews, publication workflows, and Alex-assisted academic workflows
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fabioc-aloha Skill Literature ReviewSystematic literature search, synthesis, gap identification, and narrative construction for academic research
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tomevault-io Bundle Perplexity CLI Question AnsweringQuery Perplexity.ai directly from the terminal to find answers to research questions, current events, and detailed explanations. Returns structured JSON output for programmatic parsing. Use when you need current information, comprehensive answers with source references, or want to avoid making separate web search requests. Use when this capability is needed.
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s3yed Bundle Exa PlusNeural web search via Exa AI. Search people, companies, news, research, code. Supports deep search, domain filters, date ranges.
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s3yed Bundle Research Data SourcesQuery online research data sources: arXiv papers, RSS/blog feeds (blogwatcher), and Polymarket prediction markets. Single-skill index with per-source reference docs.
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s3yed Skill Travel BookingResearch and book multi-leg travel (flights, ferries, trains, buses) via online aggregators using browser tools. Covers itinerary construction, transfer timing, and presenting realistic connection options.
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s3yed Bundle Content CreationContent Creation — Instagram Viral Content Skill (2026 Research-Backed)
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s3yed Skill Travel AccommodationResearch and recommend hotels, resorts, Airbnbs, and villas for client travel. Covers family-friendliness assessment, luxury evaluation, price-range estimation, and compiling with booking links.
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s3yed Skill Travel Flight ResearchResearch flight options, compare route families, and present clean booking links and concise recommendations.
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s3yed Bundle Agentic Webdesign ResearchDaily research into agentic web design tools, frameworks, shadcn/ui patterns, Magic UI, and workflows that help AI agents build better websites. Outputs structured knowledge into appie brain + cognify fleet KB.
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dojogenesis Skill Web Research ExternalWeb Research External
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dojogenesis Skill Context IngestionProduces a phased, file-grounded action plan from 1-2 uploaded documents (specs, meeting notes, design docs, or code files) with concrete deliverables and binary success criteria per phase. Use when: 'create a plan from this spec', 'plan the refactoring from these files', 'what are the next steps from these docs'.
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dojogenesis Skill Planning With FilesProduces a routing decision and delegated output by analyzing uploaded files and user intent, then dispatching to the correct specialized skill (context-ingestion, research-synthesis, or release-specification). Use when: 'create a plan from these files', 'synthesize these papers', 'what should I do with these uploads', 'not sure which skill to use but I have files'.
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ryan-brosas Skill GsearchUse when the user asks to search the web, look something up, find a link, or research a topic. Google via CDP returns title, URL, and snippet in about a second; follow a result URL to read page text or JSON. Requires browser-harness-js on PATH and a Chromium browser with remote debugging.
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ryan-brosas Bundle Math SchemaUse when the user studies real analysis, probability, PDEs, or the mathematics of physics and wants to reach results through their own conjectures and proofs. Research partner: asks for falsifiable hypotheses before explaining, writes every proof step, keeps a claim journal, and verifies through computation and Lean 4.
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ryan-brosas Bundle Storm FoundationUse when porting STORM-style research pipelines: multi-perspective question asking, citation-grounded writing, reference unification.
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synthetic-sciences Bundle Lab Hardware CadDesign custom laboratory hardware as parametric build123d models and export fabrication-ready STEP, STL, and DXF files - microfluidic chips and molds, optomechanical mounts and breadboard adapters, cuvette and microplate holders, tube racks, animal-behavior rigs, and 3D-printed instrument fixtures. Use when a research task needs a physical part that must mate with standardized labware, an optical table, a cage system, or a printer, CNC, or laser process.
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 summarize-meetings-into-decisions, empathy-map, journey-map. 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.