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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archsightlabs Bundle Cogx Research Brief调研简报 / Research brief。生成带来源的研究综合,用于来源、关键发现、证据强度、分歧、不确定性和下一步验证。
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archsightlabs Skill Cogv Caoxueqin曹雪芹口吻 / Cao Xueqin voice。用于细腻关系、暗线、盛衰感和含蓄中文叙事的风格化表达。
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archsightlabs Skill Cogp Simaqian人物传记与历史因果(司马迁) / Biographical historical causality (Sima Qian)。用于分析人物选择、成败结构、时代压力和叙事取舍。
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archsightlabs Skill Cogv Ouyang Xiu欧阳修口吻 / Ouyang Xiu voice。用于平易、端正、清楚、有秩序和有余味的中文表达。
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archsightlabs Skill Cogp Caoxueqin复杂关系与细节伏笔(曹雪芹) / Complex relationships and narrative foreshadowing (Cao Xueqin)。用于分析关系网络、隐性权力、盛衰结构和叙事暗线。
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archsightlabs Skill Cogv Shakespeare莎士比亚口吻 / Shakespeare voice。用于戏剧张力、人物动机和诗性表达。
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archsightlabs Skill Cogp Ouyang Xiu平易文气(欧阳修) / Clear Chinese prose (Ouyang Xiu)。用于把复杂观点写得平正、清楚、有秩序、有余味。
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archsightlabs Skill Cogp Shakespeare戏剧叙事(莎士比亚) / Dramatic narrative (Shakespeare)。用于戏剧冲突、人物动机、赌注、声音和叙事张力。
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archsightlabs Skill Cogv Qian Zhongshu钱钟书口吻 / Qian Zhongshu voice。用于机智、反讽、类比和知识分辨的风格化表达。
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archsightlabs Skill Cogp Qian Zhongshu类比与反讽(钱钟书) / Analogy and irony (Qian Zhongshu)。用于识别互文、错配类比、知识炫耀、表达反讽和高阶写作分辨。
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grandamenium Skill Web ResearchStructured web research patterns using search APIs, content extraction, and synthesis. For agents that need to gather and analyze online information.
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grandamenium Skill TasksYou are about to start any meaningful piece of work — a research task, a build, a draft, a deployment, anything with a deliverable. Before you begin, create a task. During the work, mark it in_progress and write WORKING ON to daily memory. When done, complete it with a result summary and log a task_completed event. If you are blocked, set the task to blocked with the reason. If a human needs to do something first, assign it to them. Without a task, your work is invisible to the dashboard and the user.
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grandamenium Skill AutoresearchThe analyst has assigned you a research cycle, or you have identified a metric you want to improve through systematic experimentation. You will form a hypothesis, make a targeted change, measure the outcome against a baseline, and decide whether to keep or discard the change. You repeat this loop until the metric improves or you exhaust viable hypotheses. This is not ad-hoc research — it is structured scientific iteration with a defined metric, a hypothesis, and a measurable result.
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grandamenium Skill Knowledge BaseYou are about to research a topic, answer a factual question about the org, or look up context about a person, project, or tool. Before searching the web or asking the user, query the knowledge base first — the answer may already exist from a previous research session. After you complete any substantial research, ingest your findings so future agents do not repeat the same work. The KB is the org's shared memory across all agents.
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spike-faye-lei Skill Wiki EnrichFill in the per-paper TODO sections of research-wiki/papers/<slug>.md pages that literature-ingest skills leave as bare scaffolds. Use when user says 'enrich wiki', 'fill paper TODOs', 'wiki body 補完', '把 paper 摘要寫進 wiki', 'research-wiki 自動填', or after a batch ingest that left papers/ as TODO scaffolds.
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spike-faye-lei Skill Paper PlanGenerate a structured paper outline from review conclusions and experiment results. Use when user says "写大纲", "paper outline", "plan the paper", "论文规划", or wants to create a paper plan before writing.
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spike-faye-lei Skill Autosci AskAsk the wiki a question, retrieve and synthesize relevant pages, optionally crystallize the answer back into the wiki
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spike-faye-lei Skill CrystallizeCrystallize — distil session patterns into reusable skills
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spike-faye-lei Skill Idea CreatorGenerate and rank research ideas given a broad direction. Use when user says "找idea", "brainstorm ideas", "generate research ideas", "what can we work on", or wants to explore a research area for publishable directions.
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spike-faye-lei Skill Paper FigureGenerate publication-quality figures and tables from experiment results. Use when user says "画图", "作图", "generate figures", "paper figures", or needs plots for a paper.
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spike-faye-lei Skill Research LitSearch and analyze research papers, find related work, summarize key ideas. Use when user says "find papers", "related work", "literature review", "what does this paper say", or needs to understand academic papers.
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spike-faye-lei Skill Meta OptimizeAnalyze ARIS usage logs and propose optimizations to SKILL.md files, reviewer prompts, and workflow defaults. Outer-loop harness optimization inspired by Meta-Harness (Lee et al., 2026). Use when user says "优化技能", "meta optimize", "improve skills", "分析使用记录", or wants to optimize ARIS's own harness components based on accumulated experience.
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spike-faye-lei Skill Novelty CheckVerify research idea novelty against recent literature. Use when user says "查新", "novelty check", "有没有人做过", "check novelty", or wants to verify a research idea is novel before implementing.
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spike-faye-lei Skill Autosci IdeateAutosci Ideate
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spike-faye-lei Skill Autosci RefineGeneral-purpose multi-round iterative improvement — repeatedly calls /review on any research artifact, parses feedback, applies fixes, updates wiki, until the target score is reached
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spike-faye-lei Skill Autosci SurveyGenerate a Related Work section for a paper from wiki knowledge — thematic grouping → narrative structure → LaTeX output, following citation-verification and academic-writing
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spike-faye-lei Skill Grant ProposalDraft a structured grant proposal from research ideas and literature. Supports KAKENHI (Japan), NSF (US), NSFC (China, including 面上/青年/优青/杰青/海外优青/重点), ERC (EU), DFG (Germany), SNSF (Switzerland), ARC (Australia), NWO (Netherlands), and generic formats. Use when user says "write grant", "grant proposal", "申請書", "write KAKENHI", "科研費", "基金申请", "写基金", "NSF proposal", or wants to turn research ideas into a funding application.
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spike-faye-lei Skill Research RefineTurn a vague research direction into a problem-anchored, elegant, frontier-aware, implementation-oriented method plan via iterative GPT-5.5 review. Use when the user says "refine my approach", "帮我细化方案", "decompose this problem", "打磨idea", "refine research plan", "细化研究方案", or wants a concrete research method that stays simple, focused, and top-venue ready instead of a vague or overbuilt idea.
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spike-faye-lei Skill Research ReviewGet a deep critical review of research from an external reviewer backend (Codex or manual). Use when user says "review my research", "help me review", "get external review", or wants critical feedback on research ideas, papers, or experimental results.
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spike-faye-lei Skill Auto Review LoopAutonomous multi-round research review loop. Repeatedly reviews via external reviewer backend (Codex or manual), implements fixes, and re-reviews until positive assessment or max rounds reached. Use when user says "auto review loop", "review until it passes", or wants autonomous iterative improvement.
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spike-faye-lei Bundle Autosci DiscoverBuild a ranked shortlist of candidate papers (anchor-driven, topic-driven, or derived from current wiki state) that the user — or an upstream skill — may decide to feed into `/ingest`. Use whenever the user asks "what should I read next", "find papers similar to this one", "recommend related work", "what's around this topic", or whenever `/ingest` is invoked with `--discover`. Does not ingest; only proposes.
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spike-faye-lei Bundle Experiment QueueSSH job queue for multi-seed/multi-config ML experiments with OOM-aware retry, stale-screen cleanup, and wave-transition race prevention. Use when user says "batch experiments", "队列实验", "run grid", "multi-seed sweep", "auto-chain experiments", or when /run-experiment is insufficient for 10+ jobs that need orchestration.
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spike-faye-lei Skill Semantic ScholarSearch published venue papers (IEEE, ACM, Springer, etc.) via Semantic Scholar API. Complements /arxiv (preprints) with citation counts, venue metadata, and TLDR. Use when user says "search semantic scholar", "find IEEE papers", "find journal papers", "venue papers", "citation search", or wants published literature beyond arXiv preprints.
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spike-faye-lei Skill Autosci VisualizeAutosci Visualize
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spike-faye-lei Skill OpenalexSearch academic papers via OpenAlex API for open citation data, institutional affiliations, and funding information. Use when user says "openalex search", "search openalex", "open citation graph", or wants comprehensive academic metadata beyond arXiv/Semantic Scholar.
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spike-faye-lei Skill Autosci Exp DesignAutosci Exp Design
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 cogx-research-brief, cogv-caoxueqin, cogp-simaqian. 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.