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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ingridleiria Skill Literature VerificationA zero-fabrication citation and literature workflow for academic writing. Verifies every reference against a live bibliographic record before it enters a draft, checks that the paper actually supports the claim attached to it, builds reviews from an evidence matrix rather than paper by paper, and records screening counts so coverage can be judged. Use this skill whenever someone asks to find papers, build a literature review or related work section, add citations to a draft, check whether references are real, produce a bibliography or BibTeX file, or asks what the literature says about something. Trigger on any academic writing task that will contain citations, even when verification is not mentioned, because unverified generated citations are the failure this exists to prevent.
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ingridleiria Skill Academic Tables BooktabsAcademic Tables, Booktabs
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ingridleiria Skill Refereeing For A JournalRefereeing for a Journal
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ingridleiria Skill Discussion And ConclusionDiscussion and Conclusion
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ingridleiria Skill Systematic Review ProtocolRuns a systematic, scoping or rapid review to a standard somebody else could repeat and get the same set of papers. Produces a registered protocol written before searching, an answerable question in a structured frame, eligibility criteria with a reason attached to each, search strings recorded per database with platform and date and validated against a seed set of known papers, screening by two people with agreement reported, a flow of counts that reconciles, extraction to a piloted form, risk of bias assessed with a named tool that actually changes the synthesis, and a pooling decision made on comparability rather than convenience. Use this skill for a systematic review, scoping review, rapid review, evidence map, meta-analysis, a review chapter that has to survive examination, a review section a funder or ministry has commissioned, or when a referee asks how the papers were selected, how many were screened, or why a particular study is not in the table. Trigger also on vaguer requests such as "review the e
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ingridleiria Skill Newsletter Post WriterWrites and rebuilds long-form posts of 1,200 to 3,500 words that open on a concrete scene, argue one claim with named evidence and a stated analytical lens, answer the strongest objection, and end on the point rather than on an uplift line. Enforces one idea per post, a source in the sentence that makes each claim, headers that state claims instead of topics, and a close that returns to the opening. Use this skill whenever someone asks to write, draft, restructure, salvage or edit a newsletter issue, Substack post, blog post, essay or opinion piece; says "turn these notes into a post", "this draft sounds generic", "I want to write about X this week", "what should this week's issue be", or pastes research and asks what to do with it; and for any long-form public writing that will carry an individual's name.
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ingridleiria Skill Data Profiling And CleaningData Profiling and Cleaning
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ingridleiria Skill References And BibliographyReferences and Bibliography
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ingridleiria Skill Research Proposal And GrantResearch Proposal and Grant
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ingridleiria Skill Survey And Instrument DesignDesigns a survey or measurement instrument that produces data worth analysing, and catches the errors that cannot be repaired after fielding. Enforces constructs defined before any question is written, a blueprint mapping every item to a hypothesis and every hypothesis to items, validated scales preferred over invented ones, wording free of leading, double-barrelled, negated and socially desirable formulations, response scales chosen deliberately and used consistently, order and routing controlled and recorded, translation by back-translation with separate piloting per language, cognitive interviews before a live pilot, and a sampling and non-response plan written before fielding. Use this skill when writing a survey or questionnaire, adapting or shortening an existing instrument, translating one, designing the measures for an experiment, adding a module to an existing panel, reviewing somebody else's draft instrument, or diagnosing why a fielded survey produced data nobody can use. Trigger also on vaguer req
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ingridleiria Skill Theoretical Framework ReviewTheoretical Framework Review
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ingridleiria Skill Descriptive Statistics TablesDescriptive Statistics Tables
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ingridleiria Skill Research Paper WebsiteResearch Paper Website
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ingridleiria Skill Preregistration And Analysis PlanPreregistration and Analysis Plan
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ingridleiria Skill Research Ethics And Data ProtectionResearch Ethics and Data Protection
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mr-q526 Bundle Development Plan Doc ProUse when creating a serious engineering implementation plan after repository research. Pro version requires investigation before planning and produces a detailed plan down to modules, functions, type definitions, interfaces, data flow, validation, risks, rollout, and task checklist.
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mr-q526 Bundle Development Plan Doc BasicUse as a lightweight baseline/control skill for creating a simple development plan or implementation outline. Basic version focuses on high-level steps, rough files, and validation notes with limited repository research and limited method/type-level detail.
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mr-q526 Bundle Website Homepage Design BasicUse as a lightweight baseline/control skill for designing a simple website homepage, 官网首页, company front page, or product landing page. Basic version focuses on common homepage sections and quick layout suggestions with limited research, differentiation, and implementation depth.
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drvoss Skill Deep ResearchUse when a question requires comprehensive evidence gathering from multiple sources, systematic synthesis, and traceable citations — produces a structured research brief rather than a quick answer
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drvoss Skill Content StrategyUse when you need a content plan to grow organic traffic for a product or new area — produces keyword research, topic clusters, and a content calendar targeting your category.
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manusco Bundle Resonance Strategy PlanImplementation-plan author. Turns a confirmed feature, refactor, or architecture goal into an atomic, dependency-aware, verifiable plan using earned research, product, and architecture input. Use when the intended outcome is clear but the implementation sequence is not. It produces the approved plan artifact but does not build it. Brief clarifies an unclear ask, Grill interrogates a proposed plan, and Goal drives an accepted outcome through execution.
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tomevault-io Bundle Playwright ResearchAnalyze UI code changes to plan, create, and maintain Playwright demo videos - change detection, test writing, video recording lifecycle Use when this capability is needed.
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vellum-ai Bundle InfluencerResearch influencers on Instagram, TikTok, and X/Twitter through your browser
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vellum-ai Skill Conversation LauncherOffer the user several spin-off conversations as clickable buttons on a single persistent card. Each click spawns a fresh seeded conversation in the sidebar; the user keeps their place in the current conversation. Use when you want to branch into N focused threads (research directions, draft choices, pending replies, triage of N items) without losing the current context. Not for single-destination pivots — just reply inline.
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pa4uslf Skill Research GapsUse when the user wants competitor content-gap analysis to identify keywords competitors rank for that this site does not.
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pa4uslf Skill Research SerpUse when the user wants a deep SERP analysis for a specific keyword to understand content type, length, search intent, and SERP features before writing.
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pa4uslf Skill Research TopicsUse when the user wants topical authority analysis, cluster gaps, or to understand which topic areas are weak, moderate, or strong.
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pa4uslf Bundle Pricing StrategyWhen the user wants help with pricing decisions, packaging, or monetization strategy. Also use when the user mentions 'pricing,' 'pricing tiers,' 'freemium,' 'free trial,' 'packaging,' 'price increase,' 'value metric,' 'Van Westendorp,' 'willingness to pay,' or 'monetization.' This skill covers pricing research, tier structure, and packaging strategy.
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pa4uslf Skill Research TrendingUse when the user wants to find rising search queries and time-sensitive content opportunities that should be acted on quickly.
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pa4uslf Skill Research PerformanceUse when the user wants a performance-matrix view of existing content to identify stars, underperformers, overperformers, and declining pages.
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openai Bundle Adobe Edit Quick CutCreate a punchy sizzle reel from a video using Adobe Quick Cut. Use this skill whenever a user wants to cut, trim, or shorten a video into highlights — including phrases like "make a sizzle reel", "make a highlight reel", "quick cut this", "cut the best parts", "shorten this video", "make a highlight clip", "summarize this video visually", or any request to produce a shorter edited version of a video. Use this skill for Quick Cut requests before suggesting manual editing in Premiere. Requires the user to upload a video file.
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lucadominguez Skill Pharmachem SourcingPharmachem Supplier Sourcing
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lucadominguez Skill Reddit Data ExtractionReddit Data Extraction
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mj-deving Bundle PrivateinvestigatorEthical people-finding using 15 parallel research agents (45 search threads) across public records, social media, reverse lookups. Public data only, no pretexting. USE WHEN find person, locate, reconnect, people search, skip trace, reverse lookup, social media search, public records search, verify identity.
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mitchuski Skill Agentprivacy Wiki SyncSync the agentprivacy canon into the federated guide wiki — guide.agentprivacy.ai plus sibling subdomain sites (skill / tomes / research / atlas), served locally as ~/.wiki farm hosts. Use when projecting a canon directory into forkable wiki pages, adding a new area to the federation, re-syncing a site after a repo change, wiring cross-site links, or auditing coverage and leaks. Encodes the distribution gates G0–G7, the manifest-first G1 discipline, the per-source builders, the verification recipes, and the full registry of every area to sync (done + gaps).
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mitchuski Skill Agentprivacy Wiki Dream CycleThe standing research loop that keeps the static guide rebound to the source. Each relevant /mitch repo "dreams" about itself — a deep multi-lap pass that diffs the repo's canon against the live FedWiki, writes a standing `chronicles/DREAM-<date>.md` (its resumable work-ledger), and feeds a single confirm-able GATE document. The First Person ticks the GATE; builders write the approved canon into ~/.wiki; the snapshot publishes it. Activates when planning what to fill into the guide next, running a daily research cycle, fanning out per-directory gap analysis, or turning "what's missing" into ordered next actions. Four stages — RESEARCH → GATE → BUILD → SNAPSHOT — looped until comfortable to push. Authored by the Chronicler 🧙📖, kept by the Librarian 🗃️.
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 literature-verification, academic-tables-booktabs, refereeing-for-a-journal. 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.