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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amazon-quick Bundle Energy Market IntelligenceConduct multi-source energy market research and produce cited intelligence briefings on commodities, policy, regulation, technology, and competitive dynamics. Use when asked to 'research energy markets', 'produce an energy market briefing', 'analyze oil, gas, power, or carbon markets', 'assess energy policy or regulation', 'forecast commodity prices', or any request for sourced energy market intelligence
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amazon-quick Skill Meeting Notes To ActionsTransforms meeting transcripts, raw notes, or audio transcriptions into structured outputs: key decisions made, owned action items with deadlines, open questions, and a concise executive recap. Supports multiple output formats. Use when asked to 'summarize this meeting', 'extract action items', 'what were the decisions', 'meeting recap', 'process these meeting notes', or 'turn transcript into actions'.
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ai-driven-dev Bundle 05 SpikeProduces an evidence-bounded spike for an uncertainty blocking estimation, feasibility, or design. Use when the user wants to frame, investigate, resume, or conclude one. Not for general research or implementation.
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ai-driven-dev Bundle 12 CookManage project recipes/how-to sheets by listing, creating, updating, researching, or applying a recipe. Use for recipe, cook, /cook, list, new, update, research, apply.
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thiennc-tesoglobal Bundle SensorkitAccess ambient, motion, biometric, and interaction research data using SensorKit. Use when configuring sensor readers, handling authorization and study onboarding, fetching sample streams, managing user data deletion, or building research and clinical studies.
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jovanipink Bundle Source Grounded ResearchResearch a question using current primary sources, preserving publisher URLs, dates, units, provenance, and uncertainty. Use for web investigations, fact checks, comparisons, or recommendations where current evidence and precise attribution matter.
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bostonaholic Bundle Team ResearchResearches a codebase area before changes. Trigger on "research this", "explore the codebase for", or "/team-research".
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bostonaholic Bundle Systems ThinkingDefines system-boundary, feedback, and dependency analysis. Load during research, design, structure, or planning.
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bostonaholic Bundle Researching CodebasesDefines evidence-only codebase research and `5-research.md`. Load when answering neutral questions before design.
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bostonaholic Bundle Principle Blind The InvestigatorKeeps desired outcomes out of research prompts. Apply when dispatching research, scouting, or verification.
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shalomb Bundle Teams HeadlessSearch and extract chat messages, meeting recaps, and transcripts from Microsoft Teams Web V2 using headless browser automation. Use when the user wants to read, find, or summarise Teams conversations or pull a meeting transcript without opening a browser. Requires one-time auth setup via setup_auth.py and Google Chrome installed locally.
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shalomb Bundle Outlook HeadlessSearch and extract emails from Outlook Web Access using headless browser automation. Use when the user wants to find, read, or summarise emails from Outlook without opening a browser — supports filtering by sender, recipient, subject, date range, and read status. Requires one-time auth setup via setup_auth.py and Google Chrome installed locally.
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shalomb Bundle Video TranscriptUse this skill to extract full transcripts from video content for analysis, summarization, note-taking, or research. Trigger this whenever the user shares a YouTube URL, a video ID, or explicitly asks to "transcribe this", "get the text from this video", or "convert video to text". This is essential for converting video into readable formats.
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shalomb Bundle Native Web SearchTrigger native web search. Use when you need quick internet research with concise summaries and full source URLs.
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materialofair Skill Start DevIntelligent adaptive workflow with automatic pattern library loading, codebase exploration, and multi-approach architecture. Auto-detects frontend/backend tasks and loads relevant patterns.
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ziadnagar Bundle UX Researcher DesignerUX research and design toolkit for Senior UX Designer/Researcher including data-driven persona generation, journey mapping, usability testing frameworks, and research synthesis. Use for user research, persona creation, journey mapping, and design validation.
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asermax Skill ResearchInvestigate a question against high-trust primary sources and capture the findings in the project's vault. Use when the user wants a topic researched, docs or API facts gathered, reading legwork delegated, or when another skill needs a fact settled before a decision can be made.
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asermax Bundle Using AntigravityUse when needing to analyze images (screenshots, diagrams, photos), analyze videos (screencasts, recordings), summarize YouTube videos, fetch and analyze web content, or perform web searches with Google. Antigravity CLI provides multimodal and web access capabilities Claude lacks natively. Do NOT use for tasks Claude can handle directly (text analysis, code review, file reading of text files).
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lunartech-x Bundle FredQuery FRED (Federal Reserve Economic Data) API for 800,000+ economic time series from 100+ sources. Access GDP, unemployment, inflation, interest rates, exchange rates, housing, and regional data. Use for macroeconomic analysis, financial research, policy studies, economic forecasting, and academic research requiring U.S. and international economic indicators.
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lunartech-x Bundle BrendaAccess BRENDA enzyme database via SOAP API. Retrieve kinetic parameters (Km, kcat), reaction equations, organism data, and substrate-specific enzyme information for biochemical research and metabolic pathway analysis.
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lunartech-x Bundle Academic CareerAcademic career document preparation and professional development for faculty and researchers. Use when drafting academic CVs, research statements, teaching philosophies, diversity statements, cover letters for faculty positions, tenure dossiers, promotion narratives, or academic portfolios. Also covers conference networking strategies, building academic web presence, understanding impact metrics, ORCID profiles, and writing mentorship statements.
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lunartech-x Bundle Hedgefund MonitorQuery the OFR (Office of Financial Research) Hedge Fund Monitor API for hedge fund data including SEC Form PF aggregated statistics, CFTC Traders in Financial Futures, FICC Sponsored Repo volumes, and FRB SCOOS dealer financing terms. Access time series data on hedge fund size, leverage, counterparties, liquidity, complexity, and risk management. No API key or registration required. Use when working with hedge fund data, systemic risk monitoring, financial stability research, hedge fund leverage or leverage ratios, counterparty concentration, Form PF statistics, repo market data, or OFR financial research data.
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lunartech-x Bundle Thesis SupervisorComprehensive thesis and dissertation supervision assistant. Supports dissertation structure guidance (proposal through defense), chapter-by-chapter writing support (introduction, literature review, methodology, results, discussion), supervision strategies, committee management, defense preparation, timeline planning, feedback integration, formatting requirements (APA 7, Chicago, university styles), viva voce preparation, and examiner expectations. Triggers on: thesis, dissertation, supervision, defense preparation, viva, proposal defense, thesis structure, thesis chapter, literature review chapter, methodology chapter, results chapter, discussion chapter, thesis timeline, committee, thesis formatting, dissertation proposal.
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lunartech-x Bundle Digital HumanitiesText mining, corpus linguistics, digital archives, GIS for history, network analysis, stylometry, OCR, and data visualization for humanities research.
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lunartech-x Bundle Qualitative MethodsComprehensive qualitative research methods assistant. Supports thematic analysis (Braun & Clarke), grounded theory (Strauss & Corbin; Charmaz), interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA), content analysis, narrative inquiry, ethnography, case study methodology (Yin), coding techniques (open/axial/selective), NVivo-style workflows with Python alternatives, trustworthiness criteria (Lincoln & Guba), reflexivity, and member checking. Triggers on: qualitative research, thematic analysis, grounded theory, coding data, phenomenology, IPA, ethnography, case study, narrative inquiry, content analysis, qualitative coding, NVivo, trustworthiness, member checking, reflexivity, interview analysis, focus group analysis.
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lunartech-x Bundle Social Science MethodsAdvanced social science research methods -- discourse analysis, comparative methods, process tracing, participatory research, social network analysis, bibliometrics, and program evaluation.
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lunartech-x Skill Proposal Cluster LearningProposal Cluster Learning for Weakly Supervised Object Detection
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userinner Bundle Peer ReviewPrepare evidence-bounded, constructive peer-review drafts and structured manuscript assessments. Use for authorized review of scientific manuscripts, protocols, preprints, or research proposals; reporting-guideline selection; claim–evidence checks; methods, statistics, reproducibility, ethics, figure/table, and citation critique; or revision-response planning.
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userinner Bundle Deep ResearchConduct multi-source web research, synthesize findings, and deliver cited reports with explicit source attribution. Use when the user requests a deep dive, current-state review, competitive analysis, due diligence, technology evaluation, or any answer requiring evidence across multiple sources.
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userinner Bundle Competitor AnalysisAnalyze competitors with strengths, weaknesses, and differentiation opportunities. Identifies direct competitors and maps the competitive landscape. Use when doing competitive research, preparing a competitive brief, or finding differentiation opportunities.
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userinner Bundle Experimental DesignDesign experiments and studies BEFORE data is collected — choosing a design, randomizing, blocking, and laying out treatment combinations so results are interpretable. Use whenever someone is planning a study, asks how to assign subjects/samples to groups, mentions randomization, blocking, stratification, controls, factorial or fractional-factorial designs, design of experiments (DOE), screening many factors, response-surface optimization, crossover or repeated-measures or split-plot designs, cluster/group randomization, Latin squares, plate layouts, batch/run-order effects, replication vs. pseudoreplication, or sequential/adaptive/group-sequential designs. Trigger even for informal phrasings like "how should I set up this experiment", "how do I avoid confounding", "what's the best way to test these 6 factors", or "assign these mice to conditions". For computing the sample size or power once the design is chosen, use statistical-power; for analyzing data already collected, use statistical-analysis.
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userinner Bundle Search FirstResearch-before-coding workflow. Search for existing tools, libraries, and patterns before writing custom code. Systematizes the "search for existing solutions before implementing" approach. Use when starting new features or adding functionality.
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keyvaluesoftwaresystems Skill Maestro InitOne-shot onboarding for a repo — detect its tech stack and install the matching skills/agents (detect-stack), then build the living-docs knowledge base (build-knowledge). Run once when adopting Maestro in a codebase. Front door for /maestro-init or $maestro-init.
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keyvaluesoftwaresystems Skill Build KnowledgeScan the codebase and build a structured living-docs knowledge base (technical + functional per domain, plus an architecture diagram), and seed cross-cutting review lessons. Front door for /build-knowledge.
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praxstack Bundle BriefingCompile daily briefing with meeting context, active deals, and citation tracking
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praxstack Skill Brain OpsBrain knowledge base operations. The core read/write cycle: brain-first lookup, read-enrich-write loop, source attribution, ambient enrichment, back-linking. Read this before any brain interaction.
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 energy-market-intelligence, meeting-notes-to-actions, 05-spike. 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.