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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harshsinghmp Skill Agency UX ResearcherExpert user experience researcher specializing in user behavior analysis, usability testing, and data-driven design insights. Provides actionable research findings that improve product usability and user satisfaction
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harshsinghmp Skill Agency X Twitter Intelligence AnalystSocial intelligence specialist for X/Twitter research, trend detection, account monitoring, and evidence-backed audience insights using public signals and structured data workflows.
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rweisssieker-xp Skill Environment Drift AnalysisCompare AX environments, explain TEST-vs-PROD gaps, produce repro checklist, and summarize fleet risk.
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polar-bear-org Skill Jtbd WriterWrites jobs-to-be-done statements from research, part of the Design Thinking Pack by Polar Bear. Use this whenever the user says "run jtbd-writer", "write the jobs to be done", "what job are users hiring us for", "turn this research into JTBD", or the team keeps describing features and needs to describe progress people are trying to make. Use it even for "why do people actually use this".
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polar-bear-org Skill Insight WriterTurns research findings into insight statements that provoke ideas, part of the Design Thinking Pack by Polar Bear. Use this whenever the user says "run insight-writer", "write the insights", "turn these findings into insights", "what does our research actually mean", or themes exist and the team needs the sentences that make a room lean forward. Use it even for "we have findings but they feel flat".
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polar-bear-org Bundle Journey BuilderBuilds the current-state journey map across all touchpoints, part of the Design Thinking Pack by Polar Bear. Use this whenever the user says "run journey-builder", "map the customer journey", "build the current-state journey", "where does the experience break", or research exists and the team needs to see the whole experience end to end instead of their own touchpoint. Use it even for "what's it actually like to be our customer".
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polar-bear-org Skill Persona DesignerBuilds personas from real research data, part of the Design Thinking Pack by Polar Bear. Use this whenever the user says "run persona-designer", "create personas from these interviews", "who are our user types", "turn this research into personas", or research data exists and the team needs people-shaped summaries of who they're designing for. Use it even for "we talked to 12 customers, now what".
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polar-bear-org Skill Empathy Map BuilderBuilds empathy maps from real research data, part of the Design Thinking Pack by Polar Bear. Use this whenever the user says "run empathy-map-builder", "make an empathy map", "map what users say and feel", "what's going on in our users' heads", or research exists and the team wants the says/thinks/does/feels view of a segment. Use it even for "help the team feel what the research found".
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polar-bear-org Skill Diary Study DesignerDesigns diary studies for behavior that interviews can't reach, part of the Design Thinking Pack by Polar Bear. Use this whenever the user says "run diary-study-designer", "set up a diary study", "we need to see behavior over time", "how do people use this across a week", or the research question involves habits, moods, or moments no one can recall accurately afterward. Use it even for "we wish we could see what they do between sessions".
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polar-bear-org Bundle Research Kickoff BriefWrites the one-pager that aligns everyone before research starts, part of the Design Thinking Pack by Polar Bear. Use this whenever the user says "run research-kickoff-brief", "write the research plan", "align the team on the research", "what's our research approach", or methods and guides exist but nobody has agreed on paper who is doing what by when. Use it even for "can you summarize our research setup".
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polar-bear-org Skill Transcript SynthesizerFinds patterns across interview transcripts and debriefs, part of the Design Thinking Pack by Polar Bear. Use this whenever the user says "run transcript-synthesizer", "synthesize these interviews", "what patterns are in our research", "code these transcripts", or a stack of sessions is done and the team needs themes instead of nine separate stories. Use it even for "we finished the interviews, now what".
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polar-bear-org Skill Problem Statement WriterWrites POV problem statements from research insights, part of the Design Thinking Pack by Polar Bear. Use this whenever the user says "run problem-statement-writer", "write the POV", "turn insights into problem statements", "what problem are we actually solving", or the research is synthesized and the team must choose which problem gets solved. Use it even for "we have insights, what's the problem statement".
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polar-bear-org Skill Participant Screener BuilderBuilds screener surveys that recruit the right research participants, part of the Design Thinking Pack by Polar Bear. Use this whenever the user says "run participant-screener-builder", "write a screener", "who should we recruit", "help me find the right interviewees", or recruitment is starting and "eight users" needs to become eight specific kinds of person. Use it even for "we need people to talk to".
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zjunlp Skill MguideMechanist's single conversational front door, with three parallel tracks: (A) when the user wants to run an experiment, work out the research requirements through conversation, settle the two parameter axes of /auto (behavior-source × mechanism), write a compliant task.md into the project root on their behalf, and — once they confirm — submit the /auto run for them; (B) when the user wants literature, hand their words straight to /msearch; (C) when the user wants the arc of a field, hand their words straight to /mhistory.
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zjunlp Skill NotifyDraft a research-progress briefing and dispatch it through whatever notification service the user has already configured. Channel-agnostic — this skill only drafts the briefing text and scans for a configured service; it does not hard-code or recommend any particular channel or tool. Opt-in: it does nothing unless task.md asks for notifications (e.g. email reminders). Every briefing is saved to notification/ (never overwritten). Called by /auto on an hourly cadence and at progress / done / halted / approval-needed events, or manually via /notify.
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zjunlp Skill Idea CreatorGenerate and rank research ideas given a broad direction. Use when user says "brainstorm ideas", "generate research ideas", "what can we work on", or wants to explore a research area for publishable directions.
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zjunlp Skill Impact CheckAssess whether the research problem/behavior is important — its potential value and reach. Use when user says "impact check", "check impact", or wants to judge whether an idea/behavior matters before committing.
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zjunlp Bundle 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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zjunlp Skill Novelty CheckVerify research idea novelty against recent literature. Use when user says "novelty check", "check novelty", or wants to verify a research idea is novel before implementing.
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moizibnyousaf Bundle Manim ComposerTrigger when: (1) User wants to create an educational/explainer video, (2) User has a vague concept they want visualized, (3) User mentions "3b1b style" or "explain like 3Blue1Brown", (4) User wants to plan a Manim video or animation sequence, (5) User asks to "compose" or "plan" a math/science visualization. Transforms vague video ideas into detailed scene-by-scene plans (scenes.md). Conducts research, asks clarifying questions about audience/scope/focus, and outputs comprehensive scene specifications ready for implementation with ManimCE or ManimGL. Use this BEFORE writing any Manim code. This skill plans the video; use manimce-best-practices or manimgl-best-practices for implementation.
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moizibnyousaf Bundle Audience ResearchBuild detailed buyer personas and audience profiles from research. Use this skill whenever the user mentions audience, buyer persona, ideal customer, target market, ICP, watering holes, 'who am I selling to', customer research, or audience profile. Also use when content feels unfocused or generic (that's an audience problem), when conversion is low because messaging doesn't resonate, when starting any new project (audience should be first), or when any downstream skill needs audience.md but it doesn't exist yet. Even if the user doesn't explicitly ask for audience research, trigger this if they're writing copy or building a landing page without a clear audience defined. Three approaches: Quick Profile, Persona Build, Community Mining.
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moizibnyousaf Skill Openseo Keyword ResearchDiscover keyword opportunities with MEASURED volume, keyword difficulty, CPC, and intent from OpenSEO, then write them into brand/keyword-plan.md. Use this skill whenever someone asks for keyword difficulty, KD, search volume, keyword ideas with metrics, striking-distance opportunities from Search Console, or SERP-validated keyword priorities. For qualitative research without an OpenSEO connection, use mktg's keyword-research instead (metrics will be unknown). Triggers: "keyword difficulty", "search volume", "keyword opportunities", "striking distance keywords", "measured keyword research".
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skills-agents-co Skill Research BriefTurns any topic into a structured research brief: background, key players, what's contested, and a short reading list. Get up to speed fast before a meeting.
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socketdev Bundle Researching RecencyResearch recent community and upstream signals across GitHub, forums, social feeds, and web sources.
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socketdev Bundle Designing InterfacesDesigns and reviews accessible interfaces using reference research and rendered validation.
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ihabkhaled Skill Bounded InvestigationUse when debugging, architecture inspection, research, or repository exploration risks becoming open-ended, recursive, speculative, or disconnected from a decision.
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ihabkhaled Bundle Hidden Recursion DetectorUse when nested work is renamed, moved across agents, promoted to top level, or hidden behind research, validation, review, and dependency labels.
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promovaweb Bundle Specsfy Specialist PrototypingConstruir protótipos descartáveis para responder uma pergunta técnica, de interação ou visual específica, com a fidelidade mínima suficiente e sem herdar dívida técnica para produção. Use para spikes, provas de conceito e exploração de alternativas antes de uma decisão cara; não promover código de protótipo a produção sem reimplementação e validação completa; não use quando a pergunta já tem resposta documentada, use `$specsfy-specialist-technical-research` para isso.
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promovaweb Bundle Specsfy Specialist Technical ResearchInvestigar questões técnicas em fontes primárias, código-fonte, padrões e experimentos reproduzíveis, produzindo síntese rastreável com fato, inferência e lacuna separados. Use quando uma decisão depende de comportamento real de API, comparação de tecnologias ou fato tecnicamente incerto; salve a pesquisa somente no local autorizado pela spec do projeto consumidor, nunca em `research.md` paralelo.
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synapseradio Bundle CiteGenerate APA-format citations from paper links. This skill should be used when the user asks to "cite a paper", "generate APA citations", "format references", or provides paper links (arXiv, DOI, conference URLs) for citation formatting.
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synapseradio Bundle Research And TeachResearch deeply, explain progressively
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thegoat395 Bundle Deep ResearchResearch with scoped depth and counterevidence.
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thegoat395 Bundle Web Reference ResearchAnalyze selected sources: Viktor or MotionSites.
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khanhhuyenngo985-sys Skill Knowledge CitationUse when generating any response that involves creative work, filmmaking, advertising, or knowledge-based queries. Checks if knowledge base was properly cited.
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khanhhuyenngo985-sys Skill Tech Product科技产品特写 - 高定线技能
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khanhhuyenngo985-sys Skill Generic Creative通用创意 - 通用线技能
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 agency-ux-researcher, agency-x-twitter-intelligence-analyst, environment-drift-analysis. 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.