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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khanhhuyenngo985-sys Skill Education Narrative教育广告 - 叙事线技能
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khanhhuyenngo985-sys Skill Lifestyle Documentary生活方式广告 - 纪实线技能
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jordangaston Skill Goal AchievementAct as an evidence-based goal-setting coach and a tough-but-fair thinking partner, grounded in peer-reviewed behavior-change research (implementation intentions, self-determination theory, mental contrasting/WOOP, progress monitoring, accountability, task-focused feedback). Use this skill whenever someone wants to set a goal, decide what to prioritize, follow through on something they keep failing to do, break a big ambition into action, build a habit, or be pushed to actually execute. Trigger when someone says "help me set a goal," "what should I focus on," "how do I prioritize," "I keep not doing X," "hold me accountable," "help me follow through," "make a plan," "build a habit," "I'm overwhelmed," "push me," "be honest with me," or mentions goal-setting, New Year's resolutions, quarterly/annual planning, or procrastination. Also trigger when someone invokes SMART goals, "21 days to a habit," "write your goals down," or other popular self-help claims — this skill corrects them with what the evidence actuall
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jordangaston Skill Market SegmentationRun the Disciplined Entrepreneurship Step 1 Market Segmentation process. Use when the user wants to brainstorm potential markets/customers, narrow down market opportunities, build a segmentation matrix, or conduct primary market research for their startup idea. Trigger on phrases like "market segmentation," "who should I target," "brainstorm markets," "find my first customer," "DE step 1," or "disciplined entrepreneurship."
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andresnator Skill Whisper ExtractExtract, transcribe, and summarize audio or video files using OpenAI Whisper. Use this skill whenever the user wants to transcribe audio or video, extract what was said in a recording, get a transcript of a meeting/interview/lecture/podcast, or generate a summary of spoken content. Also trigger when the user mentions files like .mp3, .mp4, .wav, .m4a, .ogg, .flac, .webm, .mkv, .mov and wants text out of them. Generates a .md file with an AI summary followed by the full literal transcript. También se activa en castellano: "transcribir", "transcripción", "extraer audio", "qué dice este audio", "transcribir reunión", "transcribir entrevista", "pasar audio a texto", "resumir grabación", "transcribir este video", "extraer texto de audio", "transcript", "whisper", "grabar y resumir".
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andresnator Skill Cognitive Output RefinerTrigger: refine output, summarize output, compact logs, reduce cognitive load, remove duplicates. Refines heavy textual output into a concise, faithful, non-duplicative version.
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bm629 Bundle Skill ForgeUse when you hit a knowledge gap — a topic, library, framework, tool, or domain you need to research, learn, or look up before continuing work. Researches the topic (finding existing published skills as source material, then web research with a verification pass) and synthesizes a focused, portable skills/<slug>/SKILL.md — creating a new skill or improving a related forge-made one. Broad topics that span several skills are handled by recommending and forging multiple skills in parallel. An optional task_context sharpens the research emphasis. Returns the finished SKILL.md inline for immediate same-turn use; the skill is self-contained on disk for future sessions.
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bm629 Bundle Authoring User GuideUse when authoring an end-user product guide — the consumer-facing help a typically non-technical person reads to accomplish goals with a product: a getting-started tutorial, task how-to guides, conceptual explanation, an end-user feature/settings/CLI reference (NOT the HTTP API), troubleshooting/FAQ, and a glossary. Guides the METHOD, not the outline: one how-to per user goal from the handed-in upstreams (never invented), the four Diataxis modes kept distinct, every step accurate and named by its exact UI label, plain language for a non-technical reader (no unexplained jargon), an accessible and findable guide, and amending a published guide as a versioned staleness sweep — to a 12-condition usability + accuracy bar. Composes with a user-guide template tool + a research capability. Assumes the handed-in upstreams (feature-spec + user-flows + wireframes) — never a blank page. Not the developer-tool adoption guide (developer-guide), the endpoint catalog (api-reference), or reviewing a finished guide.
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bm629 Bundle Authoring API ReferenceUse when authoring (or amending) a published, consumer-facing API reference — the docs an integrating client developer reads to call an API. Guides the producer through the METHOD, not the outline: deriving every endpoint, field, and error from the upstream api-spec contract (never fabricating one), grounding onboarding + examples in established public-API-docs practice, authoring prose-first yet adapting to OpenAPI-generated catalogs, documenting auth flows, errors, rate-limits, pagination + deprecation, and keeping the reference consistent with the contract — so a developer can authenticate and integrate every operation from the reference alone. Amends an existing reference as an upstream-driven re-sync when the contract changes, with a doc version + amend log. Composes with an api-reference template tool + deep-research. Assumes the upstream api-spec — never a blank page. Not the engineering wire contract (api-spec), not the end-user guide, not reviewing one.
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graniet Bundle ArxivSearch and retrieve academic papers from arXiv using their free REST API. No API key needed. Search by keyword, author, category, or ID. Combine with web_extract or the ocr-and-documents skill to read full paper content.
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graniet Bundle PolymarketQuery Polymarket prediction market data — search markets, get prices, orderbooks, and price history. Read-only via public REST APIs, no API key needed.
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graniet Skill BlogwatcherMonitor blogs and RSS/Atom feeds for updates using the blogwatcher-cli tool. Add blogs, scan for new articles, track read status, and filter by category.
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graniet Bundle Youtube ContentFetch YouTube video transcripts and transform them into structured content (chapters, summaries, threads, blog posts). Use when the user shares a YouTube URL or video link, asks to summarize a video, requests a transcript, or wants to extract and reformat content from any YouTube video.
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hassan-mohiddin Skill Research BriefUse when gathering evidence before a decision, summarizing repo or external facts, checking whether context supports a proposed path, or preparing a brief before specs, plans, brainstorming, or implementation.
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hassan-mohiddin Bundle Capture DecisionsCapture settled durable decisions into existing owning repo memory, or ask where to record them before creating a destination. Use after discussion, research, specs, reviews, or implementation when the user asks to record decisions, durable memory, glossary terms, ADR-worthy tradeoffs, rejected approaches, scope constraints, or consequential workflow decisions.
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fatih-developer Bundle Context CompressorCompress long conversation histories, large code files, research results, and documents by 70% without losing critical information. Triggers when context window fills up, when summarizing previous steps in multi-step tasks, before loading large files into context, or on 'summarize', 'compress', 'reduce context', 'save tokens'.
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aradotso Skill Open Claudecode ResearchResearch archive of Claude Code source and runtime artifacts reconstructed from npm source maps
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kastalien-research Skill TasteRun a taste evaluation on a research proposal or technical direction. Determines whether to proceed, simplify, defer, or kill before committing research effort.
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kastalien-research Skill SynthesizeFuse insights from multiple knowledge sources (code, docs, memory, research, web) into coherent understanding. Use when you have scattered information that needs integration.
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kastalien-research Skill Research TaskExecute a research task using compositional workflow planning. Characterizes the task, selects an approach from a library of research strategies, executes it, and self-evaluates output quality.
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kastalien-research Skill Thoughtbox ResearchStructured research using Thoughtbox IRCoT (Interleaved Retrieval and Chain-of-Thought). Triggers on: "research", "investigate", "explore", "literature review", "what do we know about".
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kastalien-research Skill Source Command Hdd ResearchPhase 1 router for HDD research
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martin65536 Skill Research ExplorerUse when the user has a vague research direction and wants to explore feasible specific topics. Outputs a structured analysis with candidate topics, innovation/feasibility scoring, and a pre-survey of 20–30 representative works. Single-stage, no Python runtime.
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martin65536 Bundle Aminer Free AcademicACADEMIC PRIORITY: Activate this skill whenever the user's query involves any academic or research-related topic. This is the free-tier entry point for AMiner academic search. Free-tier-only AMiner skill (7 free APIs, zero cost). Use this skill for simple, single-step academic lookups that do not require paid API fields. Use this skill for: searching a paper by title to get its ID, checking a paper's first author / venue / year / citation bucket, identifying a scholar by name and viewing interests / institution / citation count, normalizing an institution name to its canonical form and ID, checking whether a venue is a conference or journal, scanning patent trends by keyword (inventor, application year, publication year), and enriching paper IDs with lightweight metadata (abstract slice, author count, venue ID) via paper_info. Do NOT use this skill for: full paper abstracts or keyword lists, multi-condition or semantic paper search, citation relationship analysis, scholar full profiles (bio, education, work h
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martin65536 Bundle Aminer Academic SearchACADEMIC PRIORITY: Activate this skill whenever the user's query involves academic, scholarly, or research-related topics — including but not limited to: papers, publications, citations, scholars, researchers, professors, institutions, universities, labs, journals, conferences, venues, patents, research fields, h-index, impact factor, co-authorship, dissertations, theses, peer review, grant projects, research trends, or any question about "who published what / where / when". This skill takes precedence over general web search or generic Q&A for all academic data needs. Full-featured AMiner skill with 28 APIs and 5 workflows. Use this skill when the task requires deep or complex academic analysis that free APIs cannot satisfy. Use this skill for: scholar full profile (bio, education, honors, papers, patents, projects), paper deep dive (full abstract, keywords, authors, citation chains), multi-condition or semantic paper search (filter by author + institution + venue + keywords, or natural language Q&A via pape
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ldilov Bundle Lua Engineeringlua engineering guidance seeded from the harness forge knowledge base. use when the repo or task is dominated by .lua files, neovim plugins, openresty, love2d, embedded scripting, luajit, or host-specific lua automation where runtime compatibility matters.
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ldilov Bundle Powershell EngineeringPowerShell engineering guidance seeded from the Harness Forge knowledge base.
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grcengclub Bundle Academic Research CompanionGuide a research project through the full academic lifecycle — from raw idea to concrete research question, literature grounding, methodology, writing, feedback, and publication. Use this skill whenever the user shares a research idea, asks to "flesh out" a topic, wants sources or a literature review, asks about methodology or research design, wants to write or structure a paper, asks about peer review, publishing (independent, conference, journal, or preprint), co-authorship, author order, or joining someone else's research as a second/third author. Also trigger when the user says "new research project", "resume my research on X", uploads a research tracker file, or invokes /academic-research-companion:research. Trigger even for early, vague ideas — turning vague ideas into concrete research is the core purpose of this skill.
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aaronjmars Skill Last30Cross-platform social research - narrative-first intelligence on what people are saying about a topic across Reddit, X, HN, Polymarket, and the web over the last 30 days
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mahdtech Skill Gh Release NotesGenerate human-readable release notes for a version from the merged history and cut a GitHub release with the gh CLI - gather the commit and PR range since the last tag, group changes by type, write curated notes, and publish. Use when the user wants to cut a release, tag a version, write a changelog or release notes, or summarise what shipped since the last tag. Pairs well with conventional-commit history but does not require it.
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aradotso Skill Claude Code Analysis ResearchExpert in analyzing the leaked Claude Code TypeScript source and architecture
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asdc163 Bundle Pm Source To TestTurn raw product feedback, research notes, support tickets, or product observations into a source-linked PM review with explicit claims, limitations, and one smallest test. Use when a PM needs to challenge a conclusion, choose what to test next, or hand off a decision without inventing evidence.
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drmoisan Skill OrchestrateRoute a repository request through the deterministic orchestration workflow for feature, bug, research, planning, execution, and review handoffs.
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drmoisan Skill Research IssueInvestigate the best implementation approach for a feature or bug by analyzing the codebase and external references, then writing structured findings to artifacts/research/.
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drmoisan Skill Feature Promotion LifecycleDeterministic promotion workflow from potential feature/bug entry to issue, branch, active feature folder, and downstream spec/research handoffs. Agent sessions must use the drm-copilot MCP tool surface and record raw promotion receipts under the canonical checkpoint namespace.
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khurrummahmood Bundle Track IdeaAppend an intake, event, or lesson record to the Tier 1 idea ledger at .claude/ideas/log.jsonl. The capture surface for everything that could be reused or forgotten — features, refactors, prompts, harnesses, research probes, workflow tweaks. Validates the record against the schema in .claude/docs/idea-ledger.md before writing, then projects the idea's current state. Read .claude/docs/idea-ledger.md when authoring or debugging this skill.
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 education-narrative, lifestyle-documentary, goal-achievement. 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.