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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khurrummahmood Skill Mature Existing IdeasResearch an existing ledger entry (or a batch of entries carrying the needs-research marker), append research-log notes to the ledger through /track-idea, and optionally clear markers as evidence accumulates. The orchestrator does the research (project doc grep, optional external Web/Context7 lookups, prior-art surveys) and uses track-idea/scripts/track.py for every ledger write. Read .claude/docs/idea-ledger.md when authoring or debugging this skill.
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mr-kelly Bundle Kelly Invest StockBuild and operate a Busabase-backed mainland China A-share strategy experiment desk with a bundled local Hono App-in-Skill, evidence-backed strategy research, strategy-level L1/L2/L3 manual maturity approvals, one CNY virtual ledger per strategy, and dated strategy backtest reports. Use when the user invokes $kelly-invest-stock or /kelly-invest-stock, wants to define or compare A-share strategies, inspect a strategy and its virtual book, record research evidence, manually approve strategy maturity, or review dated backtests, drawdown, and contribution to the total book. It never connects to a brokerage, places orders, moves money, or presents generated analysis as personalized investment advice.
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kirkruglov Bundle Newsletter Digest BuilderBuild a structured weekly digest from a folder of saved articles and newsletters. Prioritizes by role (PM, marketer, or custom). Triggers: 'build newsletter digest', 'newsletter digest', 'summarize my saved articles', 'I have too many newsletters to read', 'собери дайджест из рассылок', 'дайджест из статей', 'сделай еженедельный дайджест', 'у меня накопилось много статей'.
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xoai Bundle AutoresearchAutonomous iteration toward a measurable outcome. Use when the user wants to optimize a numeric metric through repeated modify-verify cycles — reduce bundle size, increase test coverage, improve query time, lower readability score. Not for exploratory research, subjective judgment, or tasks without a verification command.
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compozy Bundle Cy Research IssuesResearch Issues
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leo-kuang-ai Bundle Spec Project RulesUse this standalone skill to build or update a project architecture knowledge base (docs/architecture.md) for multi-end monorepos or any repo with a shared layer, from code evidence, or to check existing rules for staleness, or to write back a newly confirmed convention in one sentence. Do not use for mining coding style only (spec-rule-miner), capturing solved-problem learnings (spec-compound), reviewing diffs (spec-code-review), or writing lint/formatter config.
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jayrha Bundle Book SummarizerDistills a book into a clear, faithful summary at the depth the reader wants — from a one-paragraph gist to chapter-by-chapter notes — surfacing the core thesis, key ideas, memorable examples, and actionable takeaways without distortion. Use this skill when a user asks to "summarize this book", "give me the key takeaways from X", "what's the main idea of X", "TL;DR of X", "chapter summary", or wants the actionable points or a book-club discussion guide.
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jayrha Bundle Meeting SummarizerTransforms raw meeting notes, transcripts, or recordings text into a concise, scannable summary with clear sections for decisions made and owned action items (owner + due date). Use this skill when the user asks to "summarize this meeting", "turn these notes into a summary", "extract action items", "who agreed to what", "write meeting minutes", "TLDR this transcript", "pull decisions and next steps", or pastes a Zoom/Teams/Google Meet transcript and wants it condensed. Also applies to standups, 1:1s, planning sessions, retros, and client calls.
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jayrha Bundle Release Notes WriterTransforms merged pull requests, commit logs, and changelog entries into clear, user-facing release notes grouped into Features, Improvements, Bug Fixes, and Breaking Changes. Use this skill when asked to "write release notes", "draft a changelog", "summarize this release", "turn these PRs/commits into release notes", "prepare the v1.2 release announcement", or to convert a list of merged changes into a polished, audience-appropriate notes document.
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liberty91ltd Skill Lookup OpenctiUse when you need to query an OpenCTI instance — is this IOC already known, what entities/reports/campaigns exist for an actor — or push new intel into it — creating indicators/observables, labelling, TLP markings, relationships, or importing a STIX 2.1 bundle. Two-way integration. Commonly invoked by /ip-investigation and friends to check whether an indicator is already in your knowledge base, and by analytical skills that want to publish their findings back to OpenCTI. Reads $OPENCTI_URL and $OPENCTI_TOKEN.
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caixinyu2017-star Bundle Writing AI PaperGuide the planning, drafting, and revision of AI/ML conference papers (NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, CVPR, AAAI, ACL, etc.) using the handbook "Writing AI Conference Papers" by hzwer (Zhewei Huang) and DingXiaoH (Xiaohan Ding). Use when the user is writing a machine-learning / deep-learning / computer-vision / NLP paper and needs help finding the core idea, building the paper framework, writing the introduction or related work, improving readability and defensibility, preparing for the deadline, anticipating reviewer criticism, or judging whether a research idea is worth pursuing. Also trigger on Chinese phrasings such as 写AI论文、写顶会论文、深度学习论文写作、投稿NeurIPS/ICML/ICLR/CVPR、改论文、提升论文可读性、审稿意见、rebuttal、idea是否值得做.
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caixinyu2017-star Bundle Econ WriteExpert economics paper writing assistant synthesizing advice from 50+ top guides by Cochrane, McCloskey, Shapiro, Head, Bellemare, Goldin, Glaeser, Kremer, and other leading economists. USE THIS SKILL whenever the user writes, edits, reviews, rewrites, or structures any economics paper, thesis, job market paper, abstract, introduction, conclusion, results section, literature review, or referee response. Also handles LaTeX formatting, presentations, and paper audits. Covers all paper types (applied, theory, structural, mixed) and all sections.
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caixinyu2017-star Bundle Econ Writing WorkflowUse as the main entry point for economics writing workflows in English or Chinese, including paper planning, full paper drafting from research questions and result packages, abstract/introduction/results revision, Chinese top-journal adaptation, English and Chinese diction cleanup, AI/translationese removal, table and figure design, notes/captions, formatting checks, and routing to empirical workflow support when data cleaning, regressions, or variable construction are involved.
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caixinyu2017-star Bundle Paper Workflow经管 / 社科实证论文全流程 meta-orchestrator:把选题、设计、数据、估计、方法闸门、 表图、写作、去 AI 味、质量门、修订、投稿与复盘编排成 Stage 0–9 可断点续跑流水线。 本 skill 不重复实现子能力,而是按阶段调用既有 skill 或并行 subagent,并在 Stage 3–4 路由 Python/StatsPAI、Stata、R 三种分析后端。触发:/paper-workflow、帮我写一篇实证论文、 从选题到投稿、端到端 empirical paper、已有 proposal/数据/初稿要推进到投稿,或明确要求 用 Stata / R/fixest / Python-StatsPAI 完整复现。
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caixinyu2017-star 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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caixinyu2017-star Bundle Aer RebuttalUse when responding to a Revise & Resubmit decision from AER, AER:Insights, or an AEJ, and a point-by-point response letter plus aligned manuscript revisions are needed. Handles triage, the concede / clarify / push-back decision, and the response-letter format that editors actually read.
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caixinyu2017-star Bundle Aer WorkflowUse when deciding which AER-skills sub-skill to use next, before choosing a specialized skill or after a user asks how to sequence manuscript work from topic selection through rebuttal for AER, AER:Insights, or AEJ journals. Routes — does not replace — the specialized skills.
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caixinyu2017-star Bundle Aer Paper BodyUse when drafting or revising the body sections of an AER, AER:Insights, or AEJ manuscript — institutional background, data, empirical strategy, results, mechanisms, and conclusion. Covers equation conventions, results-paragraph narration, magnitude interpretation, and back-of-envelope policy calculations. Apply after the empirics are stable and before or alongside aer-introduction.
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caixinyu2017-star Bundle Aer RobustnessUse when the main empirical results exist but the manuscript lacks the robustness, heterogeneity, mechanism, and placebo checks that AER referees will demand. Apply after aer-identification and before aer-introduction so that the value-added paragraph can reference these tests.
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caixinyu2017-star Bundle Aer ConsistencyAER Consistency
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caixinyu2017-star Bundle Aer Referee SimUse when a complete draft exists and needs an adversarial internal review before submission — simulating the AER desk screen and three referee reports with calibrated severity, scoring the paper against the editorial rubric, and producing a prioritized revise list. Apply after aer-consistency passes and before aer-submission; rerun until the simulated verdict is at least major R&R.
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caixinyu2017-star Bundle Aer ReplicationUse when assembling the AEA Data and Code Availability deposit for an AER, AER:Insights, or AEJ acceptance, writing the README, or auditing a replication package before the AEA Data Editor review. Implements the current AEA policy, including the February 2026 Data and Code Availability Policy.
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caixinyu2017-star Bundle Medical Imaging Review<!--
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caixinyu2017-star Skill Master Thesis ReviewGenerate master's thesis review reports (硕士论文评阅意见) calibrated to a given score. Outputs academic evaluation and shortcomings/suggestions in Chinese. Trigger when user says "master thesis review" / "硕士论文评阅" / "论文评阅" / "评阅意见" / "thesis review".
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caixinyu2017-star Bundle Aer Tables FiguresUse when constructing or revising regression tables, descriptive statistics tables, or figures after results are estimated and before submission for an AER, AER:Insights, or AEJ manuscript. Implements AER booktabs house style, regression-table layout, and figure-note conventions.
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caixinyu2017-star Bundle Aer Topic SelectionUse when evaluating whether a research idea clears the AER top-5 bar, when routing between AER, AER:Insights, and the AEJ family, or when sharpening a fuzzy contribution sentence into one publishable claim. Apply before any writing begins.
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caixinyu2017-star Skill Literature Review<!--
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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 mature-existing-ideas, kelly-invest-stock, newsletter-digest-builder. 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.