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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davidtoby Bundle Web Research Monitoring WorkflowsClass-level workflow for web search, RSS/news/blog monitoring, source extraction, YouTube transcript lookup, summarization, and recurring news digests. Use when asked to search the web, compare search providers, gather fresh public news under search-rate limits, monitor blogs/RSS, summarize URLs/files/videos, or set up AI/business/news digest cron jobs.
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davidtoby Skill Google News Rss DigestingGather and verify fresh public news when normal web search is rate-limited or blocked, using Google News RSS plus source prioritization.
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davidtoby Skill Wechat Business News CronSet up recurring morning/evening news digests delivered to WeChat or Feishu via Hermes cron jobs, with manual timezone conversion, duplicate-job cleanup, and a polished Chinese business-brief card format.
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davidtoby Skill Follow Builders Cron DigestSet up a recurring AI builders news digest using the public follow-builders GitHub feeds and Hermes cron jobs, without installing the upstream skill.
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agentii-ai Bundle PlanAuthor the research plan — fundamentals first, trade ideas last; Constitution Check evaluated twice; Deviation Register with mandatory Expiry; emits the four side artifacts (brief/entities/reproduce/contracts). Technical (market_data_stage: early) theses MUST emit the entities.md bars schema before implement (Q42).
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agentii-ai Bundle TasksDecompose the plan into research tasks — one task per ticker × skill × mode, grouped by pillar, [P]-marked by the different-files-and-no-incomplete-deps rule, with source-refs. mode: all expands to N tasks at generation, never exists as one task (Q79).
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agentii-ai Bundle ClarifyThe research-domain clarification skill — find underspecified items in a thesis spec.md (prose wrong_if, universe rows without rationale, missing budget/expiry/pins, ambiguous pillars), ask the human structured questions WITH options (max 5 per round), encode the answers back into spec.md's Clarifications section, and re-evaluate checklists/thesis-quality.md after every write (Q32 bidirectional maintenance).
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agentii-ai Bundle SpecifyCreate a research thesis — theses/{nnn}-{slug}/ via mkdir-as-CAS, pillar-prioritized spec.md, initialized thesis.md, and the thesis-quality checklist. Refuses creation while the workspace constitution is unratified (spec 046 Q83 A+).
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agentii-ai Bundle ConvergeAppend-only gap closure and the cadence engine for research theses. Evaluates artifact CURRENT state (never git history, never task checkboxes) against current pins and wrong_if falsifiers, then appends a Convergence section to tasks.md re-proposing the gaps. A clean run leaves tasks.md byte-identical. Deterministic gaps (stale, invalidated) are uncapped; judgment-class gaps are capped per spec 046 Q40.
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agentii-ai Bundle ChallengeAdversarial verification of research theses — cross-run/cross-thesis contradiction via the entity index, pre-mortem (Klarman/Kahneman: assume the loss already happened, reverse the path), inversion (Munger: invert, always invert), and wrong_if falsifiability review. ≈50-finding cap sorted by severity; content-derived finding IDs; incremental scoping with three backstops; lifecycle hooks at pillar-complete / thesis-complete / pre-reduction.
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agentii-ai Bundle ImplementExecute research tasks — checklist soft gate, phase dispatch with explicit thesis_dir, budget enforcement (halt + approval card on overrun), skill_pin recording (version_hash content-hashed per skill directory), [x] written on completion.
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agentii-ai Bundle Full Equity ResearchThe Auto 档 scenario — a soft-plan orchestrator for a complete fundamental equity research thesis: understand → financials → valuation → synthesize. The body is a soft plan (stages), not a rigid DAG; correctness is enforced by each referenced skill's own requires: preconditions, never by this plan's rigidity (Q2).
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kjgarza Skill DigestGenerate a themed weekly digest from Obsidian ReadItLater bookmarks. Use this skill when the user runs /readitlater-digest:digest or asks to process bookmarks, create a reading digest, summarize saved articles, or consolidate ReadItLater files. Also trigger on cron/loop invocations targeting bookmark processing.
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kjgarza Bundle Searching Academic Outputs With DimensionsSearch for academic literature, empirical evidence, and scholarly research using the Dimensions database. Use when seeking research papers to support product decisions, find empirical studies, conduct literature reviews, explore funding patterns, validate hypotheses with academic sources, or discover research trends. Supports publications, grants, patents, clinical trials, and researcher profiles. Triggers on requests for "academic evidence", "empirical research", "find studies", "literature search", or "research to support decisions".
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lgwanai Bundle Mail SkillComprehensive email management skill. Use this skill when the user wants to fetch, search, read, send, reply to, move, delete, mark, or summarize emails. It supports multiple accounts (IMAP/SMTP) and manages emails via a local SQLite index to avoid duplicate fetching and improve search performance.
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itallstartedwithaidea Skill CheminformaticsCheminformatics provides computational chemistry workflows using RDKit for molecular property prediction, virtual screening, ADMET analysis, molecular docking preparation, and chemical space exploration.
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itallstartedwithaidea Skill Database LookupDatabase Lookup provides unified programmatic access to 78+ scientific and public databases spanning chemistry (PubChem, ChEMBL), biology (UniProt, COSMIC, Ensembl), clinical (ClinicalTrials.gov, FDA), economics (FRED, World Bank), and intellectual property (USPTO, EPO).
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itallstartedwithaidea Skill Scientific WritingScientific Writing guides the production of research papers, abstracts, grant proposals, and supplementary materials with proper citation management, LaTeX formatting, and journal-specific template compliance.
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itallstartedwithaidea Skill Geospatial AnalysisGeospatial Analysis provides workflows for satellite imagery processing, GIS operations with GeoPandas, spatial statistics, and Earth observation data analysis.
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leolin990405 Bundle Ccb Unified统一 CCB + Subagent 集成平台 v1.0。通过 Gateway API 调度 9 个 AI Provider,结合 Claude Code Subagent 系统,实现分布式 AI 协作。支持异步调用、并行执行、智能路由、记忆系统。包含 9 个子 skills:async, parallel, research, workflow, memory, benchmark, discussion, stem, macro。整合了原有的 ccb, ask, all-plan, stem-modeling, macro-research-ccb skills。
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leolin990405 Bundle History Note ProcessorProcess Gemini chat exports into structured academic history notes following the Four-Step Deep Reading methodology (🟢 Foundation → 🔵 Critique → 🟣 Context → 🔴 Synthesis). Use when (1) Processing Gemini chat history exports, (2) Expanding existing history notes, (3) Creating comprehensive academic notes from historical readings, (4) Structuring research notes with YAML frontmatter, Mermaid visualizations, and multi-stage analysis.
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leolin990405 Skill Lenny ResearchUser research skills from Lenny's Podcast - interviews, surveys, feedback analysis, usability testing
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leolin990405 Bundle Claude Scientific Skills140+ scientific skills for data analysis, bioinformatics, chemistry, physics, and more. Includes tools for databases (PubMed, UniProt, ChEMBL), visualization (matplotlib, plotly, seaborn), ML (scikit-learn, PyTorch), and document generation.
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goharabbas321 Skill Empirical ResearchEmpirical academic research skill. Covers literature synthesis, scientific hypothesis generation, and LaTeX/APA formatting.
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systempromptio Skill Linkedin EngineDaily interactive LinkedIn session: feed posts, DM outreach, prospect research, engagement tracking, and performance review. Human-in-the-loop. Designed for daily /loop.
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edwinhu Skill ConsensusALWAYS use before running the `consensus` CLI or hitting consensus.app - "search Consensus", "consensus search", "find RCT papers", "randomized trials on X", "systematic reviews / meta-analyses of X", "clinical papers on X", "empirical papers in top journals only", "papers in these specific journals", "filter by journal quartile", "most-cited papers on X since 2018". Use even when the user names a filter (study type, journal, year range, citations) without saying "Consensus". NOT for a broad multi-source literature sweep - use the research skill, which calls this one.
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edwinhu Skill Writing EconALWAYS load BEFORE drafting, revising or grading FINANCE or ACCOUNTING journal prose — 'write the paper', 'draft the introduction of my JF submission', 'revise Section 3', 'polish the job-market paper', 'does this read like a finance paper', 'tighten the abstract', 'is this well written for JFE/RFS/JAR/TAR', 'should I write we find or the paper shows', 'do I cross-reference by Section or Part', 'is agents jargon'. Covers Journal of Finance, JFE, RFS, Journal of Accounting Research, The Accounting Review, JAE, CAR, RAST, and the working and job-market papers aimed at them. This skill carries ONLY what is additional to the base register: load `writing-general` alongside it — the diction, tic, vindicated-phrase and formatting rules live there and are assumed here. Do NOT load this for a law review article or legal scholarship (use `writing-legal`) or for a comment letter, memo, brief or professional email (`writing-general` alone) — importing a finance rule into either of those makes the prose worse.
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edwinhu Bundle CourtlistenerUse when the user says 'CourtListener', 'Free Law Project', 'RECAP', 'PACER data', 'court opinions', 'get the opinion text', 'federal dockets', 'delch', 'Delaware Chancery opinions', 'state court opinions', 'demand futility opinions', 'judicial financial disclosures', 'oral arguments', or needs case law, dockets or opinion full text for empirical legal research. Also use when someone assumes CourtListener is federal-only, or hits a token or human-verification wall on it.
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edwinhu Skill Readwise ChatUse when the user asks a QUESTION of their reading library rather than for a keyword lookup — 'ask readwise', 'chat about my highlights', 'what do my notes say about X', 'summarize my reading on X', 'what have I read about proxy advisors', 'compare what I've read about X vs Y', 'what's my take on X based on what I've read', 'pull together my highlights on X'. Use proactively for synthesis across many documents. NOT for finding a specific highlight by keyword — use readwise-search instead.
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edwinhu Skill Google ScholarThis skill should be used when the user asks to "search Google Scholar", "find academic papers", "scholar search", "lookup papers", "find citations", "academic search", "search for papers by author", "find journal articles", "get BibTeX", "cite this paper", "download paper", or needs to search Google Scholar for academic literature via the scholar CLI tool.
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edwinhu Bundle UI JSON CaptureUse when the user asks to 'scrape Lex Machina', 'capture Bloomberg Law results', 'get all the search results', 'export more than the row cap', 'the export only gives me 1,000', 'pull the whole docket', 'grab every page of results', 'capture the JSON behind this page', 'page through this site and save the data', or wants the full result set out of an authenticated research UI (Lex Machina, Bloomberg Law, Westlaw, Docket Alarm, UniCourt) whose export is capped or absent. Also use when a site's results are clearly JSON-backed but there is no documented API.
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atomicinnovation Skill Extract AdrsExtract architecture decision records from existing meta documents (research, plans). Scans documents for implicit or explicit architectural decisions and converts selected ones into formal ADRs. Use when decisions are buried in research or planning documents and need to be captured formally.
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atomicinnovation Skill Research IssueInvestigate production issues and bugs through hypothesis-driven debugging. Accepts stacktraces, logs, error messages, or vague behavioral descriptions and produces a root cause analysis.
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atomicinnovation Bundle Extract Work ItemsExtract work items in batch from existing documents (specs, PRDs, research, plans, meeting notes, design docs). Use whenever the user wants to capture, pull out, or convert requirements, work items, user stories, bug reports, or actionable tasks from existing files into structured work items in meta/work/ — even if they don't say "extract" explicitly.
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atomicinnovation Skill Research CodebaseConduct comprehensive codebase research by spawning parallel subagents and synthesising findings into a research document. Use when the user needs to deeply understand a codebase area or answer technical questions.
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allemaar Bundle Yon ReadRead, interpret, or explain existing YON content. Trigger on any .yon file, YON snippet (lines with @TAG|...|... patterns), or when the user says "read this YON", "what does this YON mean", "explain this @DOC/@RULE/@STEP", "summarize this YON", "interpret this record". Do NOT trigger for generic format questions ("what is YON?") with no YON content present — and do not trigger when the user wants to *write* YON (use yon-write).
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 web-research-monitoring-workflows, google-news-rss-digesting, wechat-business-news-cron. 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.