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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davila7 Skill Summarize ChangesSummarizes uncommitted git changes and flags anything risky. Use when the user asks what changed, wants a commit message draft, or asks to review their diff before committing.
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davila7 Skill Pr SummarySummarize the current pull request including diff, comments, and review status. Use when reviewing a PR, preparing for a review meeting, or getting a quick PR overview.
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davila7 Skill Readonly ResearchResearch the codebase to answer a question without making any changes. Use when exploring code, understanding architecture, or investigating how something works.
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fabioc-aloha Bundle Academic Research SkillPatterns for thesis writing, dissertations, research papers, literature reviews, scholarly work, and venue-specific publication drafting
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fabioc-aloha Bundle Airs Appropriate Reliance ResearchDomain knowledge for AI adoption measurement, psychometric instrument development, and appropriate reliance research
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fabioc-aloha Bundle Research Project ScaffoldScaffolding academic research projects and refactoring existing ones for Alex-assisted workflows
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2233admin Skill Bmad Domain ResearchDeprecated — forwards to bmad-deep-recon (domain type).
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2233admin Skill Bmad Market ResearchDeprecated — forwards to bmad-deep-recon (market type).
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2233admin Bundle Bmad Sprint PlanningGate planning readiness, generate sprint status tracking from epics, summarize sprint progress, and validate or repair the tracking file. Use when the user says "run sprint planning", "generate sprint plan", "check implementation readiness", "show sprint status", "validate sprint status", or "fix sprint status"
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2233admin Skill Bmad Technical ResearchDeprecated — forwards to bmad-deep-recon (technical type).
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hiai-gg Skill Inspect RedisInspect Redis keys and values: scan keys by pattern, read values of any type, check TTLs and types, and summarize what is stored. Use when asked what is in Redis, whether a key exists, or why a value looks wrong.
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hiai-gg Skill Summarize ProjectSummarize a project from its Notion pages: gather the project's pages and databases, extract status, decisions, and open items, and produce a concise project summary. Use when asked for a project status update or overview from Notion.
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hiai-gg Skill Research WorkspaceSearch and read content in a Notion workspace to answer questions: find pages, databases, and connected sources, and extract the relevant information. Use when the user asks what is in their Notion workspace or needs information from Notion.
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shenyuannext Bundle Wepr Market Signal Research从搜索结果、社区讨论、评论、问答、应用评价、公开工单、发布平台和竞品资料中采集、核验并归纳真实用户需求、痛点、异议、使用场景、替代方案与传播语言。适用于客户方案前调研、产品需求研究、传播选题、文案洞察、竞品比较、社区研究、Reddit/X/Product Hunt/小红书等公开信号分析,以及把零散反馈转成可验证机会;不把热度当市场规模,不伪造引用、互动数据或用户结论。
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sidetoolco Skill Search SpecialistExpert web researcher using advanced search techniques and synthesis. Masters search operators, result filtering, and multi-source verification. Handles competitive analysis and fact-checking. Use PROACTIVELY for deep research, information gathering, or trend analysis.
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theyoungastronauts Skill ExecuteExecute one phase of an implementation plan — plan mode, implement, test, summarize; leaves changes uncommitted for the reviewer.
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davesnx Bundle HowExplain or research how something works in this codebase by exploring code and producing a clear architectural explanation. Use for "how does X work", "research X", "trace X", or "where is X used" when X refers to the current codebase. Optionally critique the architecture for issues.
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davesnx Bundle RecallReconstruct recent working context from chat history, repository state, and shared records like issues and incidents. Use for 'recall my work on X', 'catch me up', 'where did I leave off', 'what did we decide', 'resume work on X', or to summarise past conversations.
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davesnx Bundle Loop On CIInspect, plan, fix, and monitor failing CI across GitHub Actions, Buildkite, and other attached providers. Use when a user asks to debug CI, summarize a red build or PR, propose a CI fix plan, fix failing checks, retry a flaky job, or watch checks until they pass. Accepts a PR, branch, commit, build URL, or provider-specific build identifier.
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cboone Skill Review BranchReview and evaluate all work done on the current branch: summarize changes, rigorously assess plan compliance, and independently evaluate code quality. Use when the user says "review branch", "review the work done on this branch", "summarize this branch", "where are we on this branch", "what's been done on this branch", "branch summary", "compare branch to plan", "evaluate this branch", or any variant involving reviewing, summarizing, or evaluating the work on the current branch.
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ardurai Bundle God Dev ResearchActivates god-level research capabilities for developers: finding academic papers (including paywalled ones), checking novelty and prior art, searching GitHub repos, Reddit, HN, arXiv, ACM, IEEE, Semantic Scholar, and all available online sources. Covers how to tear down a technical domain to its foundations before building anything. Use for research papers, literature review, novelty checking, accessing restricted papers, competitive analysis of open-source implementations, and building deep domain understanding from first principles.
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ardurai Bundle God Research ReviewGod-level academic and technical research review skill. Covers systematic paper review methodology, peer review standards (what NeurIPS/ICML/ICLR/OSDI/SOSP reviewers look for), identifying paper flaws (statistical errors, unfair baselines, cherry-picked results, missing ablations, reproducibility gaps), novelty assessment, literature search strategy (arXiv, Semantic Scholar, Google Scholar, ACM DL, IEEE Xplore, DBLP), accessing paywalled papers legally, citation graph analysis, replication study design, writing a research critique, and the researcher-warrior mindset that has produced hundreds of papers — meticulous, adversarial toward one's own work, and relentless.
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ardurai Bundle God Sre ReliabilityGod-level SRE and reliability engineering skill. Covers SLI/SLO/SLA design, error budgets, toil elimination, incident management (detection, response, retrospective), on-call excellence, capacity planning, chaos engineering (Chaos Monkey, Litmus, fault injection), load testing (k6, Locust, JMeter, Gatling), runbook authoring, reliability patterns (circuit breaker, bulkhead, retry, timeout, fallback), postmortem culture, and reliability as a feature. Draws from Google SRE Book, 'Seeking SRE', and 'Building Secure and Reliable Systems'. The researcher-warrior SRE treats every incident as a research paper to be written and every on-call shift as a field expedition.
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pnp Skill Analyze Document LibraryAnalyze the current SharePoint document library in read-only mode and produce a structured summary of files, folders, file types, recent activity, naming issues, and organization recommendations. Use when the user says: - "analyze this document library" - "summarize the contents of this library" - "review this library organization" - "show me files, folders, file types, and recent activity" - "find documents without meaningful names"
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open-medica Skill Biostatistics AnalyzerPerform common biostatistical analyses for medical research including survival analysis, logistic regression, ROC curves, and sample size calculations.
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open-medica Skill Medical Paper HumanizerRemoves signs of AI-generated writing from medical papers and makes them sound more natural. Based on Wikipedia's AI writing guide, adapted for medical literature.
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open-medica Skill Dicom Metadata ExtractorExtract metadata from DICOM medical images, anonymize protected health information (PHI), and process imaging data for research or clinical workflows. Supports pydicom integration.
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open-medica Skill Pubmed Literature SearchSearch 36M+ citations from PubMed and PubMed Central. Advanced search with boolean operators, MeSH terms, author/journal filters, and full-text access.
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open-medica Skill Protein Structure AnalysisAccess AlphaFold Protein Structure Database and Protein Data Bank (PDB) for structural biology research. Analyze protein structures and molecular interactions.
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open-medica Skill Clinical Differential DiagnosisAI-powered clinical decision support tool that helps generate comprehensive differential diagnoses based on patient symptoms, lab results, and medical history. Integrates evidence-based clinical reasoning and medical literature.
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irinabuht12-oss Skill Icp Research AssistantICP Research Assistant
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irinabuht12-oss Skill Citation Source Gap Finder2/ Citation Source Gap Finder
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poorvith-mp Bundle UX ResearchPlan and run usability studies and behavioural analysis, then turn findings into research-backed personas. Use when running usability tests, journey mapping, or observing user behavior.
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poorvith-mp Skill UX ResearcherMoved to ux-research in skills-design. Removed in v4.1.
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quixiai Skill ResearchHow to research topics using web tools
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quixiai Skill Travel PrepTurn calendar events, confirmations, current research, and personal context into a practical trip brief
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 summarize-changes, pr-summary, readonly-research. 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.