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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mangowhoiscloud Bundle Stanford Test Time ComputeGround GEODE design and evaluation work in Stanford CS329A Parts 2 and 5. Use for test-time compute, planning, multi-step reasoning, deep research, LATS, independent subplans, best-of-N, repair depth, measurement replication, verifier authority, and GEODE/Eco²/SIL/Crucible comparisons.
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meyverick Skill Playable Ad Design ResearchEquips agents with search heuristics for finding and applying modern playable ad systems and interactive trends.
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modiqo Skill Hidden UnicodeSummarize a document into a short brief.
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modiqo Bundle Hidden DirectiveSummarize a document using the house style.
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modiqo Skill Browser Research ProseUse when the user asks to browse, inspect, click, snapshot, or extract evidence from a web page.
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modiqo Bundle Demo Browser ResearchUse for demonstrates how a prose browser skill becomes a tested SkillSpec behavior contract. Handles browser handoff and page evidence and external services. Preserves evidence with SkillSpec routes, forbids, dependencies, traces, and token-savings reports
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jajupmochi Skill Research CriticCritique research hypotheses, experiment design, results, ablations, baselines, and paper claims before committing them.
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jajupmochi Skill VerifyRun the project's CI gate locally — ruff lint, ruff format check, mypy, and fast pytest (excluding slow/download markers). Use before opening a PR or marking work done.
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jqaisystems Bundle Cold Outreach WriterWrite a personalised cold outreach email from a company research block. Produces one tight email under 180 words built on a specific observation about the prospect, plus three alternative subject lines, a LinkedIn connection note, and a 7-day follow-up. Drafts only, never sends anything. Use when the user says "write a cold email", "outreach email for this lead", "draft outreach for this company", or "follow up email for this prospect".
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phazurlabs Bundle UX Research MethodsUX research methodology: usability testing protocols, user interviews, contextual inquiry, surveys, card sorting, and diary studies, plus synthesis frameworks including JTBD, journey mapping, and affinity diagramming. Use when planning a study, writing a discussion guide, or analyzing research data.
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viewway Bundle Computer Science Knowledge BaseComputer Science Knowledge Base
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phazurlabs Bundle Cognitive Psychology UXLaws of UX (Fitts, Hick, Miller, Jakob, Peak-End, Doherty), Gestalt principles, cognitive biases, mental models, attention, and memory constraints. Use when auditing cognitive load, sizing tap targets, reducing choice overload, fixing decision fatigue, or grounding a design decision in research.
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airmile Bundle Project ResearchResearch across web, docs, and codebase. Use with /project-research.
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calle-ai Bundle Research Gap Call VerifierTurn cited business research into a bounded, approval-gated phone-call plan that asks only unresolved factual questions, then reconcile CALL-E-compatible results without treating voicemail, refusal, ambiguity, or failure as confirmation. Use when web research has produced a shortlist but availability, pricing, policies, or scheduling still require a disclosed call to a published business number.
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g-bastianelli Skill ResearchUse automatically when the user wants a researched, fact-checked, or cited answer from the web — "fais une recherche", "creuse le sujet", "vérifie cette info", "trouve-moi des sources sur", "research X", "fact-check X", "find sources on X", "dig into X", or any question whose answer needs several cross-checked web sources. Prefer this over a bare WebSearch whenever the answer should be sourced rather than answered from memory. Fan-out web search → fetch + summarize → adversarial verification → cited synthesis. Zero parametric knowledge — answers only from verified sources.
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steveclarke Skill Obsidian Vault ContextWorks with the local Obsidian vault using direct file operations. Knows folder structure, daily note format (YYYY-MM-DD.md), and research capture templates. Use when reading/writing Obsidian notes or capturing research. Triggers on "obsidian", "daily note", "vault", "capture research".
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luizedupp Bundle Planning With FilesImplements Manus-style file-based planning to organize and track progress on complex tasks. Creates task_plan.md, findings.md, and progress.md. Use when asked to plan out, break down, or organize a multi-step project, research task, or any work requiring >5 tool calls. Supports automatic session recovery after /clear.
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eoash Bundle My Legal Researcher한국 법률 리서쳐. 법령·판례 검색 + 상황별 법적 검토 → 구조화 리포트. "법령 검색", "판례 찾아줘", "법적으로 어떻게", "법적 검토", "/legal-research" 요청에 사용.
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orkas-ai Bundle NotionCapture, organize, search, and synthesize knowledge inside a Notion workspace. Use this skill whenever the user wants to save content to Notion, update a Notion knowledge base, or research a topic from internal Notion pages.
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nesalia-inc Skill Review AdrRead and summarize relevant ADRs before proposing changes. Enforces checking decisions before questioning choices.
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viknesh20-20 Skill Competitive AnalysisResearch how 2–4 mature competitors solve a specific business problem (billing, RBAC, search, onboarding, multi-tenancy, etc.) and produce a side-by-side comparison so the team can pick the right approach for their context. Uses web search + scraping; cites every source.
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arendon1 Skill ReviewAdversarial senior review of the plan before build, or of the code after build. Constructs a skeptical reviewer anchored to the codebase, RESEARCH.md, and live best-practice, then tries to REFUTE — not rubber-stamp. Every finding cites evidence. Code review runs two axes (Standards + Spec) as parallel isolated reviewers, reported side by side. Ends in a go/no-go gate. Use when reviewing high-blast-radius work before build, or reviewing the diff after build, or when the user says "review the spec", "red-team this", "is this sound", "senior review".
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arendon1 Skill ResearchGather external knowledge into the active plan's RESEARCH.md so build grounds in facts, not hallucinations. Every finding cites a source. Delegates to domain capabilities (e.g. research-literature for academic) based on their provides field. Use when the plan needs external facts before building, or when the user says "research this", "look up", "find docs on", "is there a library for".
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arendon1 Bundle Research LiteratureBusca artículos académicos y fuentes científicas usando EXA, Semantic Scholar y Google Scholar, con resultados estructurados para citar en papers. Usa cuando el usuario necesite encontrar fuentes para un paper o ensayo, revisar el estado del arte de un tema, preparar una revisión de literatura, o diga "busca papers sobre...", "encuentra artículos de...", "qué investigaciones hay sobre...", "fuentes para mi paper".
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joris887 Bundle ResearchDeep online research on any topic. Produces structured reports with citations and confidence scores. Three depth modes — quick scan, standard investigation, or deep dive.
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joris887 Skill Phase ReviewPhase transition review — walkthrough built features, validate assumptions, refresh research, decide direction, and plan next phase.
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sudhakaran88 Skill Ab Test SetupWhen the user wants to plan, design, or implement an A/B test or experiment. Also trigger on "A/B test", "split test", "experiment", "test this change", "variant", "multivariate test", "hypothesis", "conversion test", "statistical significance". Also use when deciding BETWEEN testing and qualitative research for low-traffic sites.
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jsonlee12138 Skill Tech Research供 pre-development 与架构流程内部调用的领域技术调研协议,按前端、后端、数据、安全、运维、QA 等使命生成证据化可行性报告。也可在用户明确要求技术调研或 spike 时直接使用;内部模式下 subagent 不写文件、不碰 Linear。
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refractionpoint Skill Compliance LookupLook up how LimaCharlie covers a specific compliance control across any of seven frameworks (CMMC, NIST 800-53, PCI DSS, HIPAA, SOC 2, ISO 27001, CIS v8). Returns the relevant section from the framework's mapping and implementation docs plus the exact D&R rules that carry the control citation in their metadata. Use when the user asks things like "how does LC cover PCI 10.2.1.4?", "show me our NIST AU-2 coverage", "what rules map to CIS Safeguard 8.2?", "HIPAA §164.312(b) coverage".
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htlin222 Skill SearchExpert web research with advanced techniques. Use for deep research or fact verification.
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htlin222 Skill Repo InitInitialize GitHub repo with CITATION.cff, LICENSE, README badges. Use for new repos.
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nova-violet-role Bundle Create Meta Prompts DtdCreate optimized prompts for Claude-to-Claude pipelines with research, planning, and execution stages. Use when building prompts that produce outputs for other prompts to consume, or when running multi-stage workflows (research -> plan -> implement). Carries its own DOCTYPE: a declared output grammar, a trust boundary and laws the checker enforces.
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evolution-foundation Skill Evo Sprint StatusSummarize sprint status and surface risks. Use when the user says "check sprint status" or "show sprint status"
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family3253 Bundle Context MasterUniversal context management and planning system. PROACTIVELY activate for: (1) ANY complex task requiring planning, (2) Multi-file projects/websites/apps, (3) Architecture decisions, (4) Research tasks, (5) Refactoring, (6) Long coding sessions, (7) Tasks with 3+ sequential steps. Provides: optimal file creation order, context-efficient workflows, extended thinking delegation (23x context efficiency), passive deep analysis architecture, progressive task decomposition, and prevents redundant work. Saves 62% context on average. Essential for maintaining session performance and analytical depth.
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family3253 Bundle Tavily ResearchComprehensive research grounded in web data with explicit citations. Use when you need multi-source synthesis—comparisons, current events, market analysis, detailed reports.
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emaraschio Bundle PathfinderMap the fog of war before building. Given a project goal and known context, separate decisions already fixed from open decision frontiers and fog-of-war unknowns, tag each unknown with a next move (research, prototype, ask an expert, user test, or delegate), and lay out parallel work tracks plus the next three actions. Plan-only, no execution in the same turn. Use for pathfinder, decision mapping, fog of war, or planning a greenfield or messy project before the next step feels obvious but undercooked.
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 stanford-test-time-compute, playable-ad-design-research, hidden-unicode. 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.