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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ocean326 Bundle Semantic Scholar Search搜索 Semantic Scholar 文献或指定 paper id,输出摘要、引用数和链接,适合 citation 扩展。
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ocean326 Bundle Openalex PyalexIncubating Butler wrapper spec for upstream 'OpenAlex plus PyAlex'.
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ocean326 Bundle Semantic Scholar APIIncubating Butler wrapper spec for upstream 'Semantic Scholar API'.
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ocean326 Bundle Europepmc REST BiomedIncubating Butler wrapper spec for upstream 'Europe PMC RESTful Web Service'.
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ocean326 Bundle Crossref REST MetadataIncubating Butler wrapper spec for upstream 'Crossref REST API'.
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ocean326 Bundle Arxiv Py Paper RetrievalIncubating Butler wrapper spec for upstream 'arxiv.py'.
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udecode Skill Research WikiOperate the docs/research compiled layer in either full or maintain mode. Use for research-lane creation, research upkeep, authority-sensitive corpus work, source summaries, concepts, systems, decisions, and open-question pages.
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dalehurley Bundle Check Unread EmailsCheck and summarize unread emails in your inbox, highlighting urgent messages, appointments, and items needing action. Use this skill when the user asks to check emails, review unread messages, see what emails need attention, or get an email summary. Automatically categorizes emails by priority, sender type, and action required.
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dalehurley Skill Summarize Composer JSONAnalyze and summarize PHP Composer configuration files (composer.json). Use this skill when the user asks to summarize, review, analyze, or understand a composer.json file. Extracts and explains project metadata, dependencies, requirements, scripts, and configuration settings in a clear, structured format.
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dalehurley Skill Summarize Unread EmailsRetrieve and summarize all unread emails from your inbox, organized by category, sender, and date. Use this skill when the user asks to summarize unread emails, get an overview of unread messages, organize inbox emails, or review pending email communications. Provides a structured summary with categorization and timeline analysis.
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daxaur Skill C ResearchSummarize web URLs, PDFs, YouTube videos, and podcasts using the `summarize` CLI. Instantly extract key points from any content type without manual reading. Useful for research, link digests, and media review.
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felipecustodio Bundle Research ReasoningSynthesizes scientific literature, cross-references sources, evaluates evidence quality, and builds systematic research summaries.
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shikanime-labs Bundle Sks Issue RefineUse when iterating a problem to convergence inside its GitHub issue via research and comments before deriving the PR.
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uniswap Bundle Daily StandupGenerate daily standup reports from GitHub and Linear. Use when user says "what did I work on yesterday", "generate my standup update", "summarize my recent activity", "what's on my plate today", or "prepare my daily update for the team".
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vamfi Skill Founder PrinciplesInternal founder operating principles. Use proactively for tasks involving founder prioritization, idea filtering, research synthesis, execution plans, launch sequencing, and decision support.
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vamfi Skill Customer Research SprintRun a compact customer and competitor research sprint. Use when the founder needs market signal, competitor synthesis, ICP clarity, or interview prep.
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shaishavmaisuria Bundle Find PapersSearches scholarly literature with zero API keys across DBLP, Crossref, Semantic Scholar, and arXiv. Use when the user wants to find papers, search the literature, list a conference's proceedings (e.g. "all SIGSPATIAL 2025 papers"), survey related work on a topic, look up papers by author/venue/year, get DOIs or citation counts, or check recent arXiv preprints. Ships a venue-alias table that solves cross-API venue naming (DBLP "conf/gis" vs Semantic Scholar "SIGSPATIAL/GIS" vs Crossref proceedings titles) plus polite, cached, 429-resilient search scripts. Trigger words - find papers, literature search, related work, proceedings, DBLP, Crossref, Semantic Scholar, arXiv, citation count, DOI lookup, venue search.
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shaishavmaisuria Bundle Match StyleAligns a draft to a target writing voice — the author's own previous papers, a target venue's published style, or both — so it reads as consistent, native to the venue, and unmistakably the author's. Use when a researcher says "make this match my other papers", "use my usual writing style", "make it sound like my group's work", "match the style of this venue", "align terminology with my prior work", or "make my co-authored draft read consistently". Extracts a measurable style signature (terminology, sentence rhythm, hedging, connective habits, structure) from a corpus the author supplies, diffs the draft against it, and drives a section-by-section alignment that never changes a technical claim, number, or citation. Only the author's own papers and open-access venue exemplars are used; nothing copyrighted is bundled. Trigger words - match my style, my writing voice, sound like my papers, venue style, consistent terminology, align voice, my group's style.
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shaishavmaisuria Bundle Draft SurveyTurns a topic into a ranked reading list of the best papers plus a two-column, arXiv-ready literature-review/survey draft grounded in verified citations. Use when a researcher says "write a survey on X", "do a literature review of X", "give me a ranked reading list on X", "what should I read on X first", "draft a survey paper for arXiv", or "two-column related-work survey on X". Searches across DBLP/Crossref/Semantic Scholar/arXiv, ranks candidates by citation impact, venue strength, recency, and citation-graph centrality, clusters them into a taxonomy, verifies every reference, and writes an original-prose survey (intro, taxonomy, per-theme synthesis, open problems) where each claim cites a real, resolved paper. Never fabricates citations, never copies source text — original synthesis only; the author stays the author. Trigger words - survey, literature review, reading list, ranked papers, what to read, arxiv survey, two-column review.
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shaishavmaisuria Bundle Tailor To VenueDiffs a paper draft against a machine-readable venue profile and produces a four-part tailoring plan - contribution reframing for the chosen track (research vs applications/industry vs demo vs short/vision), a page-budget cutting plan, a template/documentclass switch plan (acmart, IEEEtran, NeurIPS-style, llncs), and an anonymization sweep matched to the venue's blind level. Use when the user wants to adapt, retarget, resubmit, or port a paper to a different conference, journal, or track; fit a paper into a page limit ("cut to 10 pages"); switch LaTeX templates ("convert IEEEtran to acmart"); anonymize for double-blind review; or asks "make this fit SIGSPATIAL/NeurIPS/ICDE/KDD", "which track should this go to", or "retarget my rejected paper".
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shaishavmaisuria Bundle Verify CitationsVerifies every citation in a BibTeX .bib file against Crossref, DBLP, Semantic Scholar, and arXiv to catch hallucinated, fabricated, or incorrect references before reviewers do. Use when the user says verify citations, check references, validate bibliography, check my .bib, fake or hallucinated citations, retracted paper, or DOI check — and before any draft, rebuttal, or camera-ready leaves the machine. Flags unresolvable entries (likely fabrications), author/year/venue mismatches, duplicates, and retractions, and points to the canonical record for each fix. Every skill that writes or edits citations must route new references through this gate.
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shaishavmaisuria Bundle Literature ReviewBuilds a structured literature review — survey of prior work, state of the art, related-work landscape — where every claim cites a verified reference. Use when the user says "literature review", "lit review", "survey the papers on X", "what's the state of the art", "synthesize prior work", or "organize these papers by theme". Composes sibling skills, search via find-papers (key-free DBLP/Crossref/Semantic Scholar/arXiv), full text via fetch-paper (legal open-access only), and citation checking via verify-citations. Tracks a screening corpus, extracts claims with section-level anchors, organizes by theme, and gates the final document with a deterministic checker so no claim ships uncited, unverified, or resting on a fabricated reference.
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shaishavmaisuria Bundle Draft Related WorkDrafts or rewrites a Related Work / prior work section positioned against actually-retrieved papers — derives the REQUIRED clusters from the paper's own claimed scope (not just whatever was retrieved), clusters prior work into themes, articulates the delta (what this paper adds) per cluster, enforces a per-cluster citation floor and routes empty expected clusters back to find-papers, follows the target community's placement and citation conventions (numeric ACM/IEEE vs natbib author-year, single- vs double-blind self-citation, where the section sits at NeurIPS/CHI/SIGMOD-style venues), and admits only verified citations. Use when the user says "related work", "prior work", "position my paper against the literature", "how do we differ from X", "reviewers said related work is thin/missing/a laundry list", or asks to add citations to a draft. Works from papers found via find-papers and/or an existing .bib — it never invents references.
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shaishavmaisuria Bundle Test Research CodeMake research code runnable and repeatable for artifact review by auditing README, dependencies, seeds, entrypoints, data instructions, result commands, and smoke tests with repro_check.py. Use for smoke tests, seed pinning, environment capture, reproducibility checks, or works-on-my-machine cleanup.
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shaishavmaisuria Bundle Refactor Research CodeClean research code for public release while preserving reported results. Uses release_audit.py to separate safe mechanical cleanup from ask-first behavior risks and identity leaks. Use for release-ready repos, dead experiment branches, config extraction, documented entrypoints, and double-blind code cleanup.
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telefrek Skill KbSingle entry point for all knowledge base operations
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telefrek Skill ResearchResearch a technical topic and persist findings to the knowledge base
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telefrek Skill Uninstall VallorcineRemove vallorcine from this project while preserving your knowledge base and decisions
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lidessen Bundle Goal DrivenGoal-driven methodology for multi-week initiatives where the destination is clearer than the path — GOAL.md as stable compass (General Line plus falsifiable success criteria), record captures what was tried and observed. Triggers on "set a goal", "track my progress on X", "this is exploratory", "I know the goal but not the path", or starting a months-long initiative without a clear technical shape. Use for research, exploratory features, learning projects with a shippable output, book/article series, job search, side-business launches. Do NOT trigger for single-task work, bug fixes, week-long features with a clear plan, vague aspirations ("be healthier"), habit tracking, or general life management. Pairs with design-driven (why/how-far vs what-shape) and runs parallel to reframe. Args — `/goal-driven set`, `review`, `close`.
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lidessen Bundle Principle CultivationSteward a project's fallible principle lineage: preserve source-bound research, turn only gate-passing inquiries into candidates, convene selective P-ID reviews, clarify interpretations, trial human-nominated alternates, and prepare human-only Sequence decisions. Use for reusable-principle research, candidate proposals, principle reviews, interpretation drift, alternate trials, or maintaining a principle-centered skill collection.
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cosmicstack-labs Skill Salary NegotiationMarket research, compensation benchmarking, BATNA, total comp analysis, and offer evaluation
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jonhill90 Bundle Research The LimitBefore asserting that a tool, library, or system cannot do something, check a primary source — its own docs, --help, source, or what is actually installed — rather than asserting from memory. Use whenever about to write or say "X cannot do Y", "there is no way to Y", or plan around a limit nobody has actually checked. Not for judging whether a check's verdict can be trusted (verify-the-instrument) or for reasoning with no command or document available to settle it (sanity-check) — this is specifically for a claimed capability boundary that a primary source can confirm or refute.
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jonhill90 Bundle Test In The Consumer ContextRun a check where the thing that depends on it runs — same user, shell, environment, working directory, and privileges — before believing its verdict, and place a check only where it can actually observe its subject. Use before reporting that a command, credential, path, or tool works or fails for something other than your own session, and before siting a check in CI, a hook, or a scheduled job. Not for proving a check can fail at all (verify-the-instrument) and not for checking a claimed capability limit against primary sources (research-the-limit) — this is specifically about the check running somewhere its consumer is not.
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codejunkie99 Skill Research SynthesizerUse when the user has multiple research sources on a topic and wants genuine synthesis of themes, contradictions, and gaps — not separate summaries. Triggers include "synthesize this research", "compare these sources", "research synthesis".
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dbc-oduffy Skill SpikeBounded spike — fuse web research with local study to a verdict.
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dbc-oduffy Skill Coordinator Eval OutputScores a research output against the 5-criteria rubric via Sonnet.
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 semantic-scholar-search, openalex-pyalex, semantic-scholar-api. 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.