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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24kchengye Skill 03 Literature ReviewLiterature Review Mentor
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24kchengye Skill 03 Research MethodologyResearch Methodology Coach
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aiaiohhh Bundle Pricing StrategyWhen the user wants help with pricing decisions, packaging, or monetization strategy. Also use when the user mentions 'pricing,' 'pricing tiers,' 'freemium,' 'free trial,' 'packaging,' 'price increase,' 'value metric,' 'Van Westendorp,' 'willingness to pay,' or 'monetization.' This skill covers pricing research, tier structure, and packaging strategy.
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alpoxdev Bundle Naver APIUse this skill when the user asks to query Naver API HUB search, DataLab search trends, or Shopping Insight through the `naver-api` CLI, including first-time CLI setup and local credential validation. Do not use for browser scraping, arbitrary Naver endpoints, or general web research that does not require Naver API HUB.
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antonioshaman Skill LearnQuick-capture a learning during a session without interrupting flow. Appends to the knowledge base immediately.
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antonioshaman Skill PrimeLoad relevant knowledge from the knowledge base before starting work. Filters by affected files, tags, or work type to avoid context bloat.
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antonioshaman Skill EvolveAnalyze and evolve the knowledge base and project configuration. This is the meta-improvement loop.
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antonioshaman Skill Self ReflectEnd-of-session reflection that extracts learnings, patterns, gotchas, and decisions into the knowledge base. Run after completing significant work to make future sessions smarter.
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antonioshaman Skill Review With KbCode review that cross-references changes against the knowledge base — catches known gotchas, validates compliance with recorded decisions, and flags anti-pattern violations.
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marin-community Bundle ResearchResearch an explicitly requested Marin question or coordinate a multi-session experiment; find prior work, assess evidence, and record results in the task's existing durable surface.
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marin-community Skill Update DocsUpdate durable docs when explicitly requested or when current work changes behavior, exposes stale instructions, establishes an operational pattern, or yields reusable research guidance.
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charly-vibes Bundle Research CodebaseResearch Codebase
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marcmarti9 Skill Creative Tool ScoutResearch and select the best current creative-development tools, libraries, primitives, and implementation techniques for a chosen experience instead of defaulting to familiar stacks.
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marcmarti9 Skill Design Trend ResearcherResearch current design and creative-development trends, separating emerging patterns from mature conventions, saturated aesthetics, and speculative hype.
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marcmarti9 Bundle Design Inspiration ResearchResearch current visual and interaction references before public greenfield or total-redesign art direction; extract design DNA, synthesize original directions, and keep provenance traceable.
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oleg494 Skill Web ResearchUse when you need a fact from the outside world: "find out", "look up", "what do they say about", "how it works", "compare", "find information". Protocol: web search → primary sources → cross-check → answer with sources. Do not use for searching the knowledge base (business-wiki) or for facts already in the Wiki.
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oleg494 Skill Production First DecisionsUse for consequential choices of tools, libraries, standards or production mechanisms. Check existing project constraints first, research unresolved external facts in primary sources, and test unfamiliar mechanisms before integration. No web-search quota for local facts or established repository patterns.
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insight68 Bundle Pricing StrategyWhen the user wants help with pricing decisions, packaging, or monetization strategy. Also use when the user mentions 'pricing,' 'pricing tiers,' 'freemium,' 'free trial,' 'packaging,' 'price increase,' 'value metric,' 'Van Westendorp,' 'willingness to pay,' or 'monetization.' This skill covers pricing research, tier structure, and packaging strategy.
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technickai Skill Deep DiveUse when told "do a deep dive", "go figure this out", or "don't reinvent the wheel" - researches a question across every relevant source and returns a decision. Also fires on "see what everyone else is doing", "use all the skills you have", "what's the best way to X", "should we build this or buy it", "is this possible", "what is everyone doing about X", "research this properly", and any consequential question handed over for a researched answer rather than a quick one. Routes one question across the relevant source classes (primary docs and source code, open-source repos, commercial vendors, practitioner community, academic work, prediction markets, and the operator's own prior work), verifies decision-critical claims against the PING failure modes, and returns a decision-first brief, with an explicit build-vs-adopt call when the question is a sourcing decision. Starts at the cheapest route that can settle the question and escalates only against a named gap.
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smk-labs Skill Mini Researchتحقیق سبک چندایجنتی روی یک موضوع, با انتخاب مدل و تعداد ایجنت. عمداً deep research نیست. Triggers: «تحقیق سبک», «یه ریسرچ کوچیک», «با چند ایجنت بگرد», "mini-research".
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smk-labs Skill Cursor DelegateHand one self-contained coding or research task to the Cursor CLI so it runs on Cursor's quota, with Claude orchestrating. Triggers: "delegate to cursor", "offload to cursor", "have cursor do it".
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viniciusjsdev Bundle Karya Research RouterRoute an approved market-research contract to Codex, AppStoreTracker, Apple, OpenAlex, optional Perplexity, or Manus according to evidence type, authentication needs, cost, and source quality. Use after research scope exists. This skill routes and records provenance; it does not perform validation or make product decisions.
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viniciusjsdev Bundle Manus Platform ResearcherExecute a bounded, read-only research brief inside authenticated or platform-native environments such as Instagram, TikTok, LinkedIn, communities, directories, or creator marketplaces. Use when native search, live profiles, or signed-in context materially improves accuracy. Never contact users, publish, follow, like, create accounts, or change external state.
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zixun-github Bundle Spec Design ResearchUse when 需要在 Spec 级设计阶段执行 D1 research(产出 `{FEATURE_DIR}/design/research.md`),或面对关键不确定性/高风险点需要先验证而不是直接进入 D2;常见症状包括缺少证据支撑取舍、未知项被写成 TODO/待确认问题、在压力下想猜 FEATURE_DIR 或把调研写成实现细节。
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cspulse Bundle HandoffRuns a handover so the receiving side can actually take it: sales to customer success, customer success to support, or one CSM to another. Trigger whenever the user says "handoff", "handover", "handing over my accounts", "sales to CS handover", "transition the account", "I am leaving and need to hand over", "onboarding a new CSM", "what do I need to pass on", or names an account changing owner. It defines completeness from the receiving side rather than the leaving side, forces out the things that never make it into a system, sets an acceptance step with a date, and separates the internal transfer from what the customer is told. Use customer-update for the message to the customer, and account-research when the handover never happened and the history has to be reconstructed.
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mickpletcher Bundle Photo RenameRename photos using image analysis, GPS metadata, and web research to generate descriptive real-world filenames such as "grand_canyon_phantom_ranch.jpg" or "eiffel_tower_paris.jpg". Trigger immediately when the user's message starts with "rp", or when they upload photos and ask to rename, identify, or label them by location or content. Supports batch processing.
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mickpletcher Bundle Travel PlanningPlan trips, build itineraries, research destinations, estimate budgets, and organize logistics for Mick's travel. Always trigger immediately when the user mentions planning a trip, asks about flights, hotels, itineraries, destinations, or uses phrases like "trip to", "travel to", "planning a visit", "what should I do in", "how do I get to", "how much will this cost", or references any upcoming travel. Also trigger when the user mentions specific destinations, asks about visa requirements, crossing borders, ferry routes, or comparing travel options. This skill encodes Mick's full travel preferences and constraints so outputs are personalized from the first message — never produce generic travel advice.
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mickpletcher Bundle Travel ResearchResearch and compare destinations with deeper scoring across budget, climate, logistics, activity fit, and seasonal tradeoffs before moving into full trip planning.
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myrgic Skill Lab EngineeringLab execution protocols for computational experiments - environment verification, defensive coding, checkpointing, and reproducibility. Use when running experiments, validating environments, or ensuring results are reproducible.
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myrgic Skill Experiment DesignDesign rigorous experiments with clear hypotheses, controls, metrics, and analysis plans. Covers A/B testing, ablation studies, benchmarking, and proof-of-concept validation. Use when planning experiments to test technical hypotheses or compare approaches.
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myrgic Skill Physics ValidationProtocols for validating physical plausibility of computational results - dimensional analysis, limiting cases, order-of-magnitude estimates, and analytical cross-checks. Use when checking if results make physical sense.
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myrgic Skill Literature ResearchStructured literature review and source synthesis. Guides systematic search, source evaluation, claim extraction, and cross-reference analysis. Use when researching a technical topic, evaluating prior art, or building a knowledge base from published sources.
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myrgic Skill Substrate ArchaeologySurface, integrate, and map prior work in the CogOS substrate — find existing research, prior cartography, theoretical lineages, and connect them to current work before building new things.
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myrgic Skill Interdisciplinary ResearchCross-domain synthesis and connection-finding using analogical reasoning, boundary-spanning, and novel hypothesis generation by linking disparate fields. Use when exploring new ideas, finding unexpected connections, or synthesizing across disciplines.
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nafeeur Skill Web ResearchResearch changing technical facts from primary sources and convert findings into implementation decisions with traceability.
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nafeeur Skill Dependency UpgradeUpgrade libraries and runtimes with compatibility research, focused changes, lockfile integrity, and regression verification.
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 03-literature-review, 03-research-methodology, pricing-strategy. 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.