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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ligphidonk Skill Research Literature TraceResearch Literature Trace
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ligphidonk Skill Research Experiment DriverResearch Experiment Driver
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augments-labs Bundle Dispatching Parallel AgentsUse when two or more work items can run concurrently with disjoint file ownership, mutable state, and outputs — unrelated bugs, independent features, parallel research. Fires on do these at the same time and can several agents work on this, even if nobody says parallel or concurrent. Skip shared generators, manifests, or runtime state, dependent outputs, and work quicker to do inline.
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q00 Bundle Ce Release NotesSummarize recent compound-engineering plugin releases, or answer a specific question about a past release with a version citation. Use when the user types `/ce-release-notes` or asks "what changed in compound-engineering recently?" or "what happened to `<skill-name>`?".
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foxl-ai Skill Research AssistantHelp with research tasks and information gathering
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fuyuxiang Bundle ArxivSearch and retrieve academic papers from arXiv using their free REST API. No API key needed. Search by keyword, author, category, or ID. Combine with web_extract or the ocr-and-documents skill to read full paper content.
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fuyuxiang Bundle Web SearchFree web search via DuckDuckGo — text, news, images. No API key needed. Self-hosted SearXNG as alternative.
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fuyuxiang Bundle Rss WatcherMonitor RSS/Atom feeds for new articles. Poll on schedule, summarize updates, deliver via any channel.
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fuyuxiang Bundle Web ExtractExtract clean text content from any URL. Uses trafilatura for high-quality extraction, no API key needed.
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fuyuxiang Skill SummarizeSummarize or extract text/transcripts from URLs, podcasts, and local files (great fallback for "transcribe this YouTube/video").
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fuyuxiang Bundle Deep ResearchStructured multi-step research: search → extract → cross-reference → synthesize with citations.
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poorvith-mp Bundle Research MethodsDesign the study itself: question framing, method choice, sampling, controls and which statistics actually fit. Use when designing qualitative, quantitative, or experimental research methods.
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poorvith-mp Bundle Literature ReviewSynthesise many papers into themes, contradictions, methodological quality and open questions. Use when synthesizing academic fields, thematic clusters, or research gaps.
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poorvith-mp Bundle Citation FormatterMoved to modernized catalog in skillary. Removed in v4.1.
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poorvith-mp Skill Research Paper SummariserMoved to modernized catalog in skillary. Removed in v4.1.
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snowflake-labs Bundle Investment Memo GenerationGenerates structured investment memos with thesis framing, financial analysis, risk assessment, and catalyst identification. Use when the user asks for an "investment memo", "investment thesis", or "comprehensive company analysis". Requires multi-tool orchestration across SEC data, analyst estimates, and qualitative research.
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qinghonglin Bundle CopywriterName the piece — re-write the masthead (headline + standfirst + kicker), every section title, and every figure/photo/table caption to a research-driven titling standard, killing the AI-tell patterns (the 'flat statement. flat counter-statement.' two-beat above all) a competent default falls into. Reads editor.md/json + analyst.json + the resolved topic_profile; writes copywriter.json — STRINGS ONLY (masthead{headline,standfirst,kicker}, items{edt_xx:{title}, des_xx:{caption}}), each backed by a real ana_*. Names, never edits: it touches no finding, no number, no data-* id, no layout — so the Verify layer is untouched and the Programmer renders the masthead + figcaptions from copywriter.json verbatim. Runs at Stage 3.5, after the Editor, before the Designer.
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jiplet Skill Market IntelResearch and deliver structured intelligence on competitors, contracts, tenders, and market movements relevant to a large infrastructure services enterprise's business.
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cerico Bundle RecapSummarise what happened in this session so far. Use when switching between Claude sessions or returning after a break.
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nordz0r Bundle Basic Memory WorkflowИспользуй этот скилл, когда нужно читать или записывать память проекта через local basic-memory: найти прошлые решения, вспомнить контекст, посмотреть recent activity, сохранить summary, ADR, meeting notes или stable facts в knowledge base. Триггерится на: basic-memory, memory, memories, запомни, сохрани в память, проверь память, project memory, recall context, прошлые решения, заметки проекта, meeting notes, ADR, summary в память.
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chonsong Skill Auto ResearchResearch uncertain questions with an explicit, user-approved web search or ChatGPT consultation, then present options and wait for implementation approval.
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knuckles-team Bundle Graph Query And ExplanationAnswer bounded read-only questions over Graph-OS with grounded evidence. Use for natural-language or multi-step data questions, Cypher or UQL reads, local or federated semantic search, code navigation, document trees, tables, metrics, geospatial lookups, epistemic answers, or cited explanations. For a hypothesis-driven multi-source study, mining, learning, or causal evaluation, use graph-research-and-analysis.
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mrilikecoding Skill CwCreative writing coaching orchestrator. Manages a multi-phase workflow for projects that interweave prose narrative, art-as-code, and research-grounded theoretical discussion. Coaches structure, voice, and critical quality — the user does the writing.
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mrilikecoding Skill Lit ReviewSystematic literature review and synthesis for a research topic or draft paper. Use when asked to find related work, build a literature map, survey a field, or synthesize research on a topic. Produces a structured narrative synthesis, not just a reference list.
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mrilikecoding Bundle Rdd ResearchResearch phase of RDD. Runs an ideation → research/spike → synthesis loop until the problem space is understood, then produces a publishable essay. Use when you need to understand a problem before building.
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pinvou Skill Knowledge BaseIMA Knowledge Base
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poorvith-mp Bundle Paper SummarySummarise a paper into methodology, findings, and limitations. For study design, see research-methods. Use when distilling academic papers into findings, methods, and limitations.
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poorvith-mp Bundle Topic SelectionTurn a broad interest into a tractable research question or essay topic with defensible scope and available sources. Use when narrowing research questions, thesis scopes, or project ideas.
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yesterday-ai Bundle Exa Search APISemantic web search via Exa AI API. Returns full-text content, not just snippets. Use for deep research, competitor analysis, or finding specific technical content.
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sylphxai Skill Competitive AnalysisCompetitive analysis - market research, feature gaps. Use when exploring what competitors do.
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ultimatile Skill ResearchInvestigate a GitHub issue or free-text task with empirical (subagent probes) and derivational (in-context deduction) hypotheses, producing a vetted implementation plan with Inconclusive / Deferred items. Accepts an issue number or task text.
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ultimatile Skill ImplementExecute a prior research plan via quaere-execution with GitHub issue integration, plan-vs-actual drift, done-check, and conventional commits. Optional issue number argument.
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ultimatile Skill Research And ImplementWork a GitHub issue end to end in two phases — research, then implement — under quaere-evidence and quaere-execution discipline.
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jnemargut Bundle X ShapeExperimental v2 of /shape. Same soul — design the detailed execution of any complex goal (events, renovations, content series, weddings, restructures) through visual decisions — plus: an explicit constraints ledger with a running cost/time tally across decisions (it flags when your choices collectively blow the budget), parallel research subagents, calibrated confidence with honest toss-ups, a steelman case against every recommendation, stakes/reversibility triage, and tripwires + pre-mortem in the summary. Reads /whoiam and /research-sources config.
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jnemargut Skill StrategizeGeneral-purpose strategy skill for any complex problem or goal. Researches the domain, identifies the key decisions that matter, and walks you through each one with real research, visual options, and recommendations. Works for career moves, legal situations, personal goals, business challenges, or any situation where you need to think deeply before acting.
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jnemargut Bundle X StrategizeExperimental v2 of /strategize. Same soul — research the domain, surface the decisions that matter, walk through each with visual options — plus: parallel research subagents, calibrated confidence on every recommendation (including honest toss-ups), a steelman case AGAINST its own pick, stakes/reversibility triage, assumptions with tripwires, and a pre-mortem in the brief. Reads your /whoiam profile and /research-sources preferences.
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 Research Literature Trace, Research Experiment Driver, dispatching-parallel-agents. 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.