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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gvago Bundle Kernel Subsystem GuidesUse when a Linux kernel PR diff matches a known subsystem (mm, block, net, btrfs, io_uring, KVM, DRM, USB, scheduler, and 60+ more), router into per-subsystem invariant guides from Chris Mason's masoncl/review-prompts knowledge base; load every guide whose trigger row matches before analysis. Part of the linux-kernel-review suite.
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haochengw372-hash Bundle Communication WritingDraft, revise, synchronize, and finalize communication and social-science manuscripts from verified research materials. Use for 传播学/社会科学论文写作, titles, abstracts, introductions, theory and literature sections, methods, results, discussions, conclusions, bilingual Chinese-English revision, reviewer responses, and submission packages. Do not invent evidence, results, citations, methods, or venue requirements.
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haochengw372-hash Bundle Communication Method RouterClassify a communication research goal before selecting any method and route to the appropriate specialist design or analysis. Distinguishes description, measurement, explanation, prediction, causal identification, and simulation explanation. Use for research method selection, methodological planning, 研究方法选择/方法路由/研究目标分类/计算传播方法. Do not use when the goal and design are already fixed and only execution remains.
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kotlin Bundle Gradle ExpertProvides expert build engineer guidance on Gradle Kotlin DSL scripts, plugin development, and deep internals research; use for build failures, compilation errors, dependency conflicts, or complex build authoring. Do NOT use for executing builds/tests (use `running_gradle_builds`/`running_gradle_tests`) or dependency graph auditing.
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lensetek Skill Fiction Market Trend AnalystPerforms real-time web research on popular fiction trends, bestselling titles, tropes, title generation, and competitive book benchmarks. Use when searching current market trends or researching reference stories.
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matematicsolutions Skill Legal Syllogism EnBuilds the explicit legal syllogism for an issue - lays out the major premise (the rule and its interpretation), the minor premise (the material facts), the application (subsuming facts under each element of the rule), and the conclusion, then flags the weak links: unstated assumptions, contested facts, debatable interpretation. Forces every step to be said out loud and checkable instead of jumping from facts to a holding. Maps to civil-law subsumption and common-law IRAC/CREAC. Jurisdiction-neutral method: it supplies no rule and checks no citation, so the major premise has to come from a source you trust. Use when: "build the syllogism", "lay out the legal reasoning", "apply the rule to the facts", "IRAC this", "where is the gap in the argument", "major and minor premise", "structure the analysis" - when drafting an opinion, brief, or memo.
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mcncarl Bundle Yichen Web Research逸尘自用的互联网研究总入口。用于跨平台且跨阶段、用户尚未确定工具,或明确要求对公司、产品、人物、技术、行业和领域做横纵分析、发展史加现状对比或有来源约束的系统深度研究;先生成有截止日期和证据闸门的计划,再把搜索发现、候选核验、有限归档、按需转写和证据综合路由到 yichen-unified-search、yichen-content-archive、yichen-bookmarks-export 与 yichen-asr。若用户只要求搜索、只处理已知链接、只导出私人收藏或只转写已有音视频,应直接使用对应子 Skill。Use when an internet-research request spans multiple stages, requires evidence-grounded longitudinal and cross-sectional synthesis, the correct child route is unclear, or the user explicitly invokes $yichen-web-research.
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mcncarl Bundle Yichen Unified Search统一编排关键词驱动的公共网页、AI 最新动态、垂直领域和社交平台搜索,返回标准化候选;支持有界 X Research、显式站点 Map,以及本次搜索所得候选的轻量核验。不用于读取或下载用户直接给出的已知 URL,此类任务使用 yichen-content-archive。
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pranav8494 Skill UX ResearcherUse when conducting user research, creating personas or journey maps, planning usability testing, synthesising user feedback, evaluating information architecture, analysing user behaviour, or any task that requires understanding what users need, think, or feel.
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qin1473692580-ux Bundle Story Research为小说创作查证历史、地理、职业、医疗、法律、科技、社会风貌和其他公开事实,交付带来源、证据等级、不确定性与写作转化建议的研究报告。当用户说“查资料”“帮我考证”“这个细节真实吗”,或写作/修订/审查遇到需要外部证据的事实时使用。
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azhi-ss Bundle Ljg Paper River论文倒读法:给一篇论文,递归找出它批判和改进的前序论文(最多5层),再找它之后的最新进展,从源头正向讲述问题演化史。以问题为轴,费曼式讲解每篇论文看到的问题和解法创新。Use when user shares a paper and wants to understand its intellectual lineage, citation chain, problem evolution, or says '倒读', '论文溯源', '论文脉络', 'paper river', 'paper connects', 'trace back', '这篇论文的来龙去脉', '论文演化'. Also trigger when user wants to understand how a research problem evolved across multiple papers.
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eunomia-bpf Skill Blog Writing StyleDefine the finished prose style for English and Chinese eunomia.dev blog posts and Research pages. Use when writing or reviewing reader comfort, natural rhythm, technical tone, research readability, and recurring sentence-level AI tells. This skill does not choose the topic or evidence.
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irfad7 Skill Session ReviewWhen ending a work session and wanting to capture what was accomplished, what was learned, and what to do next. Use when the user says "session review," "what did we do," "wrap up," "summarize session," "weekly review," "retrospective," "what happened today," "debrief," or at natural session endings. Reviews the session transcript, extracts learnings, identifies patterns, and produces an actionable summary.
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wandb Bundle Bootstrap TargetCreate or improve a Senpai target repository's program.md. Use this skill whenever the user wants to point Senpai at a fresh ML or research target repository, define the research objective, primary metric, benchmark contract, allowed edit boundaries, W&B reporting contract, or prepare a repo for autonomous advisor/student experiment loops.
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wandb Bundle Git Research LogDeveloper reference for Senpai's retired direct-GitHub experiment logging workflow. Use only when auditing or migrating legacy research tracks.
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wandb Skill List ExperimentsOperator-side inventory of experiment PRs for auditing a Senpai research track. It outputs merged winners, a compact results table, and full details for deep dives.
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wandb Bundle Analyze ExperimentsOperator-side analysis of historical ML experiment PRs in Senpai research tracks. Use this skill whenever the user asks to: analyze experiments, categorize PRs, bucket experiments, summarize what's been tried, understand experiment history, review merged vs closed results, or asks "what experiments have we run / worked / failed". Also triggers for: "pull the latest experiments", "what's been tried so far", "category breakdown of PRs", "which experiments succeeded", "noam track analysis". When a branch name is mentioned (e.g. "noam branch", "on the noam branch"), pass it as the base branch to scope the fetch to just those PRs.
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eidoselegia Skill Fact Judgment SeparationForces every substantive output to separate verifiable facts (sourced, dated) from probabilistic judgments (confidence attached), with a standing black-swan clause for predictions in fast-moving domains. Use for research summaries, recommendations, forecasts, market estimates, and any answer the user will act on — especially where fluent prose could disguise guesses as knowledge. Trigger whenever an output mixes what is known with what is believed.
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eprouveze Bundle PlanResearch-first planning for any non-trivial task. Spawns parallel sub-agents to explore the codebase, checks past solutions and decisions, asks clarifying questions, then produces a structured plan stored in docs/plans/. Use when starting any non-trivial task: "plan this feature", "how should we approach...", "let's think through...", or before any multi-file change. Do NOT use for trivial single-file edits or questions that need no planning.
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fedec65 Skill Legal WayfinderDecision-map decomposition for legal matters too big or too foggy for one session. Charts a map (destination, decisions so far, fog, out-of-scope) plus decision tickets under bcc-output/YYYY-MM-DD-<slug>/wayfinder/, then works tickets one at a time until the route to the deliverable is clear, then hands off to execution. Trigger when: charting a big legal matter (/legal-chart), working the next decision ticket (/legal-way), or a briefing is too foggy for a static execution plan. Do NOT trigger for: normal matters that fit /briefing or /legal-5step, quality-gate loops (legal-goal / legal-loop), or single-question research.
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fedec65 Bundle Legal ChronologyLegal chronology builder — turns case documents (contracts, correspondence, court filings, expert reports) into a sourced legal timeline. Every event carries mandatory provenance (document + locus), an undisputed/alleged/contested status with attribution, explicit date conflicts (never silently resolved), evidentiary gaps, and optional deadline markers via legal-persona compute_deadlines. Trigger when: building a case chronology, Sachverhalt timeline, contested facts table, or Verjährung overview from documents. Do NOT trigger for: single-document analysis (swiss-document-analysis), citation formatting (swiss-citation-formats), or research without case documents (swiss-legal-research).
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fedec65 Skill Adversarial AnalysisAdversarial stress test — three agents (Advocate FOR, Adversary AGAINST, Judicial synthesis with probability). Trigger when: user wants to stress-test a position, check weaknesses before filing, or requests adversarial review. Also option '4' in /legal menu. Do NOT trigger for: initial research (swiss-legal-research), strategy (swiss-legal-strategy), or drafting — this is a quality layer, not first-pass analysis.
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harshitsinghbhandari Skill Pr LearningExtract actionable learnings from merged PRs by comparing initial submission vs final merged state. Analyzes review cycles to capture what changed and why. Use when the user says "learn from PR", "extract PR learnings", "what did we learn from this PR", or wants to build a knowledge base from merged PRs.
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lazyagi Skill Deep ResearchUse only when the user explicitly requests comprehensive multi-source research, such as "research X", "deep dive into X", "comprehensive review of X", "systematic comparison between X and Y", "investigate the landscape of X", or Chinese equivalents like "调研一下X", "深入研究X", "全面对比X与Y", "X的详细综述", "深度调查X". Do NOT trigger for simple questions, how-to guidance, ordinary recommendations, or content creation merely because research could improve the answer. Follow the source priorities supplied by the system and the user.
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lazyagi Bundle Structured Longform WritingUse for structured long-form writing, including blogs, reports, proposals, plans, PRDs, competitive analyses, research summaries, technical design docs, internal briefings, and decision documents. Trigger when the user asks to write, draft, expand, organize, polish into, or turn rough notes, attachments, webpages, knowledge-base results, or gathered materials into a complete long-form document. Do not use for simple rewriting, one-paragraph summaries, title brainstorming, short messages, translation-only tasks, or purely creative fiction. 来源:千问办公,经 LazyMind 适配。
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av Bundle Timeframe ResearchBuild a timeframe-bounded research dossier by decomposing a topic into year orchestrators and month-level research passes that each write one condensed paragraph plus sources directly into a target file. Use when the user asks for a dossier, timeline, chronology, release history, or month-by-month research bounded by specific years or months. Not for timeless explainers or single-document summaries with no temporal scope.
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tsaol Skill Hottrend Series PlanPlan a series of hottrend articles. Interactive discussion to research topic, propose structure, and generate plan.md. Phase A of the series workflow.
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rshawn0307-maker Bundle Darwin SkillDarwin Skill 2.0 (达尔文.skill 2.0): autonomous skill optimizer, v2.0 integrates Microsoft Research SkillLens (arXiv 2605.23899) 9-dim rubric + SkillOpt (arXiv 2605.23904) validation-gated design + human-in-the-loop checkpoints. Evaluates SKILL.md files using a 9-dimension rubric (structure + effectiveness + meta-skill blacklists), runs hill-climbing with git version control, spawns independent judge agents for blind evaluation, validates improvements through test prompts with auto-break on diminishing returns, and generates visual result cards. Use when user mentions "优化skill", "skill评分", "自动优化", "auto optimize", "skill质量检查", "达尔文", "darwin", "帮我改改skill", "skill怎么样", "提升skill质量", "skill review", "skill打分".
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rshawn0307-maker Bundle Knowledge BaseKnowledge Base (知识库)
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yusong-enceladus Skill Idea CreatorGenerate and rank research ideas given a broad direction. Use when user says "找idea", "brainstorm ideas", "generate research ideas", "what can we work on", or wants to explore a research area for publishable directions.
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yusong-enceladus Skill Research LitSearch and analyze research papers, find related work, summarize key ideas. Use when user says "find papers", "related work", "literature review", "what does this paper say", or needs to understand academic papers.
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yusong-enceladus Bundle Idea ValidationValidate a research idea BEFORE implementation. Tests core assumptions with minimal experiments. Kills bad ideas in hours, not weeks. MANDATORY before any implementation work begins.
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gyjiang Bundle Multi SearchIntelligent multi-topic deep research tool supporting arbitrary material input, using independent research agents for parallel deep retrieval and systematic research document generation. Use this skill when users need to deeply research multiple related topics, conduct systematic information retrieval, or integrate multi-perspective analysis.
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iansteitz1-eng Bundle Video IngestPull metadata + transcript from any YouTube, Instagram, X/Twitter, TikTok, Vimeo, or other yt-dlp-supported video URL so Claude can actually "watch" it. Use when the user pastes a video link and asks "watch this", "what's this video about", "summarize this", "let's talk about this video", or any time a URL points at video content. First tries subtitles (fast, no GPU). Optional `--whisper` fallback transcribes audio locally via faster-whisper.
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kangwang42 Bundle Section Special为本仓库新建、重写或审校跨领域特殊应用教程,包括卫生经济学、质性研究、信号处理、环境流行病学、计算模拟及其他专业方法。适用于 `doc/60xx-*.rmd`、`doc/60xx-*.qmd` 与特殊应用栏目;先用 `tutorial-authoring`,再按领域调用 `evidence-research`、对应分析 skill 和视觉 skill。不用于把未经验证的跨领域方法直接包装为推荐方案。
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kangwang42 Bundle Section Statistics为本仓库新建、重写或审校统计方法教程,包括回归、生存、缺失数据、因果推断、多重检验、样本量和高级模型。适用于 `doc/10xx-*.rmd`、`doc/11xx-*.rmd` 及统计分析方法栏目;先用 `tutorial-authoring`,再按需使用 `biostat-principles`、`evidence-research`、`r-biostats` 和 `publication-figures`。不用于仅执行一个现成分析或仅制作图形。
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 kernel-subsystem-guides, communication-writing, communication-method-router. 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.