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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yelban Bundle Ljg Paper River論文倒讀法:給一篇論文,遞迴找出它批判和改進的前序論文(最多5層),再找它之後的最新進展,從源頭正向講述問題演化史。以問題為軸,費曼式講解每篇論文看到的問題和解法創新。Use when user shares a paper and wants to understand its intellectual lineage, citation chain, problem evolution, or says '倒讀', '論文溯源', '論文脈絡', 'paper river', 'paper connects', 'trace back', '這篇論文的來龍去脈', '論文演化'. Also trigger when user wants to understand how a research problem evolved across multiple papers.
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elisaterumi-ai Skill Web ResearcherPerforms structured research and synthesizes information. Use when researching topics.
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ruiyongwang Bundle Knowledge BaseKnowledge Base (知识库)
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oxi-717 Bundle NotebooklmUse this skill to query your Google NotebookLM notebooks directly from Claude Code for source-grounded, citation-backed answers from Gemini. Browser automation, library management, persistent auth. Drastically reduced hallucinations through document-only responses.
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maxedapps Bundle Use Pi SubagentsPi-specific launcher for bounded scout, research, and worker agents via the Pi RPC script adapter. Use this skill when on Pi, native `subagent_*` tools are inactive, and you need to launch, follow up, status, stop, or clean RPC children. Apply together with `use-subagents` policy (delegation, isolation, verify, cleanup). Do not use when a native subagent runtime should own the lane, for recursive delegation, ordinary background processes, or automatic Git/worktree management.
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motion-creative Skill Audience ResearchDefine audiences from tensions, mine customer reviews for real language, or analyze competitive creative for strategic signals. Covers tension-based audience mapping, 5-bucket review extraction, and competitive inspo research.
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mrpaulscrivens Skill Boring Youtube MiningPull recent YouTube transcripts from pre-selected channels and generate topic ideas from them. Use when someone says "mine YouTube", "find video ideas", "what are creators talking about", "YouTube research", "transcript ideas", "content mining", "what should I talk about", "topic ideas from YouTube", or wants to turn other creators' videos into their own content angles. World Code integrated — ideas map to your Bridge when available.
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myclaude-sh Skill ScoutResearch a domain before building products. Tests Claude's baseline knowledge, identifies gaps, scans the marketplace, runs deep research, and recommends the optimal product setup. Use when: 'scout', 'research domain', 'what should I build for', 'analyze domain', or before /create for any non-trivial product.
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myclaude-sh Skill ExploreSearch the marketplace, analyze competition, discover gaps, and find inspiration. Use when: 'explore', 'search marketplace', 'what exists for', 'competitors', 'market gap', 'trending', or before browsing the marketplace. For domain research with build recommendations, use /scout instead.
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nerymurillohnd Bundle Live ResearchVerify time-sensitive and change-sensitive claims with current authoritative sources. Use for current facts about software, APIs, integrations, regulations, statistics, people, products, compatibility, prices, schedules, or news, even when the user does not explicitly ask to browse.
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nguyenvanphituoc Skill CoachUse this skill to turn raw Product Owner / Tech Lead feedback at the Ship Sign-off (L4 Gate) into structured, team-shared guidelines that future harness runs read back. Triggers on: "coach this feedback", "record this for next sprint", "update the knowledge base", "RLHF the harness", and Vietnamese "ghi lại cho sprint sau", "cập nhật knowledge base". tech-lead invokes it automatically at GATE L4 when the PO gives substantive feedback instead of a bare 'y'. NOT for grading work (spec-evaluator), fixing bugs (task-executor), or filing discovered tasks (the ledger).
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leta-tech Skill Mellions FalsificationLoad this before a test, a mutation, a revert arm or a green run is cited as proof that a fix holds — and again before writing "falsified" in a pull request. Triggers — "prove it holds", "falsify", "neutralise the fix", "watch it fail", "the test passes", "is the test real", "mutation", "revert arm", "the suite is green", "proof section". Not for deciding what to do with the result (mellions-reasoning) or for establishing what is true in the first place (mellions-deep-research).
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aidenlx Bundle Zotlit CitationsAnswer citation questions about an Obsidian vault through ZotLit: which notes cite a work, what a document cites, and why a citation is broken. Use whenever a user asks who cites something, what a note references, where a work is discussed, or why a citation does not resolve.
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jasonkneen Skill Incident Alert TicketsRead and record root causes in the Linear `incident-alert` knowledge base. Use before and after investigating a named Datadog monitor, incident.io alert or incident, or on-call page to find or record root causes.
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tobiasblask Skill Method EngineActivate when the user needs to select, justify, describe, or execute a research methodology. Provides method selection guidance, complete method section templates, quality criteria, and tool recommendations. Covers SLR, qualitative (case study, Gioia, Mayring, Grounded Theory), quantitative (SEM, regression, survey, experiment), DSR, mixed methods, action research, ethnography, Delphi study, and simulation. Also includes Research Data Management (RDM) guidance for FAIR-compliant data handling.
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tobiasblask Skill Theory EngineActivate when the user needs to select a theoretical lens, formulate a research gap, derive hypotheses or design principles, or write a contribution statement. Provides concrete theory-to-paper templates, not abstract advice.
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tobiasblask Skill Writing EngineALWAYS activate when the user writes, drafts, or revises any part of an academic paper. This is the core skill for overcoming writer's block and producing complete first drafts. Provides concrete sentence-level templates, paragraph formulas, and section blueprints for IS/WI/BWL research papers. Works for journal papers (MISQ, BISE, EJIS), conference papers (ICIS, ECIS, WI), and working papers.
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superinstance Bundle Stock AnalysisComprehensive stock market analysis skill covering A-share (China), Hong Kong, and US equities. Priority use cases: stock analysis and buy/sell/hold recommendations by ticker code, generating decision dashboards and research reports with technical/fundamental/sentiment analysis, position-aware investment strategies based on user's cost price, dividend income scoring and safety analysis, rumor and early market signal scanning (M&A, insider activity, analyst actions), watchlist management with price target and stop-loss alerts, and K-line chart pattern recognition from images. This skill should be the primary choice whenever users mention a stock ticker, ask whether to buy or sell a stock, reference their holding cost or position, request dividend analysis, ask about market rumors or early signals, want to add/check/manage a watchlist, or upload a chart image for technical analysis.
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chriswiles Skill Wiki QueryAnswer questions by searching the compiled Obsidian wiki. Use this skill when the user asks a question about their knowledge base, wants to find information across their wiki, asks "what do I know about X", "find everything related to Y", or wants synthesized answers with citations from their wiki pages. Also use when the user wants to explore connections between topics in their wiki. Works from any project. Includes an index-only fast mode triggered by "quick answer", "just scan", "don't read the pages", "fast lookup" — returns answers from page summaries and frontmatter without reading page bodies.
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chriswiles Bundle Wiki IngestIngest documents into the Obsidian wiki by distilling their knowledge into interconnected wiki pages. Use this skill whenever the user wants to add new sources to their wiki, process a document or directory, import articles, papers, or notes into their knowledge base, or says things like "add this to the wiki", "process these docs", "ingest this folder". Also triggers when the user drops a file and wants it incorporated into their existing knowledge base. Also handles raw mode: "process my drafts", "promote my raw pages", or any reference to the _raw/ staging directory.
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chriswiles Skill Wiki StatusShow the current state of the wiki — what's been ingested, what's pending, and the delta between sources and wiki content. Use this skill when the user asks "what's the status", "how much is ingested", "what's left to process", "show me the delta", "what changed since last ingest", "wiki dashboard", or wants an overview of their knowledge base health and completeness. Also use before deciding whether to append or rebuild. Includes an insights mode triggered by "wiki insights", "what's central", "show me the hubs", "central pages", "what's connected", "wiki structure" — analyzes the shape of the wiki itself to surface top hubs, cross-domain bridges, and orphan-adjacent pages.
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chriswiles Skill Wiki UpdateSync the current project's knowledge into the Obsidian wiki. Use this skill from any project when the user says "update wiki", "sync to wiki", "save this to my wiki", "update obsidian", or wants to distill what they've been working on into their knowledge base. This is the cross-project skill that lets you push knowledge from wherever you are into the vault.
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riaomike Bundle Crypto Paper ReaderUse when deeply reading one cryptography, ZKP, or lattice paper to extract its claims, definitions, proof structure, assumptions, parameters, evidence, costs, limitations, and research implications.
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riaomike Bundle Crypto Idea EvaluatorUse when turning a cryptography, ZKP, or lattice idea into a research question, claim map, feasibility assessment, evidence plan, risk register, or go/no-go decision.
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riaomike Bundle Crypto Related Work SynthesisUse when synthesizing a verified cryptography, ZKP, or lattice paper corpus into a taxonomy, historical development, claim comparison, tradeoff map, research gaps, or related-work section evidence base.
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sagargupta16 Skill Diff ExplainUse when you want a one-paragraph plain-English summary of what a diff does. Activates on "summarize this diff", "what does this PR do", "explain this branch", or when pointed at a PR URL or local branch.
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xpozpublic Bundle Xpoz Social SearchSearch Twitter, Instagram, and Reddit posts in real time. Find social media mentions, track hashtags, discover influencers, and analyze engagement, with billions of posts indexed. Social listening, brand monitoring, and competitor research made easy for AI agents.
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xyrasinclair Skill Prove The Coverage DenominatorWhenever you are tempted to say "done", "complete", "fully reviewed", "all sources covered", or "the migration is comprehensive", force the denominator into the open first. State the full space of cases, sources, branches, or entities under discussion, then label every element. The failure it prevents: declaring exhaustiveness because the largest or easiest visible case landed while the rest of the denominator stayed implicit and therefore unjudged. Triggers on audits, corpus ingestion, test coverage, literature reviews, source enumeration, and any completeness claim that could hide an unlabeled remainder.
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adaptocms Skill Adapto Content PlanTurn research into a content slate — propose the top content directions for this cycle, work with you to pick and refine them, and produce per-piece briefs the writer executes. Schema-aware (flags when a pick needs a new content type). Writes a dated cycle plan + ledger rows; no CMS writes.
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adaptocms Skill Adapto Content ResearchResearch content opportunities for the project — web, competitors, your own URLs, and an initial keyword/intent map — using parallel researcher subagents grounded in the project brain. Proactively asks for your own data (Search Console, keyword lists). Writes a dated research dossier; no CMS writes.
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modimihir07 Bundle Research SynthesisWeb research and synthesis using agy CLI
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nulightjens Bundle Startup Naming ScorerScore and evaluate startup/company names using research-backed patterns from YC, a16z, Sequoia, and a 10K AI company study. Includes AI Slop Index, naming tests, syllable analysis, and category-specific guidance.
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poloplay0114 Skill Spec Citation> Note: every §clause number in this document (§101, §205, §300-306 …) is an **illustrative number**
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oxi-717 Bundle InfocompressorUse when the user needs to compress, condense, or summarize lengthy content while preserving ALL critical details. Triggers: "compress this", "make it shorter but keep everything", "create a cheat sheet", "dense summary", "reference format", "compact version", "information-dense". NOT for casual summaries—only when user explicitly wants maximum density with zero data loss.
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peiiii Skill Claude Content PackContent toolkit: research, writing, summarization, and insights.
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gaia-research Skill Cost MeasurementMeasure token usage and USD cost for any Skill Heaven benchmark arm, dispatched worker, or session. Use whenever reporting spend, comparing the cost of two postures, or logging session token spend. Wraps gaia-research/skill-cost, the canonical cost basis for the whole ecosystem.
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 ljg-paper-river, web-researcher, knowledge-base. 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.