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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tranz007 Skill ClearRewrite UX, product, research, handoff, ticket, or engineering-facing content so it reads like a capable human practitioner wrote it. Use when generated or existing content is bloated, robotic, unclear, over-structured, audience-blind, or sounds like AI while preserving meaning, evidence strength, and uncertainty.
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tranz007 Skill User GroundingGround UX work in actual users and evidence when who the design is for, their goals or context, or the strength of user knowledge is materially uncertain. Use when a designer asks who this is for, whether personas are useful, what research is needed, what existing research says, or when a decision depends on unsupported assumptions about users. Do not activate merely because a UX task involves users when the audience and need are already clear.
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abouchard11 Skill Geo CrawlThin pointer to the ReadableByAI GEO crawl probe — whether AI crawlers can reach, fetch, and read a site before any citation work. Does not reimplement the probe.
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aizech Bundle Research SynthesisMedical literature synthesis, evidence grading, systematic review methodology, and clinical research interpretation
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ajbarea Bundle PaperUse when starting or scaffolding a new research paper in a papers-style monorepo (a repo of LaTeX paper directories that share one bibliography). Triggers include "scaffold a paper", "start a new paper", "set up a paper dir", "new paper from <repo>", "add a paper to papers/".
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ricardo-vae Skill Research Task Executor仅当用户精确输入'科研启动-执行'这六个字时才触发此 skill。不要在其他任何情况下触发,包括'开始做'、'执行任务'、'帮我实现'等类似说法都不应触发。必须是精确的'科研启动-执行'才可以激活。
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ricardo-vae Skill Research Progress Tracker仅当用户精确输入'科研启动'这四个字时才触发此 skill。不要在其他任何情况下触发,包括'开始写代码'、'继续科研'、'开始工作'、'写代码'等类似说法都不应触发。必须是精确的'科研启动'四个字才可以激活。
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ricardo-vae Skill Research Algorithm Checker仅当用户精确输入'科研启动-检查'这六个字时才触发此 skill。不要在其他任何情况下触发,包括'检查代码'、'检查算法'、'查bug'、'代码审查'等类似说法都不应触发。必须是精确的'科研启动-检查'才可以激活。
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ricardo-vae Bundle Awesome AI Research WritingReference skill wrapper around the awesome-ai-research-writing repository. Use when exploring research-writing workflows, paper-writing agents, and related tooling collected in the upstream README.
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pipixia-labs Skill SummarizeSummarize web pages, search results, or local text files into concise takeaways using the current built-in tools.
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pipixia-labs Skill Web ResearchResearch a topic on the web using search and fetch tools, then return grounded findings.
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automatewithuday Skill Icp Matrix BuilderBuild comprehensive Ideal Customer Profile matrices that define exactly who to target. Tiering frameworks, scoring models, and segmentation strategies for precision outbound.
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automatewithuday Skill Persona DevelopmentBuild detailed buyer personas grounded in real data, not assumptions. Pain mapping, motivation frameworks, and messaging architecture for each persona in your ICP.
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automatewithuday Skill Account QualificationSystematically evaluate whether a target account is worth pursuing. Scoring frameworks, qualification criteria, and prioritization models that prevent wasted outreach on bad-fit prospects.
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bactopia Bundle Bump VersionsPropagate the Bactopia and nf-bactopia versions declared in versions.yml into the hand-maintained files that carry a literal version (conf/test_base.config, CITATION.cff, bin/bactopia, data/conda/meta.yaml). Use this whenever the user has edited versions.yml and wants the rest of the repo brought in line, or asks to bump the version, set the release version, propagate versions.yml, sync version-bearing files, fix a V001 version-consistency failure, or prepare version files for a release. This never edits versions.yml itself and never regenerates the templated artifacts (nextflow.config, catalog.json) — it hands those off to /merge-schemas and /update-catalog.
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badmuriss Bundle ResearchResearch external questions and compare evidence with source attribution. Use for research or fact-checking, not facts already established in local code.
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bogdanbaciu21 Skill X Signal ResearchResearch X/Twitter public conversation signals with Xquik. Use when the user asks to inspect tweets, accounts, launch feedback, competitor mentions, user pain, market chatter, or source evidence from X/Twitter and wants a bounded research brief rather than posting, monitoring, or bulk exporting.
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pivyme Bundle Defillama SuiResearch Sui DeFi TVL, protocols, and yield via DefiLlama. Use when the user wants Sui DeFi data, TVL, or protocol research.
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pivyme Bundle Walrus ResearchResearch Walrus storage usage patterns and product opportunities. Use when the user wants Walrus research, market gaps, or storage opportunities.
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pivyme Bundle Overflow CopilotResearch past Sui Overflow hackathon projects, winners, and gaps. Use when the user wants past Overflow research, winners, or hackathon archive.
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pivyme Bundle Deepbook ResearchResearch DeepBook trading data and market gaps on Sui. Use when the user wants DeepBook research, market opportunities, or underserved pairs.
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eturkes Bundle Research GrantsWrite competitive research proposals for NSF, NIH, DOE, DARPA, and Taiwan NSTC. Agency-specific formatting, review criteria, budget preparation, broader impacts, significance statements, innovation narratives, and compliance with submission requirements.
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eturkes Bundle Venue TemplatesAccess comprehensive LaTeX templates, formatting requirements, and submission guidelines for major scientific publication venues (Nature, Science, PLOS, IEEE, ACM), academic conferences (NeurIPS, ICML, CVPR, CHI), research posters, and grant proposals (NSF, NIH, DOE, DARPA). This skill should be used when preparing manuscripts for journal submission, conference papers, research posters, or grant proposals and need venue-specific formatting requirements and templates.
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eturkes Bundle Citation ManagementComprehensive citation management for academic research. Search Google Scholar and PubMed for papers, extract accurate metadata, validate citations, and generate properly formatted BibTeX entries. This skill should be used when you need to find papers, verify citation information, convert DOIs to BibTeX, or ensure reference accuracy in scientific writing.
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eturkes Bundle Statistical AnalysisGuided statistical analysis with test selection and reporting. Use when you need help choosing appropriate tests for your data, assumption checking, power analysis, and APA-formatted results. Best for academic research reporting, test selection guidance. For implementing specific models programmatically use statsmodels.
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ecnu-icalk Bundle Academic SearchSearch academic literature across major scholarly sources and return a fast, ranked Top 5 with publication-status checks and bibliographic metadata.
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ecnu-icalk Bundle Trace CitationsTrace the citation neighborhood around one focal paper into foundations, descendants, bridges, weak edges, and optional second-hop links
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specscore Skill SurveyProduces a fast architecture survey for an existing codebase without reading source implementation files. Scans the file tree, reads only allowlisted structural manifests, writes JSON-first survey artifacts under spec/research/, and stages the results. Use before retrofit or when the user wants a cheap architecture overview of an existing repo. Trigger: "specstudio:survey", "/survey", "/specstudio:survey", "survey this repo", "architecture survey", "map this repo".
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dotcms Skill Dot Pr Spec SummarySummarize a spec PR (or any spec document) in simple words — proposed fix, scope, implications, and test coverage — so a reviewer can decide whether to approve without reading the full spec. Use when the user shares a PR URL/number or a spec document and asks to review, summarize, or understand it. Typical input is a Spec-Kit "PR 1 of 2" carrying a spec.md. Works in English and Spanish.
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compozy Bundle KbComprehensive skill for the `kb` CLI and the Karpathy Knowledge Base pattern. Covers the full KB lifecycle — topic scaffolding, multi-source ingestion (URLs, files, YouTube videos and channels, Instagram reels, bookmarks, codebases), wiki article compilation, cross-article querying with file-back, lint-and-heal passes, QMD indexing, and hybrid search. Also covers the OKF (Open Knowledge Format) dual-mode lifecycle: per-topic `mode: wiki|okf`, scaffolding portable OKF bundles, promoting compiled wiki concepts into a typed catalog with `kb promote`, the four-producer-field + relative-link contract, a local concept-type vocabulary, and OKF v0.1 conformance checking with `kb okf check`. Also covers codebase-specific analysis via inspect commands for complexity, coupling, blast radius, dead code, circular dependencies, symbol/file lookups, backlinks, and code smells. Use when working with kb CLI commands, knowledge base workflows, code vault generation, code graph analysis, code metrics inspection, wiki compilatio
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compozy Bundle Kb Yt ChannelCreates and maintains Knowledge Base topics from YouTube channels by scaffolding a yt-channels topic, bulk-ingesting transcripts through kb ingest channel, and validating/indexing the result. Use when turning a YouTube channel into a Karpathy KB topic. Do not use for single-video ingestion, general video summaries, or non-YouTube sources.
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tuesd4y Bundle Planning With FilesManus-style persistent file-based planning for AI coding agents: keeps task_plan.md, findings.md, and progress.md on disk so work survives context loss and /clear. Use when asked to plan out, break down, or organize a multi-step project, research task, or any work requiring 5+ tool calls. Supports automatic session recovery after /clear.
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tuesd4y Bundle Pi Planning With FilesManus-style persistent file-based planning for AI coding agents: keeps task_plan.md, findings.md, and progress.md on disk so work survives context loss and /clear. Use when asked to plan out, break down, or organize a multi-step project, research task, or any work requiring 5+ tool calls. Supports automatic session recovery after /clear.
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cassioroos Bundle MorpheusSecond opinion and final verdict for engineering decisions. Challenges a plan, design, PR, claim, fix, or bug theory with cited evidence, steelmans the user's position first, asks when an assumption would flip the verdict, labels how each claim is known, and always lands on a verdict or a recommended option with tradeoffs. Use when the user says "challenge this", "review this", "poke holes", "stress test", "call my bullshit", "second opinion", "should I", "give me options", "what do you think", or when the orchestrator holds a non-trivial recommendation and wants pushback before committing. Includes focused troubleshooting and research guidance; deployment watches are explicit-only. Not for formatting or trivia.
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cassioroos Skill Spec Adr BuilderGenerate or review technical specs and Architecture Decision Records. Use when the user asks for specs, ADRs, RFCs, design docs, decision records, technical requirements, non-goals, alternatives, rollout, or rollback documents. For user-research requirements elicitation use user-research.
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reggiechan74 Skill Cam ExplainUse when the user asks why a tenant was charged a particular amount, how a specific GL line flowed through the reconciliation, or wants a drill-in explanation from an allocated manifest using the citation graph.
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 clear, user-grounding, geo-crawl. 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.