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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microsoft Bundle Planning With Files**USE THIS FOR COMPLEX TASKS.** Implements Manus-style file-based planning for multi-step tasks. Creates task_plan.md, findings.md, and progress.md in .agent_cache/<task-name>/. Use when: implementing multiple APIs, refactoring modules, research tasks, or ANY task requiring >5 tool calls.
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mrhinkle Bundle Aie Social LinkedinProduce a high-quality, research-backed LinkedIn post (or short series) on any topic for any brand or person. Runs a real research phase to gather facts and citable sources, drafts using proven LinkedIn structures (strong first-line hook, skimmable body, one clear idea, concrete takeaway), enforces that every factual claim is source-backed, self-reviews against a quality rubric, and finishes with the ai-slop-killer pass. Outputs the post plus 2-3 alternative hooks. Trigger on "write a LinkedIn post," "draft a LinkedIn post about X," "turn this into a LinkedIn post," "make a LinkedIn post," "LinkedIn post from this article," or "repurpose this for LinkedIn."
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neotherapper Bundle Site IntelThis skill should be used when the user asks questions about a site that has already been analysed with site-recon — "what endpoints does X have?", "how do I query Y?", "what did we find on Z?", "load research for...", "tell me about [site]", "what auth does X use?", "give me the API for...". If a docs/sites/{slug}/research/ folder exists for the site (or a legacy docs/research/{slug}/), use this skill rather than re-analysing. Routes to the right pre-built file without re-running the full analysis.
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neotherapper Bundle Site ReconThis skill should be used when the user asks to "analyse a site", "research https://...", "map the API surface of", "find endpoints for", "what APIs does X have", "document how to extract data from", or runs /beacon:analyze. Use it even when the user just pastes a URL and says "check this out" or "look into this". Runs a 16-phase systematic investigation of a website and produces a complete persistent docs/sites/{site-slug}/research/ folder.
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neotherapper Bundle GenerateThis skill should be used when the user wants to generate, discover, or surface business ideas FROM domain/vault research — not evaluate a specific idea they already have. Trigger phrases: 'find ideas in [domain]', 'what could I build in [space]?', 'generate business ideas from [domain] research', 'what gaps exist in [market]?', '/idea-forge:generate'. Does NOT trigger for evaluating a specific idea, 'should I build X?', or 'is there a market for X?' — those go to /idea-forge:evaluate.
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deonmenezes Skill Opentradex RiskSummarize today's risk — open positions, total exposure, daily realized/unrealized P&L, and panic-cooldown status. Invoke when the user says "risk", "how am I doing today", "P&L", "daily", "blotter", or checks before a new entry.
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infranodus Skill Shopping AssistantAn intelligent shopping research assistant that helps users find the best product to buy through systematic comparison, review analysis, and value assessment. Use this skill whenever the user wants to buy something, is comparing products, asks "what should I buy", "help me choose", "best X for Y", mentions shopping, purchasing decisions, product comparisons, or needs help deciding between options. Also trigger when users mention wanting to research a product category, check reviews, or find the best deal. This skill uses web search extensively to gather real product data, ratings, reviews, and prices.
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infranodus Bundle ActionizeTurn insights, findings, or research into an actionable plan with deadlines and scheduled Telegram reminders. Collaboratively designs the plan with the user via AskUserQuestion, saves it to .plan/ in the project, sets up cron reminders via Telegram bot, and shows overdue/today tasks on session start. Use when asked to "make a plan", "actionize this", "turn this into tasks", "schedule this", "create deadlines", "track this", or "diagnose my planning". Invoke with "diagnose" argument to run planning pattern analysis (Phase 7). Proactively suggest when the user has completed research, brainstorming, or /office-hours and has a list of insights without concrete next steps. Proactively suggest "/actionize diagnose" when a plan has >30% deferred tasks.
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infranodus Skill Shifting PerspectiveAnalyze discourse structure using InfraNodus optimize_text_structure tool and shift perspective based on diversity score. Use when a conversation, text, URL, or YouTube video would benefit from additional viewpoints, when the user feels stuck in one frame of thinking, when research needs broadening, when analyzing any text for structural balance, or when the user asks to "shift perspective", "broaden the view", "what am I missing", "analyze the structure", "check for bias", "develop this further", or "give me a different angle". Also trigger when the user provides a text or URL and asks for critical analysis, development suggestions, or wants to understand what perspectives are underrepresented. Works hand-in-hand with cognitive-variability skill for state-based interventions after structural diagnosis.
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mattzcarey Skill WorkSet up a git worktree for a repo in ~/Documents/Github, branch off origin/main, research context, then plan and implement together with the user.
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waldencui Skill Pr SummaryGenerate a pull request summary for the current branch changes. Use when the user wants to create a PR description, summarize branch changes, or prepare a PR body. Triggers on requests like "summarize my changes", "write a PR description", "what changed in this branch", "/pr-summary".
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saffron-health Skill SummarizeSummarize a spec or current changes into a format suitable for sharing on Slack. Use when creating a summary for team communication.
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tzachbon Skill TourResearch any topic's history, context, decisions, and current flow, then explain it as a sourced narrative with a focused visual. Use when the user asks for a tour, historical walkthrough, evolution story, or an easier way to understand how something came to be and works now.
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tzachbon Bundle Create PlanCreate detailed, comprehensive, execution-ready plans for engineering, architecture, research, reviews, migrations, investigations, operations, strategy, decisions, and other multi-step work. Use when the user asks to create, write, improve, pressure-test, decompose, or validate a plan before execution. Research available context first, run a mandatory adaptive grilling loop to resolve consequential ambiguity, re-research evidence exposed by the grill, repeat until readiness gates pass, then produce a self-contained plan with scope, decisions, dependencies, risks, validation, acceptance criteria, and explicit skill handoffs.
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zenheart Skill SummarizeSummarize neutral fixture content into three bullet points
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alenazaharovaux Bundle PmfFull product-market fit cycle for one product — from initial hypothesis to post-launch metrics. 10 stages: setup → hypothesis (7 dimensions) → market research → risk synthesis → DVF validation → interview prep → field → interview synthesis → MVP → metrics (Sean Ellis + retention + Levels of PMF) → iterate. Resumes between sessions based on the project folder state. Bilingual (English + Russian) — picks the language during first-run setup. TRIGGER on ANY: - "do PMF for [product]" / "I need product market fit for X" / "PMF [name]" - "start PMF cycle" / "I want to go through PMF" / "help me validate [idea]" - "continue PMF" / "continue PMF [name]" - "check PMF" / "what stage is my PMF at" / "show my PMF projects" - "is my product ready to launch" - "сделай PMF для [продукта]" / "нужен product market fit для X" / "PMF [имя]" - "запусти PMF цикл" / "хочу пройти PMF" / "помоги валидировать [идею]" - "продолжаем PMF" / "продолжай PMF [имя]" - "проверь PMF" / "на каком этапе у меня PMF" / "покажи мои PMF проекты" - "
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pilastdigit Skill Trip ResearchExploratory research or spike - investigation without production code
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simonlee2 Skill Quarterly ReviewGenerate a quarterly GitHub contributions review — monthly + per-repo breakdown and synthesized accomplishment narrative. Use when asked for "quarterly review", "Q1/Q2/Q3/Q4 review", "what did I ship this quarter", or "summarize my contributions". Works across personal repos and a specified org.
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socketdev Skill Socket InspectResearch a package before you depend on it - pull every signal from Socket (scores, alerts, malware verdicts, CVEs, supply-chain risk), check the socket.dev package page, evaluate alternatives, and surface available Socket patches.
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splunk Bundle Splunk Identity Saml Readiness AdvisorResearch current public Splunk sources and use optional existing-auth read-only stack evidence to diagnose SAML, LDAP, roles, capabilities, group mappings, login failures, and access readiness without changing identity configuration or handling credentials.
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stella Bundle BasicBenign Research Notes Skill
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yologdev Skill YopediaSave research and reflections into (and recall from) your personal knowledge vault (yopedia) — your second brain
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yologdev Skill ResearchSearch and read the web (via the web_search tool) when stuck or learning something new
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yologdev Skill X ResearchRead X (Twitter) via xurl — search posts, fetch threads, read profiles, and read long-form articles
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zeerd Bundle Zclaw Web Keywords SearcherSearch web content by keywords. When user asks to search the web, find information online, look up topics, research subjects, or find websites. 基于关键词搜索网络内容。使用场景:用户要求搜索网络、在网上搜索、在网上查找、在线查找信息、查询话题、研究主题或寻找网站。
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ztemerbekov Bundle A1 Article WritingDraft or structure a new article, guide, case study, or newsletter from a topic, supplied material, or verified research when the user wants new publishable long-form work rather than edits to a selected finished draft.
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alim430 Skill Bioresearch Disease Case StudyRun a reproducible, real-public-data disease case study that composes the literature → biomarker → causal workflows end-to-end and emits a blind benchmark evaluation (known-gene recovery, pathway sanity, reproducibility hash). Use when the user wants to prove the framework on a real disease (e.g. Parkinson's GSE7621) or asks for a "case study", "validation run", or "benchmark" of the biomedical workflows.
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fusion-data-company Skill Deal MemoAssemble research into a polished investment committee memo, market study, or deal one-pager. Use when the user says "write the memo," "put together an IC memo," "make a one-pager," "turn this into a document for the committee/lenders/LPs," or wants research packaged into a deliverable.
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fusion-data-company Skill Deep ResearchGo deep on any question across many sources and return a cited, decision-ready briefing. Use when the user asks to "research," "look into," "go deep on," "find out everything about," or needs a sourced answer to a non-trivial question — markets, regulations, competitors, costs, trends, people/companies, or any topic where a single web result isn't enough.
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fusion-data-company Skill Investor SourcingResearch capital partners and LPs for a raise, and research who owns or controls a parcel or entity and how to contact them. Use when the user says "find investors," "who could fund this," "research this capital partner," "who owns this land/parcel," "who's behind this LLC," or needs investor/owner background and contact.
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ideaspaces-xyz Skill Is CaptureWrite something down so it is not lost — a decision, a finding, a piece of context worth keeping. Use when someone says write this down, note this, save this, keep this somewhere, don't let me forget, remember this, put this in my notes, or add this to the knowledge base; or when a decision has just been made that would be expensive to relitigate. Not for saving an ordinary source or config file — that is a plain file write.
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aadi-labs Bundle Agentmailer Check EmailRead, search, inspect, summarize, or triage AgentMailer email without sending or deleting messages. Use for inbox and thread review, not outbound delivery.
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markphelps Skill Vault ResearchUse when a vault note, idea, project, or topic needs external sources, competitor research, discussion evidence, or market signals
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merkyorlynn Skill Deep Research多步深度研究:自动搜索、读取、交叉验证、综合分析。当用户请求调研、研究、深度分析某个话题时使用。
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0xranx Skill MeetingMeeting notes assistant — organizes transcripts into structured minutes, extracts action items, and tracks attendee decisions. Use when the user asks to summarize a meeting, take meeting notes, write up minutes, create a meeting recap, list attendees, or extract action items from a call.
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0xranx Skill ResearcherResearch analyst in a multi-bot group chat — synthesizes background information, fact-checks claims, identifies knowledge gaps, and suggests next steps. Use when the conversation needs context, a factual claim needs verification, someone asks for background research, or a discussion lacks supporting evidence.
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 planning-with-files, aie-social-linkedin, site-intel. 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.