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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mancerayder42 Skill Research NotebookDeep research on any topic via the NotebookLM CLI. Use whenever the user requests research on a topic, in any project, in any language. Triggers on phrases like "research this", "deep dive on", "do research on", "dig into", "find out about", "investigate", "look into", "research X for me". Creates or reuses a NotebookLM notebook, ingests 5–10 fresh sources, asks structured questions, and returns a cited synthesis. For multi-faceted topics, signals the main thread to fan out parallel sub-agents (web + hub + qmd) alongside.
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the-focus-ai Bundle Focus AI BrandApply Focus.AI brand guidelines to documents, presentations, websites, and other materials. Supports two sub-brands - Focus.AI Client (services, proposals, client work) and Focus.AI Labs (research, experiments, public content). Use when creating branded materials, applying visual identity, or generating content that needs to follow Focus.AI style. Trigger on "focus.ai style", "focus brand", "labs style", or requests for branded Focus.AI materials.
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the-focus-ai Bundle Research MethodologyThis skill should be used when the user asks about "how to research", "research best practices", "evaluate sources", "source credibility", "academic research", "find reliable information", "cite sources", "research methodology", or needs guidance on conducting thorough web research and evaluating information quality.
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abdurshd Bundle Genvid TutorCreate complete narrated teaching videos for any topic using Remotion, including lesson design, accurate research, animated explanations, diagrams, examples, synchronized TTS voiceover, captions, visual QA, and final MP4 rendering. Use for educational explainers, concept lessons, course segments, worked examples, training videos, or animated tutorials that are not necessarily tied to a software product.
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anilcancakir Bundle ResearchComprehensive business research for market analysis, competitor intelligence, trend detection, and idea validation. Triggers on research requests, market sizing questions, competitor analysis needs, idea validation, TAM/SAM/SOM calculations, SWOT analysis, and timing assessments. Use when building business cases, evaluating opportunities, or validating product ideas.
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eunomia-bpf Bundle Check Paper CitationsVerify every citation in a paper is real, accurate, and correctly used. Downloads PDFs, reads abstracts, checks claims against source text, flags AI-hallucinated references, identifies uncited claims, and maintains structured annotations in the .bib file. Use when the user says "check citations", "verify references", "are these citations real", or when iter-refine-writing finds unannotated bib entries. Also use before submission as a final citation gate.
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eunomia-bpf Bundle Research Experiment DesignSelect, plan, review, execute, and interpret the highest-paper-value real experiment for one hypothesis within a paper-level research question. Use for experiment selection, baseline/workload/metric choice, crowded-run consolidation, real preflight, full execution, result review, or an orchestrated EXPERIMENT gate. Reject redundant, weak, proxy-only, or dependency-only work as standalone paper experiments; in full-loop mode, continue an admitted experiment through real execution and result review.
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eunomia-bpf Bundle Research Literature NoveltyBuild a claim-oriented literature and novelty map for a research project. Use when searching related work, checking closest prior work, identifying same-claim risk, choosing baselines, summarizing papers for a top-conference framing, downloading/organizing reference PDFs, or updating docs/background-related-work.md. Applies across systems, ML, agents, measurement, infrastructure, and empirical research.
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grandcamel Bundle Jira Service ManagementComplete ITSM/ITIL workflow support for JSM - service desks, requests, SLAs, customers, approvals, knowledge base. Use when managing service desk requests, tracking SLAs, or handling customer operations.
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kevmoo Bundle Quick QuestionProvide ultra-concise, direct technical answers and rapid clarifications without heavy overhead, deep research loops, or artifact generation. (Triggers on "quick question" or "qq")
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kimsanguine Bundle Plan Customer ReachPlan consent-aware customer research recruitment and draft-only outreach without sending messages. Use when defining interview segments, recruiting participants, selecting channels, or preparing 고객 인터뷰 대상자·모집·컨택 초안. Do not use for sending the outreach, running the interview, or synthesizing completed transcripts.
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kimsanguine Bundle Triage Customer SignalsClassify and safely route verified, redacted customer events into human-reviewed signals, risk queues, themes, and optional Switch-style Four Forces tags. Use when CS/VOC problem triage(고객 신호 분류, CS 이슈 분류) begins after provider verification and canonical identity are complete. Do not use for webhook authentication, connector setup, research-participant recruiting, or outbound replies.
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kimsanguine Bundle Connect Customer ChannelsCreate, diagnose, verify, normalize, reconcile, and prepare draft-only replies for customer-channel integrations, especially Korean CS channels. Use when 카카오톡 채널 챗봇 연동, CS 채널 연결·점검, or 웹훅/커넥터 상태 확인이 필요하거나, setting up or creating a Kakao Channel chatbot through Kakao i Open Builder (channel, bot, blocks, skill server registration) before it exists; working with an existing Kakao Channel chatbot, Naver TalkTalk, Channel Talk, Happytalk, Kakao Channel 1:1 chat, Kakao ConsultTalk or AlimTalk through an approved provider; validating skill requests, webhooks, backfills, delivery states, or connector health; creating channel connection, CS event, delivery, reply-draft, or connector-state artifacts; or handing normalized events to triage-customer-signals. Default to dry-run, read-only, and draft-only. Do not use for classifying signal themes, recruiting research participants, or sending any live message.
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kunbo928 Skill K Research针对有界问题调研一手证据,不扩大实现授权。
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llopresto87 Skill From Scratch BootstrapStand up a brand-new project from an empty (or near-empty) repo through the nine-phase from-scratch protocol — brainstorm, skeleton, grill, research, architecture, verification baseline, specify first slice, test-first the first slice, deliver. Use whenever a project does not yet exist, the repo is empty, no docs/graph/plans/grill.md exists, or you are about to write `mkdir my-project && cd`. The first day disproportionately shapes the project; this skill prevents skipping the load-bearing steps.
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martinffx Bundle Spec PlanWrite approved implementation plans in one of two modes. Explicit Inline mode creates a conversational plan for bounded work. Spec-backed Plan converts an approved design.md into plan.json. Both modes stop after producing their plan output. Trigger after atelier-orchestrator selects a mode, when the user asks to plan work, or after spec-brainstorm completes. Direct invocation without a selected mode uses Spec-backed Plan. Do NOT use for research or execution.
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milkywayrules Skill Dio Summarize Only The Deltas Since Last CheckpointIncremental recap of what changed since the last status or decision checkpoint.
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benjaminshoemaker Skill Work StatusSummarize all possible work across features, bugs, next steps, deferred items, and archived/completed work. Use when the user asks what can be worked on next or asks for status across work tracking files.
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biyearly-mesothelioma790 Bundle Podcast Publishing AssistantTranscribe long-form audio, YouTube videos, podcasts, interviews, or panels; summarize them; extract chapter markers; and draft publishing assets like titles, YouTube descriptions, show notes, and tweet/X copy. Use when a user shares a YouTube link or audio/video file and asks for transcription, diarization, summaries with timestamps, chapter markers, show notes, titles, descriptions, promo copy, or social posts. Especially use for Whisper-based workflows, source-audio-first podcast processing, and any request to turn a recorded conversation into publishable assets.
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blazemeter Bundle Summarize PrSummarize a GitHub pull request — purpose, key changes, review state, CI status, and outstanding blockers. Use when the user pastes a PR URL (github.com/<org>/<repo>/pull/<n>), references a PR by number (e.g. "PR
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geoly-ai Bundle Geo Content OptimizerRewrite and restructure content to maximize AI citation rates across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Google AI. Optimizes articles, product pages, landing pages, and FAQs for GEO (Generative Engine Optimization). Use whenever the user mentions optimizing content for AI search, rewriting for AI citations, making content GEO-friendly, improving AI visibility, or wants their content to appear in ChatGPT/Claude/Perplexity answers. Also trigger for requests about citation optimization, AI-readable content structure, or fixing content that AI isn't citing.
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geoly-ai Bundle Geo Multilingual OptimizerMultilingual GEO content adaptation and alignment orchestrator. Use this skill whenever the user mentions translating, localizing, or adapting GEO-focused content across multiple languages or regions, wants AI models to consistently cite the same brand or page in different languages, or needs to diagnose why non-English AI answers diverge from their canonical English (or other source-language) content. Always consider this skill when GEO and AI citation goals explicitly involve more than one language, locale, or market.
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citrus-bit Skill Deep ResearchUse this skill for general web research that needs current online information, multiple source angles, and synthesis, when no more specific research skill applies. Prefer academic-deep-research for scholarly literature, github-deep-research for GitHub/open-source repositories, and consulting-analysis for consulting-grade market or industry reports.
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citrus-bit Skill Academic Deep ResearchUse this skill for academic reports, literature reviews, experiment reports, user-selected reference styles, innovation-point mining, or when the user wants a topic turned into a paper-backed evidence bundle instead of generic web research.
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citrus-bit Skill Empirical Research MethodsUse this skill for empirical social-science research, applied economics, public policy, education, finance, management, sociology, psychology, epidemiology, or public-health data studies. It routes DID, staggered DID, IV, RDD, PSM/IPW, synthetic control, DML, causal forest, panel regression, event studies, target-trial emulation, TMLE, survival analysis, Table 1, robustness checks, heterogeneity, mechanisms, replication packages, and journal-style empirical paper outputs into MedrixFlow's research quest and experiment_lab workflows.
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raphaeldkhn Skill MemoDraft top-down artifacts — a written memo articulating how the world changes and why the user is uniquely positioned to catalyze it. Forces TAM analysis, market players comparison, failed-founder research, market-share revenue math. The audience is the user's future self at 5 years, not investors. Refuses to proceed without hypothesis.md. Use when asked to "write a memo", "thesis memo", "worldbuilder memo", "write my thesis", "what's my argument", "draft the top-down", or "articulate my bet". Proactively invoke this skill (do NOT answer directly) when the user has a hypothesis but no written argument for why this bet is worth 5-10 years of their life. Use after /hypothesis, pairs with /demo. (worldbuilder)
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raphaeldkhn Skill Mom TestCustomer interview skill using Rob Fitzpatrick's Mom Test principles. Generates question lists grounded in past behavior (not future intent), bias-checks them (removes pitchy and leading questions), preps debriefs. The only worldbuilder skill that forces the user out of the chat and into the world. Use when asked to "customer interviews", "talk to users", "mom test", "interview questions", "user research", "who should I talk to", "how do I interview", or "validate with users". Proactively invoke this skill (do NOT answer directly) when the user wants to test a hypothesis with real humans, OR when the research-trap check is firing because the user hasn't talked to a human in days. Use after /hypothesis. (worldbuilder)
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romeerez Bundle ResearchUse when the user prompts "research".
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samgalanakis Skill MoonshotPush a feature past the conventional default: strip it to first principles, ask what world-class looks like for the underlying problem, hunt the frontier wherever it lives (research, other industries, legendary implementations, adjacent fields), and return ranked, implementable techniques the project has left untapped. Use when the user wants a feature to feel special instead of like every other app, asks 'what would the best version of this look like', or wants out-of-the-box approaches mined for a practical problem.
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schub-tech Skill Find GapsSurface research gaps in the wiki and propose a plan to fill them. Reads an idea overview's "Still to validate" lines, "What we do not know" entries, and "Next moves," then proposes targeted research questions tagged by strategy (ask the user, do web research, or both). Use when the user wants to find gaps, deepen an idea, or says "what should I research next" / "what's missing" / "find gaps". For executing web research on a specific question, use `/research-deep` instead.
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schub-tech Skill Research DeepExecute web research on specific questions and write findings to Notion `raw/<idea-slug>/` or `raw/shared/` as new raw source pages. Use after `/find-gaps` produces a confirmed plan, or when the user gives a direct research question (e.g. "research X" / "find me data on Y" / "look up Z").
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takleb3rry Skill Ideation ResearchDeep market research and assumption mapping - second step in the ideation sequence
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tenstorrent Skill Analyze NightlyAnalyze a GitHub Actions run and summarize failures
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vamdawn Bundle E2e Run运行当前项目的 e2e 资产,保存执行结果,并输出问题分析与后续建议。Use when the user asks to run e2e tests, execute Playwright/Cypress cases, validate an existing e2e spec against a running service, save test results, investigate e2e failures, or summarize end-to-end execution evidence. 触发词:运行 e2e、执行端到端测试、跑 Playwright、跑 Cypress、验证 e2e 用例、保存测试结果、分析 e2e 失败。
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vamdawn Bundle Session Summary分析当前会话内容并按固定格式生成结构化摘要,输出基本信息、会话概要与逐轮明细。触发词:'总结这次会话'、'summarize this session'、'会话总结'、'session summary'、'总结一下'、'生成会话摘要'、'记录本次会话'。
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vamdawn Bundle Content SummarizerFetch, analyze, and summarize web content into structured Obsidian notes. Supports articles, GitHub repositories, and Reddit/HN/Twitter threads. Automatically detects URL type and selects the appropriate fetcher strategy and note template. Triggers include requests like 'summarize this article', 'take notes on this', 'save this repo', 'summarize this thread', or any URL-based request intended to be saved as an Obsidian note.
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-notebook, focus-ai-brand, research-methodology. 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.