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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atlassian Bundle Twg Agentic SearchUse with root `twg` for deep iterative enterprise/company knowledge search and internal research with Rovo Search across connected apps/connectors including Confluence, Jira, Drive, Slack, Bitbucket, and GitHub.
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az9713 Skill X ResearchResearch topics on X by gathering and analyzing multiple posts. Use when asked to research something on Twitter/X.
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az9713 Skill Video ResearchResearch topics for video content creation. Use when researching ideas for videos.
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az9713 Skill Video UnderstandingDownload videos and transcribe their content. Use when asked to understand, summarize, or analyze a video.
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bambooxlotus Bundle Rick IntelGather research on an ADO work item — read the work item + parent epic, sweep vexis-docs and ADRs, write a per-story intel file to docs/rick/<folder>/intel/current.md. Use when the user hands you an AB number to research before planning.
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symbaiex Bundle Symbaiex Research JobsCreate and monitor bounded asynchronous research or JSONL export jobs. Use when a request needs a cited digest or downloadable public-data artifact rather than one synchronous lookup.
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serendipityoneinc Bundle Amazon AnalysisAmazon-domain general analysis and multi-endpoint research engine. Handles broad or composite Amazon research requests that span multiple data dimensions or have no single specialized angle. Use when: - user asks for multi-endpoint Amazon research, composite reports, or general Amazon market/product analysis - user asks "what kind of Amazon analysis can I run" or wants an overview of available Amazon insights - user wants broad Amazon data exploration with no single specific deliverable in mind Uses {skill_base_dir}/scripts/zoodata.py. Requires ZOODATA_API_KEY.
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serendipityoneinc Bundle Amazon Market Entry AnalyzerOne-click market viability assessment for Amazon sellers. Analyzes market size, competition intensity, brand landscape, pricing structure, and consumer pain points to deliver a GO/CAUTION/AVOID recommendation. Uses all 11 ZooData API endpoints with cross-validation for data-backed decisions. Use when user asks about: market entry, can I sell, should I enter, market viability, is this niche worth it, category analysis, market opportunity, market assessment, niche evaluation, product category research. Pick this to EVALUATE a specific niche/category the user already named (one GO/CAUTION/AVOID verdict). To discover what to sell with no target in mind, use amazon-opportunity-discoverer; to track how categories shift over time, use amazon-market-trend-scanner. Requires ZOODATA_API_KEY.
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synthos-logic Skill Civilista GiurisprudenzaRicerca e organizzazione della giurisprudenza civile italiana, ancorata alla Knowledge Base del kit (Rassegne del Massimario — Sezioni Civili). ATTIVARE SEMPRE quando l'avvocato dice: 'cerca giurisprudenza su', 'cosa dice la Cassazione civile su', 'ci sono massime su', 'trova precedenti su', 'orientamento della Cassazione in tema di', 'esiste un contrasto tra sezioni su', 'le Sezioni Unite si sono pronunciate su', 'c'e un rinvio pregiudiziale ex 363-bis su', 'cerca la massima Rv', 'trovami il numero Rv di', 'quale sezione decide di', 'giurisprudenza favorevole all'attore/al convenuto su', 'cosa dice la CGUE su clausole abusive', 'la Corte costituzionale si e pronunciata su', 'ci sono novità dalla Cassazione civile su', 'ultime massime in tema di'. Attivare anche per: costruire la sezione giurisprudenziale di una citazione, comparsa, memoria ex art. 171-ter c.p.c., ricorso monitorio o ricorso per Cassazione; verificare se un principio e consolidato, isolato o superato; individuare contrasti da segnalare; contr
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tencent-rtc Skill Trtc DocsAnswers factual, conceptual, and decision-making questions about TRTC from authoritative sources. Use when the user asks about pricing, quotas, error codes, API usage, product comparisons, migration, or how something works conceptually — in any phrasing (e.g. "how much does X cost", "多少钱", "X vs Y", "对比", "error code 6206", "错误码", "does TRTC support Y", "配额", "the correct way to use X", "X是什么", "how does X work", "migrate from V3 to V4", "迁移"). Retrieves answers from DocsBot knowledge base (fact/decision/path questions) and local knowledge-base slices (error-code / API-pattern lookups) — never training-data synthesis.
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tencent-rtc Bundle Trtc EvalEvaluates the quality of the trtc skill and its knowledge base by running AI-generated code against a curated eval set and scoring both static constraint compliance and runtime SDK behavior. Use when the user mentions 跑分, 评测, eval, benchmark, 回归, quality check, or asks to compare skill versions. Internal-only tool for TRTC knowledge maintainers.
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aaif-goose Skill Goosetown WriterSynthesizes scattered research, scratch files, and work logs into durable knowledge artifacts — GUIDES, PLANS, or research syntheses. Reads many sources, produces one coherent document. Writes incrementally with citations and proper frontmatter. Handles supersession.
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aaif-goose Skill Goosetown Researcher ArxivSearch arXiv for academic papers, preprints, and research using the arXiv API. Finds foundational research, state-of-the-art techniques, and academic context. Returns structured findings with links, abstracts, and citations.
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sendaifun Bundle Find Next Crypto IdeaInterview users sharply to discover, rank, or validate what they should build in crypto. Use when a user asks what to build in crypto, wants startup ideas in a crypto niche such as DeFi or AI x crypto, wants blunt feedback on an existing crypto idea, or wants a concrete artifact comparing the best next ideas. Treat the bundled idea datasets as inspiration, not constraints, and always combine them with fresh market research.
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srinandan Bundle ResearchGathers external market and news context to inform a potential action. Read-only — never has write access to any execution capability, and never reads the user's private financial data. Use when a proposed or candidate action needs supporting evidence, or the user asks about market conditions for a specific holding.
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srinandan Bundle Action DraftingDrafts a specific proposed trade (ticker, side, quantity, order type) via Alpaca's paper-trading drafting surface, referencing the active Investment Policy Statement. Use only after Portfolio Analysis and Research have provided sufficient context — never grants execution capability itself.
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srinandan Bundle Equity ResearchProduces a standalone, user-independent assessment of whether a single equity is attractive on its own merits — DCF intrinsic value, quality ratios, and trading multiples from free public data (SEC EDGAR + market quotes). Use when the user asks whether a specific stock is worth buying or selling. Read-only; never executes a trade and never gives investment advice.
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wso2 Skill Pr SummarySummarize pull requests into concise changelog entries
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composio-community Bundle Vc ResearchResearch VCs and angel investors — portfolio companies, investment thesis, check sizes, stage focus, and partner backgrounds. Returns a targeted investor list with fit assessment, warm-intro paths when discoverable, and the best partner to contact for each firm.
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composio-community Bundle Glassdoor AnalyzerScrape Glassdoor for company reviews, salary data, interview experiences, and culture signals. Returns ratings breakdown, top pro / con quotes, salary ranges by role and level, and an interview-process summary — useful for job research, sales personalization, and competitive talent analysis.
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freemty Bundle Init ProjectUse when the user requests adding LabMate to a project or setting up its research skeleton. Triggers on "init project", "初始化项目", "set up labmate", "first time setup", "initialize".
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freemty Bundle Survey LiteratureUse when a research question requires comparing multiple papers, mapping a field, or identifying evidence-backed gaps. Triggers on "survey the literature", "文献调研", "find papers about", "what's been done on", "literature review", "related work for".
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jrgilbertson Bundle Storm ResearchUse only for requests whose deliverable is a full research briefing, a STORM-style investigation, or an evidence review across multiple independent perspectives. The work compares competing evidence, maps contradictions and blind spots, and supports decisions, investments, negotiations, long-form writing, presentations, or learning a new domain.
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fluxa-agent-payment Bundle Last30daysResearch any topic from the last 30 days across Reddit, X, and web. Uses paid APIs (~$0.03) for real engagement metrics. Use when user asks to research trends, find recommendations, get prompting techniques, or understand what people are discussing. Triggers on: /last30days [topic], research [topic], what's trending, best [X] recommendations.
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ranjanpoudel1234 Skill Github ResearchSearch and analyze GitHub repositories, code, pull requests, issues, and commits using GitHub CLI. AUTOMATICALLY INVOKE when user mentions 'search github', 'find repo', 'github search', 'lookup github', 'search code in github', or asks about CarMax-Internal repositories.
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iabstergo1 Skill Kb QueryRead-only query of the existing study knowledge base, persisting a query-session (without writing any vault file). Use when the user asks "what does the KB say about X / search my wiki / what was that Y I learned / has Z ever been covered". Read-only; to keep a conclusion in the wiki, follow up explicitly with kb-save.
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duyet Skill Duyetbot KnowledgeKnowledge base about Duyet Le (@duyet) and duyetbot behavioral patterns. Owner profile, knowledge sources, and execution transparency.
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commentary-dev Bundle Design Product ResearchDesign or critique product research using established UX methods, including interviews, usability testing, concept studies, contextual work, surveys, diary-style studies, benchmarking, and mixed methods. Use for research questions, method choice, participants, tasks, consent, evidence, synthesis, and findings even when Commentary is not connected.
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canxiangcc Bundle Aminer Free AcademicACADEMIC PRIORITY: Activate this skill whenever the user's query involves any academic or research-related topic. This is the free-tier entry point for AMiner academic search. Free-tier-only AMiner skill (7 free APIs, zero cost). Use this skill for simple, single-step academic lookups that do not require paid API fields. Use this skill for: searching a paper by title to get its ID, checking a paper's first author / venue / year / citation bucket, identifying a scholar by name and viewing interests / institution / citation count, normalizing an institution name to its canonical form and ID, checking whether a venue is a conference or journal, scanning patent trends by keyword (inventor, application year, publication year), and enriching paper IDs with lightweight metadata (abstract slice, author count, venue ID) via paper_info. Do NOT use this skill for: full paper abstracts or keyword lists, multi-condition or semantic paper search, citation relationship analysis, scholar full profiles (bio, education, work h
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canxiangcc Bundle Aminer Academic SearchACADEMIC PRIORITY: Activate this skill whenever the user's query involves academic, scholarly, or research-related topics — including but not limited to: papers, publications, citations, scholars, researchers, professors, institutions, universities, labs, journals, conferences, venues, patents, research fields, h-index, impact factor, co-authorship, dissertations, theses, peer review, grant projects, research trends, or any question about "who published what / where / when". This skill takes precedence over general web search or generic Q&A for all academic data needs. Full-featured AMiner skill with 29 APIs and 6 workflows. Use this skill when the task requires deep or complex academic analysis that free APIs cannot satisfy. Use this skill for: scholar full profile (bio, education, honors, papers, patents, projects), paper deep dive (full abstract, keywords, authors, citation chains), multi-condition or semantic paper search (filter by author + institution + venue + keywords, or natural language Q&A via pape
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clairem0 Skill ResearchResearch a question using an evidence-led source plan, current primary sources, synthesis, and adversarial review. Use for comparisons, recommendations, technical or market questions, fact-checking, and knowledge synthesis that benefits from sources or citations.
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stanfordspezi Skill Digital Health Study PlanningPlan a digital health study or research protocol, including enrollment, consent, data collection, assessment schedules, study operations, and outcome measures.
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stanfordspezi Skill Digital Health Compliance PlanningPlan healthcare privacy, research, and regulatory compliance for a digital health product, including HIPAA, IRB, FDA, GDPR, governance, and operational controls.
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svyatov Bundle Prior ArtUse when the user is about to design or build a non-trivial technical mechanism (a caching or consistency strategy, a consensus or coordination scheme, a ranking, retrieval, or ML technique, a scheduler, or a new protocol) and the approach is still open. Searches arXiv for real prior art, reads each paper in isolation, and returns ONE recommended path with citations, a first step, and the failure modes the papers already name. Trigger even when the user never mentions papers, research, or arXiv: "has anyone solved this", "what's the state of the art", "how should I architect X", "am I about to rebuild something that already exists". Do not use for CRUD, glue code, SDK wiring, one-off scripts, or when the user already named the algorithm or said "just do it the simple way".
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techfleetworks Bundle Usability UX Universal DesignUse for ANY user-facing feature, flow, screen, form, navigation, empty/loading/error state, or piece of UI copy to make it user-friendly, intuitive, and approachable for the widest possible range of people — universal and inclusive design for anyone, across any ability, context, language level, and situation. Covers the universal-design principles, established usability heuristics, reducing cognitive load, plain-language content, error prevention and forgiving recovery, and lightweight usability testing/research. Trigger proactively on new UI or flows, redesigns, navigation/IA, onboarding, wizards, forms, empty/loading/error/success states, microcopy/labels/tooltips, confirmations, "is this intuitive/confusing," "hard to use," UX, usability, user-friendly — even without those words, whenever a human will interact with what you're building.
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thibautbaissac Skill Run ChecksRun the project quality gate through the auto-detected package manager and test runner, then summarize failures concisely.
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 twg-agentic-search, x-research, video-research. 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.