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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jackson-video-resources Skill AutoresearchLewis's deep-research workflow. Drop a question in, get a structured brief back with sources and conflicting views.
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jeremylongshore Bundle AutoresearchGenerate deterministic prototype hypotheses, simulated experiment findings, and aggregate confidence summaries. Use when exercising an offline research-loop contract, not when collecting real evidence. Trigger with research prototype.
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tenwalk Bundle Ieee SearchSearch, verify, and organize literature for IEEE communications manuscripts: JSAC, TWC, TCOM, WCL, CL, IEEE conference papers, arXiv preprints, DOI/Crossref metadata, BibTeX, related-work matrices, novelty checks, and citation-gap audits. Use this when the user asks to "find papers", "latest IEEE papers", "related work", "verify DOI", "make BibTeX", "查文献", "找IEEE论文", "补参考文献", or compare a manuscript's claims against prior work. Use live search or available connectors for current facts; never fabricate bibliographic metadata.
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tenwalk Bundle Ieee CitationFormat references and in-text citations to IEEE style, and prepare Index Terms and IEEEtran bibliography setup. Use this whenever the user needs to "format references in IEEE", "fix my bibliography", "convert these citations to IEEE", "make a .bib for IEEEtran", "number my citations", "参考文献改成 IEEE 格式", "整理引用", or asks how in-text numbered citations and the reference list should look for an IEEE journal. Also covers Index Terms and EDICS selection ("选 EDICS", "Index Terms 怎么写"). Never fabricate DOIs, page numbers, volumes, EDICS codes, or any bibliographic field — flag missing metadata instead.
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sevenbelowllc Skill Summarize PrGenerate a concise technical summary and risk checklist from a pull request. Invoke when reviewing PRs, creating release notes, or assessing merge risk.
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adoresever Skill Paper WorkbenchBuild or reorganize an academic paper project workspace with clear folders and local instructions for literature, drafts, feedback, extracted text, and output reports. Use when the user wants to set up a论文工作台, organize mixed manuscript materials, create project rules, or prepare a stable workflow before citation checking, evidence matching, reviewer simulation, or manuscript revision.
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adilshamim8 Bundle 09 Citation MasterySKILL 09: Citation Mastery
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adilshamim8 Bundle 02 Literature CommandLiterature Command
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alexyskoutnev Bundle Abstract WritingWrite or revise a research-paper abstract using three master recipes distilled from dissecting top ML researchers' abstracts. Use when drafting an abstract, revising one for submission, or when the user asks how to structure or tighten an abstract. Applies the six-questions structure, the three recipes, and a mechanical checklist (short sentences, contribution first, no "can", no bare "This", numbers in pairs).
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aminoanalytica Bundle Biorxiv DatabaseSearch and retrieve preprints from bioRxiv. Use when asked to "search bioRxiv", "find preprints", "look up bioRxiv papers", or retrieve life sciences literature.
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cyl19970726 Bundle Analyze Creator VideosOrchestrate a creator's complete public portfolio research from profile URL through acquisition, full-corpus annotation, high/median/mean-near/low selection, deep video reconstruction, creator synthesis, optional independent evaluation, and one evidence-backed Dashboard. Use for neutral creator research; keep the user's own copying or publishing strategy in content-strategy-workbench.
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cyl19970726 Bundle Creator Research EvaluatorIndependently evaluate a creator research run, its acquisition honesty, corpus reproducibility, selection coverage, video CR/DL/VE gates, synthesis evidence, and Dashboard parity. Use as a fail-closed reviewer; do not evaluate work with the same reasoning context that produced it.
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cyl19970726 Bundle Xiaohongshu Creator AcquisitionAcquire and resume a Xiaohongshu creator's public profile, visible post inventory, post details, covers, public metrics, bounded comments, and selected media with auditable coverage. Use for creator research collection, not for interpreting content mechanisms or evading platform controls.
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danmcinerney Skill To SpecSpec-writing stage skill for the architect factory: synthesizes the run's conversation, repo evidence, and research findings into `docs/spec/<run>.md` after grounding. Invoked by the strategist subagent the orchestrator dispatches during `/architect` intake — or directly by the orchestrator in `/architect-fast` (that skill's stage-skill deltas apply) — before decomposition into issues.
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qwwiwi Bundle Youtube TranscriptFetch YouTube video transcripts via TranscriptAPI. Use when: YouTube link, transcript, summarize video, what's in the video.
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ryanb Bundle StandupSummarize work done since the last standup across the user's configured repos — merged PRs, open PR reviews, PRs/commits authored, and a per-repo summary of code changes.
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ryanb Bundle WalkthroughWalk through PR changes from the user's perspective. Traces each UI change through its full vertical slice — what the user sees, what it triggers, and how the server handles it. Use when asked to walk through what changed, review a PR, or summarize branch changes.
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ucsahinn Bundle Evidence ResearchDesign and execute source-traceable deep research for decisions, landscapes, comparisons, implementation questions, and evidence reviews. Use when the request needs a research charter, current primary sources, reproducible search and screening, source appraisal, claim-level citations, disagreement and uncertainty analysis, qualitative or quantitative methods, or a decision-ready evidence package.
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unbias38 Bundle Survey DesignDesign publication-quality academic questionnaires with self-evaluation scoring. Use this skill when users want to design a survey, questionnaire, or measurement scale for academic research or journal submission. Also trigger when users mention scale development, questionnaire validation, Likert scale design, construct measurement, or psychometric instrument development — even if they don't explicitly say "survey design."
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volcengine Bundle Review Routes评审已有合成路线的拓扑、逐步反应先例、库存声明和证据缺口。用于比较 AiZynthFinder、PaRoutes 或结构化多步路线并生成专家复核队列。
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volcengine Bundle Curate Reactions整理和审查结构化化学反应,保留原始记录并检查参与物、角色、产率、重复、守恒和 ORD 合同。用于清洗 reaction SMILES、ORD 或反应表格。
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volcengine Bundle Search Reactions检索和比较结构化化学反应先例,保留来源、质量状态、条件和相似度定义。用于按反应 ID、组分、SMARTS 或整体反应相似性查找先例。
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volcengine Bundle Chemistry Research Router理解化学科研自然语言需求,生成带来源绑定的 ResearchIntent,并通过本地确定性校验路由到七个化学 Skill、受控 Skill 链或 Workflow A/B。用于复杂、多步、模糊、需要自动编排,或可能联网、产生费用和发送数据的化学身份、结构、特征、分子库、反应和已有路线任务;毒性预测、路线生成、实验安全和放大审批不支持。
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volcengine Bundle Compute Molecular Features对已标准化化合物确定性计算受控二维描述符、Morgan/RDKit/MACCS 指纹和数据集质量画像。用于准备分子特征、生成指纹,或检查特征缺失、常数、异常和分布。
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volcengine Bundle Resolve Chemical Identities保守解析化学名称、SMILES、InChI、InChIKey、PubChem CID、ChEMBL ID 或 CAS RN,保留多源证据、相关形式、歧义和冲突。用于确认化学记录是谁、对齐开放数据库,或在结构标准化前选择候选。
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volcengine Bundle Search And Curate Chemical Libraries对已标准化化合物库执行可审计的相似性、子结构、聚类、多样性选择和只读治理。用于查找结构邻居、筛选子结构、整理分子库或选择代表分子。
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pedrohcgs Skill Validate BibValidate bibliography entries against citations in all lecture files. Structural checks (missing/unused entries, malformed fields) by default; `--semantic` adds citation-drift detection, DOI verification, and style-consistency checks.
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franzos Skill Plan NewUse when starting a new project or a substantial change that needs a written spec and plan before any code. Runs Q&A with the user, dispatches code-explorer and code-architect, writes spec and plan to the knowledge base, and gets an adversarial review before implementation. Not for small or mechanical changes - those go straight to code.
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franzos Skill Plan RunUse when executing a written implementation plan from the knowledge base in a fresh session. Reads the spec and plan, works the tasks in order, checks them off in place, and keeps the expensive gates off the hot path. Pair with /plan:snapshot to stop cleanly and /plan:resume to pick up an interrupted run.
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franzos Skill Plan ResumeUse when picking up a plan that was interrupted, in a fresh session. Finds the newest checkpoint for the project in the knowledge base, verifies its claims against the actual tree before trusting them, reports any drift, and continues execution from the stated next action.
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franzos Skill Plan SnapshotUse when interrupting a plan that is mid-execution - the user stops the run, context is getting long, the machine needs a reboot, or the session is ending unfinished. Writes a verified snapshot to the knowledge base so a fresh session can resume without rediscovery. Read by /plan:resume.
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nevenincs Skill Vaultspec ResearchGround a decision in evidence before it is made. Use when an ADR is warranted and the options have not been weighed on evidence already in the vault or the code.
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nevenincs Skill Vaultspec Code ResearchGround a decision or plan in how real code does it. Use when an ADR or plan needs a blueprint from this or another codebase.
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kohoj Bundle Web SearchSearch the web via DuckDuckGo. Use when you need to find current information, discover URLs for deeper reading, or research a topic beyond your training data.
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lakernote Skill Web Research需要查询最新资料、官方文档或外部事实时,使用高层 web_research 工具完成可追溯研究。
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laojin1900 Bundle 365 Chatgpt Pro DeliveryCoordinate one bounded collaboration between Codex and an explicitly requested ChatGPT Pro workspace. Use when the user asks Codex to consult ChatGPT Pro, obtain a Pro review, combine Pro research or creative work with Codex verification, or divide a named deliverable between the two, including an explicitly requested review of local work. Do not invoke for ordinary ChatGPT questions, local-only work that does not request Pro, or when the user forbids external transmission.
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 autoresearch, autoresearch, ieee-search. 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.