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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cookjohn Bundle Ieee ExportExports citations from IEEE Xplore in RIS, BibTeX, or plain text format. Supports pushing to Zotero. Use when the user wants to export or save citation data for papers.
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h2cone Bundle Ousterhout Software DesignKnowledge base from "A Philosophy of Software Design, 2nd Edition" by John K. Ousterhout. Use when applying Ousterhout's frameworks for managing complexity, deep modules, information hiding, strategic programming, comments, naming, and everyday software design decisions, or when studying/referencing the book's concepts.
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hammergpt Skill Factor MiningGuide user through factor research and mining. Trigger when user asks to "find effective factors", "mine factors", "research alpha factors", "help me design a factor", "factor analysis", or similar requests about discovering new trading factors.
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fasalzein Skill WikiWiki vault memory — retrieval, freshness, research, handovers. Use when the user says wiki, asks about vault, project memory, or knowledge context.
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fredoliveira Skill Weekly ReviewSummarize the past week's daily notes, extracting key findings, links, action items, and potential atomic notes, and write the summary into the matching weekly note.
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genezo13 Bundle Monadvault Ritual ResearcherResearch and synthesize documents, images, symbols, dreams, field notes, rituals, contemplative practices, and comparative source material into grounded practice maps and research briefs. Use when a Steward asks to compare symbols or traditions, interpret field notes carefully, map a ritual or practice, trace provenance, identify motifs, separate observation from interpretation, surface uncertainty, or prepare culturally respectful research notes.
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genezo13 Bundle Monadvault Vault Memory CuratorCurate notes, documents, chat excerpts, observations, decisions, and project material into governed MonadVault Vault Memory candidates. Use when a Steward says remember this, save this to memory, clean up my memory, decide what to retain, summarize for long-term recall, add retrieval tags, redact sensitive details, scope memory to a Monad or project, review retention, or identify what should be excluded or deleted.
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geronimo-iia Skill Anti SlopStrip AI slop from written artifacts: KB documents, analysis, synthesis, research notes, technical docs, PR descriptions. Enforces structural writing rules and blocks known slop patterns. Invoke before writing any non-trivial prose artifact. Not for chat responses (caveman mode covers those).
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geronimo-iia Skill Research ExtractionDeep extraction of research corpora into structured knowledge documents using a Workflow-driven subagent/reviewer pattern. Use when you have raw source documents (theses, papers, reports) and need structured extraction across multiple axes (architecture, messages, algorithms, forms, etc.) with confidence-annotated claims, cross-document tracing, and reviewer-gated progression. Do NOT use for single-paper analysis — use research-paper instead.
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juntoku9 Bundle Niw National Importance ResearchResearches authoritative U.S. government sources, national plans, and policy initiatives to build the national importance argument for an EB-2 NIW petition. Compiles a quotable source document matched to the petitioner's background.
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kevintsai1202 Bundle Legal Research台灣法律問題的強制入口——凡涉及中華民國法規、判例、釋字、訴訟程序,或任何法律數值(裁判費、執行費、規費、罰鍰、賠償上限、法定期間、時效、級距門檻)的提問,一律先執行本技能。觸發語包含「要繳多少」「裁判費」「訴訟費用」「告人要花多少錢」「時效多久」「幾年內要提」「罰多少」「條文怎麼規定」。即使問題看似只需查一條條文、即使 taiwan-legal-db 與 dr-lawbot 工具已可直接呼叫,仍不得略過本技能自行檢索——本技能規範的授權子法反查與數值回歸驗算,是母法條文查詢本身看不出來的必要步驟(實測:僅查民訴 77-13 會答成裁判費 3000 元,實際應為 4100 元)。內容涵蓋查詢路由、雙軌並行檢索、引用驗證與信任閘門,並於完成後提供後續分析轉介選單。
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microsoft Skill WorkitemRead an ADO or GitHub work item, research similar past PRs, implement the fix, and leave the branch ready for /create-pr.
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mikonos Skill Literature NoteLiterature Note (high-output)
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nirholas Skill Coin ResearchConduct comprehensive research on any cryptocurrency by pulling coin-specific news, market data, on-chain metrics, trading signals, and sentiment into a structured investment brief. Use when the user wants to understand a specific coin before making a decision. Powered by the free-crypto-news API.
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oxbshw Bundle Research SummarizerUse when the user asks for a sourced briefing on a topic that spans multiple web sources and requires citations.
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oxbshw Skill Watching VideosThe user shared a video URL, a YouTube/TikTok/stream link, a local video file, a screen recording, a meeting recording, or a playlist/folder of videos — "watch this", "summarize this video", "what's in this recording". Use this to actually watch the video — download, extract frames, OCR, transcribe, and index it — instead of guessing from the title or asking the user to describe it.
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sayeediftekhar Skill Keel FinanceFinance lane router (optional / vertical). Routes financial-analysis work — IB, equity research, PE, wealth management, DCF/LBO/3-statement models — to Anthropic's official financial-services plugin. Defers to keel-v2, which forces HEAVY rigor on anything touching real money. Install only if you do finance work.
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id-andyyy Skill Lab ResearchLab Research
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iot-forge Skill New Device SkillBuild or update an M5Stack hardware skill in this marketplace — a Controller (a board that runs firmware, like Core2 or AtomS3), a Unit (a peripheral you drive from a Controller, like a ToF sensor or a relay), or a Chip (an Espressif SoC capability layer, like esp32-c6). Use whenever adding a new board/unit/chip to this repo, correcting an existing skill, deciding whether something warrants its own skill versus a section in an existing one, or figuring out where a piece of content belongs (board wiring vs. chip capability). Covers the research workflow, naming and file-layout conventions, the Controller-to-Chip pointer convention, how to flag unverified sourcing, and the release steps (catalog row, version bump, validation) that make the work actually reach users.
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ipythoning Skill GraphifyKnowledge graph engine for B2B sales intelligence. Builds queryable graphs from product catalogs, customer conversations, and market research. Powered by graphify.
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jacarty Skill Research BriefInvestigate a problem, feature, or project idea and produce a structured research brief with findings, recommended approach, and open questions. Use when the user wants to understand the technical landscape before building — comparing libraries, frameworks, patterns, or approaches. Triggers include "research this", "investigate", "what are the options for", "how should I approach", "what tools exist for", "compare approaches to", "do a deep dive on", "technical research for", or any situation where the user needs to gather information and form a recommendation before committing to an implementation path. Also use when a requirements document or tracked issue exists and needs technical investigation before a spec can be written.
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jcottam Skill AdvisorActivate rigorous, no-nonsense advisory mode for deep analysis, research, critical review, or honest assessment. Use when the user says "advise", "advise me", "give me your honest take", "don't sugarcoat", "be brutally honest", "rigorous mode", "devil's advocate", "second opinion", "challenge this", "stress-test this", "poke holes", "what am I missing", or any variation of wanting unfiltered expert analysis. Also use when the user asks a complex research question, requests a critical review of a plan or architecture, or wants a decision evaluated with full intellectual honesty rather than encouragement.
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laude-institute Skill Web ResearchResearch topics using the web via curl. Use when the user asks to look something up, find current information, or research a topic online.
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leszekgruchala Skill DevelopOrchestrate non-trivial coding through needed research, optional innovation, decision-settling spec, implementation, and validation. Use for end-to-end changes with unclear decisions, multiple files/projects, meaningful risk, or delegable phases.
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leszekgruchala Skill InnovateExplore meaningfully different solution directions and trade-offs without selecting or implementing one. Use when the user or develop requests alternatives before spec; prior research is optional. Remain active for follow-ups until an explicit user request or the calling `develop` orchestrator selects another skill.
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magicare-ai Skill Survey ReadinessPrepares skilled nursing facilities for state surveys and helps respond to them: annual recertification and complaint survey basics, the F-tag system mapped by care area, the scope & severity grid (A–L) and immediate jeopardy, a mock-survey walkthrough checklist, and Plan of Correction drafting with all CMS-required elements. Use whenever a user mentions a survey, surveyors in the building, the survey window, a CMS-2567, F-tags, deficiencies, scope and severity, immediate jeopardy, a Plan of Correction/POC, or mock survey prep. Also use proactively when a user describes a citation they received or says their facility is "due for survey."
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manutej Bundle Meta ResearchMeta-Research
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pepperu96 Skill Learn Cute DslWorkflow for learning CuTe Python DSL by reading, importing, profiling, and extracting reusable patterns from CUTLASS Blackwell example kernels. Use when: (1) studying CUTLASS CuTe DSL reference implementations, (2) importing CUTLASS examples into the project runtime infrastructure, (3) building CuTe DSL knowledge base entries from profiling experiments, (4) understanding CuTe DSL API patterns, TMA pipelining, warpgroup scheduling, or persistent kernel structure.
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pepperu96 Skill Optimization CatalogCompatibility router for the shared optimization knowledge base and the language-specific optimization catalog skills. Use when: (1) selecting which optimization catalog skill to load, (2) the implementation language is not fixed yet, (3) a workflow still references the legacy optimization-catalog skill name, (4) deciding whether a finding is shared or language-specific, (5) updating the generalized knowledge-base structure.
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ravsau Skill Virality GatePre-publish quality gate with 8 checks every video must pass. Kill weak videos before they hurt your channel. Based on MrBeast, Paddy Galloway, and algorithm research. Use before publishing any video.
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ravsau Skill Thumbnail PsychologyGenerate a research-backed thumbnail design brief. Faces (+35-50% CTR), 4 words max (+30% CTR), high contrast (+20-40% CTR), dark mode optimized. Use when planning thumbnails for a video.
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revenantworks Bundle Revenantworks Foundation LorewrightTurns research into verified knowledge products, two modes. Trigger when someone wants a researched recommendation, comparison, or go/no-go — which X should I pick, is Y worth it, compare A vs B — sources checked live, every claim evidence-graded; when they want a reference doc, guide, or playbook, template-first, versioned against primary sources; when a doc needs verification or overlapping docs need consolidating; or when they say lorewright (lorewright verdict / lorewright playbook pick the mode). Verdict ends in one direct recommendation, never a hedge. For prompts, promptwright; for skills, skillwright; for shaping a message to a channel, commwright; broad multi-source research reports are a research tool's job — lorewright produces decisions and reference docs, not reports.
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srid Skill TalkEnter talk mode — conversation and research, no repo changes. ONLY invoke when the user explicitly types `/talk` or `$talk`; never auto-select from a natural-language question or design discussion.
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srid Skill EleganceIteratively study and apply elegant coding patterns. Each iteration - understand the code, research what simple and elegant code looks like, apply learnings, verify with CI. Use as a standalone refactoring pass or when the user asks to make code more elegant, simple, or idiomatic.
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superplanehq Skill Superplane Integration ResearchSuperPlane Integration Research
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okikusan-public Bundle Market Research銘柄・業界・マーケット・ビジネスモデルの深掘りリサーチ。Grok API (X/Web検索) と yfinance を統合して多角的な分析レポートを生成する。
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 ieee-export, ousterhout-software-design, factor-mining. 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.