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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higress-group Skill Issue Spec ProposeAuthor planning artifacts for a selected issue-spec change; not standalone research, design discussion, or skill maintenance.
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higress-group Bundle Issue Spec WorkflowCoordinate a selected issue-spec change through planning or human review handoff. Not for ordinary research, repository edits, or skill maintenance.
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hint-shu Skill Quick ResearchQuick web research for simple questions — fast answer with 3-5 cited sources in ~1 minute. Use for fact-checks, simple lookups, "what is X", "latest version of Y", "who made Z". For anything deeper, use /research (L1) or /deep-research (L2).
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edinetdb Skill Investment Research特定の日本株1銘柄について、企業概要・セグメント経済性・財務トレンド・株主構成・ガバナンス・リスク要因・競争優位の仮説・バリュエーション素材までを網羅した総合リサーチレポートを作る時に使う。「トヨタを分析して」「〇〇の株を調べて」のように1社を深掘りする指示で発火する。
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everyinc Bundle Weekly Work UpdateDraft an evidence-backed weekly work update from Monologue voice notes. Use when a user wants to review a week, summarize project progress and decisions, identify next steps, blockers, or owners, or prepare a status update from multiple recordings.
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iusztinpaul Skill Obsidian CLIInteract with Obsidian vaults using the Obsidian CLI to read, create, search, and manage notes, tasks, properties, and more. Also supports plugin and theme development with commands to reload plugins, run JavaScript, capture errors, take screenshots, and inspect the DOM. Use when the user asks to interact with their Obsidian vault, manage notes, search vault content, perform vault operations from the command line, or develop and debug Obsidian plugins and themes.
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iusztinpaul Skill Readwise CLIHow to use the Readwise CLI — access highlights, documents, and your entire reading library from the command line
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iusztinpaul Skill Research DistillDistill a research directory (produced by /research) into a single compact research.md containing a guideline-relative distillation of only the sources that were actually used in a piece of content. Use this skill whenever the user wants to extract used references from research, create a research appendix for an article, distill research into what was actually cited, or produce a portable reference file from a research directory. Trigger when the user says things like "distill my research", "extract used sources", "which research did I actually use", "create research.md", "compile references from research", or after finishing an article that used a research directory.
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jabref Skill Bibtex Library ManagementValidates, cleans, and repairs BibTeX/biblatex libraries with JabRef's jabkit CLI - integrity checks, citation key generation, searching, format conversion, and pseudonymization before sharing.
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jessedegans Skill ResearchUse when the user asks a research question, wants to explore a topic, compare options, or needs to investigate something before making a decision. Sets up a structured research folder with living documents and uses sub-agents for parallel exploration. Use when: user says "research X", "look into Y", "compare A vs B", "what are our options for", "investigate", "explore", or asks a question that needs multiple sources to answer well.
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jimweller Skill TldrSummarize the previous assistant response into a few lines. Use when the user types /tldr or asks for a shorter version, a recap, or the gist of the last response. Do not use to summarize a document, a file, or a web page.
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microsoft Skill Summarize Github Issue Pr NotificationSummarizes the content of a GitHub issue, pull request (PR), or notification, providing a concise overview of the main points and key details. ALWAYS use the skill when asked to summarize an issue, PR, or notification.
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mocasus Skill Paleo BudgetUse when user says "budget", "token limit", "stay under N tokens", or wants per-task token caps. Enforce a hard token budget per task/response — track estimate, stop before limit, summarize if exceeded. Off: "no budget" / "unlimited".
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mocasus Skill Paleo SummaryUse when user says "summarize output", "condense this", "tldr", or a tool result / log / file dump / long stdout is large. Reduce long content (tool output, logs, diffs, docs) to a concise intisari with key fields preserved. Saves context tokens on bulky payloads. Off: "full output" / "no summary".
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mocasus Skill Paleo ConverseUse when user says "compress conversation", "condense chat", "summarize history", "too long context", or a session has many old turns. Condense prior conversation turns into a tight summary, merge near-duplicate messages, keep the last N turns verbatim. Saves context tokens without losing task state. Off: "stop condensing" / "keep full history".
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mocasus Skill Paleo Trim ContextUse when context window is large / token cost high / long session. Proactively trim, summarize, or drop stale content to save context tokens without losing the task state.
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onlyfansapi Skill Onlyfans Chat SummarySummarize an OnlyFans fan or conversation using saved AI Fan Summaries and chat history. Use for fan handovers, preferences, requests, boundaries, and recent chat recaps.
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opascope Bundle Opascope PlanningWrite an executable plan whose steps each have a pass/fail check. Use for nontrivial tasks with dependencies, multiple sources or tools, or a deliverable, and whenever asked to plan or break work down. Supports code, research and ordinary workflows.
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openags Skill Research WorkflowDynamic research workflow management with self-reflection and backtracking
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openags Skill Research AdvisorSearch papers, assess novelty, and scan research landscape to support discussion with evidence.
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primexiao Bundle InvestAnalyze investments and support decisions for stocks (A-share, H-share, and US), portfolios, earnings, investment theses, gold, and BTC. Use for /invest, stock valuation or buy/sell decisions, portfolio review, investor-focused earnings or narrative-conflict analysis, position sizing, and gold or crypto allocation/market-cycle questions in Chinese or English. 也适用于投研、组合体检、财报精读、投资论文、金价和币价周期。 Do not use for general company, product, competitor, procurement, or partnership research without an investment decision.
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jojoprison Bundle SessionUse when significant work wraps up — a feature shipped, a bug fixed, a research thread finished, before the user steps away — and also mid-task as a checkpoint before a long run risks context compaction (it updates the same session note + handoff, never spawns a duplicate). Also on 'записать сессию', 'сохрани сессию', 'отложи сессию в память', 'сессию в обсидиан', 'закругляйся с сессией', 'session note', 'handoff', or similar. Writes a human-readable summary plus a handoff so the next session picks up where you left off.
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josherau Skill Storm ResearchUse when researching any topic, question, market, company, technology, or decision — before writing reports or proposals, making business or investment decisions, preparing for negotiations, interviews, or presentations, or learning a new field. This is the default research method for all research tasks. Skip only for single-fact lookups, or when the user explicitly asks for a quick answer or names a different method.
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jxtse Skill Zotero ManagementManages a Zotero academic reference library through both the local API (localhost:23119, read-only) and the Web API (api.zotero.org, read-write), using a structured collection hierarchy (Inbox / Active Projects / Background / Reading Queue / Archive / Meta) plus project, status, priority, and type tags. Handles adding papers with full metadata, deduplication, attaching provenance notes, moving items between collections, updating tags after reading, listing the prioritized reading queue, and setting up the literature scaffold for a new project. Use when the user asks to add / save / file / organize a paper in Zotero, check / list / clean up the reading queue, move papers between collections, tag papers for a project, query their library ("what do I have on X?"), or set up Zotero for a new research project.
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kaustavr19 Bundle Article FormatterFull-stack article formatting assistant. Use this skill whenever the user wants to write, format, restructure, or polish any article, post, or written content for a specific platform or publication format. Triggers include: "format this for LinkedIn", "write an article from my notes", "polish my draft", "help me post this to Medium/Substack/DevPost", "make this ready to publish", "turn my braindump into an article", "write a press release", "format my research paper", "make this publication-ready", or any mention of writing for a specific platform. Also trigger when the user pastes raw notes, bullet points, or a rough draft and asks for help making it article-ready — even if they don't name a platform yet.
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santhoshtr Skill Wikipedia Editor ResearchActs as an experienced Wikipedia editor to research, structure, and draft encyclopedic content. Enforces neutrality (NPOV), verifies notability (WP:N), sources from reliable references (WP:RS), and formats output in valid Wikitext.
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serenakeyitan Bundle Citation CheckVerify citations, claims, and numbers before answering.
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serenakeyitan Skill Trust Track PackRun citation-check before delivering factual outputs.
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yunyueli Skill Job IntelResearch a target job, company or interviewer and match the JD to candidate evidence for interview preparation.
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yunyueli Skill Industry BriefCreate industry and role background reading for interview preparation, beyond research on one company.
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aditya-ariosity Bundle Product DesignExperimental end-to-end product-design orchestrator that frames project context, retrieves research, models experience flows, defines visual direction, creates artifacts, and validates rendered outcomes. Use only when explicitly asked for "end-to-end product design", "design this feature end-to-end", "redesign this flow", "build an experience from this brief", or "create a product experience". Use the stable specialist skills for isolated audits, dashboards, AI features, design systems, handoff, or case studies.
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aditya-ariosity Bundle Case Study WriterWrite, restructure, edit, or strengthen UX/UI portfolio case studies, portfolio pieces, project stories, and interview narratives from supplied product-design evidence. Extract proof, clarify individual and team ownership, connect decisions to outcomes, plan visuals, and handle confidential results. Trigger on "write my UX case study", "improve this portfolio project", "create a portfolio piece", "review my design portfolio", "prepare an interview case study", or "structure this design story". Do not invent research, metrics, quotes, outcomes, or a linear process.
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ai4s-research Skill Research ExplorerUse when the user has a vague research direction and wants to explore feasible specific topics. Outputs a structured analysis with candidate topics, innovation/feasibility scoring, and a pre-survey of 20–30 representative works. Single-stage, no Python runtime.
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alexknowshtml Skill Create SkillTurn a session into a high quality Claude skill with research and planning
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alfredxw Bundle Web ResearchUse when a task needs current public-web facts, comparisons, fact-checking, sources, or a multi-source synthesis and both web_search and web_fetch are available.
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ng-zorro Skill Create PrPrepare or create an NG-ZORRO pull request using the repository template. Use when asked to open, draft, summarize, or create a PR for branch changes.
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 issue-spec-propose, issue-spec-workflow, quick-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.