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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nibzard Bundle Book ResearchExternal evidence and grounding for the book — market whitespace, comparable titles and reader demand, publishing routes, factual or authenticity research, claim verification, and sources. Use when the author needs evidence rather than invention, a market-opportunity study, comparable-title analysis, subject expertise, or fact-checking. Persist findings into book.db with provenance.
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nicknisi Skill Weekly SummaryGenerate a comprehensive summary of AI coding sessions from the past week. Use when the user says "weekly summary", "what did I do this week", "summarize my week", "weekly recap", "week in review", or asks for a summary of recent work across projects.
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nomadamas Skill Create Metric PluginGuide developers through creating a custom evaluation metric plugin for AutoRAG-Research. Covers both retrieval metrics (recall, precision, etc.) and generation metrics (BLEU, ROUGE, etc.). Walks through scaffolding, implementing metric functions with @metric decorators, writing configs, testing, and installing. Use when building a new evaluation metric.
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primexiao Bundle Resolve X User IdResolve an X/Twitter account between its current @username or screen_name and stable numeric user ID. Use for identity lookup, canonical profile URL construction, or checking whether a renamed handle still maps to the same account. Accept a username, numeric ID, or X/Twitter profile URL. Do not use for posting or searching X content, analyzing tweets, or general account research that does not require identity resolution.
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provos Bundle JSON Schema EmailsCanonical shape of the .workflow/emails/emails.json file passed between the fetch and summarize states — required fields (sender, recipient, subject, date, body), types, and field semantics. Read this whenever you write or read emails.json so producer and consumer agree on the shape.
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rooftop-owl Bundle Notion Ao OpsThis skill should be used when the user wants to "add entry", "log work", "query schedule", "add milestone", "log experiment", "add paper", "mark complete", "what's on today", "show experiments", "update status", "session handoff", "end session", "write handoff", "pass to local", or any other natural language operation on research tracking databases in Notion. Provides NL→database routing, API patterns, and operation conventions for any research workspace.
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rooftop-owl Skill Notion Ao Project ContextThis skill should be used when the user asks about "project context", "current priorities", "what are we working on", "active decisions", "recent handoffs", or "sync context". Fetches the project hub Notion page to surface current project state before starting any research task.
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theaayushstha1 Bundle GmailFull Gmail manager - read, summarize, draft, send, and search emails via Google Gmail API. Use when the user says "check email", "gmail", "inbox", "send email", "email this person", "compose email", "mail", "read emails", "draft email", "search email", or wants to manage their Gmail inbox.
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theaayushstha1 Bundle Twitter BriefSummarize Twitter/X feed and bookmarks via browser automation. Use when the user says "twitter feed", "what's on twitter", "twitter brief", "check twitter", "twitter bookmarks", "x feed", "check x", "twitter summary", "check my bookmarks", "make me a podcast from twitter", "podcast from bookmarks", or wants to review their Twitter/X content or generate podcasts from it.
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thinkyou0714 Skill Run TestsRun the github-flow-kit test suite and summarize failures. Use when asked to test, verify, or check a skill change.
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tjboudreaux Skill Product Behavior SignalsConvert mixed-method research and live telemetry into actionable user insight loops that guide product bets.
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spikehongg Bundle Risk Warning CatalystsBuild a source-backed monitoring system for risk signals and catalysts in an A-share company. Use this skill when turning static research into an update process covering orders, financing, governance, policy, operations, and sentiment. All outputs must include accessible source links.
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spikehongg Bundle China Stock Research OrchestratorOrchestrate a full China stock research workflow by first identifying the company's analysis patterns, then selecting and sequencing the right core research skills, optional overlays, and final output structure. Use this skill when starting a new stock deep-dive or when a user wants one unified, source-backed research framework instead of isolated module outputs.
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spitoglou Bundle Research IntelligenceExtract insights, analyze claims, and synthesize knowledge from research content. Use when processing academic papers, articles, podcasts, videos, meeting transcripts, or any content where the goal is to extract wisdom, analyze arguments, summarize findings, or compile references. Triggers include "analyze this paper", "extract key insights", "summarize the research", "what are the main claims", "extract wisdom from", "compile references", "critique this argument".
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sshh12 Bundle FreetaxusaGuides users through filing US federal and state taxes on FreeTaxUSA.com using document extraction, tax research, and browser-based form automation. Use when the user asks to file taxes, prepare a tax return, or automate FreeTaxUSA form filling.
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sugarforever Skill Boring VideoUse when developing a topic, article, research bundle, or draft into a planned video and then handing it to HyperFrames for production.
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sugarforever Skill To Spec BeatsUse when turning a topic, article, research bundle, or existing draft into the content architecture for a narrated video.
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taoidle Bundle Planning With FilesImplements Manus-style file-based planning for complex tasks. Creates task_plan.md, findings.md, and progress.md. Use when starting complex multi-step tasks, research projects, or any task requiring >5 tool calls. Now with automatic session recovery after /clear and optional Git worktree mode.
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thapakrish Skill Sanskrit SkillsSuite of Sanskrit learning skills covering verse analysis, grammar, vocabulary, literature, and devotional hymns. Use as an entry point when users ask general Sanskrit questions or need guidance on which specific skill to use.
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thapakrish Bundle SahityaSanskrit literature guide for text-level discussions — plot summaries, author biographies, literary genres, kavya theory (rasa, dhvani, alankara schools). Use when asking about poets (Kalidasa, Bharavi), texts as wholes (what is Meghaduta about?), literary history, or aesthetic theory. For analyzing a specific verse, use sloka instead.
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yugabyte Skill Voyager Release NotesGenerate yb-voyager release notes from a commit range, formatted like the YugabyteDB Voyager release-notes docs page. Use when the user asks to draft release notes, summarize a release, or write what's-new entries for a voyager version.
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yzhao062 Bundle Dual UpdateAdd or update content that must appear across the website, the LaTeX CV, and the GitHub profile README. Use when the user mentions a new paper, award, grant, service role, teaching course, PhD student, open-source project, research direction, or headline metric. Use it for any other content that overlaps those surfaces.
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yzhao062 Bundle Post To LinkedinDraft, preview, publish, and record Yue Zhao's research announcements on his personal LinkedIn feed. Use for papers, talks, grants, releases, and research-program updates; supports browser document posts and API text or image posts. Do not use for DMs or Company Page posts.
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zeiynz Bundle Changelog GeneratorGenerate a clean, user-facing changelog or release notes from raw git commit history, merged PR titles, or a diff between two versions/tags. Use whenever the user asks to "write release notes", "generate a changelog", "summarize what changed since v1.2", pastes a list of commit messages or PR titles, or is preparing a release and needs commits translated from developer-speak into something users/stakeholders can read. Also trigger when a user shares `git log` output directly.
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zeiynz Bundle Sec Filing AnalyzerExtract, structure, and summarize SEC filings (10-K, 10-Q, 8-K, S-1) into research-ready formats — financial tables, risk factor deltas vs. prior filing, MD&A summaries, and insider-trading flags. Use this skill whenever the user mentions a ticker + filing type, pastes or links an SEC filing (EDGAR URL, accession number), asks to "summarize the 10-K", "what changed in the risk factors", "pull the financials from the latest 10-Q", or wants filing data turned into a structured research note. Also trigger for comparative filing analysis ("compare AAPL's last two 10-Ks") or building a filing-monitoring workflow.
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zeiynz Bundle Meeting Action ItemsTurn raw meeting notes, transcripts, or voice-memo dumps into structured decisions, action items (with owner + due date), and open questions — ready to paste into Slack, email, or a tracker. Use whenever the user pastes meeting notes/transcripts, says "extract action items from this", "summarize this call", "who owns what from this meeting", or uploads a transcript file and wants next steps rather than a narrative recap. Trigger proactively any time raw unstructured meeting text appears in the conversation, even if the user's ask is vague ("here's the notes from today").
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zhiming33416 Bundle Top Cs Paper WorkflowCoordinate a complete evidence-grounded CS paper project across the six Top CS skills. Use when work spans contribution planning, literature evidence and figure handoff, manuscript revision, pre-submission review, or reviewer response and needs resumable project status. Do not use for a single specialist task.
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zy-ning Skill Co WriteDrafts or revises a publication-ready research paper from RESEARCH.md, producing paper.md and refs.bib. Builds a clear claim-evidence narrative, writes in professional academic style, marks ungrounded claims [UNGROUNDED] and unverified citations [UNVERIFIED] inline, then auto-invokes co-review. Trigger phrases: "write paper", "draft paper", "revise paper", "start writing".
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zy-ning Skill Co EvolveThree modes. Session mode (default): extracts generalizable lessons from RESEARCH.md and git history at session end; lessons that imply a new or significantly changed skill are handed off to skill-creator. Personalize mode: searches the skills registry via `npx skills find`, reads the target skill(s), checks compatibility and scope overlap against installed skills, interviews the user to understand what they want and what to skip, then creates or improves skills using skill-creator. Registry mode: curates `skillpacks/skill_dictionary.yaml` and `skillpacks/presets/*.yaml` by assessing external packs, judging necessity/compatibility, and recommending subsets. Create mode: designs a brand- new skill from scratch using skill-creator. Never edits SKILL.md directly — all changes go through skill-creator's draft→test→iterate loop, human merges. Trigger phrases: "end session", "extract lessons", "personalize my skills", "integrate this skill", "update skillpack", "find a skill for", "create a skill", "improve skill",
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simonrw Bundle Make NoteWhen performing a research task, or using the openspec-explore skill, take a note in my personal notion notebook. Or when asked to continue an investigation from a personal note
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simonrw Skill Summarise YoutubeSummarise a YouTube video from its URL, printing the summary in the conversation.
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esmefong Bundle Icp ResearchTurn raw research signals into an operational Ideal Customer Profile, in any industry. Ingests interview transcripts, survey exports, community/Slack threads, review sites, sales-call notes, and funnel data, then produces an ICP document built on situation triggers and a how-to-win plan. Use whenever the user says "ICP research", "ideal customer profile", "build a buyer persona", "profile our target buyer", "who should we sell to", "audience research", "customer segmentation", "voice of customer", or asks to turn interviews / community threads / reviews into personas. Works for consumer/lifestyle, B2B SaaS, fintech, and enterprise alike: the situation-first core is industry-neutral, and it adds a buying-committee map and account-level scoring rubric only when the buyer is a team. Built on the 5 Rings of Buyer Insight (Revella), Jobs-to-be-Done and the Four Forces (Moesta / Christensen), and demand-side selling.
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esmefong Bundle Outbound EngineTurn a sourced account and its live signal into outreach worth sending, or refuse with reasons. Consumes account-sourcing output (a qualified account with a dated signal, an owner, and an entry role), the ICP from icp-research (triggers, buying committee, how-to-speak rules), and the voice directory from brand-voice-guide, then drafts a committee-aware sequence in the brand's voice with per-line provenance. A mechanical no-send gate rejects weak sends: stale signals, weak signal-to-trigger mapping, banned voice, fake familiarity, missing asks. Use whenever the user says "outbound", "cold outreach", "write to this account", "draft a sequence", "outreach sequence", "ABM sequence", "signal-based outreach", "cold email", or wants sourced accounts turned into messages. Role-level targeting only: it never harvests individuals or contact details.
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esmefong Bundle Account SourcingTurn an ICP into a ranked target-account list with receipts. Takes the account-level ICP (ideally produced by icp-research), translates its criteria into queries against public sources (job postings, press, funding databases, registries, tech lookups), builds the account universe, scores and visibly disqualifies against the ICP rubric, and tags each surviving account with a dated why-now signal. Every account carries public evidence; no account is invented. Use whenever the user says "build a target account list", "account sourcing", "TAM list", "list building", "find companies to sell to", "who should we go after", "turn our ICP into a list", "prospect list", "account universe", or "lead sourcing". Ships with three key-free scripts: a deterministic account scorer, a live hiring-signal detector for public ATS job boards, and an executive briefing renderer. For products bought by organizations; consumes icp-research output and feeds outbound-engine.
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fabioespindula Bundle RethinkReframe a plan, idea, or decision before the user commits to it. Use when the user asks to rethink, step back, pressure-test, gut-check, decide, right-size, simplify, think bigger about, or evaluate a concrete plan or decision in product, strategy, technical architecture, career, life, company direction, or personal priorities. This skill improves decision quality before action: clarify the real question, challenge assumptions, compare alternatives, calibrate ambition, classify the operating mode, surface risks, and recommend a next move. Do not use for broad future exploration without a concrete decision; that belongs to a think-big or research-style skill.
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fabioespindula Bundle Think BigUse this skill when the user asks to "think-big", think big, explore possible futures, map strategic possibilities, synthesize signals, generate scenarios, find second-order effects, identify opportunities, or challenge consensus around a broad theme in markets, products, technology, society, careers, companies, design, behavior, culture, or life. This skill is for disciplined strategic imagination: broad possibility exploration grounded in context, evidence, mechanisms, uncertainty, and useful provocations. Do not use it for generic brainstorming, generic research reports, automatic startup advice, detailed execution planning, or reviewing one concrete decision before commitment.
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 book-research, weekly-summary, create-metric-plugin. 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.