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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ttawdtt Bundle Brainstorming Research IdeasGuides researchers through structured ideation frameworks to discover high-impact research directions. Use when exploring new problem spaces, pivoting between projects, or seeking novel angles on existing work.
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tw93 Skill LearnRuns a six-phase research workflow that turns unfamiliar domains, source bundles, or collected material into publish-ready output. Use when users ask in any language to research, study, deep-dive, compile sources, synthesize unfamiliar material, or turn a source bundle into a coherent reference. Not for quick lookups or single-file reads.
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ntholm86 Skill ProbeOptional scientific instrumentation for measuring Autonomous Reasoning Fidelity (ARF). Construct a controlled novelty probe that distinguishes genuine situated reasoning from pattern-matching against a checklist. Not required by Destination, Orient, Improve, Intent, or Trail, and not part of normal development use. USE WHEN: conducting ARF research, testing reasoning quality experimentally, novelty injection, ARF measurement.
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skillmedev Skill Fact CheckerVerifies discrete factual claims against multiple independent sources and returns a calibrated verdict - Verified, Likely true, Likely false, Unverifiable, or False - with confidence and citations. Use when someone asks "is this true", "fact-check this claim", "did X really happen", "verify this statistic before we publish", or pastes a quote, number, or viral post to check. Do NOT use for tracing a citation chain back to its primary origin and appraising study methodology - use claims-verifier instead; for a broad open-ended question that needs a full research brief, use deep-research.
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skillmedev Skill Academic EssayStructures and drafts argumentative academic essays - a contestable thesis, claim-evidence-analysis body paragraphs, a fairly-engaged counterargument, and a synthesizing conclusion - marking every spot that needs a real citation instead of inventing sources. Use when a student or writer asks "help me outline my essay", "is my thesis strong enough", "structure my argument for this paper", or needs a draft refined for logic and formal register. Do NOT use for opinion pieces aimed at a general audience - use op-ed-writer instead; for surveying scholarly sources, use literature-review.
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skillmedev Skill Citation TrackerVerifies that every citation is real, unretracted, and complete, rates source quality by evidence tier, and formats reference lists precisely in APA, MLA, Chicago, or IEEE. Use when someone asks "check my references", "format this bibliography in APA", "are these citations real", or "convert my reference list to IEEE". Do NOT use for checking whether the claims in the text are true - use fact-checker or claims-verifier instead. Do NOT use for writing the review itself - use literature-review or systematic-review instead.
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skillmedev Skill Literature ReviewProduces a thematic literature review that organizes a field into an argument - consensus, disputes, evidence quality, and the open gap the reader should care about. Use when someone asks "write my related-work section", "review the literature on X", "what does the research say about X", or "organize these papers into themes". Do NOT use for an exhaustive, protocol-registered review with formal inclusion criteria and risk-of-bias appraisal - use systematic-review instead. Do NOT use for synthesizing interviews or mixed non-academic sources into decision themes - use research-synthesis instead.
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skillmedev Skill Systematic ReviewRuns a PRISMA-compliant systematic review from PICO question and pre-registered protocol through search strings, two-stage screening, risk-of-bias appraisal, and GRADE-rated synthesis. Use when someone asks "run a systematic review", "build my search strategy and inclusion criteria", "screen these studies against a protocol", or "meta-analyze the evidence on X". Do NOT use for a thematic narrative review of a field without a registered protocol and exhaustive search - use literature-review instead. Do NOT use for synthesizing mixed non-study sources into decision themes - use research-synthesis instead.
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skillmedev Skill Deep ResearchRuns a thorough multi-source research process - decompose the question, gather independent sources, cross-check, synthesize - and delivers a structured, cited brief with confidence levels and gaps. Use when someone asks "research this topic in depth", "give me everything on X", "what does the evidence say about Y", or needs a broad question answered from secondary sources with citations. Do NOT use for designing a study that collects new data - use primary-research instead; for distilling an already-gathered pile of 20+ sources into themes, use research-synthesis; for verifying one discrete claim, use fact-checker.
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skillmedev Skill Quiz GeneratorWrites quizzes and assessments with a stated Bloom's-level distribution, misconception-based distractors, and an answer key with rationales - plus a summary table of level, type, and points per question. Use when someone asks "write a quiz on...", "make a 10-question test for chapter 5", "generate review questions", or "check these multiple-choice questions for quality". Do NOT use for building the grading rubric for an essay or project - use rubric-builder instead; for designing the lesson the quiz sits inside, use lesson-plan-builder; for opinion or research surveys rather than knowledge assessment, use survey-designer.
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zhangyanbo Bundle Vibe ResearchSet up and organize a Vibe Research project - a research workflow where the human scientist defines goals, standards and boundaries, and agents work autonomously within them. Use when starting a new research project, migrating an existing project into this structure, preparing a branch merge, or whenever the user mentions vibe research, research project setup, experiment scaffolding, or project migration.
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zhangyanbo Bundle Vibe Research PaperAcademic paper writing workflows and standards - arXiv LaTeX template, bilingual paper management, prose discipline, citations, compilation and delivery. Use when creating, writing, or revising an academic paper in a research project, setting up a paper's LaTeX structure, syncing bilingual versions, or checking paper-code consistency.
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zhangyanbo Skill Vibe Research CodingBest practices for writing elegant, readable research code - direct implementations, locality of behavior, fail-fast, strict size limits, clean separation of experiment and plotting code. Use whenever writing or refactoring code in a research project, creating new experiment scripts, or organizing a source tree.
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zhangyanbo Skill Vibe Research OptimizeLarge-scale parameter optimization for research projects using Bayesian (optuna TPE ask-tell) or evolutionary methods, with safeguards against metric gaming. Use when running hyperparameter search, tuning parameters at scale, setting up multi-round optimization experiments, or whenever the user mentions parameter sweeps, Bayesian optimization, or finding the best settings.
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joaomonteiro100 Bundle Persona BuilderCreates clear, evidence-based UX personas that represent the key user segments of a product, and a discussion guide for developing them from research. Use this whenever the user wants to create, write, structure, or improve personas, user profiles, or audience segments; needs a template or format for personas; wants to turn user research or interviews into personas; or asks who their users are and how to represent them for a design/product team. Also use to critique existing personas or convert demographic profiles into task- and goal-focused ones. Steer users away from inventing personas from thin air — push toward grounding them in real evidence.
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manzanita-research Bundle RecallSearch past idea-girlie research across all projects. Use when the user asks "have we researched this before", "what do we know about X", "find that research on Y", "recall", "pull up past research", "what did the idea girlies say about", or any variation of wanting to search the centralized knowledge base for prior research sessions.
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manzanita-research Bundle Farm StandGenerate a "building in public" update from recent Linear activity and freeform notes. Use when the user wants to share what they've shipped, write a dev update, post about recent work, or draft a "here's what we built" post. Triggers on "farm-stand", "what did I ship", "write an update", "building in public", "what have I been working on", "status update", "what's new", "what did we release", or any variation of wanting to summarize recent work for an audience.
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marecgents Bundle Ieee Mg CitationIEEE 引用格式管理与文献引用验证技能。面向 B5G/6G 无线移动通信、非正交多址接入(NOMA)、可重构复杂天线系统等方向。 使用此技能规范论文引用格式、搜索并验证参考文献。 暂为骨架版本,内容和工作流将后续补充。
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devaimani Skill Ads HintsDevelop, group and prioritise context hints for OpenAI Ads, and derive account-wide negative keywords. Use this skill for topic research, context hints, ad targeting, exclusions, negative keywords, or when deciding which conversations an ad should appear in.
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alahmadiq8 Bundle Obsidian DataviewWrite Obsidian Dataview queries (DQL, inline DQL, and DataviewJS) from natural language descriptions. Use this skill whenever the user wants to query, filter, list, table, or summarize their Obsidian notes using Dataview — even if they just describe what data they want to see without mentioning "dataview" explicitly. Trigger on phrases like "show me all notes tagged...", "list my tasks due...", "table of books by rating", "query my vault for...", "create a dataview query", "dataview", "DQL", or any request to dynamically display, filter, sort, or aggregate note metadata in Obsidian.
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alfadur7 Bundle Scholarly CitationVerifiable-attribution and citation-discipline craft — atomic claim decomposition, evidence grading (primary/analysis/forecast tiers), claimant attribution, citation typing (cites/references/contradicts/defines), source anchoring (Xanadu). Use when writing or reviewing a reference or synthesis page that attributes and cites source-based claims so they stay traceable, or when claim attribution, citation typing, or evidence grading is needed.
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alfredzhang98 Bundle AI WikiFile content into the knowledge base as a single well-formed note, without creating a topic hub. Use when the user asks to write up a paper, save a conversation, or file content into the vault. For topic-hub filing with reciprocal links, use ai-wiki-full instead.
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alfredzhang98 Skill AI Wiki FullFile content into the knowledge base and place it under a topic hub with reciprocal links, creating the hub only if it passes the admission test. Use when the user asks to file a paper under a research direction, build or extend a topic map, or organise notes into a topic. For a single note without a hub, use ai-wiki instead.
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alfredzhang98 Skill AI Wiki ExportPackage a research topic (its hub, all paper notes filed under it, and the figures those notes embed) into a single zip at a user-specified path. Use when the user asks to export, package, bundle, or zip up a topic to send, archive, or read offline. Requires an explicit destination path.
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andrehuang Skill Paper ReadRead, discuss, and optionally ingest a research paper. TRIGGER when the user wants to read a paper, discuss a paper, ingest a paper into the wiki, or analyze a research document. Provides a 5-phase workflow: Load → Analyze → Discuss → Ingest → Follow-up. Chains to wiki, mental-gym, and research-companion.
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andrehuang Skill Weekly ReviewWeekly Review — Research Digest
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andrehuang Skill Research SessionStart a structured research session with a briefing and guided workflow. TRIGGER when the user is starting a work session, wants to know what to work on, or says "research session" / "what should I work on" / "catch me up." Reads research state, presents a briefing, and chains to appropriate sub-skills (paper-read, research-companion, academic, mental-gym).
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andrehuang Skill Research CompanionStrategic research companion — brainstorm, evaluate, and decide on research directions. TRIGGER when the user wants to brainstorm research, evaluate research ideas, do project triage, or explore a problem space. ALSO TRIGGER when the user proposes a research idea mid-session, shares a hunch, or uses phrasings like "what if…", "I'm thinking…", "maybe we could…", "here's an idea…", "should we try X?", "wouldn't it be interesting if…" — mid-session proposals default to triage mode (pass `triage` or `quick` as the first argument for a fast, single-agent critique; pass `full` or a bare problem space for the 6-phase flow). Orchestrates brainstormer, idea-critic, and research-strategist agents through a 6-phase pipeline: Seed → Diverge → Evaluate → Deepen → Frame → Decide. Includes Carlini's conclusion-first test.
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appsflyersdk Skill Alice PmAlice, the AppsFlyer Flutter Plugin PM challenger. Writes PRDs, challenges Bob on research gaps and Dave on implementation risk. Auto-invoked after Bob finishes research or Dave writes a tech design, code, or feature doc. Directly callable for ad-hoc PM questions or reviews.
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asheshgoplani Bundle Graph ExploreUse when the user points at an unknown OpenGraphDB graph and asks "what is in here?", "show me the schema", "what entities exist", "how is this graph connected", or wants to navigate a graph they did not build. Trigger on phrases like "explore the graph", "discover schema", "find entry points", "what nodes are connected to X", "summarize this graph", "show me the most connected nodes". Covers five exploration strategies, schema navigation, entry-point selection, and how to descend from a high-level summary to a focused subgraph without overwhelming the user.
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franciscobmacedo Bundle Video TranscriptGet a transcript (with or without timestamps) out of a YouTube, Shorts, TikTok, Instagram Reel, or other public video URL. Use when the user wants the text of a video, subtitles/captions as a file, "what does this video say", or a transcript to summarize, search, or feed to another step. Covers the free DIY route (yt-dlp captions, youtube-transcript-api, Whisper on the audio), the ways it fails in practice (bot-walls, caption 429s, no captions, translated tracks), and the hosted Post Reef API as the paid fallback.
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franciscobmacedo Bundle Social Listening ResearchRun market, competitor, or audience research over a set of social videos and posts: what creators say about a product/category, what commenters complain about or ask, which claims repeat across TikTok/YouTube/Instagram, and what an audience actually wants. Use when the user asks to "analyse these videos/posts", "what are people saying about X on TikTok/YouTube", "competitive research from creator content", "mine comments for pain points", or hands over a list of URLs to summarise. Covers building the URL set honestly, batch extraction with a consistent schema, aggregation that survives scrutiny, and the limits of what a comment sample can prove.
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oianthony Skill LearnRuns a six-phase research workflow that turns unfamiliar domains, source bundles, or collected material into publish-ready output. Use when users ask in any language to research, study, deep-dive, compile sources, synthesize unfamiliar material, or turn a source bundle into a coherent reference. Not for quick lookups or single-file reads.
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khazp Bundle Vibe ResearchDeep research and market validation for app ideas. Use when starting a new project, validating an idea, or when the user says "research my idea", "validate my app", or "help me start a new project".
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draphonix Bundle XiaResearch unfamiliar implementation work before coding. Use when work is ambiguous, version-sensitive, or risky and requires repo mapping, local reuse, upstream patterns, or current docs.
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dream-num Skill Univer Worklog AutoUse when the user wants to automatically collect Codex/workbuddy/git/GitHub evidence, summarize work, dedupe it, and write or dry-run Univer worklog rows. Supports --dry-run, --confirm, --no-submit, and --period day|week|month.
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 brainstorming-research-ideas, learn, probe. 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.