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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gigio1023 Bundle Credo JournalKeep the record that trains research taste and run the monthly review on it: append ideas (problems worth solving), predictions made at decisions, hindsight when outcomes arrive, and a monthly review of the long-horizon portfolio (which one or two efforts could be great, what dies, months-ahead guesses). Use when an idea appears, a decision is made, a result or review comes back, or monthly and for 'what should I be working on'. Append-only through the bundled script. NOT for task tracking, meeting notes, or near-term deliverables.
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h3y6e Bundle Spec SpecifyCreate or update specs/{feature}/spec.md from user requirements — writing user stories, functional requirements, acceptance criteria, and resolving ambiguity through focused questions. Use this skill whenever someone wants to document feature requirements, write a specification, turn ideas or user research into a formal spec, update spec.md, or says "create a spec for [feature]". This is the first required step in the spec-driven workflow and typically follows spec-constitution when a team uses shared constitutional rules. Don't use for execution design, task decomposition, bug fixes, or implementation.
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h3y6e Bundle Spec ResearchInvestigate a specific topic and record findings in specs/{feature}/research/{topic}.md — covering technical options, library comparisons, API constraints, architecture trade-offs, or any open question that needs evidence before a decision can be made. Use this skill whenever someone wants to research a topic independently of spec/plan/implement phases, compare technical alternatives, investigate an API or platform constraint, run a proof of concept and document results, or says "research [topic]". This is a utility skill that can be invoked from any point in the spec-driven workflow or standalone. Don't use for writing specs, creating plans, or implementing code.
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heynag Bundle X BookmarksUse when the user asks to fetch, search, review, summarize, digest, or act on X/Twitter bookmarks, saved posts, bookmark folders, no-credit bookmark access, or recurring bookmark reviews.
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hostinger Skill Query Deployment LogsPull and summarize the logs Hostinger's API exposes — Node.js build logs, JS deployment logs, and cron job output — for a domain. Use to investigate a failed or slow build, or a cron job that isn't doing what the user expects.
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kong Skill Release ChangelogUse this skill when the user runs "/release-changelog", asks to "generate a release changelog", "write release PR description", "build preview links for release", or wants to summarize all docs changed in a release PR as a grouped list of links.
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leeroo-ai Skill Ml ResearchUse when the user wants to understand an ML/AI topic, compare approaches, or survey framework capabilities — "how does X work?", "compare X vs Y"
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lipu-jpg Bundle Paper CodeUse when implementing experimental code, scaffolding research projects, or following coding best practices for academic work
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lipu-jpg Bundle Paper HypothesisUse when generating research hypotheses, designing experiments, or evaluating hypothesis feasibility
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lipu-jpg Bundle Paper Literature ReviewUse when conducting literature review, searching for academic papers, identifying research gaps, or analyzing existing work
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liyu0524 Bundle Paper ReviewerReview research papers (especially PDFs). Use when the user asks to read/通读/讲解/总结/审稿 a paper and wants a Chinese-first explanation of what it does, what is novel (创新点), plus reviewer-style strengths/weaknesses, major/minor concerns, and questions to authors.
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eclaire-labs Skill Product GuideHelp users understand Eclaire's features, capabilities, and best practices for organizing their personal knowledge base.
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ellyseum Skill ImagesearchVisual research - search the web, find images, analyze them visually
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evindunn Bundle Git Summarize ChangesSummarize current-branch changes vs an auto-discovered base branch for MR-style output. Use when the user asks to summarize git changes, draft an MR description, or compare against main/release.
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mishafyi Skill How To WinThis skill should be used when the user asks to "research what winning means", "figure out what success looks like", "research before starting", "how to win at X", "what does winning look like for X", or wants deep research before deploying strategies. Deploys 3 research agents across 3 rounds to build a comprehensive Winning Brief.
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monarch-initiative Skill Mic TermsSkill for adding and validating ontology term annotations in the MIC knowledge base. Covers CHEBI, FOODON, HP, GO, MONDO, UBERON, HGNC lookups. Use when adding term bindings to nutrient YAML files.
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monarch-initiative Skill Mic ComplianceSkill for analyzing and improving compliance in the MIC knowledge base. Use this when checking nutrient file completeness, identifying missing fields (ontology terms, evidence, descriptions), understanding weighted priority scoring, and systematically improving knowledge base coverage.
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monarch-initiative Skill Mic ReferencesSkill for validating and repairing evidence references in the MIC knowledge base. Use this when working with evidence items in nutrient YAML files, validating that snippet text matches PubMed abstracts, and repairing misquoted evidence. Critical for ensuring scientific accuracy and preventing AI hallucinations.
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neo4j-labs Skill Mkg RecallRead-only Meta Knowledge Graph memory lookup for Codex. Use to fetch and summarize relevant project-scoped and user-scoped Learning or Decision context from Neo4j before planning, reviewing, or orchestrating work.
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neonwatty Skill Monitor CIMonitor CI status for the current branch, diagnose failures, and summarize results.
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lazuardytech Bundle Web ResearchWeb research automation — search the web, scrape readable page content, and summarize text. Use when the user needs to search the web, look something up online, find information on the internet, scrape a web page, extract article text from a URL, read a webpage's content, or summarize long text or an article. Triggers include "search the web", "cari di internet", "look this up", "google this", "scrape this page", "scrape URL", "extract text from", "read this article", "get content from this link", "summarize this", "ringkas", "summarize this article", "research this topic", "find info about", or any task requiring web search, page scraping, or text summarization. No API key required — uses only the Python standard library.
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leeroo-ai Bundle Self Evolve RAGLeeroopedia Knowledge Base Tools — Reference
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leeroo-ai Bundle LLM Post TrainingLeeroopedia Knowledge Base Tools
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leeroo-ai Bundle Ml Inference OptimizationLeeroopedia Knowledge Base — Tool Usage Reference
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linkupplatform Bundle Linkup WorkflowUse when someone has a business goal rather than a single query — "how can I use Linkup?", "enrich my leads", "build a competitor tracker", "research before my meeting", "vet this vendor". Turns a goal into a multi-step Linkup workflow (which endpoint, which calls, what feeds the next step, where another tool takes over), grounded in bundled workflow patterns and 18 ready-made recipes.
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liucongg Bundle Design Led Website BuilderTurn a thin brief (who, why, what to show) into a distinctive researched website. If the brief could mean more than one product, ask once to lock intent and wait. Then research matching live sites, hunt licensed or generated materials (textures, open art, editorial photos — not fake portraits), and build. Skip the ask when the job, a style, a URL/screenshot, or a brand already settles it. Use for new sites and redesigns, not bug fixes or copy edits.
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lollipopkit Skill Context FirewallThis skill should be used when the user asks to "analyze a large log", "summarize a big file", "read the whole repository", "process long tool output", "avoid context window overflow", "use sub-agents for preprocessing", "add evidence with line numbers", "verify claims with locators", or mentions "TaskSpec", "SubResult", "Evidence Contract", "Context Firewall", "Map-Reduce", "FileWorker", "Aggregator", "Critic".
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luochang212 Bundle Github Research AssistantUse whenever the user wants to understand, evaluate, or analyze a GitHub repository, even without the word "analyze", or when they simply paste a github.com link and ask about it. When the question is asked inside a local repo directory, analyze that directory's own repository by default (no link required). Covers basics, purpose, tech stack, usage examples, and architecture.
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qkitzero Skill NotebookNotebook management, search, and organization. Use for all Notebook operations. Triggered by "find past ideas", "search Notebook", "show knowledge base", "organize records", or "check saved content".
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ravihammond Bundle Coding ResearchResearch implementation approaches for coding work; compare options and recommend the best option.
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juliaerror Bundle Econ WriteExpert economics paper writing assistant synthesizing advice from 50+ top guides by Cochrane, McCloskey, Shapiro, Head, Bellemare, Goldin, Glaeser, Kremer, and other leading economists. USE THIS SKILL whenever the user writes, edits, reviews, rewrites, or structures any economics paper, thesis, job market paper, abstract, introduction, conclusion, results section, literature review, or referee response. Also handles LaTeX formatting, presentations, and paper audits. Covers all paper types (applied, theory, structural, mixed) and all sections.
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juliaerror Bundle Econ Writing WorkflowUse as the main entry point for economics writing workflows in English or Chinese, including paper and research-proposal planning, scope and claim convergence, full paper drafting from research questions and result packages, major revision, document-level translation or compression, exhaustive semantic QA and final audits, abstract/introduction/results revision, Chinese top-journal adaptation, English and Chinese diction cleanup, AI/translationese removal, table and figure design, notes/captions, formatting checks, and routing to empirical workflow support when data cleaning, regressions, or variable construction are involved.
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kylecorry31 Skill Trail Sense Backtrack Session SummarySummarize a Trail Sense backtrack recording session on a connected Android device as a timeline table and ranked findings, using the adb scripts in scripts/debugging.
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kzahel Skill GmailRead and send email via Gmail — fetch inbox, summarize messages, send reports and notifications via IMAP/SMTP
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kzahel Skill RedditScrape and summarize Reddit subreddits via the browser tool — extract posts, comments, and trends using old.reddit.com
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ladyiceberg Skill Memory CheckQuickly scan OpenClaw memory system health and summarize findings in plain language. Use this skill whenever the user asks about memory health, memory status, memory stats, wants to know if their OpenClaw memory is working well, or uses phrases like "check memory", "memory health", "how is my memory", "记忆健康", "检查记忆", "记忆状态", "记忆统计". Always use this skill — don't try to answer memory health questions without it.
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 credo-journal, spec-specify, spec-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.