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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daniel8824-del Bundle Prometheus PlanningInterview-based strategic planning for deeply detailed plans (beyond writing-plans). Full cycle: intent classification → research → interview → plan generation → verification. Use when: complex multi-phase projects, new project from scratch, architecture decisions, "프로메테우스", "상세 플랜", "deep plan". Do NOT use for: simple tasks, single-file changes, quick fixes (use writing-plans instead).
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davebcn87 Bundle Autoresearch HooksAuthor pre/post-iteration hooks for an autoresearch session. Use when the user asks to add research fetching, Slack/webhook notifications, persistent learnings, auto-tagging, anti-thrash intervention, idea rotation, or any side effect around iterations.
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liyown Bundle Dshx Hub OpsOperate and maintain DSHX Hub through its stable CLI while using whatever research capabilities are available. Use for adaptive daily, weekly, monthly, or recovery work covering catalog research, sourced bilingual content, local artifact verification, metrics, media, moderation, maintenance, and approval-aware continuation.
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maibornwolff Bundle Rpi PlanCreate detailed, phased implementation plans through interactive research and iteration. Use when the user explicitly asks to "create a plan", "plan the implementation", or "design an approach" for a feature, refactor, or bug fix. Do not use for quick questions or simple tasks.
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manutej Skill Sheaf IngestTake a folder, repo, wiki, or knowledge base and build a typed index of its parts, a lattice you can open, and a reusable package so the next folder uses the same structure. Use when the user says "take this codebase and create a sheaf", "build a lattice knowledge base", "ingest this folder", "make a reusable structure from this repo", or "index this wiki." Do not use for a one-file edit or a chat Q&A. Do not treat paragraphs or embeddings as parts. Do not invent links.
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matheus-ndc Skill Summarize PayloadUse esta skill quando for útil resumir rapidamente um texto, log, análise ou saída intermediária mantendo só os pontos principais.
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memorysaver Bundle Rss ReaderRead and parse RSS/Atom feeds to monitor news, blogs, and content updates. Use when you need to fetch RSS feeds, parse entries, or monitor content sources for updates.
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gaznil Skill Keyword ResearchWhen the user wants to research keywords, find target keywords, or analyze search intent. Also use when the user mentions "keyword research," "keyword tool," "target keywords," "search volume," "search intent," "keyword difficulty," "topical map," "keyword clustering," "People Also Ask," "Google autocomplete," "autocomplete keywords," or "alphabet method." For clusters, use content-strategy.
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0antique Bundle Paper Search AssistantSearch and curate recent research paper collections by target conference set, year range, and research topic, then return a verified Chinese table with title, conference-year, keywords, paper link, and open-source code status. Use when the user asks to find papers from CCF-A/AI conferences, top conferences such as ICLR, ICML, NeurIPS/NIPS, ACL, AAAI, KDD, CVPR, or strong B conferences such as ICASSP, EMNLP, IJCAI, especially for a topic-focused literature list or paper collection.
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ahmad-jaradat-space Skill Evidence First ClaimsRecord sources, evidence, hypotheses, results and claims in a ScientistOS research graph at the E0-E5 evidence level the lineage actually supports, and split work between the Scientist and Auditor roles. Use before asserting any scientific finding, citing a paper, or saying something "shows" or "causes" or "improves" something, and when promoting a claim, writing an abstract or results section, or auditing someone else's conclusion. Triggers include "record this finding", "add this evidence", "is this claim supported", "can we say X causes Y", "write up the results", "what level is this claim", "check for confounding or leakage". Do not use for non-scientific assertions or projects without a ScientistOS research graph.
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ahmad-jaradat-space Skill Research Integrity GateDiagnose and repair a failing ScientistOS integrity gate, provenance chain, or replay verification. Use when `science integrity`, `verify-store` or `verify-replay` fails, when the Claude Code Stop hook or the git pre-commit hook blocks on a broken research graph, before handing research to anyone, and before treating a result as final. Triggers include "integrity check failed", "the hook is blocking me", "blocking finding", "graph digest", "provenance chain broken", "claim has no lineage", "evidence not verified", "verify the replay package", "is this research ready to share". It only ever repairs graphs; never use it to weaken or bypass a check. Not for general CI, lint or test failures.
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joshmedeski Skill TtsSummarize conversation feedback and speak it aloud using the local tts binary (Kokoro TTS via mlx-audio), and control always-on / verbose voice modes. Use when the user runs "/pst:tts", says "read this back to me", "summarize and speak", "text to speech", wants an audio summary, or wants the assistant to keep speaking throughout the session. Trigger on any request to hear something spoken aloud.
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jxpeng98 Bundle QiongliQiongli version: v1.17.0. Cross-platform academic research workflow for Codex, Claude / Claude Code, and CLI. Use for academic research lifecycle work: paper planning, literature review, paper reading, gap finding, study design, manuscript writing, statistics, analysis code, reproducibility, proofread, rebuttal, submission, presentation, and stage-aware grill / critique. Route natural academic requests even when the user does not explicitly invoke $qiongli or a slash command.
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dsebastien Bundle Arxiv SearchSearch arXiv for research papers by topic, category, author, or date range. Returns structured JSON with titles, authors, abstracts, and links - no full text (pair with arxiv-analyze for that). Use when the user says "search arxiv", "find arxiv papers", "arxiv papers on", "latest papers about", or "arxiv research".
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dsebastien Bundle Scholar CitationsFetch the citation graph for a research paper via OpenAlex. Returns the papers it cites (references - what preceded it) and the papers that cite it (citations - what built on it). Accepts OpenAlex work ID, DOI, arXiv ID, PMID, or OpenAlex/DOI URL. No API key required. Use when the user says "what does this paper cite", "who cites this paper", "references of", "citation graph", "papers that built on", or "trace this idea backward/forward".
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edinetdb Skill X ResearchX/Twitter public sentiment research. Searches X for real-time perspectives, market sentiment, expert opinions, breaking news, and community discourse. Use when: user asks "what are people saying about", "X/Twitter sentiment", "check X for", "search twitter for", "what's CT saying about", or wants public opinion on a stock, sector, company, or market event.
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run-labs-com Bundle Name AvailabilityResearch whether a brand/product/company name is free to use by checking domain availability across TLDs and trademark registrations (EUIPO, TMview, WIPO, DPMA). Use when naming a startup, SaaS, product, or brand and you need to know if domains are registrable and the name is clear of conflicting trademarks. Triggers include "is this name available", "check the domain", "is X trademarked", "find an available name", "EUIPO/trademark search".
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saidwivedi Bundle Research CollaboratorUse this skill whenever a researcher wants to test, validate, stress-test, or falsify a research idea or hypothesis — especially in AI/ML/deep learning. Trigger on phrases like "I have an idea," "would this work," "test this hypothesis," "sanity check my idea," "what's wrong with this idea," "review my results," "is this publishable," "why isn't this working," or any request to evaluate the feasibility, novelty, or correctness of a research concept.
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sergio-bershadsky Skill Secondbrain DB EditUse when creating, updating, or deleting documents in an sbdb-managed knowledge base. Triggers on: "create a note", "add a discussion", "update this ADR", "edit the KB", "write a new page", "add content", "modify frontmatter", "create template", or any operation that writes to docs/ in a project with .sbdb.toml.
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shck-dev Skill Start ThreadUse when opening OR RESUMING a unit of work — a feature, bug, research spike, refactor, an experiment — that should survive context loss in its own scratch workspace with a handoff doc. Idempotent create-or-resume: a fresh topic gets a scaffolded STATE doc; an existing thread gets a resume briefing (STATE + live git/PR deltas) and you keep working — one command, day 1 or day 20. Also when asked to "start a thread", "new thread", "continue the thread", "resume", "track this work", or "make a workspace for this".
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skills-lock Skill Changelog SummarySummarize recent CHANGELOG.md entries since the last release tag. Uses git + cat. Does not modify files or call external services. Use when you want a paragraph summary of what shipped since the last tag, suitable for pasting into a Slack post or a release email.
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oomol-lab Bundle Public Social ResearchResearch and analyze fresh public data from TikTok, Douyin, WeChat Channels, WeChat Official Accounts, WeChat Search, Weibo, YouTube, Reddit, Twitter, Zhihu, Kuaishou, and Xiaohongshu through an OO-authenticated managed proxy backed by TikHub. Use when the user asks to search, retrieve, compare, monitor, or analyze current public posts, videos, comments, users, creators, trends, products, topics, audiences, or cross-platform performance. This workflow does not use or require a connected TikHub app or user-supplied TikHub credentials. Do not use for style-only writing, generic advice, or analysis that can be completed from data the user already supplied.
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oujingzhou Skill SummarizeSummarize text concisely
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phenomenoner Bundle Thinkroom OperateOperate Thinkroom research jobs
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exa-labs Skill Exa Web SearchDEFAULT for all web search and research queries. Use when the user needs current information, news, research, fact-checking, code examples, API docs, or any question requiring live web data. Prefer this over websearch.
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exa-labs Skill Exa Best PracticesReference guide for Exa search tools. Covers tool selection, citation standards, search optimization, and troubleshooting. Also useful as background context for improving search quality.
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fsprojects Skill Style GuidesLook up what the F# style guides say about a formatting question. Use when deciding or defending a layout rule in Fantomas, when a Chains.md or design discussion needs a citation, or when the user asks what Microsoft or G-Research prescribe.
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memorysaver Bundle Browser ResearchThis skill should be used when the user needs to perform deep web research across multiple websites, extract data from JavaScript-rendered or dynamic pages, navigate through search results or paginated content, or build comprehensive research reports from multiple sources. Use this skill when the user says: "research this topic across sites", "scrape this website", "extract data from this page", "compare prices", "browse and extract information", "fill forms and get results", "navigate through pages", "click through search results", "research authenticated content", or "cross-reference multiple sources". Prefer this over WebFetch when pages require JavaScript, interaction, authentication, or multi-step navigation.
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mevans2120 Skill Design ConceptsCreates conceptual designs that illustrate design strategy and approach. Use when user says "mockup", "wireframe", "concept", "mood board", "visual direction", "design options", "explore designs", "UI design", "prototype", "design this", "show me designs", "create a design", "look and feel", or "design variations". Leverages research insights and design briefs to develop UI concepts, mood boards, and interactive prototypes. Do NOT use when user needs to understand users first (use design-research), or is writing code.
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mevans2120 Skill Design ResearchDesign - Research
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mikecfisher Bundle Debug FixedUser confirms the bug is fixed. Clean up instrumentation and summarize.
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millionco Skill Rule ResearchResearch and scope deslop-js detector ideas before implementation. Use when validating a proposed finding, grounding it in JavaScript/TypeScript/module-system behavior, fixture evidence, false-positive traps, detector precision, or v1 non-goals.
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mitchuski Skill Overlay SweepSweep ONE overlay dimension (proverbs, protocols, spells/emoji strings, or sci-fi concepts) across the V6 research directory, producing an evidence-anchored inventory in the poetic register. Use when the Loomkeeper runs an overlay cycle or refreshes a single dimension after new formal work lands.
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mitchuski Skill Overlay Key MintingConvert woven overlay threads into understanding cards (understanding-compression format, cohere-gated) whose principles line is the thread's PROVERB — the moving-understanding-as-key surface for the V6 research programme. Use after WEAVE.md exists for a run.
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mukulchugh Bundle Pr BriefSummarize a pull request's product and business impact — what changes for users, who is affected, what to watch after merge — as a fast, evidence-grounded brief. Use for a PR summary, a ship/no-ship call, launch or release notes, or deciding who (support/sales/docs) needs to know once a PR merges; for deep code review use pr-walkthrough instead.
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nduckmink Skill Arkon QueryAnswer questions using the Arkon knowledge base. Searches wiki first, drills into raw sources only when needed. Supports quick, standard, and deep modes. Triggers on: what do we know about, find in KB, look up, query:, arkon query, search the wiki, tell me about, based on the KB.
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 prometheus-planning, autoresearch-hooks, dshx-hub-ops. 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.