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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zavora-ai Bundle Knowledge Base ManagementManage knowledge base — search articles, find related content, create drafts, publish articles, collect feedback, and detect knowledge gaps. Use when searching for solutions, creating KB articles, finding related content, identifying gaps, or improving article quality.
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zechang-xiong Bundle Chinese Reference Formatter SkillUse when a user needs通用中文参考文献、GB/T 7714-style bibliography entries, Chinese academic reference formatting, or BibTeX completion from Chinese or English literature titles, including 根据文献名补全参考文献、生成中文论文参考文献格式、format Chinese academic references.
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zeropointrepo Bundle YoutubeComplete YouTube toolkit: transcripts, captions and subtitles, video and channel search, channel browsing, within-channel search, playlist extraction and new-upload monitoring, powered by TranscriptAPI. Use whenever YouTube is or could be relevant, even if not explicitly mentioned: pasted video, channel or playlist links, bare 11-character video IDs, @handles, creator names, or requests to summarize, quote, transcribe, translate, fact-check or analyse a video. Also use for topic research where talks, lectures, tutorials, reviews, conference sessions or product announcements are the better source, and for tracking what a creator has posted recently. Not for uploading videos, posting comments, or managing a YouTube account.
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matsuikentaro1 Bundle Humanizer AcademicRemove signs of AI-generated writing from academic medical papers. Use when editing or reviewing manuscripts to make them sound more natural and professionally written. Based on Wikipedia's "Signs of AI writing" guide, adapted for medical literature.
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beepboop2025 Bundle Financial EvidenceRoute evidence-led research about money markets, capital-market transmission, China economics and information controls, financial-institution risk, or market liquidity across Seiche, LiquiLens, Undertow, and Palimpsest. Use for sourced research and data retrieval, not trading, portfolio, or personalized financial-advice requests.
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bmiles Skill Pubmed TrendsQuery PubMed publication trends via x402 micropayments to identify emerging research fields, compare therapeutic areas, detect publication spikes, find key papers, and profile authors. Use when analyzing biotech/pharma landscapes, writing grant applications, evaluating drug targets, or researching scientific trends. Requires the x402 skill from coinbase/agentic-wallet-skills for payment commands.
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elizaos Skill Proximity PrizeWork on one verifiable Reed–Solomon proximity-gap research result in SlopDotCash/proximityprize.
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wayne-comerford Bundle AssayerUse when quality is the constraint and someone needs to be sure: feature work, bugfixes, docs, designs, reports, research, reviews, or any ask framed as production-grade, world-class, flawless, exemplar-matching, parallel, or independently reviewed. Not for exploratory or throwaway work, and not when the user has said to keep it light.
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wd041216-bit Bundle Council PilotFully autonomous expert forum builder and project maturity engine. User delivers an idea, auto-distills domain experts from web sources, builds knowledge base with breadth/depth/thickness/effectiveness, scores maturity (0-100), builds project code, debugs, re-scores in adversarial loop until 100/100, then submits to GitHub. Composes research-loop, GAN-style agents, council deliberation, and verification-loop patterns. TRIGGER when: user provides an idea/concept/domain and wants expert-driven project built end-to-end; or says "distill experts", "expert forum", "build with experts", "maturity loop", or "full auto build".
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wesson9527 Bundle AI Supply Chain Bottleneck HunterUse when the user wants a repeatable AI/photonics/semiconductor supply-chain research workflow inspired by Serenity (@aleabitoreddit) and Crux Capital, including bottleneck mapping, stack analysis, evidence gathering from reports/news/earnings, directional sector calls, and optional lower-market-cap candidate names only after the thesis is built.
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whynotzyp Bundle Research Summary科研项目技术总结笔记生成器(所有专业通用)。当用户说"写总结笔记"、"技术总结"、"科研总结"、"项目复现笔记"、"整理项目文档"、"写个总结"、"项目做完了写笔记"、"毕设总结"、"课程设计总结"、"实验总结"、"课题总结"时使用。适用于机械/土木/电气/化学/生物/材料/计算机/经管/社科等任何需要按导师要求产出可复现技术文档的专业。Skill 会通过主动提问引导用户完成 4 项交付物:技术总结笔记、过程记录文档、录屏、项目文件压缩包,并以"他人可按文档复现"为唯一验收标准反复迭代。
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zsy1207 Bundle Academic Writing PolishingPolish, rewrite, or draft academic manuscript prose, cover letters, or reviewer responses. Use when clarity, concision, sentence variety, verb strength, paragraph logic, section fit, journal alignment, claim calibration, literature synthesis, table/figure integration, numerical presentation, or AI-sounding phrasing are concerns.
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zwj-3193655211 Bundle Video TranscriberUse when user provides a Bilibili URL (BV number, bilibili.com link, b23.tv short link), a Douyin URL (v.douyin.com, douyin.com), or a local media file path (mp4, mkv, flv, avi, mov, webm, m4v, mp3, wav, m4a, flac, aac) and asks to transcribe, convert, extract, or summarize the spoken content. Triggers on "转写这个视频", "提取这段录音的文字", "看看这个 B 站/抖音讲了什么", or any paste of a BV/URL with transcription intent. Also fires when mixed text contains a video link plus a verb like "转写 / 总结 / 提取文字".
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zzl-zoro Bundle Life Science Evidence ReviewGenerate evidence-based literature reviews, structured evidence synthesis, and knowledge-gap analyses for life science research.
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gnuchev Bundle Open Research ClubJoin the Open Research Club, an open board where AI agents and humans post research contributions on hard problems, check each other's work with revision-bound receipts, and leave a reliable handoff. Read the reading contract first.
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hardikpandya Bundle Last30daysResearch a topic from the last 30 days. Also triggered by 'last30'. Sources: Reddit, X, YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, Hacker News, Polymarket, web. Become an expert and write copy-paste-ready prompts.
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jin-s13 Bundle AI Research Writing SkillEnd-to-end research paper generation, review, and revision for ML/AI/CV/NLP projects from repositories, notes, experiment logs, drafts, and conference templates. Use when building a paper story, mapping claims to evidence, writing or revising sections, producing figures and tables, verifying citations, acting as a skeptical reviewer, running venue or build checks, or preparing a LaTeX/Overleaf/Git submission package.
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k-dense-ai Skill Plain Language SummaryRewrite dense or technical text into a clear plain-language summary with a fixed structure (TL;DR, why it matters, key points, caveats). Use when the user asks to summarize, simplify, explain, "put this in plain language", or make something readable for a general / non-expert audience.
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wizzy15 Bundle Obsidian SkillControls Obsidian vaults via the official CLI (1.12+). Reads, creates, appends to, and searches notes. Manages daily notes, tasks, tags, properties, templates, bookmarks, and plugins. Analyzes knowledge graph structure including backlinks, orphans, and unresolved links. Triggers on Obsidian, vault, notes, daily notes, knowledge base, PKM, second brain, zettelkasten, backlinks, or note-taking tasks.
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woodyxu Bundle Xiaoyuzhou Transcript SummarizerUse this skill when the user provides a Xiaoyuzhou podcast episode URL and wants to extract the transcript, transcribe the audio, or summarize the podcast content.
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wp-a Bundle Nature CitationAdd strict Nature/CNS citations to manuscript text by splitting long passages into citable segments, searching only accepted flagship and subjournal titles from Nature Portfolio, the AAAS Science family, and Cell Press, filtering by publication time range, and exporting one reference-manager-ready output by default. Use this skill whenever the user asks to input text and automatically get references, add citations to a paragraph/manuscript, find Nature-series or CNS support for statements, create text-to-reference correspondence, "分段引用", "自动给出引用", "Nature系列引用", "CNS及子刊", "支撑文献", "补引用", "找引用", or export EndNote/RIS/ENW/Zotero RDF.
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wshuyi Bundle Deep Research深度调研方法论(8步法):将模糊主题转化为高质量调研报告。 触发词:/deep-research、深度调研、帮我调研、调研一下、对比分析 注意:如果用户需要的是可视化图谱而非报告,请使用 research-to-diagram skill。
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wxhcore Bundle Project SummarySummarize a Python project for SDK users.
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xenitv1 Bundle EdicoCore Knowledge Management Skill. Reduces research redundancy and provides autonomous long-term memory by persisting synthesized web data.
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greatsumini Bundle Blog Workflow유튜브 채널 기반 기술 블로그 컨텐츠 생성 워크플로우. 채널에서 컨텐츠 수집, 인사이트 추출, 글 작성까지 전체 프로세스 지원. /collect, /insights, /select, /research, /outline, /feedback, /write, /status 명령어로 워크플로우 실행.
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liangdabiao Bundle Question Refiner将原始研究问题细化为结构化的深度研究任务。通过提问澄清需求,生成符合 OpenAI/Google Deep Research 标准的结构化提示词。当用户提出研究问题、需要帮助定义研究范围、或想要生成结构化研究提示词时使用此技能。
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valuecell-ai Bundle Computer UseOperate a local app or desktop UI through ClawX's bundled native CUA CLI, or when the user selects /computer-use. Use for explicitly requested GUI tasks, not unrelated coding, research, or conversation.
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centminmod Skill Consult CodexDual-AI code analysis pairing OpenAI Codex with Claude code-searcher — the lightest consult variant, two citation-verified perspectives. Use for a quick second opinion on a code question.
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nvk Skill StepbystepConvert the current session's research, summary, plan, or partially completed work into an interactive one-step-at-a-time instruction mode. Use when the user says stepbystep, sbs, step-by-step mode, asks to be walked through a process with checkpoints, or wants to test each step, give feedback, move forward, go back, regress, revise, or exit.
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easychen Bundle Opc OrchestratorOrchestrate the full one-person company workflow across all OPC skills. Use when Codex needs to start, continue, or review the complete 一人企业方法论流程, read prior outputs from `opc-doc/`, determine the user's familiarity and preferred interaction mode, explain terms when needed, ask one question at a time, offer user-selectable options, and summarize the next concrete action for a Chinese-speaking user.
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a-tokyo Skill AutoresearchAutonomous iterative experimentation loop for any programming task. Guides the user through defining goals, measurable metrics, and scope constraints, then runs an autonomous loop of code changes, testing, measuring, and keeping/discarding results. Inspired by Karpathy's autoresearch. USE FOR: autonomous improvement, iterative optimization, experiment loop, auto research, performance tuning, automated experimentation, hill climbing, try things automatically, optimize code, run experiments, autonomous coding loop. DO NOT USE FOR: one-shot tasks, simple bug fixes, code review, or tasks without a measurable metric.
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samgalanakis Bundle CupelMake your clanker your investing analyst. A personal research companion that learns the user's edges (their job, their life, their circle of competence) and stress-tests ideas against the investing canon (Lynch, Mayer, Dorsey, Graham, Bogle, Housel, Bernstein, Marks). It reads and writes a single Obsidian-compatible "office" vault that accumulates the user's edges, trusted sources, watchlist, themes, positions, theses, and a decision journal. Use when the user wants to research a company, capture or develop an investment idea, scout for new opportunities beyond their current list, review a holding or their portfolio, decide how to allocate or rebalance, think through a buy/sell/hold decision, or get a status check on where they stand. It gives reasoned, mandate-grounded calls — likely scenarios, rough upside and timeframe, and the risks named — refusing only false precision dressed as fact and bare tip-bot signals, and never placing trades.
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bityoungjae Bundle Plugin ResearchNeovim plugin ecosystem research. Use for: version compatibility, GitHub issues, breaking changes, plugin alternatives. Provides systematic investigation patterns for plugin-related problems.
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avibebuilder Skill AskAnswer questions about code, architecture, and technical decisions — no implementation. Trigger on questions asking 'why', 'what does this do', 'what is the purpose of', 'explain', 'what's the difference', 'compare', or 'what are the tradeoffs' — even when referencing specific files, code snippets, or inline code. The key signal is the user wants to UNDERSTAND something, not change it. Do NOT trigger for requests to build, fix, plan, review, research, or add/modify code.
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mikkelkrogsholm Bundle ResearchSource evaluation framework, web search strategies, and ingestion workflows for autonomous research. Includes reliability scoring, chunking strategies, entity extraction patterns, and quality thresholds.
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msgbyte Skill Changelog AnalyzerAnalyze git commits in a range by examining actual code diffs (not commit titles) and produce a ranked list of improvements and optimizations. Use when the user wants a changelog, wants to summarize recent changes, asks what changed since a commit, or wants to review project progress.
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 knowledge-base-management, chinese-reference-formatter-skill, youtube. 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.