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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tomevault-io Bundle Research Grants 2Write competitive research proposals for NSF, NIH, DOE, and DARPA. Agency-specific formatting, review criteria, budget preparation, broader impacts, significance statements, innovation narratives, and compliance with submission requirements. Use when this capability is needed.
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tomevault-io Bundle Venue Templates 3Access comprehensive LaTeX templates, formatting requirements, and submission guidelines for major scientific publication venues (Nature, Science, PLOS, IEEE, ACM), academic conferences (NeurIPS, ICML, CVPR, CHI), research posters, and grant proposals (NSF, NIH, DOE, DARPA). This skill should be used when preparing manuscripts for journal submission, conference papers, research posters, or grant proposals and need venue-specific formatting requirements and templates. Use when this capability is needed.
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tomevault-io Bundle Gemini Prompting 8Internal guidance for composing Gemini and GPT-5.4 prompts for coding, review, diagnosis, and research tasks inside the Gemini Claude Code plugin Use when this capability is needed.
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tomevault-io Bundle Pubmed Database 3Direct REST API access to PubMed. Advanced Boolean/MeSH queries, E-utilities API, batch processing, citation management. For Python workflows, prefer biopython (Bio.Entrez). Use this for direct HTTP/REST work or custom API implementations. Use when this capability is needed.
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tomevault-io Bundle UX Researcher Designer 3UX research and design toolkit for Senior UX Designer/Researcher including data-driven persona generation, journey mapping, usability testing frameworks, and research synthesis. Use for user research, persona creation, journey mapping, and design validation. Use when this capability is needed.
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tomevault-io Bundle Customer Research 2Multi-source research on a customer question or topic with source attribution. Use when a customer asks something you need to look up, investigating whether a bug has been reported before, checking what was previously told to a specific account, or gathering background before drafting a response. Use when this capability is needed.
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tomevault-io Bundle UX Researcher Designer 4UX research and design toolkit for Senior UX Designer/Researcher including data-driven persona generation, journey mapping, usability testing frameworks, and research synthesis. Use for user research, persona creation, journey mapping, and design validation. Use when this capability is needed.
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tomevault-io Bundle Pubmed Database 4Direct REST API access to PubMed. Advanced Boolean/MeSH queries, E-utilities API, batch processing, citation management. For Python workflows, prefer biopython (Bio.Entrez). Use this for direct HTTP/REST work or custom API implementations. Use when this capability is needed.
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tomevault-io Bundle Gemini Interactions API 4Use this skill when writing code that calls the Gemini API for text generation, multi-turn chat, multimodal understanding, image generation, streaming responses, background research tasks, function calling, structured output, or migrating from the old generateContent API. This skill covers the Interactions API, the recommended way to use Gemini models and agents in Python and TypeScript.
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tomevault-io Bundle Customer Research 3Use this skill when the user needs to understand their customers, create personas, conduct user interviews, apply the Jobs-to-be-Done framework, or create an ideal customer profile. Also use when the user says 'ICP,' 'ideal customer,' 'who is my customer,' 'customer profile,' or 'target audience.' Covers JTBD methodology, behavioral personas, interview techniques, and creates MY-ICP.md — a reference file that other skills use to personalize copy with customer language.
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tomevault-io Bundle Citation Management 3Comprehensive citation management for academic research. Search Google Scholar and PubMed for papers, extract accurate metadata, validate citations, and generate properly formatted BibTeX entries. This skill should be used when you need to find papers, verify citation information, convert DOIs to BibTeX, or ensure reference accuracy in scientific writing. Use when this capability is needed.
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tomevault-io Bundle Citation Management 4Comprehensive citation management for academic research. Search Google Scholar and PubMed for papers, extract accurate metadata, validate citations, and generate properly formatted BibTeX entries. This skill should be used when you need to find papers, verify citation information, convert DOIs to BibTeX, or ensure reference accuracy in scientific writing. Use when this capability is needed.
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tomevault-io Bundle Codex Autoresearch 2Run Codex Autoresearch end to end from one plugin skill. Use when Codex should start, resume, inspect, dashboard, deep-research, iterate, log, or finalize measured optimization loops using autoresearch.md, autoresearch.jsonl, quality_gap scratchpads, or the local CLI helpers. Use when this capability is needed.
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tomevault-io Bundle Market Research 3Use this skill when the user needs to size a market, analyze competitors, calculate TAM/SAM/SOM, or validate a business idea. Covers market sizing, competitive analysis frameworks, napkin math, and bottom-up revenue estimation.
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tomevault-io Bundle Skill Creator 260Guide for creating effective skills. This skill should be used when users want to create a new skill (or update an existing skill) that extends Claude's capabilities with specialized knowledge, workflows, or tool integrations. Use when this capability is needed.
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tomevault-io Bundle Scientific Critical Thinking 3Evaluate research rigor. Assess methodology, experimental design, statistical validity, biases, confounding, evidence quality (GRADE, Cochrane ROB), for critical analysis of scientific claims. Use when this capability is needed.
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tomevault-io Bundle Scientific Critical Thinking 4Evaluate research rigor. Assess methodology, experimental design, statistical validity, biases, confounding, evidence quality (GRADE, Cochrane ROB), for critical analysis of scientific claims. Use when this capability is needed.
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tomevault-io Bundle Scholar Evaluation 2Systematically evaluate scholarly work using the ScholarEval framework, providing structured assessment across research quality dimensions including problem formulation, methodology, analysis, and writing with quantitative scoring and actionable feedback. Use when this capability is needed.
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tomevault-io Bundle Scientific Writing 2Core skill for the deep research and writing tool. Write scientific manuscripts in full paragraphs (never bullet points). Use two-stage process with (1) section outlines with key points using research-lookup then (2) convert to flowing prose. IMRAD structure, citations (APA/AMA/Vancouver), figures/tables, reporting guidelines (CONSORT/STROBE/PRISMA), for research papers and journal submissions. Use when this capability is needed.
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tomevault-io Bundle Specstory Session Summary 2Summarize recent SpecStory AI coding sessions in standup format. Use when the user wants to review sessions from .specstory/history, prepare for standups, track work progress, or understand what was accomplished. Use when this capability is needed.
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tomevault-io Bundle Github Workflow 8Common GitHub workflow patterns for this project. Use when creating branches, committing, pushing, creating PRs, merging, managing Issues (labels, comments, close), or detecting repository info. Covers the standard docs branch workflow used by investigate, summarize, refactor, and other agents. Use when this capability is needed.
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tomevault-io Bundle Biorxiv Database 3Efficient database search tool for bioRxiv preprint server. Use this skill when searching for life sciences preprints by keywords, authors, date ranges, or categories, retrieving paper metadata, downloading PDFs, or conducting literature reviews. Use when this capability is needed.
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tomevault-io Bundle Ensembl Database 3Query Ensembl genome database REST API for 250+ species. Gene lookups, sequence retrieval, variant analysis, comparative genomics, orthologs, VEP predictions, for genomic research. Use when this capability is needed.
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tomevault-io Bundle Using Tool Executor 2Use when a task needs capabilities BEYOND basic tools (Read/Grep/Glob/Bash) - semantic search, AI analysis, research, image generation, etc.
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tomevault-io Bundle X Search 2Search X/Twitter for real-time developer discourse, product feedback, community sentiment, and expert opinions. Use when user says "x search", "search x for", "search twitter for", "what are people saying about", or needs recent X discourse for context (library releases, API changes, product launches, industry discussion). Also use when researching a library, framework, API, or product to supplement web search with real-time community signal — e.g. "research Bun", "what do devs think of Hono", "is Turso production-ready". Use when this capability is needed.
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tomevault-io Bundle Statistical Analysis 3Guided statistical analysis with test selection and reporting. Use when you need help choosing appropriate tests for your data, assumption checking, power analysis, and APA-formatted results. Best for academic research reporting, test selection guidance. For implementing specific models programmatically use statsmodels. Use when this capability is needed.
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tomevault-io Bundle Creative Thinking For Research 2Applies cognitive science frameworks for creative thinking to CS and AI research ideation. Use when seeking genuinely novel research directions by leveraging combinatorial creativity, analogical reasoning, constraint manipulation, and other empirically grounded creative strategies. Use when this capability is needed.
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tomevault-io Bundle Research Methodology 4Ethan Perez's tips for empirical alignment research - velocity, experimentation, collaboration Use when this capability is needed.
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tomevault-io Bundle UX Researcher Designer 5Comprehensive toolkit for user-centered research and experience design. Use when this capability is needed.
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tomevault-io Bundle Market Research Reports 2Generate comprehensive market research reports (50+ pages) in the style of top consulting firms (McKinsey, BCG, Gartner). Features professional LaTeX formatting, extensive visual generation with scientific-schematics and generate-image, deep integration with research-lookup for data gathering, and multi-framework strategic analysis including Porter's Five Forces, PESTLE, SWOT, TAM/SAM/SOM, and BCG Matrix. Use when this capability is needed.
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tomevault-io Bundle Claude Scientific Skills 2Scientific research and analysis skills Use when this capability is needed.
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tomevault-io Bundle Clinicaltrials Database 2Query ClinicalTrials.gov via API v2. Search trials by condition, drug, location, status, or phase. Retrieve trial details by NCT ID, export data, for clinical research and patient matching. Use when this capability is needed.
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tomevault-io Bundle Scientific Brainstorming 2Creative research ideation and exploration. Use for open-ended brainstorming sessions, exploring interdisciplinary connections, challenging assumptions, or identifying research gaps. Best for early-stage research planning when you do not have specific observations yet. For formulating testable hypotheses from data use hypothesis-generation. Use when this capability is needed.
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tomevault-io Bundle Scientific Critical Thinking 6Evaluate research rigor. Assess methodology, experimental design, statistical validity, biases, confounding, evidence quality (GRADE, Cochrane ROB), for critical analysis of scientific claims. Use when this capability is needed.
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tomevault-io Bundle Gemini Interactions API 6Use this skill when writing code that calls the Gemini API for text generation, multi-turn chat, multimodal understanding, image generation, streaming responses, background research tasks, function calling, structured output, or migrating from the old generateContent API. This skill covers the Interactions API, the recommended way to use Gemini models and agents in Python and TypeScript.
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tomevault-io Bundle Delegation Autopilot 2In Codex interactive mode, call delegate_autopilot automatically for multi-step or cross-cutting requests (including research-only), otherwise work normally. Use when this capability is needed.
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 research-grants, venue-templates, gemini-prompting. 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.