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 Scientific Critical Thinking 8Evaluate 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 Statistical Analysis 4Statistical analysis toolkit. Hypothesis tests (t-test, ANOVA, chi-square), regression, correlation, Bayesian stats, power analysis, assumption checks, APA reporting, for academic research. Use when this capability is needed.
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tomevault-io Bundle UX Researcher Designer 6UX 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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javimosch Skill Quickstart 321tldx - Domain Availability Research Tool
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tomevault-io Bundle Exa Research 2Use Exa AI for neural search, content retrieval, and automated deep research. Requires EXA_API_KEY. Use when this capability is needed.
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tomevault-io Bundle Scholar Evaluation 4Systematic framework for evaluating scholarly and research work based on the ScholarEval methodology. This skill should be used when assessing research papers, evaluating literature reviews, scoring research methodologies, analyzing scientific writing quality, or applying structured evaluation criteria to academic work. Provides comprehensive assessment across multiple dimensions including problem formulation, literature review, methodology, data collection, analysis, results interpretation, and scholarly writing quality. Use when this capability is needed.
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tomevault-io Bundle Scientific Writing 3Write scientific manuscripts. IMRAD structure, citations (APA/AMA/Vancouver), figures/tables, reporting guidelines (CONSORT/STROBE/PRISMA), abstracts, for research papers and journal submissions. Use when this capability is needed.
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tomevault-io Bundle Obsidian Vault Manager 2Manage Obsidian knowledge base - capture ideas, YouTube videos, articles, repositories, create study guides, publish to GitHub Pages, and share notes via URL (no server storage). Use smart AI tagging for automatic organization. Use when this capability is needed.
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tomevault-io Bundle Privateinvestigator 2Ethical people-finding using 15 parallel research agents (45 search threads) across public records, social media, reverse lookups. Public data only, no pretexting. USE WHEN find person, locate, reconnect, people search, skip trace, reverse lookup, social media search, public records search, verify identity. Use when this capability is needed.
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tomevault-io Bundle Recursive Decomposition 2Based on the Recursive Language Models (RLM) research by Zhang, Kraska, and Khattab (2025), this skill provides strategies for handling tasks that exceed comfortable context limits through programmatic decomposition and recursive self-invocation. Triggers on phrases like "analyze all files", "process this large document", "aggregate information from", "search across the codebase", or tasks involving 10+ files or 50k+ tokens. Use when this capability is needed.
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tomevault-io Bundle Jeremylongshore Claude Code Plugins Plus Skills Openevid 13OpenEvidence — DeepConsult Research Synthesis
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tomevault-io Bundle Writing Release Notes 2Use when drafting GitHub release notes or changelog content for this project (Genshin Impact Wish Gacha Analyzer). Triggers when the user asks to write release content for a new version, summarize a tag-to-tag diff (e.g. "v1.0.0...v1.1.0"), or produce "更新內容 / 版本說明 / release note". Produces bilingual (zh-Hant on top, en on bottom) Discord-style prose for headline features with a short bullet list for minor items — NOT a corporate-style changelog with one section header per category.
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holobiomicslab Skill Cross Database Entity Reconciliation 2Use when you have chemical entity records scattered across two or more public repositories (e.g., HMDB, ChEMBL, PubChem, KEGG) and need a single authoritative, deduplicated knowledge base indexed by a queryable identifier (e.g., m/z value or chemical formula).
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holobiomicslab Skill Domain Specific Masst API Integration 2Use when your research involves searching MS/MS spectra against multiple curated taxonomic or domain-specific databases (microbial, plant, tissue, microbiome, or food origin) and you need to aggregate, compare, and visualize matching results across all domains in a single interface.
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diegosouzapw Bundle Astropy 2Astropy workflow skill. Use this skill when the user needs Astropy is the core Python package for astronomy, providing essential functionality for astronomical research and data analysis and the operator should preserve the upstream workflow, copied support files, and provenance before merging or handing off.
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diegosouzapw Bundle Gh Fix CI 2Gh Pr Checks Plan Fix workflow skill. Use this skill when the user needs a user asks to debug or fix failing GitHub PR checks that run in GitHub Actions. Uses gh to inspect checks and logs, summarize failure context, draft a fix plan, and implement only after explicit approval. Treats external providers (for example Buildkite) as out of scope and reports only the details URL. Do NOT use for addressing PR review comments (use gh-address-comments) or general CI outside GitHub Actions and the operator should preserve the upstream workflow, copied support files, and provenance before merging or handing off.
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diegosouzapw Bundle Citation Management 2Citation Management workflow skill. Use this skill when the user needs Manage citations systematically throughout the research and writing process and the operator should preserve the upstream workflow, copied support files, and provenance before merging or handing off.
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diegosouzapw Bundle Apify Market Research 2Market Research workflow skill. Use this skill when the user needs Analyze market conditions, geographic opportunities, pricing, consumer behavior, and product validation across Google Maps, Facebook, Instagram, Booking.com, and TripAdvisor and the operator should preserve the upstream workflow, copied support files, and provenance before merging or handing off.
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holobiomicslab Skill Categorical Grouping And Aggregation 2Use when you have a flat table of structure-organism pairs or entity records and need to summarize their distribution across categorical bins (e.g., organism counts binned by number of associated structures in categories: 1, 1–10, 10–100, >100).
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holobiomicslab Skill Metabolic Network Edge Construction 2Use when when building a comprehensive chemical knowledge base for mass spectrometry formula assignment, particularly when you need to link chemical formulae across heterogeneous repositories (HMDB, ChEMBL, PubChem) and connect them through known metabolic transformations to improve annotation.
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holobiomicslab Skill Root Developmental Tissue Profiling 2Use when you have CDF-format mass spectrometry imaging files from plant roots with accompanying MATLAB workspace files (.mat), and your research goal is to reproduce linear-axis intensity profiles, feature distributions, and spatial metrics reported in a prior publication (e.g., Sama et al. 2025).
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holobiomicslab Skill Performance Metric Extraction From Publications 2Use when you have identified a claim that one tool outperforms another (e.g., 'IDSL.IPA outperforms MZmine 2 and xcms') in a research article's abstract or introduction, but the specific metrics and results table are not included in the introductory text.
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thomasmoreai Skill Cognovit NoteDrafts cognovit promissory notes with confession of judgment provisions, gated by mandatory jurisdictional enforceability research, usury compliance, and statutory disclosure requirements. Advises on alternatives where cognovit clauses are prohibited. Use when drafting cognovit notes, confession of judgment instruments, or loan documents requiring waiver-of-defense provisions.
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thomasmoreai Skill Legal MemoDrafts U.S. internal legal memoranda using IRAC structure to analyze issues, synthesize authority, assess risks, and recommend strategy. Use when asked to draft a research memo, internal memo, issue analysis, case strategy memo, or any IRAC-based legal analysis.
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thomasmoreai Skill Case BriefsGenerates structured case briefs from judicial opinions. Use when the user provides a court opinion and needs a case brief, case summary, or distillation of a judicial decision for legal research.
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diegosouzapw Bundle Pubmed Database 2PubMed Database workflow skill. Use this skill when the user needs direct REST API access to PubMed. Advanced Boolean and MeSH queries, E-utilities API, batch processing, and citation-oriented retrieval. For Python workflows, prefer Biopython (Bio.Entrez). Use this skill for direct HTTP/REST work or custom API implementations, and preserve upstream workflow intent, copied support files, and provenance before handoff.
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vamseeachanta Bundle Subagent Sandbox Limitations 2Critical limitations of delegate_task subagents — sandbox isolation prevents repo writes. Use for research/analysis only, not implementation.
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vamseeachanta Skill Clinical Trial Protocol 2Generate clinical trial protocols for medical devices or drugs through a modular, waypoint-based architecture with research-only and full protocol modes.
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vamseeachanta Skill Nextflow Pipelines Disclaimer 2Sub-skill of nextflow-pipelines: Disclaimer.
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thomasmoreai Skill Pia Health DataConducts Privacy Impact Assessment for health data processing under GDPR Article 9, HIPAA, and sector-specific health privacy regulations. Covers special category data safeguards, clinical research data, patient portals, health wearables, genetic data, and cross-border health data transfers. Keywords: health data PIA, DPIA, Article 9, HIPAA, special category data, clinical research, patient privacy, genetic data.
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thomasmoreai Skill Health Data DpiaGuides DPIA for health and medical data processing covering Art. 9(2)(h)-(j) exemptions, HIPAA crosswalk for transatlantic operations, clinical trial data protection under EU CTR 536/2014, and genetic data specifics under Art. 9(1). Activate for healthcare systems, clinical research, health apps, or medical device data. Keywords: health data, DPIA, Art. 9, clinical trial, genetic data, HIPAA, medical records, special category.
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vamseeachanta Skill Gemini Batch Execution 2Execute Gemini research tasks in efficient batches using hermes router to maximize $20/month quota utilization. Covers toolset config, batch patterns, sandbox pitfalls, and cleanup.
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diegosouzapw Bundle Apify Market Research V2 2Market Research workflow skill. Use this skill when the user needs Analyze market conditions, geographic opportunities, pricing, consumer behavior, and product validation across Google Maps, Facebook, Instagram, Booking.com, and TripAdvisor and the operator should preserve the upstream workflow, copied support files, and provenance before merging or handing off.
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diegosouzapw Bundle Claude Scientific Skills 2Claude Scientific Skills workflow skill. Use this skill when the user needs Scientific research and analysis skills and the operator should preserve the upstream workflow, copied support files, and provenance before merging or handing off.
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vamseeachanta Skill Instrument Data Allotrope Example 1 Vi Cell Blu File 2Sub-skill of instrument-data-allotrope: Example 1: Vi-CELL BLU file (+2).
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paulasilvatech Bundle Build Evidence Map 2Build auditable evidence maps for contested technical choices, research synthesis, proposal review, and consequential decisions. Use this skill when GitHub Copilot must preserve supporting, contradicting, qualifying, and missing evidence with exact source regions instead of collapsing disagreement into prose.
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 scientific-critical-thinking, statistical-analysis, ux-researcher-designer. 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.