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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paulasilvatech Skill Structured Autonomy Plan 2Research a feature request and produce a structured autonomy plan at plans/{feature-name}/plan.md with commit-sized implementation steps, affected files, branch name, tests, and clarification markers. Use when asked to plan a feature, prepare structured autonomy implementation, or create a PR-sized development plan without writing code.
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paulasilvatech Skill Autoresearch 2Run an autonomous iterative experimentation loop for programming tasks with measurable outcomes. Use when the user asks for autonomous improvement, iterative optimization, experiment loops, auto research, performance tuning, automated experimentation, hill climbing, trying changes automatically, optimizing code, benchmarks, coverage, latency, throughput, build time, memory use, or other metric-driven coding work.
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paulasilvatech Skill Repo Story Time 2Analyze a Git repository and create two archaeology deliverables: REPOSITORY_SUMMARY.md with technical architecture and THE_STORY_OF_THIS_REPO.md with a narrative from commit history. Use when asked to summarize a repo, explain its architecture, inspect git history, identify contributors, or tell the story of repository evolution.
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paulasilvatech Bundle Commit Message Storyteller 2Analyze git diffs, staged changes, or plain change descriptions and generate narrative Conventional Commits messages that explain why the change matters. Use when asked to "write a commit message", "generate a commit", "describe my changes", "what should I commit this as", "commit this", "summarize my diff", or "help me commit".
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plurigrid Skill Content Research Writer 2Assists in writing high-quality content by conducting research, adding
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plurigrid Skill Lead Research Assistant 2Identifies high-quality leads for your product or service by analyzing
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plurigrid Skill Zeroth Bot 2Zeroth Bot - 3D-printed open-source humanoid robot platform for sim-to-real and RL research. Affordable entry point for humanoid robotics.
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plurigrid Bundle Content Research WriterAssists in writing high-quality content by conducting research, adding citations, improving hooks, iterating on outlines, and providing real-time feedback on each section. Transforms your writing process from solo effort to collaborative partnership.
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plurigrid Skill Depth Search 2Deep multi-source research combining academic MCPs (arxiv, semantic-scholar, paper-search, deepwiki), Exa semantic search, and local ~/.topos knowledge base. Use for comprehensive research requiring multiple sources. NEVER fall back to web_search - ask user for help instead.
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nota-america Bundle Nnsight Remote InterpretabilityProvides guidance for interpreting and manipulating neural network internals using nnsight with optional NDIF remote execution. Use when needing to run interpretability experiments on massive models (70B+) without local GPU resources, or when working with any PyTorch architecture.
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nota-america Bundle Sparse Autoencoder TrainingProvides guidance for training and analyzing Sparse Autoencoders (SAEs) using SAELens to decompose neural network activations into interpretable features. Use when discovering interpretable features, analyzing superposition, or studying monosemantic representations in language models.
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nota-america Bundle Systems Paper WritingComprehensive guide for writing systems papers targeting OSDI, SOSP, ASPLOS, NSDI, and EuroSys. Provides paragraph-level structural blueprints, writing patterns, venue-specific checklists, reviewer guidelines, LaTeX templates, and conference deadlines. Use this skill for all systems conference paper writing.
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nota-america Bundle Single Cell Rna QcPerforms quality control on single-cell RNA-seq data (.h5ad or .h5 files) using scverse best practices with MAD-based filtering and comprehensive visualizations. Use when users request QC analysis, filtering low-quality cells, assessing data quality, or following scverse/scanpy best practices for single-cell analysis.
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nota-america Skill 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.
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nota-america Skill Brainstorming Research IdeasGuides researchers through structured ideation frameworks to discover high-impact research directions. Use when exploring new problem spaces, pivoting between projects, or seeking novel angles on existing work.
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nota-america Skill Creative Thinking For ResearchApplies 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.
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undermybelt Skill Ecc Research OpsEvidence-first current-state research workflow for ECC. Use when the user wants fresh facts, comparisons, enrichment, or a recommendation built from current public evidence and any supplied local context.
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undermybelt Skill Ecc Deep ResearchMulti-source deep research using firecrawl and exa MCPs. Searches the web, synthesizes findings, and delivers cited reports with source attribution. Use when the user wants thorough research on any topic with evidence and citations.
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undermybelt Skill Ecc Market ResearchConduct market research, competitive analysis, investor due diligence, and industry intelligence with source attribution and decision-oriented summaries. Use when the user wants market sizing, competitor comparisons, fund research, technology scans, or research that informs business decisions.
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undermybelt Skill Ecc Ito Basket CompareCompare Itô prediction-market baskets against a user's knowledge base, portfolio notes, financial context, watchlist, or research thesis. Use for read-only basket comparison and gap analysis without investment advice or live trading.
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nota-america Bundle SentryUse when the user asks to inspect Sentry issues or events, summarize recent production errors, or pull basic Sentry health data via the Sentry API; perform read-only queries with the bundled script and require `SENTRY_AUTH_TOKEN`.
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newmindsgroup Skill AstropyAstropy is the core Python package for astronomy, providing essential functionality for astronomical research and data analysis.
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newmindsgroup Bundle Last30daysResearch a topic from the last 30 days on Reddit + X + Web, become an expert, and write copy-paste-ready prompts for the user's target tool.
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newmindsgroup Skill Tavily WebWeb search, content extraction, crawling, and research capabilities using Tavily API. Use when you need to search the web for current information, extracting content from URLs, or crawling websites.
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jadegate Skill Content Research WriterAssists in writing high-quality content by conducting research, adding citations, improving hooks, iterating on outlines, and providing real-time feedback on each section. Transforms your writing process from solo effort to collaborative partnership.
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nota-america Bundle Experiment Tracking SwanlabProvides guidance for experiment tracking with SwanLab. Use when you need open-source run tracking, local or self-hosted dashboards, and lightweight media logging for ML workflows.
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nota-america Bundle Blip 2 Vision LanguageVision-language pre-training framework bridging frozen image encoders and LLMs. Use when you need image captioning, visual question answering, image-text retrieval, or multimodal chat with state-of-the-art zero-shot performance.
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nota-america Bundle AxolotlExpert guidance for fine-tuning LLMs with Axolotl - YAML configs, 100+ models, LoRA/QLoRA, DPO/KTO/ORPO/GRPO, multimodal support
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nota-america Bundle UnslothExpert guidance for fast fine-tuning with Unsloth - 2-5x faster training, 50-80% less memory, LoRA/QLoRA optimization
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nota-america Bundle Audiocraft Audio GenerationPyTorch library for audio generation including text-to-music (MusicGen) and text-to-sound (AudioGen). Use when you need to generate music from text descriptions, create sound effects, or perform melody-conditioned music generation.
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nota-america Skill Meeting BriefingPrepare structured briefings for meetings with legal relevance and track resulting action items. Use when preparing for contract negotiations, board meetings, compliance reviews, or any meeting where legal context, background research, or action tracking is needed.
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nota-america Bundle Scvi ToolsDeep learning for single-cell analysis using scvi-tools. This skill should be used when users need (1) data integration and batch correction with scVI/scANVI, (2) ATAC-seq analysis with PeakVI, (3) CITE-seq multi-modal analysis with totalVI, (4) multiome RNA+ATAC analysis with MultiVI, (5) spatial transcriptomics deconvolution with DestVI, (6) label transfer and reference mapping with scANVI/scArches, (7) RNA velocity with veloVI, or (8) any deep learning-based single-cell method. Triggers include mentions of scVI, scANVI, totalVI, PeakVI, MultiVI, DestVI, veloVI, sysVI, scArches, variational autoencoder, VAE, batch correction, data integration, multi-modal, CITE-seq, multiome, reference mapping, latent space.
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nota-america Skill Research Synthesis 2Synthesize user research into themes, insights, and recommendations. Use when you have interview transcripts, survey results, usability test notes, support tickets, or NPS responses that need to be distilled into patterns, user segments, and prioritized next steps.
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nota-america Bundle Ml Paper Writing 2Write publication-ready ML/AI papers for NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, ACL, AAAI, COLM. Use when drafting papers from research repos, structuring arguments, verifying citations, or preparing camera-ready submissions. For systems venues (OSDI, NSDI, ASPLOS, SOSP), use systems-paper-writing instead.
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nota-america Bundle Pytorch Fsdp2Adds PyTorch FSDP2 (fully_shard) to training scripts with correct init, sharding, mixed precision/offload config, and distributed checkpointing. Use when models exceed single-GPU memory or when you need DTensor-based sharding with DeviceMesh.
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nota-america Bundle Academic PlottingGenerates publication-quality figures for ML papers from research context. Given a paper section or description, extracts system components and relationships to generate architecture diagrams via Gemini. Given experiment results or data, auto-selects chart type and generates data-driven figures via matplotlib/seaborn. Use when creating any figure for a conference paper.
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 structured-autonomy-plan, autoresearch, repo-story-time. 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.