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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spike-faye-lei Skill Comm Lit Review Claude SingleCommunications-domain literature review with Claude-style knowledge-base-first retrieval. Use when the task is about communications, wireless, networking, satellite/NTN, Wi-Fi, cellular, transport protocols, congestion control, routing, scheduling, MAC/PHY, rate adaptation, channel estimation, beamforming, or communication-system research and the user wants papers, related work, a survey, or a landscape summary.
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spike-faye-lei Skill Wiki Enrich 2Fill in the per-paper TODO sections of research-wiki/papers/<slug>.md pages that literature-ingest skills leave as bare scaffolds. Use when user says 'enrich wiki', 'fill paper TODOs', 'wiki body 補完', '把 paper 摘要寫進 wiki', 'research-wiki 自動填', or after a batch ingest that left papers/ as TODO scaffolds.
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spike-faye-lei Skill Idea Creator 2Generate and rank research ideas given a broad direction. Use when user says "找idea", "brainstorm ideas", "generate research ideas", "what can we work on", or wants to explore a research area for publishable directions.
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spike-faye-lei Skill Research Lit 2Search and analyze research papers, find related work, summarize key ideas. Use when user says "find papers", "related work", "literature review", "what does this paper say", or needs to understand academic papers.
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spike-faye-lei Skill Novelty Check 2Verify research idea novelty against recent literature. Use when user says "查新", "novelty check", "有没有人做过", "check novelty", or wants to verify a research idea is novel before implementing.
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spike-faye-lei Skill Grant Proposal 2Draft a structured grant proposal from research ideas and literature. Supports KAKENHI (Japan), NSF (US), NSFC (China, including 面上/青年/优青/杰青/海外优青/重点), ERC (EU), DFG (Germany), SNSF (Switzerland), ARC (Australia), NWO (Netherlands), and generic formats. Use when user says "write grant", "grant proposal", "申請書", "write KAKENHI", "科研費", "基金申请", "写基金", "NSF proposal", or wants to turn research ideas into a funding application.
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spike-faye-lei Skill Research Refine 2Turn a vague research direction into a problem-anchored, elegant, frontier-aware, implementation-oriented method plan via iterative GPT-5.5 review. Use when the user says "refine my approach", "帮我细化方案", "decompose this problem", "打磨idea", "refine research plan", "细化研究方案", or wants a concrete research method that stays simple, focused, and top-venue ready instead of a vague or overbuilt idea.
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spike-faye-lei Skill Semantic Scholar 2Search published venue papers (IEEE, ACM, Springer, etc.) via Semantic Scholar API. Complements /arxiv (preprints) with citation counts, venue metadata, and TLDR. Use when user says "search semantic scholar", "find IEEE papers", "find journal papers", "venue papers", "citation search", or wants published literature beyond arXiv preprints.
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spike-faye-lei Skill Idea Creator 3Generate and rank research ideas given a broad direction. Use when user says "找idea", "brainstorm ideas", "generate research ideas", "what can we work on", or wants to explore a research area for publishable directions.
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braxtonrose4 Skill ScraplingWeb scraping with Scrapling - HTTP fetching, stealth browser automation, Cloudflare bypass, and spider crawling via CLI and Python.
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braxtonrose4 Bundle Duckduckgo SearchFree web search via DuckDuckGo — text, news, images, videos. No API key needed. Prefer the `ddgs` CLI when installed; use the Python DDGS library only after verifying that `ddgs` is available in the current runtime.
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sahit-sai Bundle Epd ResearchSearch for EPDs by product category, CSI division, or material type. Finds EPDs from EC3, program operator registries, and manufacturer sites.
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hamza-ali-shahjahan Skill Content Marketer 2Build content calendars and draft individual pieces — blog posts, social, LinkedIn, threads — anchored on keyword research and brand voice.
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d-wwei Skill Fsi Lseg Equity ResearchGenerate comprehensive equity research snapshots combining analyst consensus estimates, company fundamentals, historical prices, and macroeconomic context. Use when researching stocks, comparing estimates to actuals, analyzing company financials, assessing equity valuations, or building investment cases.
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egregore-labs Skill The Spiral 2A generative epistemology engine that transforms intuitions into rigorous, communicable output through structured Socratic dialogue. Use this skill whenever someone needs to develop, pressure-test, and articulate a complex thesis — fundraising materials, book proposals, product strategy, research agendas, organizational philosophy, policy design, or any context requiring deep structured thinking. Triggers on: 'let's think through', 'help me articulate', 'pressure test this', 'develop this thesis', 'spiral', 'deep exploration', 'Socratic', or any request to go from intuition to rigorous output. Also triggers when a user has a strong conviction but can't yet articulate it clearly, or when they need to prepare materials that require deep domain understanding (pitch decks, memos, strategy docs, proposals).
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egregore-labs Bundle Deep Reflect 2Run deep, multi-hop research over org memory to answer a question or cross-reference an insight, with a cited synthesis. Use for /deep-reflect — not one-shot recall (/search) or capturing an insight (/reflect).
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egregore-labs Skill Ingest Corpus 2Turn a large folder of documents into a Connect-only knowledge base that answers questions with sources. Say 'build a knowledge base'. Not a few files (/ingest) or a meeting/Notion/Google source.
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sky-cube Skill Skill 47Skill
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math-inc Bundle ArxivSearch and retrieve academic papers from arXiv using their free REST API. No API key needed. Search by keyword, author, category, or ID. Combine with web_extract or the ocr-and-documents skill to read full paper content.
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math-inc Bundle PolymarketQuery Polymarket prediction market data — search markets, get prices, orderbooks, and price history. Read-only via public REST APIs, no API key needed.
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jetbrains 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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dinhanhthi Bundle Cf Ask 2Quick Q&A about the codebase → docs/memory. Use for focused project questions — e.g. "how does X work?", "where is Y defined?", "what's the flow for Z?", "explain this module", "why is this done this way?". Unlike $cf-research, one answer.
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dinhanhthi Skill Cf Warm 2Catch up after absence — summarize git history for a user. Triggers: "warm up", "catch me up", "what happened while I was away", "summarize recent changes", "what changed since I left".
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dinhanhthi Bundle Cf Research 2In-depth research with web search and structured output. Triggers: "research this", "look into this library", "investigate how X works", "compare these options", "best practices for", "deep dive into", "study this technology".
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dinhanhthi Bundle Cf Ask 3Quick Q&A about the codebase → docs/memory. Use for focused project questions — e.g. "how does X work?", "where is Y defined?", "what's the flow for Z?", "explain this module", "why is this done this way?". Unlike /cf-research, one answer.
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dinhanhthi Skill Cf Warm 3Catch up after absence — summarize git history for a user. Triggers: "warm up", "catch me up", "what happened while I was away", "summarize recent changes", "what changed since I left".
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dinhanhthi Skill Cf Verification 2Completion gate — demands fresh verification evidence (test run, command output, manual check) before any claim that work is done. TRIGGER — about to say "done", "complete", "fixed", "passing", "ready to commit" or "ready to ship", or to summarize finished work; the end of any cf-tdd, cf-fix, cf-plan, or cf-optimize run; the user asks "is it done?" or "does it work?". SKIP — mid-task progress notes, exploratory or read-only answers, and plans that have not been implemented yet.
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dinhanhthi Bundle Cf Research 3In-depth research with web search and structured output. Triggers: "research this", "look into this library", "investigate how X works", "compare these options", "best practices for", "deep dive into", "study this technology".
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dinhanhthi Skill Cf Verification 3Completion gate — demands fresh verification evidence (test run, command output, manual check) before any claim that work is done. TRIGGER — about to say "done", "complete", "fixed", "passing", "ready to commit" or "ready to ship", or to summarize finished work; the end of any cf-tdd, cf-fix, cf-plan, or cf-optimize run; the user asks "is it done?" or "does it work?". SKIP — mid-task progress notes, exploratory or read-only answers, and plans that have not been implemented yet.
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wanshuiyin Skill Comm Lit ReviewCommunications-domain literature review with Claude-style knowledge-base-first retrieval. Use when the task is about communications, wireless, networking, satellite/NTN, Wi-Fi, cellular, transport protocols, congestion control, routing, scheduling, MAC/PHY, rate adaptation, channel estimation, beamforming, or communication-system research and the user wants papers, related work, a survey, or a landscape summary.
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wanshuiyin Skill OpenalexSearch academic papers via OpenAlex API for open citation data, institutional affiliations, and funding information. Use when user says "openalex search", "search openalex", "open citation graph", or wants comprehensive academic metadata beyond arXiv/Semantic Scholar.
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wanshuiyin Skill Grant Proposal 2Draft a structured grant proposal from research ideas and literature. Supports KAKENHI (Japan), NSF (US), NSFC (China, including 面上/青年/优青/杰青/海外优青/重点), ERC (EU), DFG (Germany), SNSF (Switzerland), ARC (Australia), NWO (Netherlands), and generic formats. Use when user says "write grant", "grant proposal", "申請書", "write KAKENHI", "科研費", "基金申请", "写基金", "NSF proposal", or wants to turn research ideas into a funding application.
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wanshuiyin Skill Semantic Scholar 2Search published venue papers (IEEE, ACM, Springer, etc.) via Semantic Scholar API. Complements /arxiv (preprints) with citation counts, venue metadata, and TLDR. Use when user says "search semantic scholar", "find IEEE papers", "find journal papers", "venue papers", "citation search", or wants published literature beyond arXiv preprints.
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wanshuiyin Skill Idea Creator 2Generate and rank research ideas given a broad direction. Use when user says "找idea", "brainstorm ideas", "generate research ideas", "what can we work on", or wants to explore a research area for publishable directions.
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wanshuiyin Skill Novelty Check 2Verify research idea novelty against recent literature. Use when user says "查新", "novelty check", "有没有人做过", "check novelty", or wants to verify a research idea is novel before implementing.
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wanshuiyin Skill Novelty Check 3Verify research idea novelty against recent literature. Use when user says "查新", "novelty check", "有没有人做过", "check novelty", or wants to verify a research idea is novel before implementing.
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 comm-lit-review-claude-single, wiki-enrich, idea-creator. 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.