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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wanshuiyin Skill Grant Proposal 3Draft 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 Research Refine 2Turn a vague research direction into a problem-anchored, elegant, frontier-aware, implementation-oriented method plan via iterative Claude 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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wanshuiyin Skill Research Refine 3Turn a vague research direction into a problem-anchored, elegant, frontier-aware, implementation-oriented method plan via iterative Gemini 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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raja21068 Skill Prior Art SearchSearch patent databases and academic literature for prior art relevant to an invention. Use when user says "现有技术检索", "prior art search", "专利检索", "check patents", or wants to find relevant prior art.
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raja21068 Skill Deepxiv 2Search and progressively read open-access academic papers through DeepXiv. Use when the user wants layered paper access, section-level reading, trending papers, or DeepXiv-backed literature retrieval.
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raja21068 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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raja21068 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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raja21068 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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raja21068 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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raja21068 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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raja21068 Skill Research Refine 2Turn a vague research direction into a problem-anchored, elegant, frontier-aware, implementation-oriented method plan via iterative GPT-5.4 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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raja21068 Skill Research Refine 3Turn a vague research direction into a problem-anchored, elegant, frontier-aware, implementation-oriented method plan via iterative Gemini 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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justcyl Bundle Anti Fable 2Transform dense technical, scientific, cybersecurity, computing, network, or life-science research questions into clear source-domain-neutral fables for non-specialists. Use when the user asks to allegorize, fable-ize, turn complex research into a metaphorical story, explain without jargon, produce both plain and more imaginative fable versions, or reduce listener association with the original field while preserving the reasoning structure.
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justcyl Bundle Research Proposal 2将用户的 ML/AI 想法写成结构化研究提案。适用于“proposal / research plan / experiment plan / paper idea / write up my idea”等请求,尤其是在用户提供了假设或方法草图、希望补全相关工作、实验设计与成功判据时。
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wadewarren Skill Persona ResearcherOrganize research — manage references, notes, and collaboration.
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alexclowe Skill Legal PracticeCivil litigation, contract law, legal research methodology, rules of professional conduct, and legal citation format
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alexclowe Skill Legal Research Cite FinderLegal research expertise — auto-activates when locating cases, statutes, and procedural rules for litigation tasks
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drmoisan Skill Orchestrate 2Route a repository request through the deterministic orchestration workflow for feature, bug, research, planning, execution, and review handoffs.
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drmoisan Skill Research Issue 2Investigate the best implementation approach for a feature or bug by analyzing the codebase and external references, then writing structured findings to the resolved research path under docs/features/<feature>/research/ (feature-associated) or docs/research/ (one-off).
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drmoisan Skill Feature Promotion Lifecycle 2Deterministic promotion workflow from potential feature/bug entry to issue, branch, active feature folder, and downstream spec/research handoffs. Agent sessions must use the drm-copilot MCP tool surface and record raw promotion receipts under the canonical checkpoint namespace.
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drmoisan Skill Feature Promotion Lifecycle 3Deterministic promotion workflow from potential feature/bug entry to issue, branch, active feature folder, and downstream spec/research handoffs. Prefer VS Code extension command execution when extension tools are available; use underlying scripts only as fallback.
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synkraai Skill Aiox Analyst 3Business Analyst (Atlas). Use for market research, competitive analysis, user research, brainstorming session facilitation, structured ideation workshops, feasibility studies, i...
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lunartech-x Bundle FdaQuery openFDA API for drugs, devices, adverse events, recalls, regulatory submissions (510k, PMA), substance identification (UNII), for FDA regulatory data analysis and safety research.
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lunartech-x Bundle CosmicAccess COSMIC cancer mutation database. Query somatic mutations, Cancer Gene Census, mutational signatures, gene fusions, for cancer research and precision oncology. Requires authentication.
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lunartech-x Bundle PubmedDirect 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.
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lunartech-x Bundle BiorxivEfficient 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.
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lunartech-x Bundle EnsemblQuery Ensembl genome database REST API for 250+ species. Gene lookups, sequence retrieval, variant analysis, comparative genomics, orthologs, VEP predictions, for genomic research.
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lunartech-x Bundle OpenalexQuery and analyze scholarly literature using the OpenAlex database. This skill should be used when searching for academic papers, analyzing research trends, finding works by authors or institutions, tracking citations, discovering open access publications, or conducting bibliometric analysis across 240M+ scholarly works. Use for literature searches, research output analysis, citation analysis, and academic database queries.
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lunartech-x Bundle ClinicaltrialsQuery 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.
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lunartech-x Bundle Research LookupResearch Information Lookup
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thuyran Bundle Case Retrieval 2Trigger this skill when the user needs to find similar cases, related judgments, or adjudicative rules relevant to a current legal issue. Typical triggers include: the user expressly asks to find similar cases or precedents; supporting a legal argument with prior judgments; case outcome prediction that requires reference to like cases; drafting legal documents that need citation of authoritative cases; analyzing judicial practice trends on a legal issue; comparing adjudicative positions of different courts or periods on the same issue. Keywords include, without limitation: similar cases, related judgments, case retrieval, adjudicative rules, like cases, Guiding Cases, typical cases, judicial viewpoints, adjudicative holdings (裁判要旨), etc.
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thuyran Bundle Legal Article Retrieval 2Generate standardized legal research reports for case retrieval, statutory research, similar-case analysis, and related legal research scenarios. Use when the user needs industry or professional analysis, prediction of adjudication outcomes, verification of the validity of legal authorities, confirmation of legal bases for claims or defenses, or analysis of judicial practice tendencies. Supports litigation strategy assessment, trial preparation, compliance review, legal training, and other legal practice scenarios.
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thuyran Skill Multi Document Summarization 2Trigger this skill when multiple related documents need comprehensive analysis, extraction of shared views, identification of conflicts, and generation of a unified overview. Typical trigger scenarios include, but are not limited to: - The user uploads multiple judgments or rulings and asks for a summary of key holdings in similar cases - The user provides multiple contract texts and asks for a comparison of clause similarities/differences and key variances - The user provides multiple statutes, regulations, or judicial interpretations and asks for a review of normative evolution and application points - The user provides multiple pieces of evidence or investigation transcripts and asks for an integrated factual narrative - The user provides multiple academic papers or research reports and asks for research consensus and disagreements - The user asks to compare viewpoint differences across multiple legal opinions Core value of this skill: not merely compressing a single document, but building cross-document r
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caixinyu2017-star Bundle Paper StylePaper Style
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caixinyu2017-star Bundle Paper PolishProofread and verify academic papers in LaTeX. Runs 19 sequential checks covering titles, consistency, citations, formatting, theoretical tension in motivation, concise results reporting, cross-section repetition, em-dash usage, and auxiliary-text-to-footnote conversion. Trigger when user says "check paper" / "proofread" / "paper-checker" / "校对" / "核查论文".
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caixinyu2017-star Bundle Paper SubmissionEvaluate a paper's contribution novelty, identify best-fit SSCI journal fields and ABS star rating, and recommend 20 target journals. Trigger when user says "paper submission" / "paper-submission" / "投稿评估" / "期刊推荐" / "target journal" / "选刊".
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 grant-proposal, research-refine, research-refine. 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.