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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caixinyu2017-star Skill Research Grants 2<!--
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caixinyu2017-star Skill Scientific Writing 2<!--
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caixinyu2017-star Skill Hypothesis Generation 2<!--
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synkraai Skill Aiox Analyst 4Activate Atlas (analyst) for Business Analyst. Use for market research, competitive analysis, user research, brainstorming session facilitation, structured ideation workshops, feasibility studies, industry trends analysis, project discov...
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promovaweb Bundle Specsfy Specialist Technical Research 2Investigar questões técnicas em fontes primárias, código, padrões e experimentos, produzindo síntese rastreável. Use quando decisões dependem de APIs atuais, comparação de tecnologias ou fatos incertos; salve pesquisa somente no local autorizado pela spec do projeto consumidor.
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synapseradio Skill Cite 2Generate APA-format citations from paper links. This skill should be used when the user asks to "cite a paper", "generate APA citations", "format references", or provides paper links (arXiv, DOI, conference URLs) for citation formatting.
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skills-agents-co Skill Research Brief 2Turns any topic into a structured research brief: background, key players, what's contested, and a short reading list. Get up to speed fast before a meeting.
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ihabkhaled Skill Hidden Recursion Detector 2Use when nested work is renamed, moved across agents, promoted to top level, or hidden behind research, validation, review, and dependency labels.
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zju-real Bundle Case Research中国财税法律案例与法规检索助手。当用户需要检索税务相关判例、行政复议决定、税收法规政策、国家税务总局公告、各地税务实践案例,或需要查找类似税务争议案例时,应使用本 Skill。适用于税务争议应对、税务筹划合规性验证、法律研究等场景。
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kastalien-research Skill Synthesize 2Fuse insights from multiple knowledge sources (code, docs, memory, research, web) into coherent understanding. Use when you have scattered information that needs integration.
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gulajavaministudio Skill Memory Manager 2Standardized workflow for discovering, reading, writing, and compacting the project's memory file (memory.instructions.md) to persist context across AI chat sessions, with a permanent Knowledge Base for cross-session decisions and lessons learned.
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kai-cli Bundle Research 2Firmware-context research — extends system Research with build system and Jenkins knowledge. USE WHEN research in firmware/feed-bbf context, OpenWrt, build system questions, Jenkins CI.
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kai-cli 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.
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ticruz38 Bundle Summarizer 2Summarize long text using AI
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leoyishou Bundle Research By Reddit 2基于 Reddit API 进行深度调研并生成研究报告。支持搜索、获取帖子、评论分析、情感分析等。适用于市场调研、用户反馈分析、技术方案调研、产品评价收集、趋势分析等场景
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applicate2628 Skill Architect 2Architect: design architecture and contracts from research.
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yuuqq Bundle QutipQuantum physics simulation library for open quantum systems. Use when studying master equations, Lindblad dynamics, decoherence, quantum optics, or cavity QED. Best for physics research, open system dynamics, and educational simulations. NOT for circuit-based quantum computing—use qiskit, cirq, or pennylane for quantum algorithms and hardware execution.
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yuuqq Bundle NetworkxComprehensive toolkit for creating, analyzing, and visualizing complex networks and graphs in Python. Use when working with network/graph data structures, analyzing relationships between entities, computing graph algorithms (shortest paths, centrality, clustering), detecting communities, generating synthetic networks, or visualizing network topologies. Applicable to social networks, biological networks, transportation systems, citation networks, and any domain involving pairwise relationships.
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yuuqq Bundle Scholar EvaluationSystematically 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.
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yuuqq Bundle Statistical AnalysisGuided 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.
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nativ3ai Skill BlogwatcherMonitor blogs and RSS/Atom feeds via blogwatcher-cli tool.
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hjdspace Skill Berkshire Industry Research 2AI Berkshire skill: 行业投资研究:产业链全景扫描 + 四大师个股分析框架. Source: berkshire-industry-research.
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hjdspace Skill Berkshire Investment Research 2AI Berkshire skill: 投资研究:巴菲特-芒格-段永平-李录 四大师综合分析框架. Source: berkshire-investment-research.
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hjdspace Bundle Planning With Files 2Implements Manus-style file-based planning to organize and track progress on complex tasks. Creates task_plan.md, findings.md, and progress.md. Use when asked to plan out, break down, or organize a multi-step project, research task, or any work requiring 5+ tool calls. Supports automatic session recovery after /clear.
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hjdspace Bundle Planning With Files 3Implements Manus-style file-based planning to organize and track progress on complex tasks. Creates task_plan.md, findings.md, and progress.md. Use when asked to plan out, break down, or organize a multi-step project, research task, or any work requiring 5+ tool calls. Hermes adaptation with minimal notes.
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hjdspace Bundle Planning With Files 4Implements Manus-style file-based planning to organize and track progress on complex tasks. Creates task_plan.md, findings.md, and progress.md. Use when asked to plan out, break down, or organize a multi-step project, research task, or any work requiring 5+ tool calls. Supports automatic session recovery after /clear.
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hjdspace Bundle Planning With Files 5Implements Manus-style file-based planning to organize and track progress on complex tasks. Creates task_plan.md, findings.md, and progress.md. Use when asked to plan out, break down, or organize a multi-step project, research task, or any work requiring 5+ tool calls. Supports automatic session recovery after /clear.
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hjdspace Bundle Planning With Files 6Implements Manus-style file-based planning to organize and track progress on complex tasks. Creates task_plan.md, findings.md, and progress.md. Use when asked to plan out, break down, or organize a multi-step project, research task, or any work requiring 5+ tool calls. Supports automatic session recovery after /clear.
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hjdspace Bundle Planning With Files 7Implements Manus-style file-based planning to organize and track progress on complex tasks. Creates task_plan.md, findings.md, and progress.md. Use when asked to plan out, break down, or organize a multi-step project, research task, or any work requiring 5+ tool calls. Supports automatic session recovery after /clear.
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zhizhunbao Skill XurlA Twitter research and content intelligence skill. Use to analyze Twitter profiles, threads, and conversations for identifying pain points, extracting content angles, and converting Twitter intelligence into actionable insights.
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zhizhunbao Skill SummarizeSummarize URLs or files with the summarize CLI (web, PDFs, images, audio, YouTube).
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borda Skill Setup 4Post-install setup for the research plugin. Run once after installing on a new machine, or after a plugin version upgrade, to deliver this plugin's rules/*.md into ~/.claude/rules/ as namespaced symlinks and merge its own permissions.allow and permissions.deny entries into ~/.claude/settings.json. TRIGGER when: user installed or upgraded the research plugin and its rules are not loading, or its deny rules are not blocking; phrases: 'set up research', 'research rules not loading', 'merge research permissions', 'after upgrading research'. SKIP: statusLine/TEAM_PROTOCOL/plugin-cache setup (use /foundry:setup (requires `foundry` plugin)); editing rule content (edit the plugin source).
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steffen025 Bundle Research 2Comprehensive research and content extraction. USE WHEN research, investigate, extract wisdom, analyze content. For OSINT use OSINT skill.
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brainally Skill User PersonasCreate refined user personas from research data — 3 personas with JTBD, pains, gains, and unexpected insights. Use when building personas from survey data, creating user profiles from research, or segmenting users for product decisions.
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brainally Skill Competitor AnalysisAnalyze competitors with strengths, weaknesses, and differentiation opportunities. Identifies direct competitors and maps the competitive landscape. Use when doing competitive research, preparing a competitive brief, or finding differentiation opportunities.
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brainally Skill Ideal Customer ProfileIdentify the Ideal Customer Profile (ICP) from research data with demographics, behaviors, JTBD, and needs. Use when defining your ICP, analyzing PMF survey data, or understanding who your best customers are.
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, scientific-writing, hypothesis-generation. 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.