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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yogsoth-ai Bundle First Pass Skim 2Five-minute skim pass over a single academic paper (title, abstract, headings, figures, conclusion only) to classify the paper's type and draft candidate public-audience angles before any deep reading happens. Use this as the entry point whenever the user gives you one specific paper to summarize, explain, or turn into a WeChat/blog article, and you haven't classified the paper yet. Always run this before second-pass-grasp.
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nvidia Bundle Slack Channel Summarizer 2Read and summarize Slack channel history from inside the NemoClaw sandbox.
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channel47 Bundle Angle Generator 2This skill should be used when the user asks to "find angles", "generate angles", "ad angles", "selling angles", "creative angles", "unique angles", "hook ideas", "what angles should I test", "brainstorm ad concepts", "creative strategy", "angle brainstorm", or mentions generating, finding, or developing advertising angles from research or persona data. Trigger after customer-research or persona-builder has been run, or when the user provides their own research to derive angles from.
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channel47 Bundle Persona Builder 2This skill should be used when the user asks to "build personas", "create customer avatars", "who is the target customer", "customer persona", "buyer persona", "avatar creation", "demographic profile", "psychographic profile", "who buys this product", "target audience profile", or mentions building, creating, or refining customer personas from research data. Trigger after customer-research has been run, or when the user provides their own research/data to base personas on.
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channel47 Bundle Customer Research 2This skill should be used when the user asks to "research a product", "find customer voice data", "pull reviews", "what are customers saying about", "research customer pain points", "find real customer language", "VOC research", "voice of customer", "customer research for", "pull Reddit data", "pull Amazon reviews", "market research for", "find complaints about", "what do people hate about", "DTC research", or mentions gathering real customer data from public sources like Reddit, Amazon, Trustpilot, forums, or review sites. Use this skill even when the user just names a product category and wants to understand the customer landscape. This is the foundational research skill — always start here before building personas, angles, scripts, or copy.
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nativ3ai Bundle ArxivSearch arXiv papers by keyword, author, category, or ID.
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nativ3ai Bundle PolymarketQuery Polymarket: markets, prices, orderbooks, history.
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raphaelmansuy 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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raphaelmansuy Bundle Duckduckgo SearchFree web search via DuckDuckGo — text, news, images, videos. No API key needed. Use the Python DDGS library or CLI to search, then web_extract for full content.
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devinchen2014 Bundle Socialdatax Content Research Assistant 2面向内容运营、品牌调研和创作者的跨平台社媒内容研究助手。适用于小红书、抖音、快手、Bilibili、知乎、Instagram、X / Twitter、YouTube、TikTok、微博和视频号的选题策划、竞品观察、趋势判断、评论洞察和创作者资料整理,也支持公众号文章链接详情和内容整理,来自 SocialDataX 社媒数据助手。
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arcadeai Skill Elicit 2Extract tacit knowledge through non-obvious microquestions — things only the user knows that can't be found in code, docs, or research. Use when you're about to guess at intent, context, or constraints during SAFEWORD's understanding flow. Also use when user says 'ask me', 'what do you need to know', or when another skill (bdd, brainstorm, debug) needs user context before proceeding. Do NOT use for questions answerable by reading the codebase or searching the web.
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valentinnikolaev Bundle Write Cover Letter 2Create, tailor, revise, or critique truthful cover letters, covering letters, motivation letters, and job-application letters from a job description plus verified candidate evidence. Use when Codex should analyze role requirements, map a resume, CV, portfolio, or brag document to them, research company-specific motivation, or produce an application-ready letter. Do not use for resume-only work, recommendation letters, or generic business correspondence.
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spinabot Skill SummarizeSummarize or extract text/transcripts from URLs, podcasts, and local files (great fallback for “transcribe this YouTube/video”).
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fallow-rs Skill Implement 2Research, implement, test, document, and review a Fallow feature, fix, refactor, or repository improvement. Use when asked to build or change Fallow.
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buda-ai Skill Artifact 2Create and manage artifact.json for task outputs. Use at the START of every task to define planned deliverables before beginning research.
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photonics-dhl Skill 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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photonics-dhl Skill Venue TemplatesAccess comprehensive LaTeX templates, formatting requirements, and submission guidelines for major scientific publication venues (Nature, Science, PLOS, IEEE, ACM), academic conferences (NeurIPS, ICML, CVPR, CHI), research posters, and grant proposals (NSF, NIH, DOE, DARPA). This skill should be used when preparing manuscripts for journal submission, conference papers, research posters, or grant proposals and need venue-specific formatting requirements and templates.
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jajupmochi Skill Research Critic 2Use AT EVERY RESEARCH STEP (hypothesis design, experiment setup, result interpretation, conclusion writing) to challenge soundness BEFORE committing the step. Catches confirmation bias, p-hacking, leakage, weak baselines, ungrounded claims, ad-hoc thresholds, survivorship bias. Apply automatically whenever about to write a paper claim, design an ablation, interpret a number, or update a results doc. Pairs with code-verifier (which audits artifact authenticity).
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mike-diff Bundle Discuss 2Explore a rough idea through conversation and parallel background research. Produces a validated plan with an adversarial check. Hands off to /spec or /dev.
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mike-diff Bundle Discuss 3Explore a rough idea through conversation and background research. Produces a validated plan with an adversarial check and an ADLC handoff. Use when thinking through a feature before building or revisiting an existing implementation.
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dartsim Skill Dart References 2DART References: manage the experimental simulation research catalog (papers, textbooks, engines) with status, priority, and verdict
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marian2js Skill UX ResearcherExpert user experience researcher specializing in user behavior analysis, usability testing, and data-driven design insights. Provides actionable research findings that improve product usability and user satisfaction
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chanw-research Skill Stata Plan 2Convert an empirical design into a Stata execution plan or optional do-file skeleton covering merge, variable construction, regressions, robustness, and exports
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chanw-research Skill Empirical Ingest 2Empirical Ingest
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sgaabdu4 Skill Research 2- External/runtime/platform-dependent solution selection or implementation.
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ldm2060 Skill Paper Polish 2Polishes paper text and removes AI patterns. Use after writing stage to refine language and ensure venue compliance.
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hoangsonww Skill Read Papers 2Finds the latest research papers on a specific topic, summarizes their core contributions, and explains complex methodology in plain English.
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hoangsonww Skill Custom Brief 2Deep-research a specific topic and produce a comprehensive news-focused briefing with optional Notion/Obsidian/Teams/Slack publishing
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hoangsonww Skill Custom Brief 3Deep-research a specific topic and produce a comprehensive news-focused briefing with optional Notion/Obsidian/Teams/Slack publishing
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hoangsonww Skill Summarize Url 2Fetch and summarize a specific URL for quick insights.
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nahisaho Skill Musubix Sdd Workflow 3Guide for MUSUBIX SDD (Specification-Driven Development) workflow. Use this when asked to develop features using MUSUBIX methodology, create requirements, designs, or implement code following the 9 constitutional articles.
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nahisaho Skill Musubix Code Generation 2Guide for generating code from design specifications using MUSUBIX. Use this when asked to generate code, implement features, or create components following design documents.
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miznizzz Skill Proactive Research 2Proactive lookup and self-validation protocol. Use this skill before asking the user a clarifying question, before making an unverified assumption, or whenever a gap in knowledge could be filled by searching rather than asking. Trigger whenever Claude is about to write "could you clarify...", "do you mean...", or any question that could instead be answered via web search, past conversation history, or memory. The goal is: look it up first, ask only if truly unanswerable by research.
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miznizzz Skill Response Evaluation 2Pre-send response quality evaluation protocol — runs silently on every substantive response. Before finalising any recommendation, analysis, creative output, health advice, research synthesis, or multi-part task: run a fast internal QA pass. Ask: is this accurate, is this calibrated to Myra's actual context, is this the best option not just a safe one, am I missing something her skill stack would catch? Trigger explicitly when Myra says 'is that your best answer', 'are you sure', 'evaluate your response', or 'check your work'. This is the closing quality gate on the entire skill stack.
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miznizzz Skill Reasoning Transparency 2Reasoning visibility and logic-surfacing protocol. Run this whenever Claude is making a non-obvious recommendation, synthesising competing signals, diagnosing a pattern, or arriving at a strategic conclusion — surface the logic, not just the landing. Trigger explicitly when Myra asks 'why', 'how did you get there', 'walk me through your thinking', or 'explain your logic'. Trigger proactively for research methodology decisions, health recommendations, career or creative direction advice, and any moment where the reasoning behind a recommendation would change how Myra evaluates or acts on it.
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yuri-semenenko Skill Research 2Research
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 first-pass-skim, slack-channel-summarizer, angle-generator. 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.