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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mysticaltech Bundle Pricing StrategyWhen the user wants help with pricing decisions, packaging, or monetization strategy. Also use when the user mentions 'pricing,' 'pricing tiers,' 'freemium,' 'free trial,' 'packaging,' 'price increase,' 'value metric,' 'Van Westendorp,' 'willingness to pay,' or 'monetization.' This skill covers pricing research, tier structure, and packaging strategy.
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exerias21 Skill Brainstorm Team 2Sequential product-strategy brainstorm for Copilot. Walk through five research passes (competitive landscape → codebase map → UX critique → ranked features → implementation blueprints) inline, producing a single strategy document. Use for "what should we build next", "competitive analysis", or product review sessions. Copilot-adapted version of the canonical — sequential instead of 5 parallel workers.
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cdeistopened Skill Ask Kdp 2Route any Amazon KDP self-publishing question to the right skill, framework, or transcript search. Use when someone asks about publishing on Amazon, wants niche research, needs keyword help, or says 'ask kdp.' This is the main concierge -- it figures out what the user needs and dispatches to the right specialist skill.
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cdeistopened Skill Book Architect 2Generate pain-point-driven book outlines with 10 title/subtitle options and 8-chapter structures. Use after niche and keyword research is complete.
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joneqian Skill SummarizeSummarize URLs or files with the summarize CLI (web, PDFs, images, audio, YouTube).
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arboraistudio Skill Founder Memory 2Maintain the repo-level founder context by reading and updating founder-context files. Use when the user asks to remember, record, update context, summarize company state, run a weekly review, track metrics, log decisions, or manage open loops.
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keli-wen Skill Ctx Research 2基于项目持久 context 体系的深度调研。适用于 /ctx-research,触发语:「基于 context 调研 X」「结合我们的 contexts 做深度研究」。先读已有 contexts,把问题磨到真正的知识缺口上,再多智能体展开调研,关键论断做对抗验证,结论写回去。
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melandlabs Bundle Openloomi Memory 2openloomi Memory tools - search and manage the holistic context (people, projects, decisions, knowledge base, chat insights). Triggers: memory search, knowledge base, search documents, list insights, who is John, what did we decide about X, tiered memory, knowledge graph, people/projects/decisions, search-all, conversation memory
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cdeust Bundle Evidence Synthesis 2Synthesize multiple papers, benchmarks, interviews, reviews, or other sources into a defensible and qualified conclusion. Use for conflicting evidence, literature synthesis, claim auditing, argument mapping, qualitative coding, belief updates, or any request that must expose counter-evidence, uncertainty, and source limitations.
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superinstance Bundle Market Research ReportsGenerate comprehensive market research reports (50+ pages) in the style of top consulting firms (McKinsey, BCG, Gartner). Features professional LaTeX formatting, extensive visual generation with scientific-schematics and generate-image, deep integration with research-lookup for data gathering, and multi-framework strategic analysis including Porter's Five Forces, PESTLE, SWOT, TAM/SAM/SOM, and BCG Matrix.
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eturkes Bundle Paper LookupSearch 10 academic paper databases via REST APIs for research papers, preprints, and scholarly articles. Covers PubMed, PMC (full text), bioRxiv, medRxiv, arXiv, OpenAlex, Crossref, Semantic Scholar, CORE, Unpaywall. Use when searching for papers, citations, DOI/PMID lookups, abstracts, full text, open access, preprints, citation graphs, author search, or any scholarly literature query. Triggers on mentions of any supported database or requests like "find papers on X" or "look up this DOI".
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eturkes Bundle Research LookupLook up current research information using parallel-cli search (primary, fast web search), the Parallel Chat API (deep research), or Perplexity sonar-pro-search (academic paper searches). Automatically routes queries to the best backend. Use for finding papers, gathering research data, and verifying scientific information. Note: query text is transmitted to api.parallel.ai (PARALLEL_API_KEY) and, for academic searches, to openrouter.ai (OPENROUTER_API_KEY).
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jpmsilva1 Skill Scientific Thinking Literature ReviewSystematic literature-review workflow for academic, biomedical, technical, and scientific topics, including search planning, source screening, synthesis, citation checks, and evidence logging.
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jpmsilva1 Skill Scientific Thinking Scholar EvaluationStructured scholarly-work evaluation for papers, proposals, literature reviews, methods sections, evidence quality, citation support, and research-writing feedback.
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poloplay0114 Skill Spec Citation 2規格引用紀律——當規格文件的「章節/條號」被測試、程式碼、其他文件、或多階段計畫引用時,如何安全地編輯規格而不破壞這些引用。用於任何「規格被引用」的專案:改規格前先查現役引用、保護被引用區段、語意錨點優先於行號。
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zhihaoairobotic Skill SummarizeSummarize or extract text/transcripts from URLs, podcasts, and local files (great fallback for “transcribe this YouTube/video”).
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tuesd4y Bundle Planning With Files 3Manus-style persistent file-based planning for AI coding agents: keeps task_plan.md, findings.md, and progress.md on disk so work survives context loss and /clear. 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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tuesd4y Bundle Planning With Files 4Manus-style persistent file-based planning for AI coding agents: keeps task_plan.md, findings.md, and progress.md on disk so work survives context loss and /clear. 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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tuesd4y Bundle Planning With Files 5Manus-style persistent file-based planning for AI coding agents: keeps task_plan.md, findings.md, and progress.md on disk so work survives context loss and /clear. 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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tuesd4y Bundle Planning With Files 6Manus-style persistent file-based planning for AI coding agents: keeps task_plan.md, findings.md, and progress.md on disk so work survives context loss and /clear. 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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tuesd4y Bundle Planning With Files 7Manus-style persistent file-based planning for AI coding agents: keeps task_plan.md, findings.md, and progress.md on disk so work survives context loss and /clear. 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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tuesd4y Bundle Planning With Files 8Manus-style persistent file-based planning for AI coding agents: keeps task_plan.md, findings.md, and progress.md on disk so work survives context loss and /clear. 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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tuesd4y Bundle Planning With Files 9Manus-style persistent file-based planning for AI coding agents: keeps task_plan.md, findings.md, and progress.md on disk so work survives context loss and /clear. 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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marsz42 Skill Research 2Deep research workflow for technologies, concepts, or complex topics
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freightcognition Skill Wiki ResearcherConducts multi-turn iterative deep research on specific topics within a codebase with zero tolerance for shallow analysis. Use when the user wants an in-depth investigation, needs to understand how something works across multiple files, or asks for comprehensive analysis of a specific system or pattern.
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nova-violet-role Bundle Create Meta Prompts Dtd 2Create optimized prompts for Claude-to-Claude pipelines with research, planning, and execution stages. Use when building prompts that produce outputs for other prompts to consume, or when running multi-stage workflows (research -> plan -> implement). Carries its own DOCTYPE: a declared output grammar, a trust boundary and laws the checker enforces.
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family3253 Bundle Pubmed DatabaseDirect 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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lqf0624 Bundle Researchstack Learn 2Research memory skill for long-lived projects and researcher preferences. Use when Codex should record, inspect, prune, or apply durable knowledge about a paper project, venue strategy, experiment policy, writing weaknesses, reviewer risks, or repeated user preferences so later sessions become more context-aware.
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lqf0624 Bundle Researchstack Next Step 2Next-step triage skill for long-running research projects. Use when the user is mid-paper, mid-experiment, mid-writing, or generally stuck and needs a clear recommendation for which researchstack skill to use next, what not to do yet, and why.
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lqf0624 Bundle Researchstack Lab Intake 2Intake skill for new research directions in computer systems, networking, and AI. Use when the user has a rough idea, partial implementation, benchmark intuition, or venue target and needs to turn it into a clear paper plan with thesis, hypotheses, workstreams, and next decisions.
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lqf0624 Bundle Researchstack Code Review 2Research-code review skill for systems, networking, and AI projects. Use when Codex should review experiment code, simulators, training pipelines, benchmarks, data processing, or plotting logic with emphasis on correctness, reproducibility, and whether the implementation really supports the paper's claims.
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lqf0624 Bundle Researchstack Idea Refine 2Guided repair skill for research ideas that are important but not yet submission-ready. Use to strengthen a thesis, method, mechanism, predictions, evidence path, and scope while preserving a user-chosen topic whenever possible.
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lqf0624 Bundle Researchstack Program Map 2Research-program planning skill for computer systems, networking, and AI. Use when a durable topic or grant direction should support several non-duplicative papers, with explicit shared infrastructure, distinct theses, dependencies, evidence paths, and stop conditions rather than repeated topic switching or salami slicing.
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lqf0624 Bundle Researchstack Paper Layout 2LaTeX and presentation-layout skill for research papers. Use when Codex should improve paper structure, section ordering, notation consistency, figure placement, table formatting, captions, appendix organization, or submission compliance while preserving technical precision and readability.
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lqf0624 Bundle Researchstack Figure Studio 2Figure and table design skill for research papers. Use when Codex should decide what to visualize, sketch figure plans, critique existing charts, improve captions, structure result tables, or make visual evidence easier for strict reviewers to understand in AI, systems, or networking papers.
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lqf0624 Bundle Researchstack Experiment Ops 2Experimental-process management skill for research projects. Use when Codex should structure runbooks, logging, checkpointing, seed control, result triage, failure analysis, experiment queues, and evidence collection so that the day-to-day experimental workflow stays publication-grade instead of devolving into ad hoc trial-and-error.
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 pricing-strategy, brainstorm-team, ask-kdp. 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.