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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jmagly Skill Public Records PlanResearch, draft, and track a jurisdiction-specific public-records request without legal conclusions or automated submission.
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jmagly Skill Research BrainstormCapture and expand free-form research thoughts into wiki memory without requiring REF-* structure.
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jmagly Skill Research Brainstorm MapRender idea, question, and hypothesis maps from KB graph neighbors and brainstorming notes.
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jmagly Skill Research Brainstorm QueryRetrieve adjacent wiki/research context and produce exploratory synthesis for a brainstorm topic.
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jmagly Skill Research Brainstorm PromotePromote selected brainstorm material into structured research questions, acquisition targets, REF candidates, gap reports, or synthesis plans.
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fridrichmethod Bundle NetworkxCreate, analyze, and visualize complex networks and graphs in Python with NetworkX. Use when working with network/graph data structures, computing graph algorithms (shortest paths, centrality, clustering), detecting communities, generating synthetic networks (random, scale-free, small-world), reading/writing graph file formats, or drawing network topologies. Common applications include social, biological, transportation, and citation networks.
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fridrichmethod Bundle Exa SearchWeb toolkit powered by Exa, tuned for scientific and technical content. Use this skill when the user needs to search the web or fetch/extract URL content. Covers: web search (semantic lookups, research, current info — with optional research-paper category and academic domain filtering) and URL extraction (fetching pages, articles, academic PDFs in batch). Use this skill for web-related tasks when the user wants high-quality search or scholarly filtering via category=research paper. Triggers on requests to search, look up, fetch a page, or extract an article.
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fridrichmethod Bundle InfographicsCreate professional infographics using Nano Banana Pro AI with smart iterative refinement. Uses Gemini 3.6 Flash for quality review. Integrates research-lookup and web search for accurate data. Supports 10 infographic types, 8 industry styles, and colorblind-safe palettes.
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fridrichmethod Bundle Open NotebookSelf-hosted, open-source alternative to Google NotebookLM for AI-powered research and document analysis. Use when organizing research materials into notebooks, ingesting diverse content sources (PDFs, videos, audio, web pages, Office documents), generating AI-powered notes and summaries, creating multi-speaker podcasts from research, chatting with documents using context-aware AI, searching across materials with full-text and vector search, or running custom content transformations. Supports 16+ AI providers including OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Ollama, Groq, and Mistral with complete data privacy through self-hosting.
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fridrichmethod Bundle Ukb NavigatorSemantic search across UK Biobank's 12,000+ data fields and publications — find the right variables for your research question.
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fridrichmethod Bundle Bio Crispr Screens Jacks AnalysisRuns JACKS (Joint Analysis of CRISPR/Cas9 Knockout Screens; Allen et al 2019 Genome Research) which models per-sgRNA log-fold-change as the product of a treatment-dependent gene-essentiality term and a treatment-independent guide-efficacy term. Covers the Bayesian decomposition math, the hierarchical efficacy prior shared across screens performed with the same library, when JACKS outperforms MAGeCK (multi-screen joint analysis, libraries with broad efficacy variance) and when it does not (single screen, novel libraries with no prior efficacy), library-reuse efficacy transfer, downstream essentiality interpretation, and the 2.5x sample-size reduction enabled by efficacy-aware testing. Use when running multiple screens with the same library, when guide-level noise is suspected to dominate per-gene signal, when reusing published essentiality reference screens for efficacy priors, or when comparing screens performed across cell lines that share library but differ biologically.
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zaxbysauce Bundle Swarm CI MonitorCodex adapter for end-to-end CI monitoring of an already-reviewed PR in opencode-swarm. Use when the user wants the swarm to monitor a reviewed-and-approved PR's CI, research every failure exhaustively, fix end-to-end, iterate until green (max 5 cycles), then merge. Composes ci-fix-monitor for fix recipes.
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zaxbysauce Skill Swarm CI Monitor 2Claude Code adapter for end-to-end CI monitoring of an already-reviewed PR in opencode-swarm. Use when the user wants the swarm to monitor a reviewed-and-approved PR's CI, research every failure exhaustively, fix end-to-end, iterate until green (max 5 cycles), then merge. Composes ci-fix-monitor for fix recipes. This is the first skill in the repo that executes a merge — invoke it deliberately.
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lofcz Skill Research WikiOperate the docs/research compiled layer in either full or maintain mode. Use for research-lane creation, research upkeep, authority-sensitive corpus work, source summaries, concepts, systems, decisions, and open-question pages.
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onyx-dot-app Bundle Onyx CLIQuery the Onyx knowledge base using the onyx-cli command. Use when the user wants to search company documents, ask questions about internal knowledge, query connected data sources, or look up information stored in Onyx.
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francostino Bundle AstropyAstropy is the core Python package for astronomy, providing essential functionality for astronomical research and data analysis.
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francostino Skill 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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fridrichmethod Bundle Bio Clinical Databases Tumor Mutational BurdenCalculates tumor mutational burden from WES/WGS/panel data with Friends of Cancer Research harmonization equations, per-assay calibration (FDA 10/Mb = 7.8 TSO500 = 8.4 OncomineTML), synonymous/indel/germline filtering, hypermutator tiering, blood TMB, and integration with HLA-LOH and neoantigen quality (Luksza 2017 fitness). Use when assessing ICI eligibility under tumor-specific cutoffs (McGrail 2021), comparing tissue vs bTMB, or auditing TMB-H reporting against ESMO 2024 and FDA pembrolizumab pan-tumor 2020.
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fridrichmethod Skill Scientific BrainstormingStructured ideation methods: SCAMPER, Six Thinking Hats, Morphological Analysis, TRIZ, Biomimicry, plus more. Decision framework for picking methods by challenge type (stuck, improving, systematic exploration, contradiction). Use when generating research ideas or exploring interdisciplinary connections.
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jeremylongshore Skill Nixtla Research AssistantResearch and summarize Nixtla ecosystem updates and time-series forecasting content from the web and GitHub. Use when gathering release notes, recent changes, or best-practice references. Trigger with "Nixtla updates", "what's new with TimeGPT", or "find time-series papers".
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code-yeongyu Skill Init Deep 2Initializes a hierarchical AGENTS.md knowledge base for a project. Use when a repo needs its structure, commands, and conventions documented for agents.
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caixinyu2017-star Bundle Light Citation论文引用规划、审查与多格式生成。当用户需要处理参考文献、引用、bibtex 时使用。审查引用的关联度、真实性、权威性、时效性、数量、中外占比,是否引用了经典/最新/代表性/对比工作。避免虚假引用、过度引用、无关引用、堆砌、遗漏关键文献、低质量来源、引用与正文不匹配。生成 BibTeX/EndNote/GB-T 7714/APA/IEEE 等格式并按目标 venue 调整。
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caixinyu2017-star Bundle Light Research Plan对已确认可行的 idea 制定极其详细的研究方案、实验设计与执行规划。当用户的 idea 已通过 m04 审查、需要把 idea 拆成可执行可复现的完整科研流程时使用。覆盖研究目标、技术路线、数据流程、实验/消融/敏感性/鲁棒性/显著性检验、时间安排、风险与备选,并保证全程可复现。
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caixinyu2017-star Bundle Light Research Ethics科研伦理、学术规范与风险审查。在所有科研任务中默认检查学术不端、数据造假、图片重复使用、引用不规范、隐私泄露、版权、结论夸大、过度包装、论文代写、专利权属、软著材料不真实等风险(常驻,所有任务后台生效)。对论文、项目、软著、专利与比赛材料做合规审查,确保内容真实、规范、可解释、可追溯。
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caixinyu2017-star Bundle Light Literature Search强大地搜索并规范化整理科研资料。当用户需要调研某研究方向、找文献综述、了解某领域有哪些工作、搜集中英文论文/专利/标准/政策/数据集/开源项目/竞赛方案/行业报告/技术博客/官方文档时使用。不只罗列结果,而是筛选去重分类、判断可信度与重要性,整理为文献表、研究脉络、代表方法、优缺点对比与可复用资源。
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caixinyu2017-star Bundle Command DevelopmentThis skill should be used when the user asks to "create a slash command", "add a command", "write a custom command", "define command arguments", "use command frontmatter", "organize commands", "create command with file references", "interactive command", "use AskUserQuestion in command", or needs guidance on slash command structure, YAML frontmatter fields, dynamic arguments, bash execution in commands, user interaction patterns, or command development best practices for Claude Code.
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fridrichmethod Bundle Bio Batch ProcessingProcess many sequence files in batch (count, merge, split, convert, summarize) with memory-safe streaming and on-disk indexing using Biopython, pysam, or pyfastx. Use when iterating over a directory of FASTA/FASTQ files, merging or splitting datasets, building random access across many or huge files, or automating per-file operations without exhausting RAM.
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fridrichmethod Skill Claw Semantic SimSemantic Similarity Index for disease research literature using PubMedBERT embeddings
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fridrichmethod Skill Literature ReviewConducting systematic, scoping, and narrative literature reviews. Covers PRISMA/PRISMA-ScR protocols, search strategy (Boolean, MeSH), database selection (PubMed, Scopus, Web of Science, Embase), screening, data extraction, evidence synthesis (narrative, meta-analysis, thematic), and reporting. Use when planning or executing a formal literature review.
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fergupa Skill Memory ManagementTwo-tier memory system that makes Claude a true workplace collaborator. Decodes shorthand, acronyms, nicknames, and internal language so Claude understands requests like a colleague would. CLAUDE.md for working memory, memory/ directory for the full knowledge base.
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aboul3ata Skill LazywebUse Lazyweb to find real product evidence, improve conversion, and turn research into clear product decisions.
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lev-os Bundle PrivateinvestigatorEthical 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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boisenoise Bundle Peer ReviewPrepare evidence-bounded, constructive peer-review drafts and structured manuscript assessments. Use for authorized review of scientific manuscripts, protocols, preprints, or research proposals; reporting-guideline selection; claim–evidence checks; methods, statistics, reproducibility, ethics, figure/table, and citation critique; or revision-response planning.
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boisenoise Bundle InfographicsCreate professional infographics using Nano Banana Pro AI with smart iterative refinement. Uses Gemini 3.6 Flash for quality review. Integrates research-lookup and web search for accurate data. Supports 10 infographic types, 8 industry styles, and colorblind-safe palettes.
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boisenoise Bundle Research GrantsWrite competitive research proposals for NSF, NIH, DOE, DARPA, and Taiwan NSTC. Agency-specific formatting, review criteria, budget preparation, broader impacts, significance statements, innovation narratives, and compliance with submission requirements.
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boisenoise Bundle Research LookupCompile current scholarly evidence for a scientific manuscript or research brief. Use when the user explicitly asks to gather literature, references, background evidence, competing findings, or a manuscript research packet. Uses Parallel Search by default, Parallel Extract for source verification, Parallel Research for explicitly deep/exhaustive work, optional explicit Parallel Chat, and optional Perplexity only when requested or allowed as a failure fallback.
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 public-records-plan, research-brainstorm, research-brainstorm-map. 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.