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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Bmad Ml Fade 2

Frontier research tracking and trend scouting specialist. Use when the user asks to talk to Fade, requests the scout, or needs arxiv monitoring, paradigm shift detection, and emerging method analysis.

0 Sep 17
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Bmad Ml Sage 2

Mathematical foundations and theory specialist. Use when the user asks to talk to Sage, requests the theorist, or needs mathematical analysis, proofs, and convergence guarantees.

0 Sep 17
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Bmad Ml Sova 2

Literature survey and SOTA tracking specialist. Use when the user asks to talk to Sova, requests the research tracker, or needs literature review, citation mapping, and paper analysis.

0 Sep 17
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Bmad Ml Astra 2

Interdisciplinary synthesis and cross-domain transfer specialist. Use when the user asks to talk to Astra, requests the synthesizer, or needs cross-field insight connections and multi-modal research directions.

0 Sep 17
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Bmad Ml Viper 2

Adversarial robustness and ML safety specialist. Use when the user asks to talk to Viper, requests the adversary, or needs failure mode analysis, attack surface review, and robustness evaluation.

0 Sep 17
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Bmad Ml Breach 2

Experimental methodology and statistical rigor specialist. Use when the user asks to talk to Breach, requests the methodologist, or needs experiment design review, ablation planning, and reproducibility protocols.

0 Sep 17
v1truv1us-ai-eng-system Skill

Research Deep 2

Multi-source deep research with confidence-rated synthesis. Use for "research deeply", "deep dive on", "comprehensive research", or /research-deep.

Sep 17
v1truv1us-ai-eng-system Skill

Get Pr Comments

Fetch and summarize review comments from the active pull request

Sep 17
frank-luongt Skill

Github Research



Sep 17
frank-luongt Skill

Brainstorming Research Ideas



Sep 17
frank-luongt Skill

Summarize Interview 2



Sep 17
frank-luongt Skill

Creative Thinking For Research



Sep 17
frank-luongt Skill

Summarize Interview



Sep 17
frank-luongt Skill

Content Research Writer



Sep 17
block Skill

Goosetown Writer

Synthesizes scattered research, scratch files, and work logs into durable knowledge artifacts — GUIDES, PLANS, or research syntheses. Reads many sources, produces one coherent document. Writes incrementally with citations and proper frontmatter. Handles supersession.

Sep 17
block Skill

Goosetown Researcher Arxiv

Search arXiv for academic papers, preprints, and research using the arXiv API. Finds foundational research, state-of-the-art techniques, and academic context. Returns structured findings with links, abstracts, and citations.

Sep 17
huggingface Skill

Init Physics Intern 2

Scaffold a PhysicsIntern research workspace in the current folder.

10.8k Sep 17
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Gs Export

Export Google Scholar paper(s) to Zotero via BibTeX. Gets citation data from Google Scholar's cite dialog, then pushes to Zotero desktop. Supports single or batch export.

Sep 17
447662 Skill

Gs Search

Search Google Scholar for academic papers by keywords. Returns results with title, authors, journal, year, citation count, and full-text links. Use when the user wants to search Google Scholar.

Sep 17
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Cnki Export

Export paper from CNKI and push to Zotero, or save as RIS file. Use when user wants to save a paper to Zotero or export citation data.

Sep 17
447662 Skill

Gs Cited By

Find papers that cite a given Google Scholar paper. Tracks citation chains using data-cid (cluster ID). Use when user wants to see who cited a specific paper.

Sep 17
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Project Manager

Manage GitHub issues and the GitHub Project board for the current repository, while keeping the local tracker in sync. Use when the user wants to capture freeform requirements as issues, flesh out issue descriptions from repo or upstream research, triage Priority/Size/Workflow/Status, add issues or PRs to the repo's configured project board, or reconcile GitHub state with `.local/work-items.yaml`.

Sep 17
spec-kitty Skill

Spk Mission Research

Operate pre-spec or in-mission research workflows while keeping findings tied to mission decisions.

Sep 17
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Kb

Comprehensive skill for the `kb` CLI and the Karpathy Knowledge Base pattern. Covers the full KB lifecycle — topic scaffolding, multi-source ingestion (URLs, files, YouTube videos and channels, Instagram reels, bookmarks, codebases), wiki article compilation, cross-article querying with file-back, lint-and-heal passes, QMD indexing, and hybrid search. Also covers the OKF (Open Knowledge Format) dual-mode lifecycle: per-topic `mode: wiki|okf`, scaffolding portable OKF bundles, promoting compiled wiki concepts into a typed catalog with `kb promote`, the four-producer-field + relative-link contract, a local concept-type vocabulary, and OKF v0.1 conformance checking with `kb okf check`. Also covers codebase-specific analysis via inspect commands for complexity, coupling, blast radius, dead code, circular dependencies, symbol/file lookups, backlinks, and code smells. Use when working with kb CLI commands, knowledge base workflows, code vault generation, code graph analysis, code metrics inspection, wiki compilatio

Sep 17
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Ce Release Notes

Summarize recent compound-engineering plugin releases, or answer a specific question about a past release with a version citation. Use when the user types `/ce-release-notes` or asks "what changed in compound-engineering recently?" or "what happened to `<skill-name>`?".

Sep 17
lth0 Skill

Peer Review

Use before submission or when reviewing papers - provides evaluation checklists, bias detection, and self-review templates

Sep 17
lth0 Skill

Writing Law

Use when writing law papers - provides legal writing conventions, citation formats, and argumentation guidance

Sep 17
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Latex Output

Use when user requests LaTeX format output or has provided school/journal LaTeX templates

Sep 17
lth0 Skill

Verification

Use when about to claim work is complete, a chapter is finished, or references are verified - requires running verification commands and confirming output before making any success claims

Sep 17
lth0 Skill

Figures Python

Use when creating data visualizations for papers - generates publication-quality plots with top-journal color schemes

Sep 17
lth0 Skill

Figures Diagram

Use when creating flowcharts, architecture diagrams, or conceptual diagrams - generates prompts for image AI

Sep 17
lth0 Skill

Writing Medical

Use when writing medical, biological, or clinical research papers - provides IMRaD structure and reporting guidelines

Sep 17
lth0 Skill

Writing Chapters

Use when writing paper chapters - requires completed brainstorming, writes one chapter at a time with user confirmation

Sep 17
lth0 Skill

Environment Setup

Use when Python environment setup is needed for data visualization or conda installation is required

Sep 17
lth0 Skill

Literature Review

Use when writing literature review sections - guides searching, organizing, and synthesizing academic sources

Sep 17
lth0 Skill

Writing Humanities

Use when writing humanities or social science papers - provides discipline-specific writing guidance

Sep 17

Frequently asked questions

What are Research & Search agent skills?

Which Research & Search skills are most installed?

Popular Research & Search skills on SkillMD right now include bmad-ml-fade, bmad-ml-sage, bmad-ml-sova. 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.