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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lth0 Skill Paper OrchestrationUse when a research-writing task spans multiple sections, medium-sized revisions, full-paper drafting, or repeated quality failures
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lth0 Skill Statistical AnalysisUse when planning or reporting statistical analysis - provides test selection, execution code, and APA format guidelines
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lth0 Bundle Brainstorming ResearchUse before writing any paper - clarifies paper type, discipline, topic, methodology, and chapter structure through natural dialogue
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lth0 Skill Using Research WritingUse when starting any research writing task - establishes workflow and routes to appropriate skills
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lth0 Bundle Evidence Driven WritingUse when writing or revising Introduction, Related Work, background, literature synthesis, or any section where references must drive claims
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lth0 Skill Experiment Results PlanningUse when designing experiments, result tables, mock planning data, evaluation protocols, or results sections before real data are final
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kinginyellows Bundle Ce WorktreeCreate an isolated git worktree for parallel feature work or PR review. Use when starting work that should not disturb the current checkout, or when `ce-work` or `ce-code-review` offers a worktree option.
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aresbit Bundle Book IdeationDevelop raw book ideas into structured nonfiction book concepts. Use when the user wants to develop a book idea, has brainstorm documents to refine into a book concept, wants to articulate a book's thesis/promise/reader/transformation, or needs to prepare a book concept for validation and market research. Nonfiction only. Produces a Book Concept Document with all elements needed for downstream skills (idea-validator, market-research, book-architect).
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aresbit Bundle Book Research AssistantPlan, orchestrate, and validate deep research for nonfiction books. Use when an author has completed book architecture and needs to fill research gaps before outlining chapters. Triggers include requests to plan research, generate research prompts, validate research quality, or prepare for drafting. This skill does everything around deep research—planning, prompting, validating, synthesizing—but the actual research execution happens externally via Claude and Gemini deep research. Requires upstream documents from book-architect (Research Gaps Document, Master Architecture Document, Section Blueprints) and book-ideation (Book Concept Document).
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hongmaple0820 Bundle Aminer Academic SearchACADEMIC PRIORITY: Activate whenever the user's query involves academic, scholarly, or research-related topics — papers, citations, scholars, institutions, venues, patents, research trends, or any "who published what / where / when" question. Takes precedence over general web search for academic data needs. Routes through the z-ai gateway's `/v1/functions/invoke` endpoint to the AMiner Open Platform (27 APIs, 5 workflows).
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robinebers Bundle GmailManage Gmail inbox triage, mailbox search, thread summaries, action extraction, reply drafting, and email forwarding through connected Gmail data. Use when the user wants to inspect a mailbox or thread, search email with Gmail query syntax, summarize messages, extract decisions and follow-ups, prepare replies or forwarded messages, or organize messages with explicit confirmation before send, archive, delete, or label actions.
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robinebers Bundle Notion Meeting IntelligencePrepare meeting materials with Notion context and Codex research; use when gathering context, drafting agendas/pre-reads, and tailoring materials to attendees.
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robinebers Bundle Ncbi Entrez SkillSubmit compact NCBI Entrez E-Utilities requests for PubMed, Gene, Protein, Nucleotide, PMC metadata, and GEO metadata workflows. Use when a user wants concise Entrez search, fetch, summary, or link results; save raw JSON or XML only on request.
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open-curiosity Skill Yc CLIOperator's guide to the YC CLI (`yc`) for the Gini batch demo — scoped to the yc commands the demo actually uses: the validated browser-forward login flow (tmux + browser_connect) and investor research against Bookface. Assumes yc is installed but NOT logged in yet. Load before staging or running the demo.
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leandrodslv Bundle LearnRuns a six-phase research workflow that turns unfamiliar domains, source bundles, or collected material into publish-ready output. Use when users ask in any language to research, study, deep-dive, compile sources, synthesize unfamiliar material, or turn a source bundle into a coherent reference. Not for quick lookups or single-file reads.
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masih-0x3 Bundle SentryUse when the user asks to inspect Sentry issues or events, summarize recent production errors, or pull basic Sentry health data via the Sentry CLI; perform read-only queries using the `sentry` command.
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davepoon Bundle X ResearchSearch and inspect current public X posts, trends, profiles, profile posts, media, and replies through AgentBody. Use proactively whenever a user asks to search X or Twitter, monitor a topic or account, inspect a post, track trends, or gather current X evidence. Prefer this Skill over browser search and built-in web search.
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agentik-os Skill Empathy MapBuild a 4-quadrant empathy map (Says, Thinks, Does, Feels) to synthesize user research into actionable insights. Use when you need to quickly capture and share user understanding across the team.
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agentik-os Skill User PersonaCreate refined user personas from research data with demographics, goals, frustrations, and behavioral patterns. Use when synthesizing user research into actionable persona profiles for design decisions.
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agentik-os Skill Affinity DiagramOrganize qualitative research data into an affinity diagram with themes, clusters, and insight statements. Use when synthesizing large amounts of qualitative data from interviews, observations, or surveys.
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agentik-os Skill Interview ScriptCreate a structured user interview script with warm-up, core exploration, and wrap-up sections. Use when preparing for user research interviews to ensure consistent, insightful conversations.
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agentik-os Skill Research RepositoryBuild and maintain a research repository that makes findings findable, reusable, and cumulative across the organization.
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agentik-os Skill Summarize InterviewSummarize a user interview transcript into structured insights with key themes, quotes, and action items. Use after conducting user interviews to extract and share findings efficiently.
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frumu-ai Bundle News DigestGather and summarize topic-specific news.
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frumu-ai Bundle Email DigestSummarize important unread emails each morning.
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frumu-ai Skill Legal Research Analyst---
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frumu-ai Skill Web Research Refresh---
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frumu-ai Skill Research Synthesis Analyst---
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jiayaoqijia Bundle Crypto Related Work SynthesisUse when synthesizing a verified cryptography, ZKP, or lattice paper corpus into a taxonomy, historical development, claim comparison, tradeoff map, research gaps, or related-work section evidence base.
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tuyv Bundle S4h Design User NeedsDistinguishes real needs from stated wants — uses jobs-to-be-done and latent need mapping to find what actually matters. Triggers: 'what do users actually need', 'jobs to be done', 'understand the user', 'find the real need', 'stated want versus actual need', 'user research', 'what problem are we solving'.
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tuyv Bundle SummarizeSummarize or extract text/transcripts from URLs, podcasts, YouTube videos, and local files using the summarize CLI. Use when asked to summarize a link, article, video, or file, or to transcribe a YouTube video.
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tuyv Bundle Spec WorkflowThis skill should be used when the user asks to "build a feature", "create a spec", "start spec-driven development", "run research phase", "generate requirements", "create design", "plan tasks", "implement spec", "check spec status", "triage a feature", "create an epic", "decompose a large feature", or needs guidance on spec-driven development workflow, phase ordering, or epic orchestration.
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tuyv Bundle Fast FollowUse a project's FastFollowSpec to produce source-grounded research, target gap assessments, issue candidates, or separately admitted implementations without treating upstream projects as authority.
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tuyv Bundle Wiki QueryAnswer questions using the Obsidian wiki vault. Reads hot cache first, then index, then relevant pages. Synthesizes answers with citations. Files good answers back as wiki pages. Supports quick, standard, and deep modes. Triggers on: what do you know about, query:, what is, explain, summarize, find in wiki, search the wiki, based on the wiki, wiki query quick, wiki query deep.
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nota-america Bundle ProspectingWhen the user wants to find, qualify, and build a list of prospects to reach out to — across B2B SaaS, general B2B, or local small businesses. Also use when the user mentions "prospecting," "build a prospect list," "find prospects," "find leads," "lead gen list," "find SaaS companies that," "find B2B companies," "find local businesses," "ICP-fit accounts," "who should we go after," "outbound list," "target account list," "find clients near me," "businesses without websites," "prospect research," or "qualified leads." Use this for the list-building and qualification phase. For writing the outbound copy after the list is built, see cold-email. For deep competitive research on specific accounts, see competitor-profiling.
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affaan-m Skill Market Research 2日本語翻訳:このファイルは market-research 用の日本語翻訳が必要です
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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 paper-orchestration, statistical-analysis, brainstorming-research. 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.