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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gabrielmoreira Skill Venue Templates 2Venue-specific LaTeX templates, formatting requirements, and submission guidelines for journals, conferences, posters, and grants—use when a target venue imposes strict layout, page limits, anonymization, or agency compliance rules.
17 - gabrielmoreira Skill Uniprot Database 2
Direct REST API access to UniProt for protein search, entry retrieval, and identifier mapping; use when you need programmatic UniProtKB queries or cross-database ID conversion.
17 - gabrielmoreira Skill Experiment Design 2
Design scientific experiments including sample size calculation, randomization, control groups, blinding, and study protocols. Covers RCTs, quasi-experiments, factorial designs, A/B tests, survey design, and observational studies. Use when user asks to design an experiment, ca...
17 - gabrielmoreira Skill Aging Parent Talks 2
Summarise what Aging Parent Talks does in one line. Use when asked to [trigger phrases the user would say]. Produces [the concrete artifact].
17 - gabrielmoreira Skill Machiavelli Counsel 2
Summarise what Machiavelli Counsel does in one line. Use when asked to [trigger phrases the user would say]. Produces [the concrete artifact].
17 - gabrielmoreira Skill Task Decomposition 3
Breaks down complex software, writing, or research tasks into small, atomic, independently completable units with dependency graphs and milestone breakdowns. Use when the user asks to plan a project, decompose a feature, create subtasks, split up work, or needs help organizing a large piece of work into a step-by-step plan. Triggered by phrases like "break down", "decompose", "where do I start", "too big", "split into tasks", "work breakdown", or "task list".
17 - gabrielmoreira Skill Neuropixels Analysis 2
End-to-end Neuropixels extracellular electrophysiology analysis (SpikeGLX/Open Ephys/NWB) including preprocessing, motion correction, Kilosort4 spike sorting, QC metrics, and Allen/IBL-style curation; use when processing Neuropixels recordings or when users mention Neuropixels, SpikeGLX, Open Ephys, Kilosort, quality metrics, drift/motion correction, or unit curation.
17 - gabrielmoreira Bundle Special Panels Timor Leste Jeanne Sulzer 2
Verification-first methodology for Section I (War Crimes) of the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Citations are verified against the Court of BiH, the ICTY/IRMCT archives and OSCE. Distinguishes ICTY-referred (Rule 11 bis) cases from locally-initiated ones; covers Stanković, Janković and the Maktouf lex mitior ruling. Research aid, not legal advice. Part of the open-source "Skills for International Justice" library — methodology: github.com/jeannesulzer/international-criminal-tribunals-skills
17 - gabrielmoreira Skill Sibling Care Summit 2
Summarise what Sibling Care Summit does in one line. Use when asked to [trigger phrases the user would say]. Produces [the concrete artifact].
17 - gabrielmoreira Skill Committee Handover Pack 2
Summarise what Committee Handover Pack does in one line. Use when asked to [trigger phrases the user would say]. Produces [the concrete artifact].
17 - gabrielmoreira Skill First Maintainer Month 2
Summarise what First Maintainer Month does in one line. Use when asked to [trigger phrases the user would say]. Produces [the concrete artifact].
17 - gabrielmoreira Skill Healthcare System Primer 2
Summarise what Healthcare System Primer does in one line. Use when asked to [trigger phrases the user would say]. Produces [the concrete artifact].
17 - gabrielmoreira Skill Stoic Setback Debrief 2
Summarise what Stoic Setback Debrief does in one line. Use when asked to [trigger phrases the user would say]. Produces [the concrete artifact].
17 - gabrielmoreira Skill Body Double Session 2
Summarise what Body Double Session does in one line. Use when asked to [trigger phrases the user would say]. Produces [the concrete artifact].
17 - gabrielmoreira Skill Semantic Scholar 3
Search published venue papers (IEEE, ACM, Springer, etc.) via Semantic Scholar API. Complements /arxiv (preprints) with citation counts, venue metadata, and TLDR. Use when user says "search semantic scholar", "find IEEE papers", "find journal papers", "venue papers", "citation search", or wants published literature beyond arXiv preprints.
17 - gabrielmoreira Skill Blog Discourse
Research what people are actually saying about a topic in the last 30 days across Reddit, X / Twitter, YouTube, Hacker News, dev.to, Medium, and other public discourse platforms. API-free; uses WebSearch with platform-targeted site operators plus recency filters. Produces DISCOURSE.md (a structured brief) and JSON output the writer can consume. Complements blog-researcher (which focuses on authority sources) with a recency-and-engagement lens. Use when user says "blog discourse", "discourse research", "what are people saying about", "research what people are saying", "voice of customer", "social listening", "30-day research", "trend research", "what's the discussion on", "real-time research", "practitioner discourse", "/blog discourse".
17 - gabrielmoreira Skill Systematic Review
Orchestrates a systematic review and meta-analysis workflow following PRISMA 2020 guidelines, from protocol development through multi-database search, screening, data extraction, and evidence synthesis. Use when conducting evidence-based reviews, meta-analyses, or scoping revi...
17 - gabrielmoreira Skill Personal Statement 2
Use when writing medical school personal statements, residency application essays, fellowship statements, or graduate school admissions essays. Crafts compelling narratives highlighting clinical experiences, research achievements, and career motivations for healthcare education applications.
17 - gabrielmoreira Skill Sun Tzu Strategy Brief 2
Summarise what Sun Tzu Strategy Brief does in one line. Use when asked to [trigger phrases the user would say]. Produces [the concrete artifact].
17 - gabrielmoreira Skill Faith Transition Companion 2
Summarise what Faith Transition Companion does in one line. Use when asked to [trigger phrases the user would say]. Produces [the concrete artifact].
17 - gabrielmoreira Skill Flare Day Planner 2
Summarise what Flare Day Planner does in one line. Use when asked to [trigger phrases the user would say]. Produces [the concrete artifact].
17 - gabrielmoreira Skill Citation Management 2
Comprehensive citation management for academic research; use when you need to discover papers (Google Scholar/PubMed), extract/verify metadata (DOI/PMID/arXiv/URL), and produce validated, clean BibTeX for manuscripts.
17 - gabrielmoreira Skill Volunteer Treasurer Basics 2
Summarise what Volunteer Treasurer Basics does in one line. Use when asked to [trigger phrases the user would say]. Produces [the concrete artifact].
17 - gabrielmoreira Skill Franklin Decision Ledger 2
Summarise what Franklin Decision Ledger does in one line. Use when asked to [trigger phrases the user would say]. Produces [the concrete artifact].
17 - gabrielmoreira Skill Diagnosis Limbo Kit 2
Summarise what Diagnosis Limbo Kit does in one line. Use when asked to [trigger phrases the user would say]. Produces [the concrete artifact].
17 - gabrielmoreira Skill Web Research 2
A skill for conducting comprehensive web research on any topic, synthesizing information from multiple sources into well-organized summaries.
17 - gabrielmoreira Skill Paper Lookup 2
Search 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".
17 - gabrielmoreira Skill Mendelian Randomisation
> **Source**: [https://github.com/aipoch/medical-research-skills](https://github.com/aipoch/medical-research-skills)
17 - gabrielmoreira Skill Bioinfo Analysis Plan
> **Source**: [https://github.com/aipoch/medical-research-skills](https://github.com/aipoch/medical-research-skills)
17 - gabrielmoreira Skill Hypothesis Generation 2
Structured scientific hypothesis formulation from observations; use when you have experimental observations or preliminary data and need testable hypotheses with predictions, mechanisms, and validation experiments.
17 - gabrielmoreira Skill Scholar Evaluation 2
Apply the ScholarEval framework to systematically evaluate scholarly and research work. This skill provides structured evaluation methodology based on peer-reviewed research assessment criteria, enabling comprehensive analysis of academic papers, research proposals, literature reviews, and scholarly writing across multiple quality dimensions.
17 - gabrielmoreira Skill Exploratory Data Analysis 2
Perform comprehensive exploratory data analysis on scientific data files across 200+ file formats. This skill should be used when analyzing any scientific data file to understand its structure, content, quality, and characteristics. Automatically detects file type and generate...
17 - gabrielmoreira Skill Grant Writing 2
Translate research vision into funded reality.
17 - gabrielmoreira Skill Format References Zotero
> **Source**: [https://github.com/aipoch/medical-research-skills](https://github.com/aipoch/medical-research-skills)
17 - gabrielmoreira Skill Perimenopause Navigator 2
Summarise what Perimenopause Navigator does in one line. Use when asked to [trigger phrases the user would say]. Produces [the concrete artifact].
17 - gabrielmoreira Bundle Context Engineering 3
Dynamic context injection, mode switching (dev/review/research), selective loading, and strategic compaction for token optimization.
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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 venue-templates, uniprot-database, experiment-design. 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.