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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bg-szy Skill Pubmed Database 3Programmatic PubMed access via NCBI E-utilities REST API. Covers Boolean/MeSH queries, field-tagged search, endpoints (ESearch, EFetch, ESummary, EPost, ELink), history server for batches, citation matching, systematic review strategies. Use for biomedical literature search or automated pipelines.
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bg-szy Skill Literature Search Openalex 2Query the OpenAlex scholarly database for research papers, authors, institutions, topics, sources, publishers, funders, geo-locations, and keywords. Use when searching academic papers, resolving DOIs, downloading open-access PDFs, finding an author's publications, aggregating bibliometric data (citation counts, h-index, impact factor), exploring the research taxonomies, or performing DOI lookups.
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bg-szy Skill Literature Search Europepmc 2Search Europe PMC for scientific literature and download open-access full texts and PDFs. Retrieve full-text XML/plain text by PMCID, get citation lists and bibliography.
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bg-szy Skill App Store Listing Optimizer 2Optimize iOS App Store and Google Play Store listings for maximum discoverability and conversion. Perform competitive keyword research, craft keyword-optimized titles/subtitles/descriptions, design screenshot sequences, and generate A/B test variants. Use when the user has a built app and needs to write or improve their store listing, do ASO keyword research, optimize app metadata, plan screenshot strategy, or create listing variants for testing. Triggers on "optimize my app listing", "ASO", "app store optimization", "keyword research for my app", "improve my store listing", "screenshot strategy", "app store keywords", "play store listing".
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bg-szy Skill Scientific Manuscript 2High-impact scientific manuscript preparation for journals like Nature, Blood, Cell. Use when writing abstracts, introductions, methods, results, discussions, or figure legends. Includes citation management, statistical reporting standards, ICMJE guidelines, and journal-specific formatting for hematology/oncology publications.
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nota-america Skill Constitutional AI 2Anthropic's method for training harmless AI through self-improvement. Two-phase approach - supervised learning with self-critique/revision, then RLAIF (RL from AI Feedback). Use for safety alignment, reducing harmful outputs without human labels. Powers Claude's safety system.
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nota-america Bundle Pytorch Fsdp2 2Adds PyTorch FSDP2 (fully_shard) to training scripts with correct init, sharding, mixed precision/offload config, and distributed checkpointing. Use when models exceed single-GPU memory or when you need DTensor-based sharding with DeviceMesh.
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nota-america Bundle Academic Plotting 2Generates publication-quality figures for ML papers from research context. Given a paper section or description, extracts system components and relationships to generate architecture diagrams via Gemini. Given experiment results or data, auto-selects chart type and generates data-driven figures via matplotlib/seaborn. Use when creating any figure for a conference paper.
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nota-america Skill Kb Article 3Draft a knowledge base article from a resolved issue or common question. Use when a ticket resolution is worth documenting for self-service, the same question keeps coming up, a workaround needs to be published, or a known issue should be communicated to customers.
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nota-america Bundle Nnsight Remote Interpretability 2Provides guidance for interpreting and manipulating neural network internals using nnsight with optional NDIF remote execution. Use when needing to run interpretability experiments on massive models (70B+) without local GPU resources, or when working with any PyTorch architecture.
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nota-america Bundle Sparse Autoencoder Training 2Provides guidance for training and analyzing Sparse Autoencoders (SAEs) using SAELens to decompose neural network activations into interpretable features. Use when discovering interpretable features, analyzing superposition, or studying monosemantic representations in language models.
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nota-america Skill Memory Management 2Two-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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nota-america Bundle Pytorch Lightning 2High-level PyTorch framework with Trainer class, automatic distributed training (DDP/FSDP/DeepSpeed), callbacks system, and minimal boilerplate. Scales from laptop to supercomputer with same code. Use when you want clean training loops with built-in best practices.
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nota-america Bundle Systems Paper Writing 2Comprehensive guide for writing systems papers targeting OSDI, SOSP, ASPLOS, NSDI, and EuroSys. Provides paragraph-level structural blueprints, writing patterns, venue-specific checklists, reviewer guidelines, LaTeX templates, and conference deadlines. Use this skill for all systems conference paper writing.
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nota-america Bundle Single Cell Rna Qc 2Performs quality control on single-cell RNA-seq data (.h5ad or .h5 files) using scverse best practices with MAD-based filtering and comprehensive visualizations. Use when users request QC analysis, filtering low-quality cells, assessing data quality, or following scverse/scanpy best practices for single-cell analysis.
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nota-america Bundle Nextflow Development 2Run nf-core bioinformatics pipelines (rnaseq, sarek, atacseq) on sequencing data. Use when analyzing RNA-seq, WGS/WES, or ATAC-seq data—either local FASTQs or public datasets from GEO/SRA. Triggers on nf-core, Nextflow, FASTQ analysis, variant calling, gene expression, differential expression, GEO reanalysis, GSE/GSM/SRR accessions, or samplesheet creation.
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nota-america Skill Customer Research 4Multi-source research on a customer question or topic with source attribution. Use when a customer asks something you need to look up, investigating whether a bug has been reported before, checking what was previously told to a specific account, or gathering background before drafting a response.
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nota-america Skill Gemini Interactions API 2Use this skill when writing code that calls the Gemini API for text generation, multi-turn chat, multimodal understanding, image generation, streaming responses, background research tasks, function calling, structured output, or migrating from the old generateContent API. This skill covers the Interactions API, the recommended way to use Gemini models and agents in Python and TypeScript.
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bg-szy Bundle Bio Genome Intervals Coverage Analysis 2Calculate read depth and coverage across genomic intervals using bedtools genomecov and coverage. Generate bedGraph files, compute per-base depth, and summarize coverage statistics. Use when assessing sequencing depth, creating coverage tracks, or evaluating target capture efficiency.
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bg-szy Skill Pubmed Database 4Search PubMed for scientific literature, including published clinical trials. Fetch abstracts and full text. Link published research to biological databases (gene, protein, nucleotide, PubChem) to discover associations between papers and specific compounds or genes. Verify medical spelling, match raw citations, and cache result sets for bulk processing. Interfaces NCBI E-utilities and PMC BioC APIs.
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bg-szy Bundle Bio Variant Calling Clinical Interpretation 2Clinical variant interpretation using ClinVar, ACMG guidelines, and pathogenicity predictors. Prioritize variants for diagnostic and research applications. Use when interpreting clinical significance of variants.
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tuyv Bundle Autoresearch 3Autonomous iterative research loop. Takes a topic, runs web searches, fetches sources, synthesizes findings, and files everything into the wiki as structured pages. Based on Karpathy's autoresearch pattern: program.md configures objectives and constraints, the loop runs until depth is reached, output goes directly into the knowledge base. Triggers on: "/autoresearch", "autoresearch", "research [topic]", "deep dive into [topic]", "investigate [topic]", "find everything about [topic]", "research and file", "go research", "build a wiki on".
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tuyv Bundle Ralph Specum Research 2This skill should be used only when the user explicitly asks to use `$ralph-specum-research`, or explicitly asks Ralph Specum in Codex to run the research phase.
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tuyv Bundle Update Knowledge Base 2Maintain and update product knowledge base from releases, features, and project changes with optional wiki sync
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diegosouzapw Bundle Lastxdays 2lastXdays: Research Any Topic from a Custom Time Range
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tuyv Bundle Summarize 3Summarize 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 Workflow 2This 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 Planning Methodology 2Systematic approach for creating minimal-change, reversible implementation plans. Claude invokes this skill when transforming requirements/research into executable blueprints. Emphasizes simplicity, safety, and clear verification steps.
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diegosouzapw Bundle Last30days Lev Os 2last30days: Research Any Topic from the Last 30 Days
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diegosouzapw Bundle Lead Research Assistant Cn 2销售线索研究助手 | Sales Lead Research Assistant. 识别高质量销售线索 | Identify high-quality sales leads. 分析目标公司、提供联系策略 | Analyze target companies, provide contact strategies. 触发词:销售线索、lead research、客户开发.
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tuyv Bundle Fast Follow 2Use 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 Query 2Answer 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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tuyv Bundle S4h Design User Needs 2Distinguishes 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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diegosouzapw Bundle Question Refiner 2将原始研究问题细化为结构化的深度研究任务。通过提问澄清需求,生成符合 OpenAI/Google Deep Research 标准的结构化提示词。当用户提出研究问题、需要帮助定义研究范围、或想要生成结构化研究提示词时使用此技能。
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diegosouzapw Bundle Add Platform Research Majiayu000 2**Reference files**: `.deepwork/jobs/add_platform/job.yml`, `.deepwork/jobs/add_platform/steps/research.md`
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tonone-ai Skill Cite Research 2Legal research on a specific question — case law, statutes, regulatory guidance. Use when asked to "research this legal question", "what does case law say", or "find the relevant statute".
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 pubmed-database, literature-search-openalex, literature-search-europepmc. 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.