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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bbgnsurftech Bundle Creating Github Issues From Web Research 2This skill enhances Claude's ability to conduct web research and translate findings into actionable GitHub issues. It automates the process of extracting key information from web search results and formatting it into a well-structured issue, ready for team action. Use this skill when you need to research a topic and create a corresponding GitHub issue for tracking, collaboration, and task management. Trigger this skill by requesting Claude to "research [topic] and create a ticket" or "find [information] and generate a GitHub issue".
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tonone-ai Skill Cite Recon 2Survey open legal questions and research gaps in the project. Use when asked "what legal questions are open", "where are our research gaps", or "list unresolved legal issues".
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tonone-ai Skill Echo Recon 2User research reconnaissance — survey existing personas, research docs, interview notes, and feedback artifacts to establish what is already known about users. Use when asked to "what research exists", "review existing personas", "what do we know about our users", or before starting new research or synthesis work.
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tonone-ai Skill Scope Trademark 2Trademark clearance research and filing preparation for a name or mark. Use when asked to "clear this trademark", "can we use this name", or "prepare a trademark filing".
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jmagly-ai-writing-guide Skill Issue Planner 2Research-grounded SDLC issue planner — dispatches parallel research, generates the supporting doc corpus, then files prioritized cross-referenced issues for human review.
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jmagly-ai-writing-guide Skill Induct Research 3Induct research sources (issue, file, directory, or URI) into a research corpus — reads, annotates, and files structured induction tasks. Like address-issues but for research.
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bbgnsurftech Bundle Market Research Reports 2Generate comprehensive market research reports (50+ pages) in the style of top consulting firms (McKinsey, BCG, Gartner). Features professional LaTeX formatting, extensive visual generation with scientific-schematics and generate-image, deep integration with research-lookup for data gathering, and multi-framework strategic analysis including Porter's Five Forces, PESTLE, SWOT, TAM/SAM/SOM, and BCG Matrix.
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frank-luongt Skill Content Research Writer 2<!-- AUTO-GENERATED by export-skills.py — DO NOT EDIT -->
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frank-luongt Skill Brainstorming Research Ideas 2<!-- AUTO-GENERATED by export-skills.py — DO NOT EDIT -->
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frank-luongt Skill Creative Thinking For Research 2<!-- AUTO-GENERATED by export-skills.py — DO NOT EDIT -->
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lord1egypt Bundle Qutip 2Quantum physics simulation library for open quantum systems. Use when studying master equations, Lindblad dynamics, decoherence, quantum optics, or cavity QED. Best for physics research, open system dynamics, and educational simulations. NOT for circuit-based quantum computing—use qiskit, cirq, or pennylane for quantum algorithms and hardware execution.
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lord1egypt Bundle Lamindb 2This skill should be used when working with LaminDB, an open-source data framework for biology that makes data queryable, traceable, reproducible, and FAIR. Use when managing biological datasets (scRNA-seq, spatial, flow cytometry, etc.), tracking computational workflows, curating and validating data with biological ontologies, building data lakehouses, or ensuring data lineage and reproducibility in biological research. Covers data management, annotation, ontologies (genes, cell types, diseases, tissues), schema validation, integrations with workflow managers (Nextflow, Snakemake) and MLOps platforms (W&B, MLflow), and deployment strategies.
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lord1egypt Bundle Networkx 2Comprehensive toolkit for creating, analyzing, and visualizing complex networks and graphs in Python. Use when working with network/graph data structures, analyzing relationships between entities, computing graph algorithms (shortest paths, centrality, clustering), detecting communities, generating synthetic networks, or visualizing network topologies. Applicable to social networks, biological networks, transportation systems, citation networks, and any domain involving pairwise relationships.
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lord1egypt Bundle Neurokit2 2Comprehensive biosignal processing toolkit for analyzing physiological data including ECG, EEG, EDA, RSP, PPG, EMG, and EOG signals. Use this skill when processing cardiovascular signals, brain activity, electrodermal responses, respiratory patterns, muscle activity, or eye movements. Applicable for heart rate variability analysis, event-related potentials, complexity measures, autonomic nervous system assessment, psychophysiology research, and multi-modal physiological signal integration.
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lord1egypt Bundle Exa Search 2Web 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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lord1egypt Bundle Paper Lookup 2Search 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".
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lord1egypt Bundle Open Notebook 2Self-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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lord1egypt Bundle Research Grants 2Write 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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lord1egypt Bundle Research Lookup 2Look up current research information using parallel-cli search (primary, fast web search), the Parallel Chat API (deep research), or Perplexity sonar-pro-search (academic paper searches). Automatically routes queries to the best backend. Use for finding papers, gathering research data, and verifying scientific information. Note: query text is transmitted to api.parallel.ai (PARALLEL_API_KEY) and, for academic searches, to openrouter.ai (OPENROUTER_API_KEY).
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lord1egypt Bundle Venue Templates 2Access comprehensive LaTeX templates, formatting requirements, and submission guidelines for major scientific publication venues (Nature, Science, PLOS, IEEE, ACM), academic conferences (NeurIPS, ICML, CVPR, CHI), research posters, and grant proposals (NSF, NIH, DOE, DARPA). This skill should be used when preparing manuscripts for journal submission, conference papers, research posters, or grant proposals and need venue-specific formatting requirements and templates.
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lord1egypt Skill Search Grounding 2Real-time Google Search grounding, live web query integration, and web source citation extraction.
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lord1egypt Bundle Scientific Writing 2Core skill for the deep research and writing tool. Write scientific manuscripts in full paragraphs (never bullet points). Use two-stage process with (1) section outlines with key points using research-lookup then (2) convert to flowing prose. IMRAD structure, citations (APA/AMA/Vancouver), figures/tables, reporting guidelines (CONSORT/STROBE/PRISMA), for research papers and journal submissions.
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lord1egypt Bundle Citation Management 2Comprehensive citation management for academic research. Search Google Scholar and PubMed for papers, extract accurate metadata, validate citations, and generate properly formatted BibTeX entries. This skill should be used when you need to find papers, verify citation information, convert DOIs to BibTeX, or ensure reference accuracy in scientific writing.
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rudironsoni Skill Wiki Researcher 2Deep research with evidence-based analysis
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lord1egypt Bundle Statistical Analysis 2Guided statistical analysis with test selection and reporting. Use when you need help choosing appropriate tests for your data, assumption checking, power analysis, and APA-formatted results. Best for academic research reporting, test selection guidance. For implementing specific models programmatically use statsmodels.
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lord1egypt Bundle Scientific Brainstorming 2Creative research ideation and exploration. Use for open-ended brainstorming sessions, exploring interdisciplinary connections, challenging assumptions, or identifying research gaps. Best for early-stage research planning when you do not have specific observations yet. For formulating testable hypotheses from data use hypothesis-generation.
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lord1egypt Skill Skill Cowork Plugin Authoring 2Skill instructions for creating or customizing Cowork plugins, including mode selection, research, implementation, packaging, connector replacement, and plugin delivery
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netvar1337 Bundle Research 2Use when a spec decision needs external library/API facts distilled into section R (/ck:research).
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netvar1337 Bundle Windows Ad 2Use for authorized Active Directory and Windows identity attacks including Kerberos, AD CS, BloodHound paths, NTLM relay, and domain privilege escalation research.
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netvar1337 Bundle Anti Cheat Bypass 2Anti-cheat research/bypass methodology: EAC/BE/Vanguard user+kernel surfaces, heartbeats, integrity, HV vs AC.
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netvar1337 Bundle X64dbg Anti Debugger 2Anti-debugger techniques and bypass research in x64dbg workflows: PEB flags, NtQuery, object hides, timing, TLS, self-debug.
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netvar1337 Skill Tpm Attestation Research 2Remote TPM attestation / trust crypto / serial research: TPM2 keys, quote/PCRs, Windows health attestation surfaces, AC trust anchors.
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netvar1337 Bundle Windows Profile Hive Research 2Use when hunting Windows user-profile and registry-hive vulnerabilities involving ProfSvc, profile load/unload, CreateProcessWithLogon, RegOpenUserClassesRoot, NTUSER.DAT or UsrClass.dat, known-folder and environment expansion, offline registry editing, cross-user hive mounting, or races between profile state and attacker-controlled paths.
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 creating-github-issues-from-web-research, cite-recon, echo-recon. 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.