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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activer007 Bundle Pubmed Database 2Direct REST API access to PubMed. Advanced Boolean/MeSH queries, E-utilities API, batch processing, citation management. For Python workflows, prefer biopython (Bio.Entrez). Use this for direct HTTP/REST work or custom API implementations.
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mn755 Skill Mission Control Domain Map 2Extract business domains, flows, process steps, and domain vocabulary from a codebase or knowledge base through Mission Control.
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mn755 Skill Mission Control Nvidia Research 2Use Mission Control with NVIDIA AI-Q, NVIDIA Dynamo, and GPU diagnostics for deeper research and GPU-backed coding workflows.
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oaustegard Bundle Iterating 2Multi-conversation methodology for iterative stateful work with context accumulation. Use when users request work that spans multiple sessions (research, debugging, refactoring, feature development), need to build on past progress, explicitly mention iterative work, work logs, project knowledge, or cross-conversation learning.
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oaustegard Bundle Parsing Video 2Interpret video content visually by sampling frames into timestamped contact sheets that can be read as images. Use when: user asks what happens in a video; asks to summarize, describe, review, or QA video content or footage; asks about scenes, actions, people, or objects in a video; needs a storyboard-style overview of a clip; asks to find where something occurs in a video. Triggers on 'watch this video', 'what's in this video', 'summarize the video', 'describe the footage', 'contact sheet', 'storyboard', 'review this clip', 'find the scene where', 'scene detection', 'shot boundaries', 'detect cuts', 'dwell points'. For converting, trimming, or transcoding video, use processing-video instead.
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oaustegard Bundle Browsing Bluesky 2Browse Bluesky content via API and firehose - search posts, fetch user activity, sample trending topics, read feeds and lists, analyze and categorize accounts. Supports authenticated access for personalized feeds. Use for Bluesky research, user monitoring, trend analysis, feed reading, firehose sampling, account categorization.
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oaustegard Bundle Updating Knowledge 2Systematic research methodology for building comprehensive, current knowledge on any topic. Requires web_search tool. Use when questions require thorough investigation, recent developments post-cutoff, synthesis across multiple sources, or when Claude's knowledge may be outdated or incomplete. Triggered by "Research", "Investigate", "What's current on", "Latest info on", complex queries needing validation, or technical topics with recent changes.
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boisenoise Bundle Peer Review 2Prepare evidence-bounded, constructive peer-review drafts and structured manuscript assessments. Use for authorized review of scientific manuscripts, protocols, preprints, or research proposals; reporting-guideline selection; claim–evidence checks; methods, statistics, reproducibility, ethics, figure/table, and citation critique; or revision-response planning.
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boisenoise Bundle Infographics 2Create professional infographics using Nano Banana Pro AI with smart iterative refinement. Uses Gemini 3.6 Flash for quality review. Integrates research-lookup and web search for accurate data. Supports 10 infographic types, 8 industry styles, and colorblind-safe palettes.
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boisenoise 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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boisenoise Bundle Research Lookup 2Compile current scholarly evidence for a scientific manuscript or research brief. Use when the user explicitly asks to gather literature, references, background evidence, competing findings, or a manuscript research packet. Uses Parallel Search by default, Parallel Extract for source verification, Parallel Research for explicitly deep/exhaustive work, optional explicit Parallel Chat, and optional Perplexity only when requested or allowed as a failure fallback.
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boisenoise Bundle Clinical Reports 2Create safety-bounded draft structures and run local deterministic checks for clinical case, diagnostic, trial, safety, and aggregate research reports. Use only with synthetic, de-identified, or aggregate inputs and verified source-fact manifests; every output requires qualified review.
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boisenoise Bundle Citation Management 2Comprehensive citation management for academic research. Search OpenAlex, PubMed, and Google Scholar 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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boisenoise Bundle Nirc Badge Request 2Prepare Field Museum NIRC ID badge requests (Scientific Affiliate, Visitor, Contractor) and prefill the NIRC Badge Request Google Form for human review. Use this skill whenever the user mentions a badge, badge renewal, expiring badge, building access, door access, room access, West Lot parking for a non-staff person, or getting a research associate, affiliate, visitor, or contractor into NIRC spaces or the collections — even if they never name the form. Also use it for the questions this process raises: whether after-hours or weekend access is possible, who has to approve it, how far in advance to submit, and whether someone should go through this form or through HR. Restricted to curators; other Museum staff may prepare a draft but must route it to a curator for submission.
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boisenoise Bundle Hypothesis Generation 2Formulate evidence-bounded scientific questions, candidate hypotheses, rival explanations, causal or associational claims, discriminating predictions, measurements, and preregistration-ready analysis plans. Use when turning observations or preliminary findings into transparent, testable research plans without treating hypotheses as facts.
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boisenoise Bundle Scientific Brainstorming 2Facilitates evidence-aware scientific ideation with independent generation, structured discussion, explicit assumptions, transparent evaluation, adversarial review, and decision logs. Use for early-stage research brainstorming or prioritizing candidate directions; hand off empirical validation, study design, ethics or regulatory review, and clinical questions to appropriate experts or skills.
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rjmurillo Bundle Memory Enhancement 2Manage memory citations, verify code references, and track confidence scores. Use when adding citations to memories, checking memory health, or verifying code references are still valid. Use when you say "add a citation", "verify this memory's code refs", "check memory health". Do NOT use for searching or creating memories (use memory) or for documentary reports (use memory-documentary).
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rjmurillo Bundle AI Agents Docs Of Record 2Runbook for this repo's documents of record. Session logs, ADRs, retrospectives, Serena memories, per-issue handoffs, plus the templates, validators, naming rules, and house prose style that bind them. Use when you say `write the session log`, `create an ADR`, `fill the retro`, `save this to memory`, `which document of record`. Do NOT use for authoring skills (use `SkillForge`) or research write-ups (use `ai-agents-research-methodology`).
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rjmurillo Bundle AI Agents Research Frontier 2Three ranked open research programs for this repo, each with honest current-state evidence, first concrete steps, and a falsifiable milestone. Verified governance (ADR-069, proposed), cross-harness abstraction (ADR-072 proposed, ADR-068 accepted), and the self-improving loop (issue #1345). Use when you say `research frontier`, `open problems`, `what should we research next`. Do NOT use for how to run an experiment here (use `ai-agents-research-methodology`).
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richfrem Bundle Red Team Review 3(Industry standard: Review and Critique Pattern) Primary Use Case: Iterative generation paired with adversarial review, continuing until an 'Approved' verdict is reached. Orchestrated adversarial review loop. Use when: research, designs, architectures, or decisions need to be reviewed by red team agents (human, browser, or CLI). Iterates in rounds of research → bundle → review → feedback until approved.
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tfcbot Skill Research Hooks 2Mine first-line hooks from N seed creators and cluster them.
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tfcbot Skill Research Niche 2Research a niche on a specific platform — pull top posts, summarize formats and hooks.
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tfcbot Skill Research Trends 2Surface trending hooks and formats on a platform within a time window.
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lza6 Skill Ljg Travel 2Deep travel research workflow for museums and ancient architecture. Input a city name, auto-generates structured knowledge document (org-mode) + portable reference cards (PNG). Covers historical background, museum highlights, archaeological significance, and architectural heritage. Use when user says '旅行研究', '博物馆功课', '古建功课', 'travel research', '出发前功课', or provides a city name with intent to do deep cultural travel preparation.
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lza6 Skill Gsd Research Phase 2Research how to implement a phase (standalone - usually use /gsd-plan-phase instead)
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ai-driven-dev Bundle 05 Spike 2Produces an evidence-bounded spike for an uncertainty blocking estimation, feasibility, or design. Use when the user wants to frame, investigate, resume, or conclude one. Not for general research or implementation.
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ai-driven-dev Bundle 12 Cook 2Manage project recipes/how-to sheets by listing, creating, updating, researching, or applying a recipe. Use for recipe, cook, /cook, list, new, update, research, apply.
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jovanipink Skill Source Grounded Research 2Research a question using current primary sources, preserving publisher URLs, dates, units, provenance, and uncertainty. Use for web investigations, fact checks, comparisons, or recommendations where current evidence and precise attribution matter.
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keyvaluesoftwaresystems Skill Maestro Init 2One-shot onboarding for a repo — detect its tech stack and install the matching skills/agents (detect-stack), then build the living-docs knowledge base (build-knowledge). Run once when adopting Maestro in a codebase. Front door for /maestro-init or $maestro-init.
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keyvaluesoftwaresystems Skill Build Knowledge 2Scan the codebase and build a structured living-docs knowledge base (technical + functional per domain, plus an architecture diagram), and seed cross-cutting review lessons. Front door for /build-knowledge.
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2233admin Skill Bmad Domain Research 2Deprecated — forwards to bmad-deep-recon (domain type).
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2233admin Skill Bmad Market Research 2Deprecated — forwards to bmad-deep-recon (market type).
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2233admin Bundle Bmad Sprint Planning 2Gate planning readiness, generate sprint status tracking from epics, summarize sprint progress, and validate or repair the tracking file. Use when the user says "run sprint planning", "generate sprint plan", "check implementation readiness", "show sprint status", "validate sprint status", or "fix sprint status"
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2233admin Skill Bmad Technical Research 2Deprecated — forwards to bmad-deep-recon (technical type).
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dobroslavradosavljevic Bundle Brainstorm 2Read-only brainstorming mode for exploring ideas, plans, architecture, debugging approaches, product decisions, research topics, codebase questions, and alternatives without mutating the user's codebase. Use when the user invokes $brainstorm, says "brainstorm", "brainstorming session", "let's think", "explore this", "research only", "read-only", or otherwise asks to discuss before implementation. Remain read-only until the user explicitly asks to implement, edit, write, apply, commit, install, or otherwise change state.
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dobroslavradosavljevic Bundle Clone To Temp 2Manual-only workflow that puts locally browsable scratch material into the project-root `.temp/` directory (git clones, datasets, archives, dumps) and keeps that directory ignored by git, linters, formatters, typecheck, tests, and similar project tooling. Fetched trees are untrusted: inspect files only; never install, build, test, or run anything from `.temp/`. Use only when the user explicitly invokes $clone-to-temp or asks to clone-to-temp. Do not auto-invoke from ambient context, brainstorming, research, or a mention of cloning or downloading.
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, mission-control-domain-map, mission-control-nvidia-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.