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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alchemiststudiosdotai Skill QA From Execute 2Perform quality assurance on code changes after the research-phase -> plan-phase -> execute-phase workflow. STRICTLY QA only—no coding, no fixes, no source-code changes. Focus on changed areas only, emphasizing control/data flow correctness.
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alekseiul Bundle Last30days 2Research a topic from the last 30 days on Reddit + X + Web, become an expert, and write copy-paste-ready prompts for the user's target tool.
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clay-good Skill Explorer 2Codebase exploration and analysis specialist. Fast research before implementation.
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bertbertov Bundle Planning With Files 2Implements Manus-style file-based planning to organize and track progress on complex tasks. Creates task_plan.md, findings.md, and progress.md. Use when asked to plan out, break down, or organize a multi-step project, research task, or any work requiring 5+ tool calls. Supports automatic session recovery after /clear.
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carlvellotti Skill Synthesize Research 2Turn raw interview notes into structured insights with patterns and quotes
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gnurio Skill Pmf Validate 2Use this skill after /pmf-research-synthesis has identified the riskiest PMF dimension. Takes that dimension (or any business idea/strategy) and runs a structured assumption extraction, mapping, and experiment design sequence. Triggers include: 'validate my riskiest dimension', 'extract assumptions', 'what are the riskiest assumptions', 'run assumption mapping', 'design an experiment', 'pressure test this', 'what could go wrong with this', or any request to surface and test specific assumptions before committing resources. Runs a guided Extract → Map → Test workflow.
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gnurio Bundle Pmf Market Research 2Conduct comprehensive market research across 6 PMF dimensions by identifying analogs (successes) and antilogs (failures) in parallel. This skill should be used after creating an initial PMF narrative (V1) to validate hypotheses with external market evidence before investing in customer interviews.
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gnurio Bundle Pmf Research Synthesis 2Synthesize market research and expert advice to identify the riskiest PMF dimension and update the narrative. This skill should be used after completing market research and optional expert calls to determine what to validate next.
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madslorentzen Bundle Medrxiv Search 2Make sure to use this skill whenever the user asks about medical preprints, clinical research papers, epidemiology studies, public health research, or any biomedical literature that may be available as a preprint — even if they don't mention medRxiv explicitly. Also invoke this skill when the user wants to find the latest research on a medical topic before journal publication, look up a specific paper by DOI, or browse available research categories. Trigger phrases include: medrxiv, medical preprint, clinical preprint, preprint server, clinical research, epidemiology study, public health paper, infectious disease research, oncology preprint, cardiology study, neurology research, COVID research, vaccine efficacy study, clinical trial results, biomedical literature, latest medical research, unpublished medical study, preprint doi lookup, find medical paper, search medrxiv, medical research database, health research paper, preprint search, medrxiv search, find clinical study, research on disease, find papers abo
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madslorentzen Bundle Pubmed Database 2Make sure to use this skill whenever the user asks about biomedical or life sciences literature, medical research, clinical trials, systematic reviews, meta-analyses, drug studies, or any topic that might be in PubMed or MEDLINE — even if they don't mention PubMed explicitly. Also invoke for questions about specific PMIDs, DOIs, journal articles, abstracts, or citation lookups. Trigger phrases include: pubmed, medline, ncbi, biomedical research, medical literature, clinical trial, systematic review, meta-analysis, randomized controlled trial, RCT, MeSH terms, PMID, biomedical journal, life sciences paper, find article by author, find study on, search medical literature, evidence-based medicine, drug efficacy study, cancer research papers, diabetes research, cardiovascular study, neurology research, infectious disease literature, genomics paper, CRISPR study, COVID-19 research, vaccine efficacy study, find papers on, what does the literature say about, research on treatment of, studies on, cite this paper, loo
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majiayu000 Skill Drift Check 2Flag public symbols in the project's source tree that are not documented in the project's knowledge base. Use this before committing, in CI, or whenever a public API surface changes and you want to know whether the knowledge base has gone stale.
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modelstudioai Skill Summarize 2Produce concise summaries of code, discussions, or documents.
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rmusser01 Skill Summarize 2Summarize text at different detail levels
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sethdeckard Bundle Deviceterm Tab Titles 2Read every visible DeviceTerm tab, summarize what each one is doing, and retitle it so the tab strip is scannable. Use when asked to name, label, retitle, or tidy up tabs, or to say what each tab is working on. Requires an automation tab, because reading and retitling another tab needs a live automation grant that only a person can issue from the GUI. Proposes every title for approval before renaming anything.
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vanillaflava Bundle Wiki Crystallize 2Distil a chat thread, research session, or working document into a structured wiki page capturing the current state of knowledge. Always use this skill when the user says /wiki-crystallize, 'save this to my wiki', 'capture what we've worked out', 'write this up as a wiki page', 'update my wiki from this conversation', 'we've covered a lot', 'before I close this chat', or 'let's wrap up this thread'. Also use proactively when the conversation has covered significant ground and capturing the findings would orient future sessions, the context is getting heavy and insights risk being lost, or the user signals they are ending a working session - even if they don't say 'wiki'. The chat is the scaffolding; the wiki page is the artefact. When in doubt whether a session wrap is being requested, use this skill. Requires filesystem read/write access.
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ic-star-tech Skill Summary 2Summarize recent work, memory, and task progress.
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jwuthri Skill Keyword Research 2Discover keyword opportunities, evaluate metrics and SERPs, and save/tag promising terms.
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mturac Skill Market Research 4Conduct market research, competitive analysis, investor due diligence, and industry intelligence with source attribution and decision-oriented summaries. Use when the user wants market sizing, competitor comparisons, fund research, technology scans, or research that informs business decisions.
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tom555my Skill Dev Kit Research 2Research project tech stack or specific research tickets and document findings in `.dev-kit/knowledge/`. Use when: tech stack components need deeper understanding; implementing research-category tickets; onboarding to new technology; investigating best practices and patterns.
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nicolaischmid Bundle Exa Search 2Search the web using Exa's AI-powered search API. Supports semantic search, content extraction, direct answers, and deep research with structured output.
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oimiragieo Bundle Shrink For Claude 2Call this before reading any file path, URL, or document that could be large. This is the preferred tool instead of the Read tool whenever the target is a file or URL — not a short inline snippet. Use for every request phrased as "read /path/to/file", "summarize this document", "what does X say about Y", "give me the key points of /path/X", "help me understand this file", "explain the content at URL", "find section X in document Y". Compresses source by 60-90% via gotcontext.ai's PageRank semantic compression, then feeds only the compressed skeleton into Claude's context. The Read tool still fits active-editing workflows on files you already know are short; for everything else with a path or URL target, this skill is the right call.
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phuryn Bundle Codex Ideation 2Use OpenAI Codex CLI as a peer collaboration partner — same standing as Claude, not a one-shot tool. Bring Codex in EARLY (ideation, framing decisions, stuck moments), not only for late peer-review. Hand it strategic context (target, research, draft, reasoning), iterate conversationally over ~3-8 turns, converge before surfacing to the human. Invoke when the user says "check / iterate / ideate with Codex" or "ask Codex" — and proactively when stuck between two reasonable framings, pressure-testing a load-bearing claim or structure, or about to ask the human to pick between options two agents could resolve.
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phuryn Skill Email Summary Example 2DON'T USE THAT SKILL. IT'S JUST AN EXAMPLE. Summarize today's Gmail inbox by category with anonymized senders and subjects, then surface the top 3 emails to focus on next. Run only when the user types /email-summary.
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yzhao062 Bundle Dual Pass Workflow 2Structure a task into a first pass and an optional second pass without replacing the domain skill. Use when Codex or Claude Code should collaborate on paper reviews, bug fixes, writing, website edits, research memos, or other tasks where one pass produces the main artifact and a later pass may check or refine it.
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zebbern Skill SummarizeSummarize or extract text/transcripts from URLs, podcasts, and local files (great fallback for “transcribe this YouTube/video”).
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dojogenesis Bundle Web Research External 2Web Research External
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stepkar2004 Bundle Workflow 2The SWE loop binding every implementation session in this repo - fire whenever code is about to be written, changed, or resumed, at every chunk start and end, and whenever unsure what the next step is. Covers orient -> plan -> implement -> verify -> document -> commit (NEVER push) -> reflect. Nested lazy parts; load references/scale.md when work outgrows one context window (massive task/refactor, flood of tasks, mass research); load references/rot-check.md before a release, after a long repo gap, or on "rot check"/"is anything stale". Not for scaffolding new stacks (bootstrap) or skill hygiene (skill-manager).
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florianbruniaux Bundle Youtube Research 2Search and compare the local yt-insights YouTube corpus with source-backed passages, timestamps, channels, and video metadata. Use for trouve dans mon corpus, cherche cette citation, compare ces chaines, or find the source video. Do not use to download videos or modify the corpus.
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hamza-ali-shahjahan Skill Keyword Research 2Pull keyword data from GSC, Ahrefs Webmaster, and DataForSEO. Returns a clustered keyword brief.
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hhhh124hhhh Skill Context7 Auto Research 3Context7 Auto Research
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jackywxsz Skill Jacky Wiki 2把 AI 对话中有价值的内容沉淀到 Obsidian 知识库。 检索知识库内容回答问题,只基于已有内容,不杜撰。 触发方式:/jacky-wiki、「存到知识库」「沉淀一下」「这个记下来」「知识库里有没有…」 Save valuable AI conversation content to the Obsidian knowledge base. Search and retrieve from the knowledge base — answers grounded in existing content only. Trigger: /jacky-wiki, "save to KB", "remember this", "search KB", "知识库里…"
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study8677 Bundle Research 2Performs deep research on a topic via `deep_research`. Simulates a multi-step research process and returns a comprehensive research result as a string.
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thevibeworks Skill Edgartools Sec Data 2How to pull SEC EDGAR data with the edgartools Python package — company lookup, filings, XBRL financial statements, and filing sections like Item 1A risk factors. Use whenever a task involves SEC filings, 10-K/10-Q data, or company financials.
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different-ai Skill Research Doc 2Create and commit a research doc in research/ for a requested topic. Triggers when user mentions: - "hey research" - "research doc" - "research topic"
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srid Skill Talk 2Enter talk mode — conversation and research, no repo changes. ONLY invoke when the user explicitly types `/talk` or `$talk`; never auto-select from a natural-language question or design discussion.
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tmaru-eng Skill Resolve AI Pr Reviews 3Resolve PR review feedback from CodeRabbit and Gemini using the gh CLI. Use when asked to fetch AI review comments, summarize unresolved items in Japanese, implement fixes, manually resolve Gemini review threads, push changes, and request a new Gemini review with /gemini review.
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 qa-from-execute, last30days, explorer. 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.