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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oil-oil Bundle Team Mode 2Proactively decompose and coordinate substantial development, research, analysis, planning, document, data, and content work with the smallest useful parallel set of custom subagents. Use when independent execution, parallelism, context isolation, or fresh review can improve speed or quality. Keep unresolved decisions and final acceptance in the main thread. Do not use for casual or simple tasks.
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yunyancuo Bundle Paper Writing 2Research paper writing assistant that enforces Arpit Gupta's editorial principles, voice profile, and writing workflow. MANDATORY TRIGGERS: Use this skill whenever the user mentions writing a paper, drafting a section, revising a section, editing a paper, reviewing a draft, rewriting an introduction, writing an evaluation, polishing prose, compressing text, or any task involving .tex files, Overleaf, conference submissions, or paper deadlines. Also trigger when the user mentions any paper by name (NetBurst, NetForge, BQT+, TurboTest, etc.) in a writing context. This skill should activate for ANY research writing task — sections, abstracts, rebuttals, camera-ready edits, cover letters, or response to reviewers.
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ory Skill Doctor 2Run a health check on the bundled Lumen semantic search setup for the current project, verify backend reachability and index freshness, and summarize remediation steps.
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pakco77 Bundle Last30days 2Recent community and social trend research over the last 30 days. Use when the brief asks what people are saying now, recent sentiment, community reactions, social proof, launch reaction, trend scan, or last-30-days context.
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pengelbrecht 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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piaoxuemoli Skill Bug Debug Log 3Bug 调试记录技能:将调试过程标准化写入 test_book/无分类/Bug调试记录.md,包含问题发现、描述、根因分析、解决方案、效果、知识点与面试问答。触发词:总结这次调试, 总结这个bug, 记录bug, 记录调试, debug log, 写入test_book, 调试记录, log this bug, summarize debug
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spideynolove Bundle Blog Draft 2Draft a blog post from ideas and resources. Use when users want to write a blog post, create content from research, or draft articles. Guides through research, brainstorming, outlining, and iterative drafting with version control.
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steipete Bundle Project Manager 2Manage GitHub issues and the GitHub Project board for the current repository, while keeping the local tracker in sync. Use when the user wants to capture freeform requirements as issues, flesh out issue descriptions from repo or upstream research, triage Priority/Size/Workflow/Status, add issues or PRs to the repo's configured project board, or reconcile GitHub state with `.local/work-items.yaml`.
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yogsoth-ai Skill Paper Overview 2Abstract-level paper scanning for broad coverage. Import of literature-engine/literature-overview skill. Abstract-level only — no methodology conclusions from abstracts.
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 team-mode, paper-writing, doctor. 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.