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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povvo Bundle Sleuth 2Use when conducting structured investigative research, OSINT analysis, due diligence, or intelligence-grade inquiry. Activate for tracing beneficial ownership, mapping entity networks, authenticating digital evidence, sanctions screening, resolving fragmented identity records, constructing chronological timelines, or producing ICD 203-compliant analytical briefings. Also activate when the user references case decision logs, investigation strategy, source grading, entity registers, evidence preservation, network analysis, content verification, genealogical research, cultural context assessments, or analytical briefings.
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psthi Skill Pro Python 2Comprehensive knowledge base and design pattern manual from "Pro Python" by Marty Alchin (Apress), fully modernized for Python 3.10–3.13+. Use when applying advanced OOP frameworks (Metaclasses, __init_subclass__, Descriptors, MRO/super(), Dunder Protocols vs typing.Protocol, Decorator architecture, Memory Management, and Declarative Framework Design).
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raroque Skill Youtube Script Writer 2Write a tight, retention-focused YouTube script from a topic, outline, or research brief. Use when the user asks for a video script, wants to turn notes or research into a YouTube video, needs a hook/intro rewritten, or wants to plan a video end-to-end with pacing, visual beats, and CTAs.
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rimagination Bundle Good Story 2Use when the user asks to find, sharpen, evaluate, rewrite, or explain the story in scientific or scholarly materials across disciplines, including manuscripts, grants, paper outlines, abstracts, figures, results, discussions, cover letters, research pitches, high-impact writing, journal fit, significance, novelty, mechanism, paper logic, or why a result matters.
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samgalanakis Bundle Cupel 2Make your clanker your investing analyst. A personal research companion that learns the user's edges (their job, their life, their circle of competence) and stress-tests ideas against the investing canon (Lynch, Mayer, Dorsey, Graham, Bogle, Housel, Bernstein, Marks). It reads and writes a single Obsidian-compatible "office" vault that accumulates the user's edges, trusted sources, watchlist, themes, positions, theses, and a decision journal. Use when the user wants to research a company, capture or develop an investment idea, scout for new opportunities beyond their current list, review a holding or their portfolio, decide how to allocate or rebalance, think through a buy/sell/hold decision, or get a status check on where they stand. It gives reasoned, mandate-grounded calls — likely scenarios, rough upside and timeframe, and the risks named — refusing only false precision dressed as fact and bare tip-bot signals, and never placing trades.
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sherrywong0512 Bundle Ingredient Opportunity Research 2Research market feasibility and downstream sales opportunities for ingredients and raw materials used in consumer products. Use when an ingredient sales team needs to identify promising consumer-product applications, investigate comparable market prices, validate formulation and process feasibility with papers or patents, assess demand, competition, regulation, consumer awareness and market-education burden, find and prioritize potential B2B customers, or prepare optional interview guides, key-account plans, and presentation outlines. Supports professionally edited Chinese, English, and bilingual deliverables.
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socialpranker Bundle Deepdive 2Meta-research под вопрос или решение: веб-поиск, источники, Q&A отчёт с цитатами по файлам для повторного использования. Использовать для деск-ресёрча, валидации гипотезы, «как устроен X». Триггеры: «deepdive», «сделай ресёрч», «исследуй», «копни глубоко», «ресёрчни».
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modernrelay Bundle Omnigraph Intel Bootstrap 2Bootstrap a new Omnigraph-based SPIKE industry intelligence graph from scratch. Use this skill whenever a user wants to set up a new SPIKE graph — either with the existing AI industry demo data or for a new domain (biotech, fintech, crypto, geopolitics, macroeconomics, SaaS, climate tech, etc.). The flow presents a demo-vs-custom decision, then for custom setups asks about domain scope, actors, cadence, and sources, adapts schema and enums for the target domain, runs initial web research to generate real seed content, and converges the cluster (apply creates the graph) + loads seed data. Apply aggressively when the user says any of: set up Omnigraph, bootstrap a new graph, create a new SPIKE cookbook, I want to track X industry, initialize intel for Y, new graph for Z domain, start a new context graph, or similar phrasing. This skill takes a user from zero to a populated, queryable graph.
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the-vibe-company Bundle Incident Summary 2Summarize an incident timeline from logs into a concise postmortem draft.
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thorinside Skill Think Tank 2Composite skill for hardening project plans through grill-with-docs plus Substrate specialist job orchestration. Use when the user wants to design, harden, or stress-test a spec with evidence, ADRs, a glossary, and coordinated research jobs.
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ttttonyhe Skill Autogrind 2Engage in 24x7 auto-work mode. Continuously grind through improvements, fixes, tests, and polish without stopping until you say so. For long-running sessions across code, ML/data, research, design, or writing. Not for single bounded tasks. Trigger phrases: /autogrind, /自己动, 'autogrind this', 'grind on this', 'keep working don't stop', 'work until I say stop', 'keep improving', 'keep going'.
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upstash Skill Trade 2Execute the daily virtual trading process. Research markets, make trades, save snapshot, write diary and memory.
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vellum-ai Bundle Geo Writing 2Generates GEO/AEO-optimized articles designed to get AI engines (ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini) to cite your brand. Handles research, writing, and file output. Suggests listicle or head-to-head as starting formats if the user is unsure.
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volcengine Bundle AI Generated Code Reading Guide Skill 2Generates AI-authored code reading guides from a project or module. Invoke when user asks to read code, summarize architecture, and write a guide document.
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nvk Skill Stepbystep 2Convert the current session's research, summary, plan, or partially completed work into an interactive one-step-at-a-time instruction mode. Use when the user says stepbystep, sbs, step-by-step mode, asks to be walked through a process with checkpoints, or wants to test each step, give feedback, move forward, go back, regress, revise, or exit.
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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.
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holobiomicslab Skill Unit Test Validation 2Use when when you need to confirm that a research tool or package maintains a functioning test suite, especially before adopting it for downstream analysis or before contributing modifications. Triggered by the presence of a CI workflow badge (e.
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holobiomicslab Skill Upset Plot Generation 2Use when after loading and filtering search results from two or more DIA-MS analysis tools at a specified Q-value cutoff, when you need to summarize which analytes are identified by all tools, by specific subsets, or uniquely by individual tools.
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holobiomicslab Skill Code Repository Analysis 2Use when you have a published research article describing a new FT-ICR MS analysis tool and need to verify which analytical and visualization features are actually implemented (not just claimed).
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holobiomicslab Skill Dependency Version Management 2Use when when you need to document or reproduce a Python-based research application (or any package-dependent workflow) and discover that the original publication or repository specifies dependencies without versions, or when you want to verify that a documented set of pinned versions can be.
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holobiomicslab Skill Ion Filter Status Categorization 2Use when after applying one or more mpactr filters (filter_mispicked_ions, filter_group, filter_cv, filter_insource_ions) to a peak table, when you need to quantify how many ions passed or failed each filter and summarize the overall filtering impact by status distribution.
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holobiomicslab Skill Test Suite Pass Fail Reporting 2Use when when you need to verify that a research software package (e.g., MassQL) maintains functional correctness over time, assess the reliability of a tool before integration into a workflow, or document test coverage and failure modes for reproducibility.
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holobiomicslab Skill Spectral Similarity Ranking 2Use when you have a query MS/MS spectrum and need to identify the -matching library spectrum from a large spectral database, particularly when the research goal requires distinguishing between exact matches and structural analogues without separate workflows.
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holobiomicslab Skill Multi Service Dependency Management 2Use when your research software comprises multiple independent subprojects or microservices (calculation engines, web services, data processors, websites) that must be deployed and initialized in a coordinated sequence, with explicit dependency declarations and network communication paths between.
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pjt222 Skill Review Research 2Realizar una revisión por pares de la metodología de investigación, el diseño experimental y la calidad del manuscrito. Cubre la evaluación metodológica, la idoneidad estadística, la evaluación de reproducibilidad, la identificación de sesgos y la retroalimentación constructiva. Usar al revisar un manuscrito, preimpresión o informe de investigación interno, evaluar una propuesta de investigación o protocolo de estudio, valorar la calidad de la evidencia detrás de una afirmación, o revisar un capítulo de tesis o sección de disertación.
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pjt222 Skill Review Research 3研究手法、実験デザイン、論文品質のピアレビューを実施する。手法評価、統計的妥当性、 再現可能性の評価、バイアスの特定、建設的なフィードバックを網羅する。 論文・プレプリント・内部研究レポートのレビュー、研究提案や研究プロトコルの評価、 主張の根拠となる証拠の質の評価、または論文の章・節のレビューに使用する。
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pjt222 Skill Search Prior Art 3Search for prior art relevant to a specific invention or patent claim. Covers patent literature, non-patent literature (academic papers, products, open source), defensive publications, and standard-essential patents. Use when evaluating whether an invention is novel and non-obvious before filing, challenging the validity of an existing patent, supporting a freedom-to-operate analysis, documenting a defensive publication, or responding to a patent office action questioning novelty or obviousness.
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pjt222 Skill Argumentation 5Construct well-structured arguments using the hypothesis-argument-example triad. Covers formulating falsifiable hypotheses, building logical arguments (deductive, inductive, analogical, evidential), providing concrete examples, and steelmanning counterarguments. Use when writing or reviewing PR descriptions that propose technical changes, justifying design decisions in ADRs, constructing substantive code review feedback, or building a research argument or technical proposal.
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 sleuth, pro-python, youtube-script-writer. 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.