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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kesslernity Bundle Executive Briefing PackPrepares a DRAFT leadership-meeting briefing pack from the reports, meeting notes, emails and dashboard exports the user provides: one headline, metrics exactly as stated with period and source, decisions the meeting must take, risks as reported, talking points with anticipated questions, a source reference on every line and UNKNOWN where the material is silent. Use when the user asks to "brief the leadership team", "prepare the exec pack", "pull together a briefing for the steering committee", "summarise these reports for the CEO", "what do I tell the board on Monday" or "build the pre-read for the management meeting". Do not use for a formal board or committee paper seeking a resolution, use board-paper-skeleton instead; for a personal one-page prep drawn from the user's own calendar and inbox, use meeting-prep-onepager. Drafts for human review; never approves, authorises or signs off.
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kesslernity Bundle Escalation SummaryTurns one long support ticket thread (helpdesk history, email chain, chat transcript, call notes) into a one-page DRAFT escalation summary: the customer's ask in their own words, account context as stated, a dated history, what was tried and the stated result of each attempt, the current state, and what is needed from whom by when, every line referenced to a message and every missing fact marked UNKNOWN. Use when the user asks to "escalate this ticket", "summarise this thread for tier two", "write the hand-over for this case", "what has been tried so far", "brief engineering on this customer issue" or "prepare the escalation note". Do not use for a batch of tickets, use ticket-triage-pack instead; for the review after an outage, use incident-postmortem-drafter. Drafts for human review; never approves, authorises or signs off.
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kesslernity Bundle Contract Review Pack 2Abstracts one contract into a key-terms table with clause references, compares each term against the user's playbook of standard positions, and returns a DRAFT contract review pack: deviations and issues, open questions and a reviewer checklist. Flags governing law and never gives legal advice or enforceability or acceptability calls. Use when the user asks to "review this contract", "abstract the key terms", "summarise this MSA", "pressure-test this SOW against our playbook" or to compare an agreement with their standard positions. Do not use for a first pass on a stand-alone NDA, use nda-triage instead, or for one clause lined up across several documents, use clause-comparison-table instead. Drafts for human review; never approves, authorises or signs off.
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kesslernity Bundle Release Notes WriterTurns a list of merged changes, closed work items or commit messages the user provides into DRAFT release notes under the version heading and date the user supplies, grouped as features, fixes and other, in the organisation's tone from the style guide or prior notes given, with every entry traced to its source item, breaking changes and required actions flagged first, and internal-only items held back for the release owner to confirm. Use when the user asks to "write the release notes for this version", "turn these merged pull requests into a changelog", "summarise what shipped this sprint for customers", "draft the what's new for this release" or "group these closed tickets into release notes". Do not use for an announcement email or intranet post about a launch, use announcement-drafter instead; for a change ticket, use change-request-pack; for a how-to article about one fix, use knowledge-article-drafter. Drafts for human review; never approves, authorises or signs off.
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kesslernity Bundle User Personas BuilderBuilds DRAFT user personas from the research notes, interview summaries, survey free text and support themes the user provides: for each persona the goals, pains, jobs to be done, context of use, quotes exactly as supplied with their participant codes, and the evidence count behind every attribute, with names, demographics and any detail no participant stated left UNKNOWN rather than invented. Use when the user asks to "build personas from these interviews", "who are our users based on this research", "draft user personas", "turn these research notes into personas" or "update our personas with the new interviews". Do not use for theming a batch of customer feedback into counts, use customer-feedback-theme-synthesis instead; for exit interviews, use exit-interview-synthesis; for the requirements those personas imply, use product-requirements-draft. Drafts for human review; never approves, authorises or signs off.
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kesslernity Bundle Knowledge Base Hygiene ReviewReviews a set of knowledge files or a knowledge base listing and returns a draft hygiene table, one row per file: duplication signals with the matching file, staleness signals, conflicts between files on the same topic with both passages quoted, missing or unverified owners, and one proposed action per file (Keep, Update, Merge into, Retire, Assign owner, Confirm with owner) for the owner to decide. Never edits, merges, moves or deletes a file. Use when the user asks to "review our knowledge base for duplicates", "which KB articles are stale", "find conflicting articles", "which articles have no owner" or "run a hygiene check on these files". Do not use for review-date sweeps of a document library with owner reminders, use sharepoint-review-sweeper instead; for writing one article, use knowledge-article-drafter. Drafts for human review; never approves, authorises or signs off.
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takusaotome Bundle Meeting Minutes WriterGenerate strategic-consultant-grade meeting minutes from transcripts or notes in Japanese OR English (matching the source language), then run a self-review loop (max 3 iterations) that checks for internal contradictions, action-item omissions, speaker-name errors, and date/day-of-week mistakes before reporting completion. Use this skill whenever the user asks to draft meeting minutes, summarize a transcript, or document a meeting discussion — including Japanese-language transcripts (議事録 / 会議メモ / 文字起こし) and English-language transcripts.
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takusaotome Bundle Email Thread SummarizerAnalyze email threads to extract current status, pending actions, timeline of events, and identify stale/outdated information. Use when asked to summarize email conversations, find outstanding action items in email chains, or detect when a thread summary is out of date.
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forexgod21 Bundle Scholar PractitionerExecutes graduate-level academic writing, critique, and tutoring at scholar-practitioner standard. Activate when asked to write, draft, review, critique, or explain graduate-level academic content — including discussion posts, response posts, papers, literature reviews, research proposals, and argument critiques. Works across any graduate program, institution, discipline, or citation style. Operates in two modes: Execute (submission-ready output) and Teach (concept breakdown without diluting standards). Applies the adversarial evaluator gate, theory-as- mechanism doctrine, and dual-mode architecture across all deliverables.
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forexgod21 Bundle Military Records StrategistTop-tier legal strategist for military record correction and discharge upgrade cases across every forum. Fires on any task touching ADRB, ABCMR, BCNR, AFBCMR, DD-149, DD-293, DD-214, discharge upgrade, medical retirement, IDES/MEB/PEB, AR 15-180, AR 635-200, AR 635-40, DoDI 1332.18 / 1332.28, court-martial collateral attack, Article 76, 10 U.S.C. §§ 1552, 1553, 1216a, the Hagel/Kurta/Wilkie memos, liberal consideration, congressional inquiry, clemency, rights restoration, GOMOR rebuttal, separation authority objection, or any appellate vector to U.S. District Court (APA), Court of Federal Claims (Tucker Act), Federal Circuit, or SCOTUS. Verification-first: no citation ships unverified, no forum is asked for relief outside its jurisdiction. Never assume the task is too small.
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forexgod21 Bundle Literature Synthesis DoctrineGoverns how a body of sources becomes an argument: synthesis over summary, the source-by-theme matrix before any prose, claim-source binding, and a hard citation guard — an unverifiable citation is deleted, never repaired by plausibility. Trigger on any literature review, annotated bibliography, related-work section, or evidence synthesis; whenever citations are generated or checked; and whenever a research gap or question is derived from existing work.
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ryankolean Bundle Watch VideoLet Claude actually watch a video or reel — downloads it, extracts timestamped frames, and produces a timestamped transcript, then reads the frames as images. Activates when the user shares a video/reel/short URL or local video file and asks what's in it, what someone said, to summarize it, find a moment, pull quotes, critique visuals, or extract on-screen text. Works with YouTube, TikTok, Instagram reels, X, Loom, and local .mp4/.mov/.mkv/.webm files.
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doronkatz Bundle Discover Interview SynthesisSynthesizes user research interviews into actionable insights, patterns, and recommendations. Use after conducting user interviews, customer calls, or usability sessions to extract and communicate findings across participants. Distinct from foundation-meeting-recap, which summarizes one internal meeting for its attendees; this skill aggregates research conversations into evidence-backed findings.
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doronkatz Bundle Define Prioritization FrameworkRun applicable prioritization frameworks (RICE, ICE, MoSCoW, Weighted Scoring, Kano) against a list of features or initiatives. Produces a comparison table showing where rankings agree and diverge across frameworks, and an executive summary with recommendation. Framework applicability is filtered by data availability; Kano requires customer research. Refuses to fabricate scores; produces an estimation scaffold when input data is missing.
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hybridaione Skill Channel CatchupSummarize recent activity across Discord, ingested email threads, WhatsApp, and TUI channels.
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yogsoth-ai Skill Snowball 2Citation-chain-driven literature survey starting from seed papers. Traces research lineage in both forward (who cited this) and backward (what this cited) directions until saturation. High deep-read ratio (67%). Use when the user already has key papers and wants to find everything connected to them — ancestors, descendants, and branch points.
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yogsoth-ai Skill Deep Survey 2Precise, targeted investigation of a specific sub-problem — few papers, all read in full depth. High paper-research ratio (50% deep-read rate). Use when the user knows exactly what they need to understand and requires detailed technical analysis with equations, hyperparameters, and specific claims extracted.
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yogsoth-ai Bundle Seed Selection 2Validate and prioritize starting papers for snowball surveys. Evaluates which seeds will yield the richest citation traces based on citation count, recency, and network position.
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yogsoth-ai Skill Narrative Review 2Theory-driven literature review for building arguments and frameworks. Flexible, subjective, and narrative-focused — selects evidence strategically to support a thesis. High web-research budget for blogs, opinion pieces, and industry perspectives. Use when the user is writing a position paper, survey introduction, or constructing a coherent narrative around a research theme.
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yogsoth-ai Bundle Pico Formulation 2Construct PICO/PECO framework for the meta-analysis research question
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yogsoth-ai Skill Citation Chaining 2Forward and backward citation tracing tactic — expand paper coverage by tracing citation networks in both directions from seed/key papers. Alternates forward (who cited this) and backward (what this cited) passes until saturation.
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yogsoth-ai Skill Literature Survey 2Autonomous Literature Survey Campaign — 5 research paradigms (scoping, systematic, deep, narrative, snowball) with quantitative budget enforcement. Selects and executes the right survey paradigm based on research intent.
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yogsoth-ai Skill Systematic Survey 2Exhaustive PRISMA-style literature survey — comprehensive coverage of all related work on a specific question. Multi-stage screening, citation chaining, quality assessment, and structured data extraction. Use when the user needs to demonstrate complete literature coverage or conduct rigorous gap analysis.
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yogsoth-ai Skill Patent Family Tracing 2Forward/backward patent citation and priority tracing until saturation
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yogsoth-ai Bundle Citation Network Analysis 2Build and analyze patent citation networks — main path analysis, PageRank, cluster detection
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jorinyang Skill Ara Research Manager研究过程捕获器——在论文研究 session 结束后,三阶段流水线(Harvester→Router→Maturity Tracker)自动扫描本轮工作,将决策/实验/死胡同/声明写入 ara/ 四层结构。仅论文研究场景触发,常态化业务不加载。
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itamarzand88 Skill Research Hypothesis Testing<!-- source: research-hypothesis-testing — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wentorai/research-plugins/main/skills/analysis/statistics/hypothesis-testing-guide/SKILL.md -->
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itamarzand88 Skill Browserbase Company Research<!-- source: browserbase-company-research — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/browserbase/skills/main/skills/company-research/SKILL.md -->
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itamarzand88 Skill Research Time Series Econometrics<!-- source: research-time-series-econometrics — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wentorai/research-plugins/main/skills/analysis/econometrics/time-series-guide/SKILL.md -->
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itamarzand88 Skill Alireza Clinical Research<!-- source: alireza-clinical-research — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/alirezarezvani/claude-skills/main/research-ops/skills/clinical-research/SKILL.md -->
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jorcan Bundle Content Research WriterEres un investigador y escritor de contenido. Tu tarea es analizar tendencias y escribir contenido atractivo...
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jorcan Bundle Lead Research AssistantEres un asistente de investigación de leads. Tu objetivo es encontrar y verificar contactos...
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hybridaione Bundle ZabbixRead Zabbix monitoring state, inspect monitored hosts, summarize current or recent problems, and prepare guarded incident-response context without exposing Zabbix credentials.
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davidondrej Bundle Cua DriverUse Cua Driver for desktop or browser tasks that are awkward or unavailable through Bash/APIs, or when the user explicitly wants GUI interaction: app testing, visual bug reproduction, form filling, calendar entry, screenshots, and demo recording. Also covers Cua setup; not OpenAI Codex Computer Use or web research.
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davidondrej Bundle Deepapi 2Use DeepAPI for all web search, deep research, and web scraping (websites, LinkedIn, GitHub, X/Twitter, YouTube, Instagram) instead of built-in search, research, fetch, or browser tools. Prefer dedicated platform endpoints over web search. Instagram has profile, post, comment, and hashtag endpoints; no generic search. Use Deep Scrape for sourced JSON dossiers on people, companies, or topics. Also use it to navigate and act on public websites, draft and send safe email, and generate images.
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davidondrej Skill Deep Scrape 2Build sourced JSON dossiers on people, companies, or topics with DeepAPI. Use for profiles, prospects, vendor due diligence, or customer research across sources; use deep-research for recommendations.
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 executive-briefing-pack, escalation-summary, contract-review-pack. 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.