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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cryptopafi Bundle DelphiDispatch Delphi/NexusOS research jobs from Codex through the existing Delphi Pro plugin. Use when Pafi asks Codex to run Delphi, D1-D4 research, deep research, scout/citation-heavy research, or NexusOS research briefs.
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iopsystems Skill CatchupSummarize recent development activity in the current repo so the user can catch up on what others have changed in the last hours/days/weeks. Picks the window automatically — since the user's last commit, or else the larger of the last 5 commits vs the last 7 days — and produces a grouped, prioritized summary (themes, risky changes, files touched, who did what). Trigger when the user says things like "what did I miss", "catch me up", "what's new on this branch", "what changed since I was out", or after returning from time off.
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iopsystems Bundle Engineering JournalUse when starting, continuing, handing off, reconciling, or closing a non-trivial engineering or research effort in a repository with durable project records.
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aiagentwithdhruv Bundle Literature Research 2Search academic literature and perform deep research reviews. Use when user asks to search PubMed, find academic papers, or do literature reviews.
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ralf-claude-skills Skill Notion Market ValidatorValidates whether a Notion template idea is worth building by guiding the user through structured market research and scoring the results against a pass/fail framework. Use this skill whenever the user wants to validate a template idea, asks "should I build this?", "is this too saturated?", "will this sell?", "is there already a template for this?", "how would I stand out?", or "is there a market for X?". Always use this skill for validation — never give a gut-feel answer without running the full process. This skill is standalone — it does not require Skill 1 to run first. Works with any idea the user brings, regardless of where it came from.
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ralf-claude-skills Bundle Who Built This Before MeCheck whether a project, tool, library, or product idea has already been built before the user invests time in it. Find existing solutions, extract standard patterns, benchmark the user's angle against prior art, and deliver a clear verdict (build / fork / contribute / use existing / investigate why it failed). Use this skill whenever the user describes something they're thinking of building, making, shipping, launching, or coding — especially phrases like "I want to build…", "I'm thinking of making…", "should I build X…", "is there already a…", "my idea is…", or when the user is scoping a new side project, startup, library, or tool. Trigger even if the user doesn't explicitly ask for prior art research — if they're about to build something, they should check first.
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rudironsoni Skill Project Context 3Summarize the project context and key constraints
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dyoshikawa Skill Release Dry Run 3Dry run for release: summarize changes since last release and suggest version bump.
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thinkfleetai Skill SummarizeSummarize or extract text/transcripts from URLs, podcasts, and local files (great fallback for “transcribe this YouTube/video”).
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internscience Bundle Nsfc Research Content Writer 2当用户明确要求"写/改研究内容""研究内容+创新+年度计划编排"时使用。为 NSFC 正文"(二)研究内容"写作/重构,并同步编排"特色与创新"和"三年年度研究计划",输出可直接落到 LaTeX 模板的三个 extraTex 文件。
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internscience Bundle Nsfc Research Foundation Writer 2当用户明确要求"写/改研究基础""研究基础+工作条件+风险应对编排"时使用。为 NSFC 正文"(三)研究基础"写作/重构,并同步编排"工作条件"和"研究风险应对",用证据链证明项目可行、资源条件对位研究内容、风险预案可执行。
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wesperez Bundle Linux Do Research统一的网络优先 LINUX DO 研究流程,覆盖论坛搜索、K12 帖子、主题证据、回复/楼层、链接、附件、收藏和浏览器辅助验证。先使用纯网络搜索/reader;只有在网络证据不完整、不可信、被阻断,或用户明确要求 Edge/浏览器/当前标签页/收藏/登录可见细节时,才使用 Microsoft Edge/浏览器插件兜底。
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immortalqx Bundle Research LitSearch and analyze research papers, find related work, summarize key ideas. Use when user says "find papers", "related work", "literature review", "what does this paper say", or needs to understand academic papers.
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immortalqx Bundle Novelty CheckVerify research idea novelty against recent literature. Use when user says "查新", "novelty check", "有没有人做过", "check novelty", or wants to verify a research idea is novel before implementing.
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immortalqx Bundle Drawio DiagramUse when creating research figures, paper posters, academic presentation visuals, or conceptual diagrams as an editable draw.io/diagrams.net draft plus PNG export that passes strict visual QA. Especially for paper figures/posters where Codex must read source materials, reuse extracted paper images or plots when useful, and produce an editable draw.io draft + PNG export the user can keep editing directly in draw.io. Cross-platform (Windows, macOS, Linux). PNG export has a hard 60s timeout.
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immortalqx Bundle Grant ProposalDraft a structured grant proposal from research ideas and literature. Supports KAKENHI (Japan), NSF (US), NSFC (China, including 面上/青年/优青/杰青/海外优青/重点), ERC (EU), DFG (Germany), SNSF (Switzerland), ARC (Australia), NWO (Netherlands), and generic formats. Use when user says "write grant", "grant proposal", "申請書", "write KAKENHI", "科研費", "基金申请", "写基金", "NSF proposal", or wants to turn research ideas into a funding application.
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immortalqx Bundle Formula DerivationStructure and derive research formulas when the user wants to 推导公式, derive a theory line, build equations from a problem statement, clarify assumptions, separate formal derivation from remarks, or turn messy theory notes into a paper-ready derivation skeleton. Use for research-style formula development, not for fully rigorous theorem proving once the claim is already fixed.
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immortalqx Bundle Phd Tech Paper TemplateStructures a technical paper's full logical skeleton using a thinking-template table (research background, limitations, key idea or goal, challenges, methodology modules, contributions), positions the paper as Technique or New Problem/Setting, and runs a four-point self-consistency check. Use when the user is brainstorming a paper, discussing progress with an advisor, or planning the paper before drafting. Also use for 'paper skeleton', 'paper logic chain', 'thinking template', 'paper-structure planning'.
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wesperez Bundle Video Operation Research从视频中研究并还原可执行操作流程,先取证、代理执行与验证,再复刻。适用于 Codex 需要读取、观看、分析视频,复现教程,提取操作步骤,检查简介、置顶或更新评论、字幕、转写稿、弹幕、直播聊天、关联云盘资源、下载媒体、截图证据,或基于 B 站、YouTube、论坛、云盘链接、屏幕录制等视频内容操作电脑的场景;也适用于需要由 Codex 使用命令行、自动化、Browser 或 Computer Use 尽可能全程代操作的任务;还适用于视频站出现 403、反机器人、区域阻断、缺少 JS runtime、登录墙、字幕或评论取证失败,需要按公开源、单命令代理、公开替代源和最小登录态逐级降级并保留证据的场景。
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bernardorubin Skill Session StatusUse when the user wants a status board of everything worked on in the current session — every feature request, bug fix, question and follow-up they raised, with where each one actually stands and what's blocking or still missing. Triggers on "session status", "where are we", "what's the status of everything", "summarize the work we've done this session", "what did we do and what's left", "what's still open", "what's blocked", "did we ship everything", "loose ends", "recap this session". Built for long multi-ticket sessions where work gets started and quietly never finished. Verifies each item against real state (git, PRs, Jira, gates) instead of trusting the conversation. Read-only — it reports, it never ships, pushes, or fixes anything.
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pavel-molyanov Bundle User Spec PlanningCreates user-spec.md through adaptive interview, codebase research, and three-lane validation. Use when: "сделай юзер спек", "проведи интервью для юзер спека", "создай юзерспек", "user spec", "detailed planning", "хочу продумать фичу", "опиши требования к фиче", "сделай описание фичи", "/new-user-spec"
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pavel-molyanov Bundle User Spec Planning 2Creates user-spec.md through adaptive interview, codebase research, and three-lane validation. Use when: "сделай юзер спек", "проведи интервью для юзер спека", "создай юзерспек", "user spec", "detailed planning", "хочу продумать фичу", "опиши требования к фиче", "сделай описание фичи", "/new-user-spec"
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flpbalada Skill Hypothesis Tree 2Structure complex questions into testable hypotheses. Use when validating product ideas, debugging problems, planning experiments, or breaking down ambiguous challenges into actionable research.
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flpbalada Skill Jobs To Be Done 2Understand customer motivations through job theory. Use when defining product strategy, conducting user research, identifying competitors, writing user stories, or reframing features around customer progress.
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axross Bundle Professional Behavior 3Apply this in every session — answering a question, investigating, reviewing, or building. Triggers on any uncertainty about facts, scope, or intent; on "are you sure", "don't guess", "what's the latest"; before asserting a version, API, price, or date; before putting a decision to the human; and whenever a result is reported. Not a change-loop skill — it governs conduct within work already underway. Covers the three-source triage (look it up, research it, ask), the clarifying interview, asking through the harness's question tool, researching over recalling, replying in the language of the human's own message, accuracy discipline, and reporting that leads with the answer.
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wonderslife Skill Pdd Doc Gardener 2Document Gardener skill that periodically scans document directories in the codebase to identify outdated or deprecated documents. Automatically triggered when users need document consistency checks, document updates, or document cleanup. Core responsibility: Maintain knowledge base freshness, ensure documents are synchronized with code implementation. Trigger scenarios: - User requests "check document consistency", "update documents", "clean up outdated documents" - pdd-entropy-reduction coordinator invocation - Scheduled trigger (recommended daily) 支持中文触发:文档园丁、文档一致性检查、文档更新、文档清理、过时文档、PDD文档园丁。
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paulieb89 Skill Client PrepResearch a company or person before a meeting, call, or pitch. Pulls Companies House data, LinkedIn context, sector background, and recent news. Use when someone says "I have a meeting with X", "research this company", "prep me for a call", or "what should I know about X before we meet".
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tobihagemann Skill Update Dependencies 2Upgrade project dependencies with breaking change research for major version updates. Use when the user asks to "update dependencies", "upgrade packages", "upgrade dependencies", "update deps", "upgrade deps", "update npm deps", "update Swift packages", "cargo update", "go get updates", "bundle update", or "pip upgrade".
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drunkcoding Bundle Academic WritingWrite conference papers for systems venues (OSDI, NSDI, SIGCOMM, MOBICOM, SOSP, FAST) and the AAAI AI/ML venue. Organized by venue: pick the paradigm (systems problem-solution-evaluation vs. AAAI/AI-ML method-experiment), then follow venue-specific structure, format, citation style, and review rules. Covers paper structure per venue, writing style, IEEE/ACM numbered vs. AAAI author-year citations, figures/tables, AAAI's mandatory reproducibility checklist and double-blind two-phase review, and FAST short/deployed-systems papers. Use when asked to write, draft, structure, or format a systems or AAAI conference paper.
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drunkcoding Bundle Citation ConvertFetch BibTeX citations from DOI, arXiv ID, journal URL, or paper title. Covers identifier resolution, BibTeX normalization, batch citation collection, and integration with LaTeX bibliography workflows.
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drunkcoding Bundle Research StatementWrite, review, and revise academic Research Statements / Research Visions / Research Plans / 5-Year Plans for faculty, postdoc, fellowship, and promotion applications across disciplines and regions. Covers Mission/Strategy/Evidence/Story, US-school guidance from Cornell, CMU, MIT, Caltech, Penn, Yale, Harvard, UConn, Notre Dame, Delaware, Berkeley, length tiers, openings, past-work theming, fundable future lines, department fit, funding vectors, rubric scoring, red flags, and examples. Use when asked to write, draft, outline, edit, critique, score, red-team, or improve any research statement, research vision, research plan, future research statement, or research pitch.
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drunkcoding Bundle Education StatementWrite a Statement on Education (Teaching Statement / Teaching Philosophy / Teaching Vision / "onderwijsvisie") for an academic faculty application, especially in Computer Science / AI / Data Science at research universities. Covers structure (1–3 page format), evaluation rubrics, evidence-based pedagogy, supervision frameworks, US vs Dutch/EU framing, TU Delft programme curricula (BSc CSE, MSc CS, MSc DSAIT) with verified course mapping, real-world example anatomies, and a section-by-section drafting workflow that produces a credible, specific, non-generic statement. Use whenever an applicant must write or revise a teaching statement, education statement, teaching vision, teaching philosophy, or onderwijsvisie — particularly for TU Delft, ETH, KTH, Cambridge, Imperial, or any EU/NL CS faculty position.
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drunkcoding Bundle Academic Grant ProposalWrite academic grant proposals for major funders — NSF (CAREER, standard, CRII), NIH (R01, R21, K-series, F-series), ERC (Starting, Consolidator, Advanced), EU Horizon Europe, DARPA/DoD/DOE BAAs, and UKRI/EPSRC/Royal Society. Covers section drafting (Specific Aims, Project Description, Broader Impacts, Excellence/Impact/Implementation, Heilmeier Catechism), mock-reviewer critique against funder criteria, budget and budget justification, biosketches, Data Management Plans, and responses to reviewer critique on resubmission. Discipline focus: CS / Systems / ML, with examples aligned to compute-heavy research. Use when asked to draft, review, critique, revise, or budget any academic grant proposal, white paper, pre-proposal, or LOI.
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paulieb89 Bundle Cultural Intelligence 2Produces a cultural intelligence dossier on a creator, brand, artist, or cultural figure — drawn from public web signal (Reddit, YouTube, news press, Wikipedia, and similar). Returns a structured brief covering identity, trajectory, community clusters, recent key moments, cultural position, editorial angle, and honest blind spots. Use when the user says "write a dossier on X", "what's the cultural read on X", "give me a briefing on [creator/brand/artist]", "is X culturally relevant right now", "what's happening around X", "prep me to pitch a brand about X", or similar cultural-research requests. Optional: the user can say "for [client]" to tailor the editorial angle (e.g. "for a culture desk", "for a youth-culture agency"). UK and US subjects both work; other markets work but note the blind spots.
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skyllwt Skill Survey从 wiki 知识生成论文 Related Work 章节:主题分组 → 叙事结构 → LaTeX 输出,遵循 citation-verification 和 academic-writing
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skyllwt Skill Research 2端到端研究编排器:idea 发现 → 实验设计 → 执行 → 判决 → 论文撰写,带人工门控和状态恢复
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 delphi, catchup, engineering-journal. 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.