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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carlkibler Bundle Research PersonResearch a person from public sources into a confidence-marked Obsidian People dossier.
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moltis-org Bundle PolymarketQuery Polymarket prediction market data — search markets, get prices, orderbooks, and price history. Read-only via public REST APIs, no API key needed.
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first-fluke Bundle Oma Search 3Intent-based search router with trust scoring. Routes queries to optimal channels (Context7 docs, native web search, gh/glab code search, Serena local) and attaches domain trust labels. Use for search, find, lookup, reference, docs, code search, and web research.
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cor-incorporated Bundle UX Researcher DesignerUX research and design toolkit: data-driven persona generation, journey mapping, usability testing frameworks, and research synthesis. Use when creating personas, mapping user journeys, planning usability tests, or synthesizing research findings. Triggers: 'create persona', 'map user journey', 'plan usability test', 'synthesize research'. Do NOT use for UI implementation, visual design, or coding tasks.
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natan-mohart Bundle Pricing StrategySets or tests pricing using willingness-to-pay research (Van Westendorp) and price elasticity revenue/margin modeling, both run through a bundled calculator, instead of cost-plus guessing or copying a competitor's price. Use whenever the user wants to set, raise, lower, or test a price, is launching a new product/tier, asks "what should we charge," or is about to price based on cost-plus or "what competitors charge" alone.
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natan-mohart Bundle Capital Reallocation ReviewScores a multi-business portfolio on a weighted GE-McKinsey 9-box via a bundled calculator, then measures how aggressively capital actually moves between business units year over year — grounded in McKinsey's own "Power of Capital Reallocation" research, which found companies that reallocate capital most aggressively deliver materially higher shareholder returns than those that don't. Use whenever the user wants a portfolio review, capital allocation recommendation, or investment committee prep, or when budget-setting is just "last year's allocation plus a few percent" with no real reallocation happening.
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appeeky Skill Meta Ad CreativeWhen the user wants to generate a Meta-ready ad creative and copy from their App Store or Google Play listing. Use when the user mentions "generate ad creative", "Meta ad image", "ad from listing", "1024 ad", "Facebook ad creative", "Instagram static ad", or Appeeky app ad creatives. For multiple variants see ad-creative-variants. For uploading to Meta see ad-creative-to-meta. For competitor research first see competitor-ad-teardown.
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appeeky Skill Competitor Ad TeardownWhen the user wants to analyze competitor Meta ads, find what creatives competitors run, or research ad angles before creating their own. Use when the user mentions "competitor ads", "Meta Ad Library", "what ads is X running", "Facebook ads spy", "ad intelligence", or "swipe file". For generating your own creatives see meta-ad-creative or ad-creative-variants.
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iberi22 Bundle Web ResearchWeb Research Skill
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shawnxxxqazwsx Bundle Mc PatcherDevelop, diagnose, build, review, and verify the mc-patcher C++/JUCE repository. Use only when the current repository is identifiable as mc-patcher or the user explicitly asks to work on or apply mc-patcher; do not trigger for generic JUCE, VST3, or audio-product research. Covers MC Host, MC Bridge, multichannel routing, shared-memory IPC, Q-Link, wet return, latency, VST3/WaveShell hosting, realtime safety, targeted validation, explicit deployment, and honest reporting of untested DAW paths.
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shawnxxxqazwsx Bundle Utility ChatA user-invoked mode for non-product-coding utility work such as Codex skills, plugins, configuration, AI tooling explanations, local setup audits, and source-backed research synthesis. Use only when the user explicitly invokes $utility-chat or says utility/杂活 mode. Route work to the relevant installed skill instead of duplicating its workflow. Do not trigger merely because a request is miscellaneous, and do not use as a substitute for a repository's domain skill during substantial implementation.
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shawnxxxqazwsx Bundle Web ResearchProfessional multi-source web research with verified live URLs and papers (fetch before cite). Auto-apply for technical docs, APIs, papers, product compare, market pricing, policy tables, obscure-entity/media hunts, or when the user attaches @web-research / says 调研 / 全面调研 / look up sources. For OpenAI and Codex product questions, use the official-source `openai-docs` workflow instead.
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shawnxxxqazwsx Bundle Hardware Audio EmulationResearch, design, implement, review, and validate hardware-inspired or hardware-matched audio DSP in mc-patcher: EQ and tone stacks, colour stages, dynamics, tape, transformers, amplifiers, cabinets, analog delay/modulation, electromechanical reverb, converters, and synth circuits. Use for measured-response, source-constrained, behavioral, circuit-informed, gray-box, or neural virtual-analog work. Do not use for clean utility DSP, hosting/IPC/routing, GUI-only work, or generic audio research without a hardware-emulation target.
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wuyue12-tech Skill Teaching Paper SubmissionAssist with Chinese education-paper writing, polishing, reviewer-style critique, and journal submission revision across subjects and journals. Use when the user asks to improve an education manuscript for publication, learn a target journal's style, revise according to accepted articles, provide reviewer comments, polish language, co-write sections, or increase acceptance probability for any teaching, curriculum, pedagogy, teacher-development, classroom-practice, or education-research paper.
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sepivip Skill NewsGet latest news headlines and current events. Use when: user asks about news, current events, 'what's happening', headlines for a topic. Don't use when: user wants a full daily briefing (use briefing skill) or deep research on a topic (use research skill).
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sepivip Skill QuoteShare inspirational quotes and wisdom. Use when: user asks for a quote, inspiration, motivation, or wisdom. Don't use when: user asks for a factual citation from a specific source (use research skill).
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sepivip Skill GithubSearch repositories, view issues, check PRs on GitHub. Use when: user asks about GitHub repos, issues, PRs, or wants to search GitHub. Don't use when: user wants general web search (use research skill) or asks about git concepts without GitHub context.
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sepivip Skill BookmarkSave and organize links for later reading. Use when: user wants to save a URL, manage bookmarks, find a saved link. Don't use when: user just wants to read/fetch a URL (use web_fetch) or research a topic (use research skill).
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sepivip Skill ResearchDeep research on topics using web search and page fetching. Use when: user asks to research, investigate, or needs comprehensive multi-source info on a topic. Don't use when: user wants a quick definition (use define skill), current news headlines (use news skill), or to summarize a single URL (use summarize skill).
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sepivip Skill SummarizeSummarize web pages, articles, or text content. Use when: user shares a URL to summarize, asks for TL;DR, or wants key points from content. Don't use when: user wants to save the link (use bookmark skill) or wants full multi-source research (use research skill).
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pawbytes Bundle Paw Mkt Pricing 2Pricing models, tier packaging, willingness-to-pay research. Use when pricing tiers, freemium, value metric, pricing page, willing to pay, van Westendorp.
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dawnmoon1542 Bundle Search LayerDEFAULT search tool for ALL search/lookup needs. Multi-source search and deduplication layer with intent-aware scoring. Integrates Brave Search (web_search), Exa, Tavily, and Grok to provide high-coverage, high-quality results. Automatically classifies query intent and adjusts search strategy, scoring weights, and result synthesis. Use for ANY query that requires web search — factual lookups, research, news, comparisons, resource finding, "what is X", status checks, etc. Do NOT use raw web_search directly; always route through this skill.
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hartmut-ux Skill Legal Researcher 4Case law detective. Dig up Swiss BGer + UK Supreme Court precedents. Track legislative changes in nDSG, GwG, EU AI Act. Build rock-solid argumentation. Cite sources perfectly. Generate research memos partners can hand to clients."
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hartmut-ux Skill Legal Researcher 5Case law detective. Dig up Swiss BGer + UK Supreme Court precedents. Track legislative changes in nDSG, GwG, EU AI Act. Build rock-solid argumentation. Cite sources perfectly. Generate research memos partners can hand to clients."
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hartmut-ux Skill Knowledge Manager 4Internal firm brain. Build searchable knowledge base, organize precedents, manage templates, create onboarding materials for junior associates. Centralize firm expertise in one place. Make finding answers instant."
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hartmut-ux Skill Legal Researcher 6Case law detective. Dig up Swiss BGer + UK Supreme Court precedents. Track legislative changes in nDSG, GwG, EU AI Act. Build rock-solid argumentation. Cite sources perfectly. Generate research memos partners can hand to clients."
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hartmut-ux Skill Knowledge Manager 5Internal firm brain. Build searchable knowledge base, organize precedents, manage templates, create onboarding materials for junior associates. Centralize firm expertise in one place. Make finding answers instant."
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hartmut-ux Skill Knowledge Manager 6Internal firm brain. Build searchable knowledge base, organize precedents, manage templates, create onboarding materials for junior associates. Centralize firm expertise in one place. Make finding answers instant."
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vathymut Bundle Ml Paper WritingUse when drafting an ML/AI paper from a research repo, structuring arguments, verifying citations, or preparing a camera-ready submission for NeurIPS/ICML/ICLR/ACL/AAAI/COLM.
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jaquevan Bundle CritiqueStress-tests raw ideas, proposals, or plans before you commit to them. Plays devil's advocate with real research to back it up. Use when the user says "critique this", "stress test this idea", "poke holes in this", "what could go wrong", "is this a good idea", "devil's advocate", "tear this apart", "what am I missing", or pastes a proposal/pitch/plan and wants honest feedback. Also use when someone says "before I commit to this" or "sanity check this". This is NOT /challenge (which reviews existing .decisions/ files). This is for raw ideas that haven't been formalized yet.
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jaquevan Skill Work ContextAggregates recent activity across Second Brain, Jira, GitHub, Google Calendar, Slack, Google Drive, and Confluence into an interactive Canvas summary. Use when the user says "what have I been working on", "summarize my work", "my activity summary", "what did I do this week", "catch me up", "work summary", "weekly summary", "what's my context", "what have I done", "recap my week", or asks for a summary of recent work across tools.
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jaquevan Skill Slack SummarySummarizes Slack conversations and presents insights in a Cursor Canvas. Use when the user says "summarize slack", "review my slack messages", "slack summary", "what have I been discussing on slack", "prep for my meeting using slack", "review conversation with <person>", or asks for a summary or review of Slack activity. Also use when the user asks to prepare for a 1:1 or meeting and mentions Slack as a source.
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drmoisan Skill Feature Promotion Lifecycle 8Deterministic promotion workflow from potential feature/bug entry to issue, branch, active feature folder, and downstream spec/research handoffs. Prefer VS Code extension command execution when extension tools are available; use underlying scripts only as fallback.
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idexal Bundle Planning With FilesManus-style persistent file-based planning for AI coding agents: keeps task_plan.md, findings.md, and progress.md on disk so work survives context loss and /clear. 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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javimosch Skill PaperzillaUse the Paperzilla CLI (pz) to search, filter, and browse high-signal academic papers. Trigger when the user wants to check research feeds, list projects, inspect must-read papers, export JSON results, or generate Atom feed links from Paperzilla. Requires a Paperzilla account and pz login.
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javimosch Skill Youtube Knowledge ExtractorMultimodal YouTube video analysis through both audio (transcript) and visual (frame extraction + image analysis) channels. Especially powerful for HowTo videos, tutorials, demos, and explainer videos where what is SHOWN (screenshots, UI demos, diagrams, code, physical actions) is just as important as what is SAID. Use this skill whenever a user wants to analyze, summarize, or create step-by-step guides from YouTube videos, or when they share a YouTube URL and want to understand what happens in the video. Triggers on requests like "Analyze this YouTube video", "Create a step-by-step guide from this video", "What does this video show?", "Summarize this tutorial", or any YouTube URL shared with analysis intent.
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 research-person, polymarket, oma-search. 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.