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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jialuohu Bundle Mineru Document ExtractionUse MinerU for one complex, scanned, OCR-heavy, or layout-sensitive local document, including bounded pages and checksum-verified extraction artifacts.
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jialuohu Bundle Zotero Todoist Reading TasksUse when a user wants to create, schedule, reconcile, or repair Todoist reading tasks from saved Zotero items or collections, with default PaperRead note links.
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blauwtje Bundle ResearchUse when a code decision hinges on how a pinned external library, framework, API or service behaves and a wrong recalled answer would still compile or type-check yet fail at runtime or at the provider boundary. Not for questions the repository's own code answers, a version bump alone, or a concept explanation.
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belentani7 Skill Code ResearchResearch open-source repositories to understand how something is built or works.
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ai-automation-tools Bundle News ImagesGenerate cartoon-editorial news imagery — daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly news collages (6-panel grids) and news montages (single unified scenes). Use when asked to make, create, or generate a news collage or news montage for any cadence, or to build a daily/weekly/monthly/yearly news image. Handles story research, layout, and image generation.
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belentani7 Skill Feature ResearchResearch existing architecture before implementing a complex feature.
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danicat Skill Engineering FlowEngineering standards, decision pipelines, and code hygiene guidelines for software development. Covers architectural decision workflows (RFCs and ADRs), task prioritization, grounded technical research, semantic versioning, and clean code practices like explicit error handling and dead code removal. Activate when designing system architecture, planning releases, refactoring codebases, establishing project standards, or resolving technical uncertainty.
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sebin-gg Bundle Article SweeperSummarize open article tabs in Thorium, Chromium, Chrome, Brave, Edge, Firefox and other browsers, append summaries to a dated desktop file without overwriting, close only summarized tabs, leave everything else open, restart browser in dev mode. Use when user says summarize open articles, summarize browser tabs, sweep tabs, article summaries, close summarized tabs, open browser in dev mode.
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radiovisual Bundle Plan Verify FixRun a feature or bug fix end to end with the Plan → Verify → Fix loop. Interviews you, sends subagents to research, writes a spec and a plan of small verifiable tasks, then builds, verifies and commits each task on its own, stopping for your approval at the gates. Coaches the habits along the way.
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aeneassoft Skill Do I Know Enough To ActDo I know enough to act? Am I acting blind, or exploring forever? Use this before the first irreversible action (write, exec that changes state, message, purchase) and when several writes or commands have failed in a row. Compares gathering calls (web_search, web_fetch, read, memory) with acting calls (exec, write, edit, message) in this session and counts distinct sources. Returns exactly ACT_NOW, GATHER_FIRST or BALANCED with the one call to make next. Do not use for pure research tasks with no action planned.
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amit-voais Bundle Fortax Deep ResearchResearch an Indian tax, GST, company-law or labour-law question from the statute, notifications, circulars and rulings, with a short answer, confidence, authority table and sources. Also finds and weighs case law (ITAT, High Court, Supreme Court, AAR/AAAR) and sweeps new CBIC, CBDT, MCA, EPFO and ESIC circulars and notifications for a client list. Typical asks - "is par research karo", "koi judgment hai 194J vs 194C par", "43B(h) ka latest circular", "is mahine kya naye notifications aaye", "advance ruling milegi kya".
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amit-voais Bundle Fortax Knowledge BaseLook up any Indian compliance fact (GST, income tax, TDS, MCA, PF/ESI due date, rate, threshold, slab, late fee, penalty, form, section, notification) in Fortax's sourced knowledge base before answering, then shape the answer verdict first, workings, rule and source with the captured date. Use it even when you think you know the answer. Typical asks - "GSTR-3B kab tak file karni hai", "234F late fee kitni hai", "GST registration threshold kya hai", "TDS rate on rent", "AOC-4 due date".
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datasift-ty-personal Bundle Deep Prospecting V4Deep prospect real estate leads to identify the heirs/decision-makers and exactly who must sign to sell when an owner is deceased or skip tracing fails. Use when the user provides a property address, filing, probate docket, foreclosure notice, or any distress record and needs the correct owner/heir/executor plus their contact info. PREFERRED path is API-based heir resolution (Enformion/Endato Person Search -> required-signer gating -> phone dedupe -> Trestle scoring), which is deterministic and far more reliable than manual research; the TruePeopleSearch/FastPeopleSearch/CyberBackgroundChecks browser waterfall is the fallback when no API access. Delivers a family tree, a who-must-sign table, scored phone numbers, and emails.
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datasift-ty-personal Bundle Deep Prospecting V5Deep prospect real estate leads to identify the heirs/decision-makers and exactly who must sign to sell when an owner is deceased or skip tracing fails. Use when the user provides a property address, filing, probate docket, foreclosure notice, or any distress record and needs the correct owner/heir/executor plus their contact info. PRIMARY path is SmartSkip bulk skip trace (grounded relatives WITH their phone numbers in one batch call) plus a mandatory obituary/web research layer for date of death and true relationships, then Tracerfy gap-fill and TrestleIQ dial scoring. Delivers a family tree, a who-must-sign table, scored phone numbers, and emails.
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simpleyyt Skill SummarizeSummarize long documents into concise takeaways
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simpleyyt Skill Web ResearchSearch the web and synthesize findings with citations
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simpleyyt Skill Market ResearchResearch markets and competitors into a structured brief
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ridelink0 Skill Visual ResearchUse when a question is better answered by looking than by reading - researching how websites or apps look, gathering design references, finding what a style or palette or typeface actually is in the wild, comparing competitors visually, or building a moodboard. Renders real sites and searches real images, then reads them as pictures.
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datasift-ty-personal Bundle Buyer ProspectorBuild a real estate buyers list for any US county by pulling from a nationwide database of active buyers, categorizing entities (LLCs, Trusts, Corporations), and researching decision-makers for skip tracing. Use this skill whenever someone wants to find buyers in a specific county, build a buyers list, identify who's buying in a market, research active investors in an area, prospect cash buyers, or needs to know who the top buyers are in a county. Trigger for "buyers list", "find buyers", "who's buying in", "cash buyers", "active buyers", "buyer prospecting", "build a buyers list for [county]", "investors buying in [market]", "buyer research", or any request to identify and research real estate buyers in a specific geographic area. Even if the user just says "pull buyers for Knox County" or "who's buying in Harris County TX" — use this skill.
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datasift-ty-personal Skill Deep ProspectingDeep prospect real estate leads to identify the heirs/decision-makers and exactly who must sign to sell when an owner is deceased or skip tracing fails. Use when the user provides a property address, filing, probate docket, foreclosure notice, or any distress record and needs the correct owner/heir/executor plus their contact info. PREFERRED path is API-based heir resolution (Enformion/Endato Person Search -> required-signer gating -> phone dedupe -> Trestle scoring), which is deterministic and far more reliable than manual research; the TruePeopleSearch/FastPeopleSearch/CyberBackgroundChecks browser waterfall is the fallback when no API access. Delivers a family tree, a who-must-sign table, scored phone numbers, and emails.
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ridelink0 Bundle ClaudeA research-journal aesthetic printed on warm stone — authoritative, editorial, almost achromatic. Pages live on warm ivory parchment (never pure white), with near-black slate as the dominant ink.
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kesslernity Skill User Personas Builder 2Builds 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 Policy Change Briefing 2Compares a changed HR policy with the version it replaces and drafts a clause-by-clause change log, a plain-language DRAFT employee briefing, a manager FAQ answered only from the policy text with clause references, and a list of open questions the people team must settle before release. Use when the user asks to explain, announce, summarise or brief a policy change, a new policy version or an updated handbook section, or says "what changed in the leave policy", "brief managers on the new handbook section" or "compare the old and new versions of this policy". Do not use for a single announcement with no version comparison, use announcement-drafter instead; for an FAQ from documents that are not a policy change, use faq-builder; for contract clauses, use clause-comparison-table. Drafts for human review; never approves, authorises or signs off.
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kesslernity Skill Executive Briefing Pack 2Prepares 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 Summary 2Turns 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 3Abstracts 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 Skill Release Notes Writer 2Turns 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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alaimo-labs Skill Research MarketRun secondary research / benchmarking on your product's market — competitors, alternatives, pricing, trends — with every claim labeled by provenance, mapped back to your unverified beliefs
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alaimo-labs Skill Design InterviewDesign an interview guide for real user research from what you want to learn or validate — grounded in your insights, assumptions, and personas
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alaimo-labs Skill Interview GuidesHow to design an interview guide (discussion guide) for real user research — from learning goals to open, non-leading questions, funnel structure, and probes. Use when designing an interview, writing interview questions, preparing a discussion guide, or planning research conversations with real users.
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alaimo-labs Skill Frame OpportunityFrame an opportunity — a problem for a segment, backed by signals — before any solution is chosen. Evidence-grounded questioning, one question at a time; unknowns become beliefs, and the output is a research agenda, not a feature
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alaimo-labs Skill Insight ExtractionHow to extract actionable product insights from user interview transcripts (real or synthetic) — focus areas, quality bar, and output format. Use when analyzing interviews, synthesizing research, extracting insights, or turning transcripts and user feedback into product decisions.
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alaaldin97 Bundle Commit GeneratorGenerate standard conventional commit messages from a list of code changes or diff descriptions. Use when the user asks to write a commit message, generate a conventional commit, or summarize changes for a commit. Does NOT fire on: questions about git rebase, general version control help, or explaining git commit commands.
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mohitagw15856 Skill Thesis Outline 2Build a defensible thesis or dissertation outline — argument-first structure, chapter by chapter, with the through-line visible. Use when asked to outline my thesis, structure my dissertation, plan my capstone, or organize my research into chapters. Produces a full outline: the one-sentence thesis, chapter map with each chapter's job and claim, evidence allocation, and the risk register of weak links an examiner would probe.
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mohitagw15856 Skill Sop Meeting Prep 2Prepare an S&OP cycle readout that surfaces the demand-supply gaps and forces the three decisions the meeting must make. Use when asked to prep an S&OP meeting, build the executive S&OP deck, summarize demand vs supply for the monthly cycle, or prepare a supply review readout. Produces a gap table, scenario levers with costs, an inventory projection, a decisions-required list, and a pre-read package.
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mohitagw15856 Skill Email Triage 2Triage a Gmail inbox down to only what needs you. Use when asked to triage email, clear an inbox, find what needs a reply, or summarise recent mail. Produces a prioritised list of items needing action — replies, decisions, follow-ups — for a configurable window (default last 8 hours), filtering out receipts, notifications, and newsletters.
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 mineru-document-extraction, zotero-todoist-reading-tasks, research. 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.