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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navinspire-ia Skill Cold Email WriterWrite personalized cold emails that earn replies - research-based hooks, clear relevance, low-friction asks. Use for outbound prospecting messages.
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keros68 Bundle Abstract Fig 2Plan, create, or revise editable scientific graphical abstracts, concept and mechanism diagrams, method frameworks, research roadmaps, and synthesis figures. Organize manuscript content and module relationships before choosing real project assets, vector schematics, or optional generated illustrations. Use for dense, generic, or poorly structured manuscript figures and reference-guided redesigns.
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rlaope Skill Omh Web Research 3[omh] Web lookup lane - settle a current-facts question in one cited retrieval round with retrieval dates and source-quality notes; for pre-spec grounding across reference implementations use `research`. Use when the user says: web-research, web research, web search, search the web, internet search, look up, look up sources, latest sources.
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rlaope Skill Omh Source Finder 3[omh] Source candidate inventory - prepare typed source candidates and acquisition status before downstream work; use ulw-research to fetch and cite them, or research-brief to turn them into a decision-ready brief. Use when the user says: source-finder, source finder, source acquisition, source intake, find papers and datasets, find datasets and repos, find papers, find arxiv link.
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dmoreq Skill Tech ResearchSurvey and compare external approaches (papers, benchmarks, production write-ups) when the repo does not already decide. Not for implementing, plotting, or EDA.
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makinotes Bundle Elab SaveEdgeLab · 把当前投研/交易决策的关键状态存到本地,下次回来接着用。 触发方式:/elab-save、/存档、「记下来」「这个判断留着」「存一下」 EdgeLab · Save current research/decision state to disk for cross-session recall. Trigger: /elab-save, "save this", "remember this analysis"
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makinotes Bundle Elab RestoreEdgeLab · 把上次的投研/决策存档拉出来接着用,配合 elab-save。 触发方式:/elab-restore、/续上、「接着上次」「上次分析到哪了」「之前的判断」 EdgeLab · Restore the most recent research/decision snapshot saved by elab-save. Trigger: /elab-restore, "continue from last time", "where did we leave off"
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dmoreq Skill Doubt Driven DevelopmentAdversarial review of a non-trivial decision before it hardens (assumptions, edges, blast radius). Not for mechanical edits, exploratory research notes, or merge review.
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firstp1ck Skill Writer ReaderSimulate a specified first-time reader's reactions to fiction, tracking curiosity, tension, attachment, confusion, and payoff without presenting simulation as real audience research.
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firstp1ck Skill Writer ResearchResearch factual details needed for fiction, such as historical settings, occupations, travel, or material culture, while distinguishing evidence from invented worldbuilding.
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firstp1ck Bundle Deep ResearchAgents should invoke this skill for high-stakes or complex research needing multi-source evidence, scientific/technical fact-checking, decision traces, or rigorous verification. Runs deterministic two-phase research with schema/policy validation.
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aymenfurter Bundle Drawio PitchResearch a subject and its visual language, then create an initial dense A5 draw.io diagram and PNG. Use for a new visualization, diagram concept, or initial visual pitch. Use drawio-iterate for later refinement.
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hermes-brasil Bundle Think Tank ResearchUse quando precisar de pesquisa multi-persona com síntese protegida por evidências.
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firstp1ck Bundle Evidence First RetrievalBounded source-backed retrieval for document questions, fact finding, local knowledge lookup, comparisons, or current information that needs attributable passages and an explicit supported, partial, conflicting, or insufficient outcome. Do not use for deep high-stakes research, repository exploration, creative writing, or exact-response tasks.
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skillkeel Skill Pr DescriptionUse when the user asks to open a pull request, write a PR description, or summarise a branch for review. Builds the description from the full branch diff against the base and from commit messages, and includes a test plan with real commands.
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kaiwu5 Bundle Ai4ai WeeklyRun the weekly Awesome AI4AI refresh — re-rank the month's top-10 news for approval, refresh citations and GitHub stars, rebuild README/EVIDENCE, and publish the dated archive edition. Use when updating the monthly news picks, refreshing citations or stars, or fixing a failed "Weekly AI4AI citation refresh" workflow run.
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tobihagemann Skill Update Dependencies 3Upgrade 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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gabrielmoreira Skill Review Writing 2Review Writing — 学术综述逐节写作方法论
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gabrielmoreira Bundle Last30days 4Research what people actually say about any topic in the last 30 days. Pulls posts and engagement from Reddit, X, YouTube, TikTok, Hacker News, Polymarket, GitHub, and the web. Includes a doctor health check to diagnose broken or missing sources.
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gabrielmoreira Skill Academic Literature Search 3Academic Literature Search — 学术文献检索与引用管理
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gabrielmoreira Skill Minutes Graph 2Policy-safe relationship rankings, commitments, aliases, person profiles, and topic research. Always use Minutes' bounded native CLI surfaces; never build or read a durable graph cache.
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gabrielmoreira Skill Minutes Ingest 2Extract facts from meetings and update your knowledge base — person profiles, chronological log, and index. Use when the user asks "ingest my meetings", "update my knowledge base", "extract facts from meetings", "sync meetings to wiki", "backfill knowledge", or wants their PARA/Obsidian/wiki profiles updated from conversation data.
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spielewoy Skill Ap Researcher 2L3 executor - bounded research that materializes a usable output with reconciled receipts. Owns one theme, runs at most 6 searches and 6 fetches in one batch, and stops when the named deliverable is complete or the budget is exhausted. Does not spawn.
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idwong Skill Pm User Persona产品经理用户画像设计技能。适用场景:(1) 创建产品用户画像(Persona),(2) 定义目标用户群体,(3) 用户分层与细分,(4) 用户旅程地图绘制,(5) 用户说「做用户画像」「定义目标用户」「用户分析」「用户分层」时触发
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idwong Skill Pm User Interview产品经理用户访谈技能。适用场景:(1) 设计用户访谈提纲,(2) 分析访谈录音/文字记录提炼洞察,(3) 整理用户需求和痛点,(4) 生成用户访谈报告,(5) 用户说「用户访谈」「访谈提纲」「用户调研」「需求挖掘」「分析访谈」时触发
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idwong Bundle Pm Market Research产品经理市场调研与竞品分析技能。适用场景:(1) 需要做市场规模分析(TAM/SAM/SOM),(2) 进行竞品对比分析,(3) 分析行业趋势和机会,(4) 输出市场调研报告,(5) 用户说「做竞品分析」「分析市场」「市场调研」「竞争对手分析」时触发
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why20261 Bundle Tiktok Research通过怪奇信息查询和分析TikTok视频、达人、评论和品类机会研究。用户提到TikTok或海外版抖音 数据分析、市场调研、选品、找品、爆品、趋势、市场容量、竞争结构等数据形成经营判断时使用,依据TikTok真实返回的数据形成分析结论。当用户任务需要的数据有TikTok视频、抓博主作品、看TikTok评论、做市场调研分析、做竞品/对标账号监控、短视频选题调研、评论舆情分析、热点追踪、爆款挖掘时使用。触发词:TikTok搜索、TikTok评论、TikTok作品、博主作品、市场调研、对标账号、TikTok竞品分析、TikTok数据分析、短视频运营、TikTok舆情监控、热点追踪、爆款挖掘、tiktok search、tiktok work、douyin comments。
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sohaibseg Bundle ResearchInvestigate a question against high-trust primary sources and return cited findings without changing the project unless explicitly requested.
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stbenjam Skill Release Notes 3Generate release notes from merged pull requests since the last tag. Use when the user asks to draft release notes, prepare a changelog, or summarize what shipped in a release. Groups entries by product area and labels any breaking changes for maintainers.
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stbenjam Bundle Log AnalyzerParse application logs, surface error clusters, and summarize failure patterns
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stbenjam Skill Summarize DiffSummarize a git diff into a reviewer-facing changelog grouped by subsystem. Use when preparing a change review.
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stbenjam Skill Release SummarySummarize merged pull requests and unresolved release blockers. Use when preparing release notes or reviewing release readiness.
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chrisadkin8 Bundle ResearchResearch and document
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zhengqiuyang Skill Competitor ResearchRuns verdict-based competitive research for a product or project idea before building it: candidate generation, parallel research agents, a strict empty/weak/strong-incumbent verdict rubric, honest kill decisions, and wedge sharpening for survivors. Use before starting any new project, adding a major feature, or when you suspect an idea is "surely already done" — it usually is, and the research tells you where the exception hides.
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webr1ng Bundle Server Paper ReproRun reproducible research-paper experiments on local or remote compute with checked server profiles, staged validation, durable result records, and bounded scientific conclusions. Use for paper reproduction, GPU/server experiments, and their evidence-based reports. Do not use for generic coding or unrestricted server administration.
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nli33 Skill Project NotesSet up or use the centralized ~/notes project-notes repo for a code project — links a project's tangential research/debugging notes into it via a gitignored symlink, kept out of the host repo's own git history. Use when the user asks to "set up notes"/"link notes" for a repo, when starting a new notes/ folder for exploratory work, or when a project's notes have grown large and need splitting.
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 cold-email-writer, abstract-fig, omh-web-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.