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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reaperinvest Skill Reddit StrategyCreates Reddit engagement plans with subreddit targeting, value-first posting guidelines, and community building tactics. Use when leveraging Reddit for traffic, research, or brand visibility.
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why20261 Bundle Kuaishou Assistant快手数据助手、快手热榜、快手内容研究、作品研究、作品详情、评论分析、评论回复分析、达人数据和达人作品。覆盖 Kuaishou / Kwai short-video research,来自 GuaiKei 社媒数据助手。
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reaperinvest Skill White PaperWrites authoritative white papers with executive summary, research sections, data visualization suggestions, and lead-gen CTA. Use when you need a long-form thought leadership asset for B2B lead generation or industry authority building.
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reaperinvest Skill Market ResearchConducts market sizing, trend analysis, audience segmentation, and opportunity assessment for business ideas and products. Use when a user is validating a new business idea, entering a new market, preparing a pitch deck, or needs data to support strategic decisions.
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yuanhao667 Bundle Geo Doubao Research当用户需要把豆包搜索检验、发布前诊断、发布后检测、前后对比反馈、竞品信源分析或浏览器半自动研究接入 GEO 自动化流程时使用。适用于从客户档案、关键词库、文章任务和豆包实际引用来源动态抽取变量,生成客户版诊断报告、发布后报告、对比反馈和内部复盘报告。
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reaperinvest Skill Authority Content StrategyPlans content strategies for building authority with research pieces, original frameworks, and data studies.
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maybackcompany Bundle GoalsMaintain a Claude-Code-style goals workflow for Codex, mixed with Karpathy-style and Matt Pocock-style goal-driven engineering discipline. Use when the user asks for /goals, goals, task goals, a running checklist, objective tracking, progress tracking, goal-first work, "keep track of what we are doing", "show goals", "update goals", "mark done", "what is left", or wants Codex to create, revise, persist, or summarize active work goals during a thread.
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talhamah56 Skill Idea CreatorGenerate and rank research ideas given a broad direction. Use when user says "找idea", "brainstorm ideas", "generate research ideas", "what can we work on", or wants to explore a research area for publishable directions.
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talhamah56 Skill 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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talhamah56 Skill 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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talhamah56 Skill Research RefineTurn a vague research direction into a problem-anchored, elegant, frontier-aware, implementation-oriented method plan via iterative review (Claude self-review by default). Use when the user says "refine my approach", "帮我细化方案", "decompose this problem", "打磨idea", "refine research plan", "细化研究方案", or wants a concrete research method that stays simple, focused, and top-venue ready instead of a vague or overbuilt idea.
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talhamah56 Skill Research ReviewGet a deep critical review of research from a reviewer backend (Claude self-review by default, or Codex/manual if configured). Use when user says "review my research", "help me review", "get external review", or wants critical feedback on research ideas, papers, or experimental results.
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talhamah56 Skill Auto Review LoopAuto Review Loop: Autonomous Research Improvement
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roche-k Bundle Va Research AnalystUse when you need comprehensive research across multiple sources with synthesis of findings into actionable insights, trend identification, and detailed reporting.
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itsual Skill Field ResearchPlan and execute field research outside the lab — on-site visits, ride-alongs, and in-context studies that capture real-world constraints. Use when lab or remote methods cannot access critical context, environment, or operational reality.
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itsual Skill Concept TestingTest product and messaging concepts with target users to learn appeal, clarity, and preference before heavy build investment. Use when evaluating early ideas, value propositions, or design directions with structured feedback.
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itsual Skill Research EthicsConduct research ethically — informed consent, privacy, minimization of harm, and honest reporting — across user, market, and academic contexts. Use when designing studies with human participants, handling sensitive data, or reviewing research for ethical risk.
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josstei Skill Status 3Summarize the active Maestro session without mutating state
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itsual Skill Literature ReviewConduct literature reviews that map existing knowledge, identify gaps, and position new work without drowning in unprioritized sources. Use when starting academic work, grounding product strategy in prior evidence, or building a state-of-the-art summary.
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itsual Skill Systematic ReviewConduct systematic reviews with transparent search, screening, and synthesis protocols that minimize bias in evidence summaries. Use when high-stakes decisions require rigorous aggregation of existing studies (academic, clinical, policy, or technical).
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charlieviettq Bundle Statistical Analysis 3Guided statistical analysis with test selection and reporting. Use when you need help choosing appropriate tests for your data, assumption checking, power analysis, and APA-formatted results. Best for academic research reporting, test selection guidance. For implementing specific models programmatically use statsmodels.
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comsky Bundle Competitive Feature Benchmark 2Research and compare how competing products implement a similar feature at the UX and interaction level. Provides structured comparison tables and strategic differentiation recommendations.
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diegosouzapw Bundle Deep Research 6Gemini Deep Research Skill workflow skill. Use this skill when the user needs Run autonomous research tasks that plan, search, read, and synthesize information into comprehensive reports and the operator should preserve the upstream workflow, copied support files, and provenance before merging or handing off.
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diegosouzapw Bundle Last30days 3last30days: Research Any Topic from the Last 30 Days workflow skill. Use this skill when the user needs Research a topic from the last 30 days on Reddit + X + Web, become an expert, and write copy-paste-ready prompts for the user's target tool and the operator should preserve the upstream workflow, copied support files, and provenance before merging or handing off.
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knowledgexlab Bundle HetaSearch and recall the user's own documents, files, and saved memory — and save new things worth remembering — using Little Heta, a local CLI knowledge base. Use whenever a task needs external knowledge from the user's own materials or earlier context, or when the user states a fact, decision, or preference worth keeping, instead of guessing or grepping files.
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skillmedev Skill Expert InterviewDesigns an expert-interview package - sourcing criteria for the right experts, a funneled discussion guide with timing, open-then-probe question design, laddering, and a neutral probe kit - that extracts honest insight without leading the witness. Use when someone asks "help me write questions for an expert call", "build a discussion guide", "prep me for this expert network interview", or is planning customer-development or domain-expert conversations. Do NOT use for designing a full data-collection study with sampling and hypotheses - use primary-research instead; for synthesizing findings after the interviews are done, use interview-synthesis instead; for desk research that involves no live conversation, use deep-research instead.
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skillmedev Skill Patent Prior ArtRuns a systematic prior-art search - feature decomposition into claim elements, CPC/IPC classification plus keyword vocabulary, patent databases AND non-patent literature, forward and backward citation walks - and maps results into claim charts with a novelty assessment and a documented search log. Use when someone asks "is my invention novel", "has anyone already patented this", "find prior art against this claim", or is deciding whether a filing or an invalidity argument is worth pursuing. This is research, not legal advice; filing and freedom-to-operate decisions require a patent attorney. Do NOT use for a general academic literature survey unrelated to patentability - use literature-review instead.
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skillmedev Skill Research SynthesisTurns many sources into a decision-ready synthesis - atomic claims clustered into named themes, surfaced tensions between sources, gaps no source answers, and explicit so-what/now-what implications with confidence ratings. Use when someone says "synthesize this research", "what do all these reports agree on", "pull the themes out of these articles", or has a pile of sources and needs conclusions rather than source-by-source summaries. Do NOT use for synthesizing user interview transcripts - use interview-synthesis instead; for a formal academic literature review, use literature-review.
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ninadnj Bundle SummarizeCondense a block of text into a short summary.
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dhruvhkumar Bundle Tech RadarTechnology radar system for evaluating, categorizing, and tracking technologies, frameworks, tools, platforms, and techniques. Triggers when assessing technology adoption decisions, reviewing tech stack choices, conducting architecture reviews, evaluating new tools or frameworks, or building a team/organization technology radar.
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dhruvhkumar Skill Deep ResearchRigorous research methodology that goes beyond search-and-summarize. Enforces source quality scoring, provenance tracking, temporal analysis, contradiction mapping, adversarial self-critique, and blind spot detection. Triggers when performing any research task — market analysis, technical evaluation, competitive intelligence, decision support, or investigative inquiry.
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dhruvhkumar Skill Living ResearchResearch maintenance methodology that treats findings as living documents with shelf lives, freshness tracking, and decay detection. Triggers when maintaining, revisiting, or updating any existing research, knowledge base, technical evaluation, competitive analysis, or decision document that needs to stay current over time.
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sammielisha425-design Bundle Qq Chat CaptureCapture, index, summarize, pause, and organize QQ group chat records from the local QQNT + LiteLoaderQQNT + LLOneBot OneBot setup. Use when the user asks to 抓取QQ聊天记录, 恢复/停止QQ监控, 从暂停时间到现在拉取QQ群消息, 汇总QQ群新消息, 检查OneBot连接, or organize QQ chat output files under the chat-record robot workspace. Do not use for Discord capture, Hermes route-only forwarding, Codex Desktop repair, Cockpit/API, or web research; use the matching local skill.
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sammielisha425-design Bundle Discord Chat CaptureCapture, paginate, clean, index, summarize, and organize Discord server channel messages and thread replies from the local Discord Desktop remote debugging setup. Use when the user asks to 抓Discord聊天记录, 抓帖子底下回复, 抓<DISCORD_SERVER_NAME>服务器, 从暂停时间到现在拉取Discord, avoid screenshot/OCR capture, filter NSFW/adult channels, or organize Discord chat output files. Do not use for QQ/微信/飞书 routing, Codex Desktop Browser/iab repair, Cockpit/API, web research, or general thread orchestration; use the matching local skill.
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sammielisha425-design Bundle Linuxdo Topic CaptureCapture Linux.do / L站 topic list titles, links, ids, categories/tags, reply/view/update snippets from the Codex in-app browser login session. Use when the user asks to 抓L站, linux.do帖子名, L站话题列表, 最近话题, or wants only titles to decide what to read. Default is list-only capture; do not open every topic or collect full replies unless explicitly requested. Do not use for Browser/iab repair, generic web research, Douyin/QQ/Discord capture, Cockpit/API, or full forum scraping; use the matching local skill.
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sammielisha425-design Bundle Telegram Chat CaptureCapture, incrementally merge, summarize, and organize Telegram/飞机 chat records using the user's local Telethon setup. Use when the user asks to 抓飞机, 抓Telegram聊天记录, 抓归档聊天, 抓频道/群组/个人, 从上次抓取后拉取飞机消息, or add Telegram to the QQ/Discord/L站 chat-record workflow. Do not use for QQ, Discord, Linux.do, Browser/iab repair, or Telegram account setup unless the request explicitly involves Telegram capture.
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 reddit-strategy, kuaishou-assistant, white-paper. 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.