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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mims-harvard Skill Tooluniverse Ecology Biodiversity 2Ecology, biodiversity, and conservation biology research — species identification (GBIF, NCBI Taxonomy), invasive species impact, ecosystem dynamics, conservation status (IUCN), niche ecology. Use for biodiversity questions, species comparison, invasion biology, conservation prioritization, and ecology-related literature search.
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mims-harvard Bundle Tooluniverse Literature Deep Research 2Deep literature review — PubMed, EuropePMC, bioRxiv preprints, citation networks, evidence synthesis. Disambiguates queries, runs collision-aware searches, grades evidence T1-T4, and produces structured reports. Use for systematic literature review, meta-analysis evidence collection, and detailed answer-with-citations workflows.
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mims-harvard Skill Tooluniverse Clinical Data Integration 2End-to-end drug safety review integrating FDA labels, FAERS adverse event reports, PRR/ROR disproportionality, pharmacogenomic biomarkers, clinical trial data, and published literature. Use for regulatory drug safety reviews, comprehensive pharmacovigilance reports, label-vs-real-world AE comparison, and clinical decision support for drug safety.
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mims-harvard Skill Tooluniverse Metagenomics Analysis 2Microbiome and metagenomics analysis using MGnify, GTDB taxonomy, ENA sequencing data, and EuropePMC literature. Covers taxonomic classification, genome quality assessment, biome-clinical phenotype linkage, and pathway interpretation. Use for amplicon/shotgun metagenomics study analysis.
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mims-harvard Skill Tooluniverse Immunology 2Immunology research workflows: antibody-antigen interactions, T/B cell repertoire, MHC/HLA binding prediction, autoimmune disease genetics, vaccine epitope mapping. Uses IEDB, IMGT, SAbDab, UniProt. Use for adaptive immunity questions, immune response analysis, antibody/TCR/BCR characterization, immunogenicity prediction, and immune-pathway-to-disease mapping.
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mims-harvard Skill Tooluniverse Residue Functional Mechanism Interpretation 2Given a set of residues in a protein, explain WHY they are functionally critical by combining structural context (binding interface, ligand pocket, core, secondary structure), UniProt features (active sites, binding sites, PTM sites, disulfides), optional SAE feature evidence, and optional DMS data. Accepts residues from any source: DMS hotspots (top-K by max effect), ClinVar recurrent variants, literature-reported hot regions, evolutionarily conserved positions, or user-curated lists. Returns a per-cluster mechanism call: catalytic / ligand-binding / interface / structural-core / PTM / regulatory / unknown.
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fabioc-aloha Skill Legal Compliance 4Legal research, contract analysis, regulatory compliance, and case law citation for legal professionals.
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fabioc-aloha Skill Academic Research 4Research project scaffolding, thesis/dissertation writing, literature reviews, publication workflows, and Alex-assisted academic workflows
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fabioc-aloha Skill Grant Writing 4Translate research vision into funded reality.
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fabioc-aloha Skill Cognitive Load 4Don't overwhelm — chunk, scaffold, summarize first.
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fabioc-aloha Skill Dialog Engineering 4CSAR Loop and structured conversation patterns for effective AI dialog -- Clarify, Summarize, Act, Reflect
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rudironsoni Bundle Deep Research 4Use when user requests research requiring multiple sources, comprehensive analysis, or synthesis across topics - technical research, domain knowledge gathering, market analysis, or learning about complex subjects
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duclm1x1 Skill Research Skill CopyMagic 8 Ball
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pjt222 Skill Review Research 11Fuehrt ein Peer-Review von Forschungsmethodik, Versuchsdesign und Manuskriptqualitaet durch. Umfasst Methodenbewertung, statistische Angemessenheit, Reproduzierbarkeitsbewertung, Biasidentifikation und konstruktives Feedback. Verwenden bei der Begutachtung eines Manuskripts, Preprints oder internen Forschungsberichts, bei der Bewertung eines Forschungsvorschlags oder Studienprotokolls, bei der Einschaetzung der Beweisqualitaet hinter einer Behauptung oder beim Review eines Dissertationskapitels.
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pjt222 Skill Collect Preserve Specimens 11Sammeln and preserve insect specimens following museum-grade standards einschliesslich legal compliance, collection methods, humane dispatch, dry pinning, wet preservation, labeling, storage, and curation. Umfasst permit requirements, protected species regulations, sweep nets, beating trays, pitfall traps, light traps, Malaise traps, aspirators, ethyl acetate killing jars, freezing, pin placement by order, wing spreading, ethanol preservation for soft-bodied specimens, specimen labeling with locality and date, storage with pest management, and database entry. Verwenden wenn building a reference collection for taxonomic study, preserving voucher specimens for ecological research, preparing specimens for identification by specialists, or curating an existing collection.
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pjt222 Skill Survey Theoretical Literature 11Theoretische Literatur zu einem bestimmten Thema sichten und synthetisieren, richtungsweisende Arbeiten, Schluesselergebnisse, offene Probleme und domaenenuebergreifende Verbindungen identifizieren. Verwenden beim Beginn von Forschung zu einem unbekannten theoretischen Thema, beim Schreiben einer Literatururebersicht fuer eine Arbeit oder Dissertation, beim Identifizieren offener Probleme und Forschungsluecken, beim Finden domaenenuebergreifender Verbindungen oder beim Bewerten der Neuheit eines vorgeschlagenen theoretischen Beitrags gegenueber bestehendem Werk.
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jantoniofc Bundle Notebooklm SkillUse this skill to query your Google NotebookLM notebooks directly from Claude Code for source-grounded, citation-backed answers from Gemini. Browser automation, library management, persistent auth. Drastically reduced hallucinations through document-only responses.
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projectious-work Bundle Research With Confidence 4Investigates a question systematically before answering — verifying claims through sources, distinguishing known facts from inferences, and calibrating expressed confidence to actual certainty. Use when asked to research a topic, verify a claim, evaluate a technology, or answer a question where accuracy matters more than speed.
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jeremylongshore Skill Meeting Prep 3Prepare briefings for today's meetings — attendee research, email history, past meeting notes, LinkedIn, and company context. Use when running the daily meeting prep cron, or when user asks to prepare for meetings, review who they're meeting with, or get context on upcoming calls.
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diegosouzapw Bundle Perplexity Search 2AI-powered web search, research, and reasoning via Perplexity
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johnalbertini14-glitch Bundle Raindrop 2Sync and process bookmarks from Raindrop.io. Use when fetching new bookmarks, analyzing saved content, or syncing bookmarks to knowledge base. Triggers on "raindrop", "bookmarks", "sync bookmarks", "new saves".
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johnalbertini14-glitch Bundle Deep Research 3Deep investigation across multiple sources with analysis. Creates comprehensive reports. Use when user says "deep research", "investigate", "thorough analysis".
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johnalbertini14-glitch Skill Agentarxiv 2Outcome-driven scientific publishing for AI agents. Publish research papers, hypotheses, and experiments with validated artifacts, structured claims, milestone tracking, and independent replications. Claim replication bounties, submit peer reviews, and collaborate with other AI researchers.
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johnalbertini14-glitch Bundle Literature Search 2Literature Search Skill
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holobiomicslab Skill Code Repository Analysis 3Use when you have a published research article describing a new FT-ICR MS analysis tool and need to verify which analytical and visualization features are actually implemented (not just claimed).
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holobiomicslab Skill Spectral Similarity Ranking 3Use when you have a query MS/MS spectrum and need to identify the -matching library spectrum from a large spectral database, particularly when the research goal requires distinguishing between exact matches and structural analogues without separate workflows.
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holobiomicslab Skill Network Module Interaction Scoring 2Use when after biclustering a normalized microbe-metabolite feature attribution score matrix into distinct functional modules, use this skill to summarize pairwise module interactions by aggregating scores between all microbe-metabolite pairs from different modules.
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holobiomicslab Skill Vendor Format Routing Dispatch 2Use when you have a collection of raw mass spectrometry data files from multiple instrument vendors (Agilent, Bruker, Thermo) and/or mzML exports that need to be converted to a standardized, cross-platform format for downstream software development, AI research, or multi-vendor meta-analysis.
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holobiomicslab Skill Mass Spectrum Peak Aggregation 2Use when you have a processed mass spectrum object with assigned molecular formulas for individual peaks and need to summarize peaks by their heteroatom composition—e.
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holobiomicslab Skill Chemical Class Novelty Detection 2Use when when you have CANOPUS chemical class predictions for your samples and need to identify which extracts contain chemical classes absent from the literature for their species or genus.
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tools-only Bundle 2607 Pubmed Search 5b0933e6PubMed Search Guide
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tools-only Bundle Problem Based Srs 2Complete Problem-Based Software Requirements Specification methodology following Gorski & Stadzisz research. Use when you need to perform requirements engineering from business problems to functional requirements with full traceability.
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tools-only Bundle 1185 Arc B1410d98ARC (AI2 Reasoning Challenge) benchmark for evaluating grade-school science reasoning with multiple-choice questions.
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tools-only Bundle 1571 Gaia C8b2a7c2GAIA evaluates general AI assistant capabilities including multi-step reasoning, web browsing, tool use, and multi-modality on real-world questions with unambiguous answers.
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tools-only Bundle Aleph 3Aleph
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tools-only Bundle 2521 Showcase Cafd0d13Built With Skene
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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 tooluniverse-ecology-biodiversity, tooluniverse-literature-deep-research, tooluniverse-clinical-data-integration. 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.