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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dvcrn Skill Youtube Summarize 4Summarize YouTube videos by extracting transcripts and captions. Use when you need to get a quick summary of a video, extract key points, or analyze video content without watching it.
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dvcrn Bundle Research 5Comprehensive research grounded in web data with explicit citations. Use when you need multi-source synthesis—comparisons, current events, market analysis, detailed reports.
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dvcrn Skill Shihanbing Investment Analysis 2Analyze stocks, commodities, ETFs, and thematic ideas using a macro-to-scarcity-to-company-to-timing framework. Best for medium/long-horizon investment research, cyclical themes, and structured thesis validation.
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teqfocusadmin Bundle Podcast ProducerPodcast production skill for TeqTalk — Teqfocus' CXO-level podcast on AI, Data, and Salesforce transformation. Use this skill whenever the user wants to produce, prepare, or repurpose any TeqTalk episode asset. This includes: guest research briefs, episode topic frameworks, pre-interview question guides, transcript trimming with timestamps, episode newsletters, short-form reel scripts, quote card copy, YouTube animation briefs, LinkedIn posts from episodes, episode show notes, and full episode repurposing plans. Also trigger when the user mentions TeqTalk, podcast guest, episode transcript, reel scripts, show notes, episode repurposing, or any pre/post production task for a podcast episode. Always use this skill before working on any TeqTalk production asset — do not attempt from memory alone.
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teqfocusadmin Skill Teqtalk Guest BriefTeqTalk pre-production skill. Use this when a guest name and company have been confirmed for an upcoming TeqTalk episode. Produces a complete guest intelligence brief: background, current role and company context, known public POV on AI/Data/Salesforce/transformation, likely talking points they will default to, and the 3 blind spots or provocations Jas should push on. Also produces a one-paragraph guest introduction for use in the episode. Runs a 4-iteration refinement loop. Always use this skill before any TeqTalk pre-production work — do not attempt guest research from memory alone.
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yeahyoo0520 Bundle Youtube Comment ResearchTurn generic qualitative evidence or public YouTube comments into profile-aware classifications, evidence-linked themes, cautious insights, optional verification, decision briefs, and readable workbooks.
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xxy985 Bundle Structured Research EnFor research that needs multiple sources, counterexample checks, traceability, and staged synthesis. Trigger when the user says "research this systematically", "run another search round but don't repeat", "fill the blind spots and find counterexamples", "turn the material into a judgment I can defend", or "continue the existing research". Not for opening a single link, a one-fact lookup, or mechanical extraction.
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xxy985 Bundle Structured Research Zh用于需要多来源证据、反例检验、持续追溯与阶段综合的研究任务。 当用户要求“系统研究这个问题”“再搜一轮但不要重复”“补盲区和反例” “把资料变成有依据的判断”或继续已有研究时使用。 不用于仅查看一个链接、单一事实快查或机械摘录。
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xxy985 Bundle Literature Review Workflow EnA recoverable, evidence-first literature review workflow. Use when asked to start, advance, or resume a review. Supports source verification, close reading, cross-paper synthesis, claim review, checkpoints, and four decision gates. Requires Python, terminal access, local files, and research-stage network access.
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xxy985 Bundle Literature Review Workflow ZhBilingual literature review workflow / 综述论文半自动生产技能。Use when asked to start, advance, or resume a literature review; 用户要求启动、推进或继续综述流程时使用。Supports source verification, synthesis, claim review, recovery, and four decision gates. Requires Python, terminal, local files, and research-stage network access.
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google-gemini Bundle Gemini API Dev 2Use this skill when writing code that calls the Gemini API for text generation, multi-turn chat, multimodal understanding, image generation, video generation, streaming responses, background research tasks, function calling, structured output, or migrating from the old generateContent API. Covers SDK usage and best practices for Gemini models and agents in Python and TypeScript.
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scdenney Bundle Hypothesis Building 2Turns a theory into falsifiable, pre-registerable hypotheses — DAGs and backdoor closure, how the design resolves the FPCI, SATE versus PATE, counterfactual and directional framing, a named theoretical and empirical estimand, a justified SESOI, the choice among NHST, interval, equivalence (TOST), and minimum-effect tests, scope conditions, and primary, secondary, and exploratory tiers across multi-experiment designs. Use when the user has a research question or theory and asks to turn it into hypotheses, asks whether a prediction is falsifiable or testable, asks what the estimand is, or asks how to predict a null. Framing the paper around it goes to narrative-building, the plan to pre-registration-writing.
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athola Skill Dig 2Refines an active research session by drilling deeper into a subtopic. Use after tome:research to narrow results to a specific channel or angle.
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athola Skill Papers 2Searches academic literature via arXiv, Semantic Scholar, and open-access PDFs. Use when building literature reviews or finding formal research on a topic.
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athola Skill Curate 2Adds developer-authored annotations to the gauntlet knowledge base. Use when capturing tribal knowledge or rationale not visible in code.
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athola Skill Extract 2Builds the gauntlet knowledge base from AST extraction and AI enrichment. Use when initializing or refreshing codebase knowledge for challenges.
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athola Skill Code Search 2Searches GitHub for existing implementations, libraries, or patterns. Use when finding code examples or prior art on a topic during a research session.
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athola Skill Night Market Research Methodology 2Turn hunches into accepted results: worthiness score, evidence bar, research-to-rules. Use when vetting ideas. Not for QA; use night-market-validation-and-qa.
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athola Skill Smart Sourcing 2Selects optimal sources for tool calls, balancing accuracy with token cost. Use before research tasks or when deciding whether a claim needs verification.
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athola Bundle Digital Garden Cultivator 2Manages digital garden notes, link structures, and health metrics. Use when curating a knowledge base, pruning stale notes, or tracking content maturity.
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gl0di Skill Knowledge Base CollectorIngests screenshots and web pages into a local knowledge base.
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inutano Bundle Ortho Multilingual Data ScoutFind candidate orthopaedic research datasets, cohorts, and registries across multiple languages using public web information, with two-round query expansion and reproducible provenance.
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gl0di Skill Meeting NotesSummarise meeting notes into actions.
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nowely Bundle CalibrateMeasures which forms of writing one person prefers, by blind paired choice on a balanced item bank, and turns the result into rules a writer can follow and a judge score that is honest about its own error. Run across several sessions; re-run when it stops predicting.
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moltis-org Skill GeminiGemini CLI for one-shot Q&A, summaries, and generation.
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moltis-org Skill SummarizeSummarize or extract text/transcripts from URLs, podcasts, and local files (great fallback for “transcribe this YouTube/video”).
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harishkotra Skill Single Researcher LabUse when you want one focused AI research pass on a topic, like a one-person research lab.
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harishkotra Skill Autonomous Research SolverUse when you need to autonomously research and solve a hard, measurable problem end to end.
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mlsecopshub Skill Doc SummarizerSummarize a document or file and produce a short set of bullet points. Use when the user wants a quick summary of a file.
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mlsecopshub Skill Doc Summarizer 2Summarize a document or file and produce a short set of bullet points. Use when the user wants a quick summary of a file.
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entwoh Bundle Sl Employment LawResearch Sri Lankan employment contracts, statutory workplace terms, payroll contributions, and termination processes.
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entwoh Bundle Sl Tax ComplianceResearch Sri Lankan business tax obligations, including income tax, VAT, SSCL, withholding, and filing dates.
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entwoh Bundle Sl Data ProtectionResearch Sri Lankan personal-data protection and electronic-transactions obligations for business operations.
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entwoh Bundle Sl Company FormationResearch Sri Lankan entity choice, eROC incorporation, and post-incorporation setup requirements.
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entwoh Bundle Sl Dispute ResolutionResearch Sri Lankan court procedure, debt recovery, arbitration, and corporate insolvency questions.
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entwoh Bundle Sl Foreign InvestmentResearch Sri Lankan foreign investment, BOI status, exchange-control requirements, and sectoral restrictions.
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 youtube-summarize, research, shihanbing-investment-analysis. 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.