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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majiayu000 Bundle Scoping 2Conduct scoping conversation with user to define research question, key findings, and constraints. Generates scope.md that guides all subsequent steps. Second step of biomedical-science-writer workflow. Requires inventory.md to exist.
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majiayu000 Bundle Review 60Review code for common issues. Use when reviewing PRs, suggesting code changes, or when user asks to review code.
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majiayu000 Bundle Update 9System update management and version control.
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majiayu000 Bundle Summarize 7Summarize or extract text/transcripts from URLs, podcasts, and local files (great fallback for “transcribe this YouTube/video”).
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majiayu000 Bundle Skills 15Meta-skill for skill management operations.
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majiayu000 Bundle Analyze Arxiv Paper 2Deep analysis of an arXiv research paper for inclusion in news digest research deep-dives. Extracts key contributions, methodology, results, limitations, and generates a practitioner-focused summary with potential impacts.
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majiayu000 Bundle Research Review 4Iterative review of research documents using Rule of 5
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majiayu000 Bundle Recovery 2Workflow recovery protocol for resuming workflows after context loss, session interruption, or errors. Handles state reconstruction, artifact recovery, and seamless workflow continuation.
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majiayu000 Bundle Career Helper 2End-to-end career support for job seekers at all levels. Optimizes LinkedIn profiles, rewrites CVs for ATS systems, provides interview preparation with cited answers, researches companies and roles, identifies hiring managers and networking opportunities. When Claude needs to optimize LinkedIn profiles, rewrite CVs for ATS, prepare for interviews, research companies and roles, identify hiring managers, or support job applications and career transitions.
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majiayu000 Bundle Init Deep 2(builtin) Initialize hierarchical AGENTS.md knowledge base
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majiayu000 Bundle Create Spec 4Create a new specification through an adaptive interview process with proactive recommendations and optional research. Use when user says "create spec", "new spec", "generate spec", or wants to start a specification document.
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majiayu000 Bundle Us Govt Data 3Access official US Government records. Currently supports SEC EDGAR (financial filings) and Federal Register (rule changes). Ensures data provenance from .gov domains.
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majiayu000 Bundle Research Codebase 3Structured investigation of unfamiliar codebases
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majiayu000 Bundle Research 58General research coordination and synthesis.
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majiayu000 Bundle Scholar Evaluation 3Systematically evaluate scholarly work using the ScholarEval framework, providing structured assessment across research quality dimensions including problem formulation, methodology, analysis, and writing with quantitative scoring and actionable feedback.
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majiayu000 Bundle Bright Data 2Web scraping and data extraction using Bright Data proxy network.
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majiayu000 Bundle Operationalize 3Distill context (research, recon, learnings) into evidence-anchored rules routed to automation shapes. Use when a finished artifact should become skills, gates, or beads.
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majiayu000 Bundle Find Skills 10Search and discover available skills in the system.
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majiayu000 Bundle Github 27Interact with GitHub using the gh CLI for repos, issues, PRs, and actions.
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majiayu000 Bundle Research 59Use when current web info needed to avoid broken implementations
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majiayu000 Bundle Swarm Advanced 4Advanced swarm orchestration patterns for research, development, testing, and complex distributed workflows
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majiayu000 Bundle Pro Researcher 2Standards for professional web research using Plan-and-Solve and Cross-Lingual strategies.
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majiayu000 Bundle Computer Use 3Control computer desktop for automation tasks.
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majiayu000 Bundle Test Master 4Comprehensive testing strategies and implementations.
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majiayu000 Bundle Canvas Design 15Create and edit designs using Canvas API.
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majiayu000 Bundle UI UX Pro Max 12Professional UI/UX design guidance and patterns.
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majiayu000 Bundle Skills Search 2Search and discover skills from registries.
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majiayu000 Bundle Senior Devops 5Senior-level DevOps practices and infrastructure guidance.
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majiayu000 Bundle Market Research Reports 4Generate comprehensive market research reports (50+ pages) in the style of top consulting firms (McKinsey, BCG, Gartner). Features professional LaTeX formatting, extensive visual generation with scientific-schematics and generate-image, deep integration with research-lookup for data gathering, and multi-framework strategic analysis including Porter Five Forces, PESTLE, SWOT, TAM/SAM/SOM, and BCG Matrix.
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majiayu000 Bundle Osint 5Open source intelligence gathering. USE WHEN OSINT, due diligence, background check, research person, company intel, investigate. SkillSearch('osint') for docs.
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majiayu000 Bundle Notebooklm 11Integration with Google's NotebookLM for document analysis.
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majiayu000 Bundle Research 61Runs multi-source research across GitHub, HN, Reddit, arXiv, and Semantic Scholar. Use when surveying a technical topic across multiple channels.
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majiayu000 Bundle Skill Planner 3Create phased implementation plans from research findings. Invoke when a task needs an implementation plan.
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majiayu000 Bundle Code Reviewer 32Review code for quality, bugs, and best practices.
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majiayu000 Bundle Research Capture 2Captures research insights, decisions, and learnings during development. Use after completing spikes, making architectural decisions, or discovering important patterns. Prompts for context and rationale, stores with embeddings for later semantic retrieval. Do NOT use for trivial notes - this is for significant findings worth surfacing later.
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majiayu000 Bundle Lit Writeup 2Draft publication-ready Theory sections for sociology research. Guides structure, paragraph functions, sentence craft, and calibration based on analysis of 80 Social Problems/Social Forces articles.
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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 scoping, review, update. 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.