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 Ralph Specum Research 2This skill should be used only when the user explicitly asks to use `$ralph-specum-research`, or explicitly asks Ralph Specum in Codex to run the research phase.
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majiayu000 Bundle Osint 6Open source intelligence gathering. USE WHEN OSINT, due diligence, background check, research person, company intel, investigate.
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majiayu000 Bundle Planning With Files 12Implements Manus-style file-based planning to organize and track progress on complex tasks. Creates task_plan.md, findings.md, and progress.md. Use when asked to plan out, break down, or organize a multi-step project, research task, or any work requiring 5+ tool calls. Supports automatic session recovery after /clear.
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majiayu000 Bundle Stat Data Fetcher 3Access reliable statistical data from the World Bank. Avoids hallucinated numbers by fetching direct time-series data from the official API.
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majiayu000 Bundle Planning With Files 13Implements Manus-style file-based planning to organize and track progress on complex tasks. Creates task_plan.md, findings.md, and progress.md. Use when asked to plan out, break down, or organize a multi-step project, research task, or any work requiring 5+ tool calls. Supports automatic session recovery after /clear.
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majiayu000 Bundle Geo Optimization 2Optimize for geographic performance and CDN distribution.
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majiayu000 Bundle Phx Research 5Research Elixir/Phoenix topics or evaluate Hex libraries (--library). Use when learning about libraries, patterns, or comparing approaches. Searches HexDocs, ElixirForum, GitHub.
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majiayu000 Bundle Post Ocr Cleanup 2Clean post-OCR research text. Use for correction, quality assurance, multilingual handling, uncertainty preservation, and provenance-aware cleanup.
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majiayu000 Bundle Research Storage 2Research file storage conventions and templates for dokhak agents. Use when: (1) saving research results from research-collector or researcher agents, (2) reading cached research files, (3) checking if research exists for a section. Provides directory structure, file format templates, and naming conventions.
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majiayu000 Bundle Research Refine 4Turn a vague research direction into a problem-anchored, elegant, frontier-aware, implementation-oriented method plan via iterative GPT-5.5 review. 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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majiayu000 Bundle Update Readme 5Refreshes README structure and content using repo context and exemplar research. Use when README needs a structural update after significant project changes.
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majiayu000 Bundle Grant Proposal 7Write a structured grant proposal or funding application for any grant type. Use when asked to write a grant proposal, funding application, research grant, charitable grant, or innovation fund application. Produces a complete proposal with project summary, rationale, methodology, impact, and budget narrative.
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majiayu000 Bundle Perplexity Tools 3Executes Perplexity AI queries via unified Python CLI. Use when conducting web research, asking questions with citations, deep research tasks, reasoning problems, or searching for up-to-date information.
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majiayu000 Bundle Senior Backend 4Senior-level backend architecture and development guidance.
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majiayu000 Bundle Skill Creator 109Guide for creating effective skills. This skill should be used when users want to create a new skill (or update an existing skill) that extends Claude's capabilities with specialized knowledge, workflows, or tool integrations.
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majiayu000 Bundle Research Grill 2Interviews a researcher, in rounds, until a research idea, design, or draft has no silently assumed decision left — every question numbered, each with a plain-language "why this matters" and a recommended answer, facts fetched by the assistant rather than asked, and every settled decision written to a file. Three stages, idea (a topic or hunch → a falsifiable question and a contribution claim), design (a question → estimand, identification, sample and power, measurement, pre-registration, analysis plan, venue), and defend (a finished design or draft → the objections a reviewer would raise, before the reviewer does). Use when the user says "grill me", "grill this", "stress-test my idea/design/plan", "interview me about this project", "poke holes in this", "what am I assuming", or brings a research idea that is not yet a design. Suitable for BA, MA, and PhD students as well as grant designs; it never answers the research question for the researcher. Adapted for research from Matt Pocock's grill-me. For a softwa
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majiayu000 Bundle Ln 220 Story Coordinator 8CREATE/REPLAN Stories for Epic (5-10 Stories). Delegates ln-001-standards-researcher for standards research. Decompose-First Pattern. Auto-discovers team/Epic.
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majiayu000 Bundle Researching Web 2Web research via Perplexity AI. Use when user asks to research topics, compare technologies (X vs Y), find best practices, lookup industry standards, or get current information. Triggers on "research", "compare", "vs", "best practice", "pros and cons", "which is better".
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majiayu000 Bundle Architecture Aware Init 4Architecture-aware project initialization combining online research with archetype selection. Triggers: project initialization, new project, architecture decision, project setup, which architecture, choose architecture, project architecture Use when: initializing a new project and need to select an appropriate architecture based on project type, team size, domain complexity, and current best practices DO NOT use when: architecture is already decided - use project-init instead. DO NOT use when: exploring multiple architectures - use architecture-paradigms instead.
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majiayu000 Bundle Media Transcript Search 3Extract and search transcripts from multimedia sources (primarily YouTube). Allows finding specific topics within long content without watching the whole video.
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majiayu000 Bundle Linkedin Automation 3Automate LinkedIn networking, outreach, and content posting.
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majiayu000 Bundle Smart Summarize 2Create useful, informative summaries of technologies or concepts that are readable in depth and have a digestable summary at the top.
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majiayu000 Bundle Himalaya Email Manager 2Email management using Himalaya CLI tool (IMAP). Search, summarize, and delete emails from an IMAP account. Supports natural language queries for email operations.
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majiayu000 Bundle Add Platform Add Capabilities 2Updates job schema and adapters with any new hook events the platform supports. Use after research to extend DeepWork's hook system.
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majiayu000 Bundle Central Station 2This skill should be used when the user asks about Central Station threads, community discussions, support questions, feature requests, or wants to search Railway's community knowledge base. Use for queries like "search central station", "find threads about", "what are people asking about", "recent support threads", or "central station topics".
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majiayu000 Bundle Ln 230 Story Prioritizer 5RICE-scores Stories with market research and generates prioritization table. Use when Stories need business priority ranking for sprint planning.
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majiayu000 Bundle Nsfc Research Content Writer 2当用户明确要求"写/改研究内容""研究内容+创新+年度计划编排"时使用。为 NSFC 正文"(二)研究内容"写作/重构,并同步编排"特色与创新"和"三年年度研究计划",输出可直接落到 LaTeX 模板的三个 extraTex 文件。
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majiayu000 Bundle Elite Longterm Memory 2Advanced long-term memory with semantic search and recall.
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majiayu000 Bundle Researchers Verifier 2Performs quality control, citation validation, and fact-checking before human review. Use after research is complete to verify all sources and claims before production.
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majiayu000 Bundle Nsfc Research Foundation Writer 2当用户明确要求"写/改研究基础""研究基础+工作条件+风险应对编排"时使用。为 NSFC 正文"(三)研究基础"写作/重构,并同步编排"工作条件"和"研究风险应对",用证据链证明项目可行、资源条件对位研究内容、风险预案可执行。
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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 ralph-specum-research, OSINT, planning-with-files. 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.