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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jeremylongshore Skill Web ResearchUse when extracting article text from news URLs or downloading video or audio with metadata
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thedixitjain Skill Ylj WorkflowUse as the entry point for any The Yale Law Journal (YLJ) piece. Routes to the right YLJ sub-skill based on lifecycle stage and which track (Article, Essay, Feature, student Note/Comment, or Forum) fits. It dispatches; it does not draft content.
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thedixitjain Skill Ahr Topic SelectionUse when deciding whether a history project fits The American Historical Review (AHR) and how to frame its significance. The AHR is the discipline's generalist flagship across all periods and places, so the test is significance to historians beyond your subfield, not local novelty alone. Helps frame the question; it does not do the archival research.
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thedixitjain Skill Gcb Topic SelectionUse when deciding whether a research idea fits Global Change Biology (GCB) and how to frame its significance. GCB wants a mechanistic link between a global-change driver and a biological response, of broad relevance across systems. Tests fit and sharpens the question; it does not generate data or guarantee acceptance.
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thedixitjain Skill Hrm Topic SelectionUse when scoping or stress-testing the research question for a Human Resource Management (Wiley "HRM") manuscript — confirming an HR-system/practice phenomenon with both a scholarly advance and a workforce-policy or HRM-practice payoff. Locks the question; it does not build the theory (hrm-theory-development).
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thedixitjain Skill Phg Topic SelectionUse when deciding whether a topic is review-worthy for Progress in Human Geography (PiHG) — a large, live, contested literature with real disciplinary stakes, not a gap-filling empirical study. Tests fit and scope; it does not build the argument or gather sources.
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thedixitjain Skill Demog WorkflowUse as the entry point for any Demography (PAA / Duke University Press) manuscript. Routes to the right Demography sub-skill based on where you are in the lifecycle and which article type (Research Article, Research Note, Commentary) fits. It dispatches; it does not draft content.
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thedixitjain Skill Eursr WorkflowUse when starting or routing any European Sociological Review (ESR) manuscript and unsure which skill applies. Routes to the right ESR sub-skill based on the lifecycle stage and the manuscript type (research Article ~8,000 words vs. Comment/Reply vs. Data Brief). It dispatches; it does not draft content.
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thedixitjain Skill Jop SubmissionUse when running the final pre-submission preflight for The Journal of Politics (JOP) via Editorial Manager — category selection, double-blind preparation, the page budget (Research Article <= 35 / Short Article <= 10, double-spaced 12-point), the Online Appendix <= 25 pages, abstract and keywords, and JOP Style Guide formatting. Final checks; it does not draft content.
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thedixitjain Skill Lancet WritingUse to structure and hold the length of a Lancet Article main text — Introduction, Methods, Results, Discussion (~3000–3500 words), the Research in context panel, a limited reference list (~30), and a cautious, globally minded Discussion that does not overstate.
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thedixitjain Skill Ase SubmissionUse when auditing an ASE (IEEE/ACM Automated Software Engineering) research-track submission for HotCRP readiness, covering the ACM acmart sigconf template and the 10+2 page budget, double-anonymous review, the mandatory Data Availability Statement, the early-rejection stage before rebuttal, and desk-reject triage before the deadline.
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thedixitjain Skill Dac SubmissionUse when auditing an ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC) Research-Manuscript submission for Softconf readiness, covering the two-stage abstract-then-manuscript deadline, the 6+1-page ACM double-column page budget with its references-only last page, the double-blind anonymization sweep, TPC conflict-of-interest declaration, and desk-reject triage before the mid-to-late-November cutoff.
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thedixitjain Skill Dac ExperimentsUse when designing or auditing the empirical evaluation of an ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC) Research Manuscript, covering standard EDA benchmark suites (ISPD, EPFL, ISCAS/ITC, TAU, CircuitNet, OpenROAD flows), fair state-of-the-art baselines, QoR/PPA reporting with runtime, per-benchmark honesty, ablations that isolate the mechanism, and contamination-aware ML-for-EDA evaluation.
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thedixitjain Skill Dac Review ProcessUse when reasoning about how an ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC) Research Manuscript is evaluated, covering double-blind TPC review, the novelty-plus-QoR decision criteria, program-committee discussion, the accept/reject (no major-revision) outcome, the ~20-25% selectivity, and how DAC's industry-facing, single-shot process differs from the architecture venues' rebuttal-and-revision cycles.
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thedixitjain Skill Icse Author ResponseUse when drafting an ICSE author response or executing a Major Revision, covering criterion-targeted replies to research-track reviews, the September response window, the four-week revision sprint to the November deadline, response-letter structure, and change tracking that survives PC re-review.
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thedixitjain Skill Aaag RebuttalUse when responding to an Annals of the American Association of Geographers decision letter (major/minor revision) — building a point-by-point response to the subject editor and 1-3 referees across the journal's four areas. Structures the response and revisions; it does not fabricate results.
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thedixitjain Skill Aaag WorkflowUse when starting or navigating any Annals of the American Association of Geographers (Annals of the AAG) manuscript and you need the entry point. Routes to the right sub-skill based on lifecycle stage and which of the journal's four areas (plus the cross-disciplinary track) the paper targets. It dispatches; it does not draft content.
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thedixitjain Skill Acs CatalysisUse when targeting ACS Catalysis (ACS Catal) or deciding whether a catalysis manuscript fits this primary-research venue spanning heterogeneous, homogeneous, bio-, electro-, and photocatalysis. Encodes the journal's fit, framing, method-and-evidence bar, house style, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics.
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brycewang-stanford Skill Aeja RebuttalUse when an American Economic Journal: Applied Economics (AEJ: Applied) decision letter arrives (R&R or conditional accept) and a response-to-referees letter plus a revision plan must be drafted. Plans and structures the response; it does not run the new analysis (aeja-identification / aeja-robustness) or the submission preflight.
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brycewang-stanford Skill Aeja WorkflowUse when deciding which aeja-* sub-skill to invoke next, or when sequencing manuscript work from topic selection through rebuttal for an American Economic Journal: Applied Economics (AEJ: Applied) submission. Routes — it does not replace — the specialized skills.
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thedixitjain Skill Aerj RebuttalUse when writing the response to an American Educational Research Journal (AERJ) revise-and-resubmit. AERJ R&Rs come back through the handling editor and multiple masked reviewers, so the response must convert each reviewer while keeping the editor confident the revision is convergent. Structures the response letter; it does not fabricate new results.
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thedixitjain Skill Aerj WorkflowUse as the entry point for any American Educational Research Journal (AERJ) manuscript. Routes to the right AERJ sub-skill based on where you are in the lifecycle and whether the manuscript's field-wide education-research fit is clear. It dispatches; it does not draft content.
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thedixitjain Skill Agsy WorkflowUse as the entry point for any Agricultural Systems (AgSy) manuscript. Routes to the right AgSy sub-skill based on where you are in the lifecycle and which article type (research paper, short communication, perspective, comment, review) fits. AgSy is a systems-science journal, so the router's first job is to confirm there is a real systems question — interactions, hierarchical levels, trade-offs — not a single-factor field trial. It dispatches; it does not draft content.
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thedixitjain Skill Aiche JournalUse when targeting AIChE Journal or deciding whether a chemical-engineering manuscript fits this venue. Encodes the journal's fit, the fundamental-and-generalizable contribution bar, modeling-plus-experiment rigor, house style, the fundamentals-vs-applied routing, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics.
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thedixitjain Skill Ajps RebuttalUse when writing the response to an American Journal of Political Science (AJPS) revise-and-resubmit. The revised manuscript stays double-blind, the response memorandum is submitted anonymized, and any new analyses must keep the replication package re-runnable for the third-party verifier at acceptance. Structures the response; it does not fabricate new results.
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thedixitjain Skill Ajps WorkflowUse as the entry point for any American Journal of Political Science (AJPS) manuscript. Routes to the right AJPS sub-skill based on lifecycle stage and which submission type (Article, Research Note, Correspondence) fits, and reminds you that AJPS re-runs your code via a third-party verifier before publishing. It dispatches; it does not draft content.
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thedixitjain Skill Apsr RebuttalUse when writing the response to an American Political Science Review (APSR) revise-and-resubmit. APSR reserves R&R for papers close to publishable, and decisions weigh strong support from all or nearly all reviewers, so the response must convert each reviewer without alienating the editor. Structures the response letter; it does not fabricate new results.
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thedixitjain Skill Auto ResearchResearch uncertain questions with an explicit, user-approved web search or ChatGPT consultation, then present options and wait for implementation approval.
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thedixitjain Skill Bjps RebuttalUse when writing the response to a British Journal of Political Science (BJPS) revise-and-resubmit. The response must convert each of the (usually two-plus) double-blind referees while keeping the editor confident the revision is convergent. Structures the response letter; it does not fabricate new results.
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thedixitjain Skill Bjps WorkflowUse as the entry point for any British Journal of Political Science (BJPS / BJPolS) manuscript. Routes to the right BJPS sub-skill based on lifecycle stage and which of the three formats (Research Article, Letter, Comment) fits. It dispatches; it does not draft content.
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hashgraph-online Skill Book AcademicAcademic writing patterns — IMRAD structure, literature review, argument chains, citation practices, thesis/dissertation layout.
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thedixitjain Skill Cell CitationUse to convert references to Cell Press author–date style — in-text "(Smith et al., 2021)", an alphabetical reference list by first author with full author lists, journal names spelled out. This is the OPPOSITE of Science's numbered-by-appearance style.
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thedixitjain Skill Cie MechanismUse when a 《中国工业经济》 (China Industrial Economics) manuscript needs mechanism evidence. Prefers split-channel and moderation (heterogeneity-by-mechanism) regressions and treats the three-step mediation method as suspect — per Jiang (2022, CIE 2022:5), the journal's own methodological-norm guide. Use after the main effect is identified.
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thedixitjain Skill Cikm WorkflowUse when planning a CIKM project calendar across the May abstract/paper gates, June short-track gates, August notification and camera-ready, and the November conference, including the post-submission phase now live in the 2026 cycle, multi-track coordination, and fallback planning toward CIKM 2027 or sibling venues.
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thedixitjain Skill Cjms RebuttalUse when responding to referee reports from 《中国管理科学》 (Chinese Journal of Management Science) — classifying comments, planning supplementary experiments or derivations, and drafting the point-by-point 修改说明. Works after the manuscript has actually been revised; it never fabricates changes.
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thedixitjain Skill Cjms WorkflowUse when deciding which cjms-* sub-skill to invoke next, or when sequencing a 《中国管理科学》 (Chinese Journal of Management Science) manuscript from topic selection through rebuttal. The key fork is 优化建模 vs 数据驱动预测 vs 金融工程实证 — three strands the journal publishes side by side. Routes — does not replace — the specialized skills.
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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 book-academic, web-research, ylj-workflow. 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.