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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thedixitjain Skill Micro SubmissionUse when auditing a MICRO submission before HotCRP upload — the 11-page-plus-references limit with no appendix allowed, EDT (not AoE) deadline arithmetic, the abstract-registration gate a week before the paper, minimum 9pt fonts, mandatory page numbers, all-author reference entries, and MICRO's visual-plus-automated format inspection.
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thedixitjain Skill Mlsys SubmissionUse when auditing an MLSys submission for OpenReview readiness, covering the two-column 10-page body excluding references, the separate appendix upload, double-blind rules that still permit arXiv posting, research-versus-industrial track requirements, dual-submission exceptions, style-kit compliance, and desk-reject triage before the deadline.
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thedixitjain Skill Molcell CitationUse to convert references to the current Cell Press numbered style used by Molecular Cell — superscript numbers in order of first appearance, a reference list numbered in that order, full author lists (no et al.), abbreviated journal names. This is NOT author-date; older Cell Press author-date manuscripts must be renumbered.
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thedixitjain Skill Nature AstronomyUse when targeting Nature Astronomy (Nat Astron) or deciding whether an astronomy or astrophysics manuscript fits this venue. Encodes the journal's fit, framing, method-and-evidence bar, house style, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics.
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thedixitjain Skill Nature CatalysisUse when targeting Nature Catalysis (Nat Catal) or deciding whether a catalysis manuscript fits this Springer Nature venue. Encodes the journal's fit, framing, method-and-evidence bar, house style, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics.
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thedixitjain Skill Nature ChemistryUse when targeting Nature Chemistry (Nat Chem) or deciding whether a chemistry manuscript fits this Springer Nature venue. Encodes the journal's fit, framing, method-and-evidence bar, house style, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics.
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thedixitjain Skill Nature MaterialsUse when targeting Nature Materials or deciding whether a materials science manuscript fits this venue. Encodes the journal's fit, framing, method-and-evidence bar, house style, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics.
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thedixitjain Skill Nature PhotonicsUse when targeting Nature Photonics (Nat Photonics) or deciding whether an optics or photonics manuscript fits this high-impact, broad-significance Nature-family venue. Encodes the journal's fit, framing, method-and-evidence bar, house style, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics.
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thedixitjain Skill Nature SynthesisUse when targeting Nature Synthesis or deciding whether a chemical or materials synthesis manuscript fits this methodology-focused, high-impact venue. Encodes the journal's fit, framing, method-and-evidence bar, house style, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics.
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nwave-ai Skill Nw Jtbd AnalysisJTBD methodology for extracting real jobs behind feature requests — job statements, abstraction layers, first-principles extraction, ODI outcome statements, and opportunity scoring
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hashgraph-online Bundle Octopus ResearchThorough research across multiple sources — use for complex topics needing broad synthesis
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thedixitjain Skill Pacific GraphicsUse when targeting Pacific Graphics (Pacific Graphics) or deciding whether a computer-science manuscript fits this venue. Encodes conference fit, framing, evidence bar, submission-cycle checks, rebuttal posture, and desk-reject risks for computer graphics.
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thedixitjain Skill Past And PresentUse when targeting Past & Present or deciding whether a social, economic, or cultural history manuscript fits this venue. Encodes the journal's fit, its problem-driven "big question" argument bar, primary-source and historiographical expectations, Chicago house style and double-blind norms, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics.
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thedixitjain Skill Pods ExperimentsUse when designing or auditing the analytical "evidence" of an ACM PODS paper — worst-case and average-case analyses, matching upper and lower bounds, dichotomy completeness, correct complexity assumptions, and the occasional empirical validation when a theory paper claims practicality — matching the rigor to the shape of each theoretical claim.
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brycewang-stanford Skill Rss Camera ReadyUse when converting an accepted RSS (Robotics: Science and Systems) paper into its public form — de-anonymization and platform-attribution restoration, adding the external links the CFP reserves for this stage, publication in the free roboticsproceedings.org archive with a 10.15607 DOI, and single-track presentation preparation.
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thedixitjain Skill Rt Journal MatchUse when an author asks "which journal should I send this to?" or needs the best resubmission target after a reject. Profiles the paper, shortlists candidate venues across 185+ packs, and ranks them into reach / match / safe with a resubmission ladder. Reads live venue facts from each pack's source-map; defers fit judgment to the venue's own topic-selection skill.
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thedixitjain Skill Sci Cover LetterUse when writing the editor-facing cover letter for Science (AAAS) — a tight, significance-forward pitch, not a summary, that lets the editor decide within two minutes whether the paper clears the broad-interest bar and should go out for external review.
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thedixitjain Skill Science AdvancesUse when targeting Science Advances (Sci Adv) or deciding whether a multidisciplinary open-access manuscript fits this AAAS venue. Encodes the journal's fit, framing, method-and-evidence bar, house style, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics.
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thedixitjain Skill Science RoboticsUse when targeting Science Robotics (Sci Robot) or deciding whether a robotics manuscript fits this AAAS venue. Encodes the journal's fit, framing, method-and-evidence bar, house style, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics.
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thedixitjain Skill Sigir SubmissionUse when auditing a SIGIR full or short paper before the deadline — the 9-page vs 4-page budgets with appendices counted inside, ACM sigconf anonymization, per-track OpenReview groups, the PC-member nomination duty, cross-track double-submission bans, AI-use disclosure, and desk-reject triage for the ACM SIGIR conference.
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thedixitjain Skill Soda ExperimentsUse when deciding whether and how experiments belong in a SODA (ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms) paper — SODA's scope includes experimental validation but theorems carry the decision, so this skill designs supporting numerics honestly and routes implementation-led work to co-located ALENEX or to SEA.
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thedixitjain Skill Tacas SubmissionUse when auditing a TACAS (ETAPS) submission for EasyChair readiness, covering the choice among the four paper categories (research, case-study, regular tool, tool-demonstration), the correct LNCS page limit and llncs.cls format, the per-category blind mode (double-blind research vs single-blind tool/case-study), the mandatory tool-paper artifact deadline, and desk-reject triage before the firm ETAPS deadline.
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thedixitjain Skill The Art BulletinUse when targeting The Art Bulletin or deciding whether an art-history manuscript fits this venue. Encodes the journal's fit as the CAA generalist flagship across all periods and regions, the original-argument and close-visual-analysis bar, primary-source command, Chicago house style, image-rights expectations, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics.
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thedixitjain Skill The Embo JournalUse when targeting The EMBO Journal (EMBO J) or deciding whether a mechanistic molecular biology manuscript fits this venue. Encodes the journal's fit, framing, method-and-evidence bar, house style, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics.
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thedixitjain Skill The Isme JournalUse when targeting The ISME Journal (ISME J) or deciding whether a microbial-ecology manuscript fits this flagship community-and-function venue. Encodes the journal's fit, framing, method-and-evidence bar, house style, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics.
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thedixitjain Skill Vis Camera ReadyUse when preparing an accepted IEEE VIS paper for its IEEE TVCG camera-ready, covering de-anonymization, the VGTC/TVCG template and journal metadata (DOI, ORCID, IEEE keywords/index terms), integrating the second-round required changes without scope creep, permanentizing open-materials links, the Open Practices disclosure form, and the Graphics Replicability Stamp handoff.
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thedixitjain Skill Webconf WorkflowUse when planning a team's calendar around the Web Conference (WWW) annual cycle — the autumn abstract/paper deadlines, the holiday-week rebuttal, January decisions, the short-paper and Web4Good fallback windows inside the same edition, venue-volatility contingencies, and rerouting after rejection.
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thedixitjain Skill Arpsych Topic SelectionUse when judging whether a psychology topic is mature, important, and synthesis-ready enough to warrant an Annual Review of Psychology (ARPsych) review. Tests topic fit; it does not pitch the topic to the Committee (arpsych-proposal-and-commissioning) or gather the literature (arpsych-literature-synthesis).
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thedixitjain Skill Orgstud Topic SelectionUse when choosing or sharpening the phenomenon and research question for an Organization Studies (OS) manuscript — testing whether it is theoretically generative for OS's European organization-theory audience. Diagnoses fit and scope; it does not build the theory or run analysis.
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thedixitjain Skill Agsy Writing StyleUse when drafting or polishing an Agricultural Systems (AgSy) manuscript so it reads clearly for a systems-science audience, follows the journal's format, and meets front-matter requirements (abstract <= 250 words, Highlights, graphical abstract). Research papers run to about 8,000 words (no hard cap). Tightens prose and format; it does not invent content.
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thedixitjain Skill Eccv Writing StyleUse when writing or revising an ECCV paper in the Springer LNCS single-column format — spending the 14-page budget (figures and tables included), LNCS-specific layout craft, first-page architecture for a mixed European panel, numbered-citation hygiene, and claims phrased to survive a one-page rebuttal.
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thedixitjain Skill Icse Writing StyleUse when writing or revising an ICSE research-track paper, covering empirical-SE paper anatomy, research questions as the load-bearing structure, the threats-to-validity section the community expects, practitioner-grounded motivation, calibrated claims, and fitting a complete study into ten IEEE pages.
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thedixitjain Skill Jaar Writing StyleUse when drafting or polishing the prose of a Journal of the American Academy of Religion (JAAR) article so it is clear, analytic, gender-neutral, and readable across the study of religion. Improves scholarly prose; it does not invent content. For reference formatting use jaar-citation-and-style.
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thedixitjain Skill Misq Writing StyleUse when polishing the prose of a MIS Quarterly manuscript — front-loading the IS contribution, writing for an interdisciplinary IS audience that spans four traditions, applying APA 7th / MISQ Style Guide conventions (including MISQ's lead-with-the-information in-text citation style, heading format, and 5–10 keywords), and keeping the manuscript inside its page limit. Late-stage polish; do not invoke while the contribution is unsettled.
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thedixitjain Skill Pmla Writing StyleUse when drafting or polishing the prose of a PMLA (Publications of the Modern Language Association) essay so it reads clearly for a broad membership of language and literature scholars. PMLA prizes a concise, readable presentation; the prose must carry sophisticated argument without jargon for its own sake. Tightens the writing; it does not invent content or handle citation mechanics.
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thedixitjain Skill Jf Topic SelectionUse when judging whether a research question is general-interest and economically significant enough for The Journal of Finance (JF), and when sharpening the framing. Tests fit and contribution; it does not design the empirics.
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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 science-robotics, micro-submission, mlsys-submission. 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.