Research Cursor rules

280 tagged Research, measured the same way as everything else here.

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wigolo

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KnockOutEZ/wigolo

Cursor rule Cursor

Wigolo web intelligence rules for Cursor. Prefer wigolo MCP tools over built-in WebSearch / WebFetch.

not rated 5.5k +15 yesterday A 870 tokens

ccplugins/awesome-claude-code-plugins

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Financial news, stock research, insider-trading and market-signal tasks — when the AlphaAI MCP (alphai tools) is connected, prefer it over generic web search and frame output as research, not advice.

not rated 977 +7 2mo ago A 43 tokens original Apache-2.0

idea-check

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mnemox-ai/idea-reality-mcp

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Run ideacheck before starting any new project or feature to find existing competitors.

not rated 825 +3 1mo ago A 14 tokens original MIT

interview-collector

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Zchary1106/agent-interview-hub

Cursor rule Cursor needs its repo

Collect public AI Agent, LLM, RAG, and MCP interview experiences for agent-interview-hub.

not rated 759 +54 1mo ago A 22 tokens original MIT

scholaraio

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ZimoLiao/scholaraio

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ScholarAIO project instructions and research workflow router.

not rated 576 22d ago A 223 tokens original MIT

use-docfork

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docfork/docfork

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Use Docfork to retrieve up-to-date library and API documentation instead of relying on training data.

not rated 485 +2 4mo ago A 196 tokens original MIT archived

meepo-it/letsfinddomain-skill

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Find and check domain names with confirmed availability, first-year prices, and renewal prices. Use when the user wants domain ideas, availability checks, or naming help.

not rated 283 +3 2mo ago A 32 tokens original MIT

popstas/telegram-download-chat

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Download, export, convert, filter, and analyze Telegram chats via the telegram-download-chat CLI. Download messages from a chat/group/channel, convert an existing JSON export to TXT/HTML/PDF, filter by date/user/keyword, download media, extract subchats (reply threads), and download whole folders. Triggers on…

not rated 225 changed 9d ago A 93 tokens original MIT

logging

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dna-seq/just-dna-lite

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use eliot as default logging library, use with startaction as action pattern for logging. Avoid addfailurefields, it does not exist. Avoid writing overly defensive code with many try and catch blocks.

not rated 141 yesterday A 52 tokens AGPL-3.0

project-overview

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lwyBZss8924d/DeepSearchAgents

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DeepSearchAgent is an intelligent agent system that combines the ReAct (Reasoning + Acting) framework and the CodeAct concept (executable code agents) to enable deep web search and reasoning capabilities.

not rated 136 1y ago A 1,200 tokens original MIT

mcp_tools

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csmar432/finai-research

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A guide for configuring and using MCP data tools. MCP is a way for an AI assistant to connect to external tools and data sources, such as research databases, financial data, and web search.

not rated 108 +2 5d ago A 2,955 tokens original MIT

agentic-clean-code

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adriannoes/awesome-agentic-ai

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Language-agnostic agent-oriented clean code: file size limits, grep-friendly names, provenance comments, testability, and error context. Apply when writing or reviewing code in any stack.

not rated 68 +3 8d ago A 692 tokens original MIT

honest-negatives

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agentic-commerce-lab/pawl

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A clean Failed is a first-class research result — it prevents every future session from re-walking the same dead end.

not rated 67 3mo ago A 389 tokens

nia

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nozomio-labs/nia-rules-for-agents

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Expert research agent for Nia's knowledge tools. Use for discovering repos/docs, deep technical research, remote codebase exploration, and cross-agent knowledge handoffs.

not rated 61 8mo ago A 808 tokens

nimble-web-expert

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Nimbleway/agent-skills

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Use Nimble CLI for ALL web tasks. Never use WebSearch, WebFetch, curl, or any other web tool.

not rated 60 +1 9d ago A 964 tokens original MIT

overview

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poweroutlet2/openground

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Openground is a tool for extracting framework and library documentation from official sources (sitemaps and git repos) and making it queryable by AI coding agents. It consists of.

not rated 55 6mo ago A 581 tokens original MIT

osp-rules

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amirkiarafiei/open-scholar-peer

Cursor rule Cursor

These rules apply automatically in any project where Open ScholarPeer is installed.

not rated 48 +1 changed 24d ago A 1,701 tokens original MIT

cursorrules

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sou350121/VLA-expert-skill

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This rule activates ONLY when you receive VLA-related questions (papers, methods, systems, industry trends, deployment).

not rated 46 +1 1mo ago A 753 tokens original MIT

b2b-lead-hunter

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xiongQvQ/-b2b-lead-hunter-skill

Cursor rule Cursor needs its repo

B2B Lead Hunter — evidence-backed foreign-trade lead research, DM discovery, outreach drafting, and controlled SMTP sending.

not rated 37 +1 4mo ago A 0 tokens original MIT

web-browsing

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Retio-ai/Retio-pagemap

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Best practices for web browsing, scraping, and page interaction with PageMap MCP tools. Attach when tasks involve navigating websites, extracting data, filling forms, or multi-page workflows.

not rated 36 5mo ago A 35 tokens

serenity-guidelines

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zongmin-yu/serenity-skills

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AI infrastructure and semiconductor supply chain analysis. Use when tracing hyperscaler AI capex, analyzing semiconductor/photonics/memory supply chains, mapping BOM dependencies for AI hardware, or finding bottleneck companies in AI buildout.

not rated 34 4mo ago A 44 tokens original MIT

deeptutor

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jiadizhunine/deeptutor

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DeepTutor - Academic advisor investigation and evaluation system with Web-Rooter integration for Chinese university access.

not rated 31 3mo ago A 354 tokens original MIT

dataprof

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AndreaBozzo/dataprof

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How to use dataprof for tabular data, data-quality checks, and drift investigations.

not rated 28 +1 changed 22d ago A 617 tokens original MIT

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