Research skills

18,540 tagged Research, measured the same way as everything else here.

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competitor-analysis

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firecrawl/web-agent

Skill Claude CodeCodex

Compare two or more companies, products, or platforms across pricing, features, positioning, and docs. Use this skill whenever the user says "compare X vs Y", "how does X stack up against Y", "alternatives to X", "competitive landscape of …", "X vs Y vs Z", or asks for a competitor matrix. Uses search to discover…

not rated 1.2k 2d ago A SkillSpector: pass 108 tokens original MIT

x-research

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rohunvora/x-research-skill

Skill Claude CodeCodex

General-purpose X/Twitter research agent. Searches X for real-time perspectives, dev discussions, product feedback, cultural takes, breaking news, and expert opinions. Works like a web research agent but uses X as the source. Use when: (1) user says "x research", "search x for", "search twitter for", "what are people…

not rated 1.2k +5 8mo ago A 193 tokens

front-tech-map

99

wanxingai/LightAgent

Skill Claude CodeCodex

A research workflow for mapping the origins and development of an emerging technology field. It links academic research, open-source projects, companies, and founding teams into a visual technology map and written report.

not rated 1.2k +3 24d ago A SkillSpector: pass 114 tokens original Apache-2.0

seller-research

100

cinderline/northcinder

Skill Claude CodeCodex

Use when researching a merchant, storefront, marketplace seller, or merchant of record for a buying decision, especially when identity, refund terms, fulfillment, counterfeit risk, domain history, or independent buyer outcomes are uncertain.

not rated 1.2k 2mo ago A SkillSpector: pass 46 tokens original MIT

deep-research

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199-biotechnologies/claude-deep-research-skill

Skill Claude CodeCodex

Use when the user needs multi-source research with citation tracking, evidence persistence, and structured report generation. Triggers on "deep research", "comprehensive analysis", "research report", "compare X vs Y", "analyze trends", or "state of the art". Not for simple lookups, debugging, or questions answerable…

not rated 1.2k +9 6mo ago A 77 tokens

cass

102

Dicklesworthstone/coding_agent_session_search

Skill Claude CodeCodex

Coding Agent Session Search - unified CLI/TUI to index and search local coding agent history from Claude Code, Codex, Gemini, Cursor, Aider, ChatGPT, Pi-Agent, Factory, and more. Purpose-built for AI agent consumption with robot mode.

not rated 1.2k +7 changed 1mo ago A 54 tokens

survey-methodology

103

Muuuun/luxas

Skill Claude Code

Plan-time methodology contract for survey/review/report projects. Forces an audit-grade survey instead of a paper-trust summary. Distilled from 240 reviews (2024-2026) across 9 domain clusters — physics/RMP/Living Reviews, chemistry/materials, biology/medicine narrative + Cochrane SRs, CS/ML/AI, math/Acta Numerica…

not rated 1.2k 5d ago A SkillSpector: pass 161 tokens original MIT

ds-idea

104

OpenLAIR/dr-claw

Skill Claude CodeCodex

Use when a quest needs concrete hypotheses, limitation analysis, candidate directions, or a selected idea relative to the active baseline.

not rated 1.2k +6 1mo ago A SkillSpector: pass 28 tokens

btca-local

105

davis7dotsh/better-context

Skill Claude CodeCodex

Invoke this skill when the user says "use btca".

not rated 1.2k +1 6mo ago A Socket: passSnyk: pass 16 tokens copy · 100% MIT

PostHog/posthog.com

Skill Claude Code

Internal scout for PostHog's own project. Once a day it picks one to three recent inbox reports that ended in useful work, either a merged pull request in a public PostHog repository or a resolved change that needed no code (a scout that fixed its own instructions, a dashboard tile, an alert), rewrites each for a…

not rated 1.2k +3 yesterday A 205 tokens

scansci-pdf

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Rimagination/scansci-pdf

Skill Claude CodeCodex

Use this skill whenever the user wants to download academic papers, search for research literature, get citations (BibTeX/RIS/EndNote), manage WebVPN institutional proxy for paper access, import .bib files, or batch-download papers. This skill orchestrates the scansci-pdf MCP server which exposes 18 high-level tools…

not rated 1.2k +21 changed 2d ago A SkillSpector: pass 200 tokens original MIT

verification-agent

108

MoizIbnYousaf/ai-agent-skills

Skill Claude CodeCodex

Verify claims, quotations, citations and references against live primary sources, and produce a reproducible audit record instead of an assertion. Use when asked to: check whether a quotation, verse, statistic, date, attribution or citation is accurate; verify references before publishing a report, thesis, article…

not rated 1.2k +2 1mo ago A 255 tokens original MIT

youtube-search

109

ZeroPointRepo/youtube-skills

Skill Claude Code

Use when the user wants to find YouTube content on any topic: searching for videos or channels, finding creators who cover a subject, discovering tutorials, talks, or expert discussions, or looking up a channel by name or handle. Also use proactively when the user wants to research a topic and YouTube is a good…

not rated 1.1k +32 changed 1mo ago A Socket: failSnyk: warnSkillSpector: pass 78 tokens original MIT

bilibili-cli

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public-clis/bilibili-cli

Skill Claude CodeCodex

A command-line skill for Bilibili, a Chinese video-sharing platform. It retrieves videos, user profiles, searches, trending content, subtitles, favorites, and supported interactions in machine-readable output.

not rated 1.1k +34 7mo ago A 51 tokens original Apache-2.0

first-customer-finder

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Kappaemme-git/codex-first-customer-finder-skill

Skill Codex

Find evidence-backed potential first customers, beta users, or design partners from public demand signals. Use for product-specific prospect research, qualified shortlists, source-grounded outreach drafts, and follow-up searches refined by the user's feedback and local prospect history. Does not send outreach…

not rated 1.1k +14 changed 1mo ago A SkillSpector: pass 61 tokens original MIT

distill-concept-books

112

xuzhougeng/wisp-science

Skill Codex

A workflow for turning books about concepts, theories, or analysis methods into reusable task instructions. It scans document images, links claims to evidence, and checks the result through human review.

not rated 1.1k +9 yesterday A SkillSpector: pass 210 tokens AGPL-3.0

tikhub-skill

113

zeenie-ai/OpenCompany

Skill Claude Code

Scrape TikTok, Douyin, Instagram, YouTube, Twitter/X, Xiaohongshu, Bilibili, Kuaishou, Weibo, Reddit, Threads, LinkedIn and more through the TikHub pay-per-request API - discover endpoints, call them by id, parse any share URL, and check account balance.

not rated 1.0k +24 changed 1mo ago A SkillSpector: warn 74 tokens original MIT

vault-normalizer

114

poco-ai/Agentero

Skill Claude CodeCodex

Normalize an existing research directory into an Agentero vault layout. Use when reorganizing files, papers, notes, PDFs, TeX sources, marks, assets, attachments, or legacy Zotero/Obsidian-style folders to match Agentero directory and catalog conventions.

not rated 1.0k +52 changed 1mo ago A SkillSpector: warn 57 tokens original MIT

cnki-advanced-search

115

cookjohn/cnki-skills

Skill Claude Code

An advanced search tool for CNKI, a Chinese academic database. It filters academic results by fields such as author, title, journal, date, and source category.

not rated 1.0k +16 7mo ago A Socket: passSnyk: warn 50 tokens

x-tweet-fetcher

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ythx-101/x-tweet-fetcher

Skill Claude CodeCodex

Fetch tweets, replies, timelines, search results, X Lists, and X Articles from X/Twitter without login or API keys. Single tweets: zero dependencies (FxTwitter). Timelines/search/replies: a Nitter instance (XTFNITTER). Lists/Articles: a browser driver (Camofox or Playwright). Unified JSON schema across all backends…

not rated 992 +6 11d ago A 123 tokens original MIT

ai-compass

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tingaicompass/AI-Compass

Skill Codex

Search and answer questions from the local AI-Compass AI knowledge base. Use when the user asks about AI models, tools, agents, RAG, multimodal systems, evaluation, learning paths, project resources, or recent AI developments covered by this repository; distinguish weekly updates from long-term topic knowledge…

not rated 988 +5 changed 6d ago A 75 tokens

video

118

runesleo/x-reader

Skill Claude CodeCodex

Transcribe and summarize video or podcast links, including YouTube, Bilibili, X video, Xiaoyuzhou, Apple Podcasts, and direct media URLs.

not rated 970 +3 2d ago A 35 tokens original MIT

citorigin

119

e10nMa2k/cc-mini

Skill Claude Code

Run, inspect, and explain CitOrigin evidence-to-claim audit workflows.

not rated 969 +3 4mo ago A 19 tokens

octocode-benchmark

120

bgauryy/octocode

Skill Claude CodeCodex needs its repo

Use when planning, running, grading, or reporting the by-hand Octocode research benchmark — pairwise matchups (Octocode anchor vs one baseline: gh+RTK, gh+Headroom, or plain gh) over markdown questions, with a fresh isolated runner agent per (question, arm, pass), one blind judge per question grading two answers X/Y…

not rated 955 +5 3d ago A SkillSpector: warn 117 tokens original MIT

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