Research
Research tools and academic skills
3205 skills in this category
Subcategories
new-youtube-video-skill
Creates a new YouTube video project with comprehensive research, competitor analysis, folder structure, and todo.md for progress tracking. Uses Playwright MCP to fetch vidIQ stats, analyze competitors, and gather research automatically. Use when starting a new YouTube video, saying "new video", "start a video project", or "I want to create a YouTube video".
dapr-middleware-validator
Automatically validate DAPR HTTP middleware configuration files. Checks for correct middleware types, proper secret references, pipeline ordering, and security best practices. Use when configuring OAuth2, Bearer tokens, OPA policies, rate limiting, or other middleware.
sinusitis-care
Expert sinusitis consultant. IMMEDIATELY search 10+ authoritative sources (UpToDate, AAO-HNS, EPOS, Mayo, PubMed/PMC, Cleveland Clinic, Hopkins, Springer, NORD, ENT Today, USA Sinus) for ANY sinus question. Use WebFetch to read sources deeply. Mark uncertainty explicitly.
component-research
This skill should be used when the user asks to "evaluate if TBC covers a use case", "decide which TBC component to use", "check if a TBC template fits", "research TBC capabilities", "find the right TBC template", "analyze if custom step is needed", "compare TBC templates", or needs to determine whether To-Be-Continuous framework components can solve a CI/CD requirement before generating configuration.
ui-ux-designer
Modern UI/UX design specialist for web applications, mobile apps, and design systems. Covers design principles, user research, interaction patterns, accessibility (WCAG), responsive design, component libraries (Tailwind, shadcn/ui, Material), prototyping, and usability testing. Creates beautiful, functional interfaces following best practices.
model-discovery
Fetch current model names from AI providers (Anthropic, OpenAI, Gemini, Ollama), classify them into tiers (fast/default/heavy), and detect new models. Use when needing up-to-date model IDs for API calls or when other skills reference model names.
Confidence Check
Pre-implementation confidence assessment (≥90% required). Use before starting any implementation to verify readiness with duplicate check, architecture compliance, official docs verification, OSS references, and root cause identification.
factory-status
Get comprehensive factory status - research progress, drill status, inventory, production overview. Use when checking progress or deciding what to do next.
analyzing-implementations
Documents HOW code works with surgical precision - traces data flow, explains implementation details, provides file:line references. Purely documentarian, no critiques or suggestions for improvement.
google-gemini-file-search
Build document Q&A and searchable knowledge bases with Google Gemini File Search - fully managed RAG with automatic chunking, embeddings, and citations. Upload 100+ file formats (PDF, Word, Excel, code), configure semantic search, and query with natural language. Use when: building document Q&A systems, creating searchable knowledge bases, implementing semantic search without managing embeddings, indexing large document collections (100+ formats), or troubleshooting document immutability errors (delete+re-upload required), storage quota issues (3x input size for embeddings), chunking configuration (500 tokens/chunk recommended), metadata limits (20 key-value pairs max), indexing cost surprises ($0.15/1M tokens one-time), operation polling timeouts (wait for done: true), force delete errors, or model compatibility (Gemini 2.5 Pro/Flash only).
sales-prospect-research
Research and identify target companies matching ICP observable characteristics using web search, score against ICP criteria, output prioritized prospect list. Use when you need to find and qualify potential customers.
research
Web research skill for augmenting agent context with current information. Used when outdated information could lead to broken implementations or wasted effort.
codex
Use when the user asks to run Codex CLI (codex exec, codex resume) or references OpenAI Codex for code analysis, refactoring, or automated editing. Uses GPT-5.1-Codex by default for state-of-the-art software engineering.
intelligent-do
Context-aware task execution with Serena MCP backend. First time: Explores project, saves to Serena, runs spec if complex, executes waves. Returning: Loads from Serena (<1s), detects changes, executes with cached context. Intelligently decides when to research, when to spec, when to prime. One catch-all intelligent execution command. Use when: User wants task executed in any project (new or existing).
evidence-judge
Validate claims against sources and score confidence; use when asked to verify research output accuracy.
working-with-sqlite
Preferences and tricks for working with SQLite databases
working-with-resources
Work with Resource datasets (mutable state tracking) using OPAL temporal joins. Use when you need to enrich Events/Intervals with contextual state information, track resource state changes over time, or navigate between datasets using temporal relationships. Covers temporal join mechanics (lookup, join, follow), automatic field matching, and when to use Resources vs Reference Tables.
marketing-experimentation
Systematic marketing experimentation process - discover concepts, generate hypotheses, coordinate multiple experiments, synthesize results, generate next-iteration ideas through rigorous validation cycles
exa-tools
Executes Exa AI search queries via unified Python CLI. Use when searching the web for current information, finding code examples, researching APIs, SDKs, or retrieving programming context for any library or framework.
synthesis-theme-find
Identify unifying concepts and common threads that run through multiple observations or ideas, useful for making sense of diverse feedback, understanding what really matters, or finding the signal in noise. Use when: (1) explicit request to identify patterns or themes that unify diverse observations, (2) numerous qualitative observations need analysis for what recurs across them, (3) deciding priorities requires understanding what concerns keep appearing across stakeholders, (4) multiple sources describe situations using different terms but may share underlying patterns.