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Best Research agent skills

Gathering and synthesising information from literature, papers, datasets and the open web. The 12 highest-ranked of the 12 agent skills tagged Research in the Onei AI catalogue.

Everything tagged Research: apps, skills and MCP servers Best Research AI tools (apps), ranked

  1. by Oldcircle

    Find where a photo was taken: EXIF, OCR, OpenStreetMap, skyline and satellite matching, with coordinates, error radius and evidence images.

    Also: Python · Editor's pick · Copied 416 times

  2. by Tencent

    Tencent's skill-evolution harness: it rewrites a whole skill folder — SKILL.md, scripts and references together — and lands every decision as a real Git issue, PR and wiki entry you can review.

    Editor's pick

  3. by Bo

    Multi-source academic literature search as an agent skill — OpenAlex, Semantic Scholar, CrossRef, PubMed and arXiv at four depths, from a 5-minute scan to a PRISMA-S logged systematic review.

    Also: Literature Review · Copied 1 time

  4. by Hugging Face

    Read-only recipes for the Hugging Face Dataset Viewer API — resolve splits, paginate rows, run text search and row filters, and pull parquet URLs and column statistics.

    Also: API, Python · Copied 1 time

  5. by Cheng-I Wu

    A four-skill bundle that runs the academic pipeline end to end — deep research, paper writing, peer review and revision — as multi-agent workflows inside Claude Code.

    Also: Literature Review

  6. by tigerless-labs

    A decision board for contested calls: feed your agent papers and half-formed ideas, and it files them into a traceable sources → ideas → output structure you can defend, with a visual canvas over the markdown.

    Also: Literature Review

  7. by NVIDIA

    Turns a plain-language weather question into a working Earth2Studio inference script — picks the AI forecast model, a compatible data source, an IO backend, and the step count.

    Also: Python

  8. by Brave

    Brave's official search skill: one CLI that searches, scrapes and extracts in a single call, returning token-budgeted web content instead of a list of links.

    Also: Web Search

  9. by Brave

    Brave's official skill for the Brave Search API — ranked web results with snippets and thumbnails, freshness and SafeSearch filters, search operators, pagination, and Goggles for custom ranking.

    Also: API, Web Search

  10. by SerpApi

    SerpApi's official skill for structured search: which of 130+ engines to call for citations, local businesses, flights, hotels, shopping or jobs, which response key holds the answer, and the gotchas that silently return the wrong field.

    Also: API, Web Search

  11. by Anthropic

    Anthropic's official skill that appends 2-3 targeted follow-up questions to a substantive answer, prompting the reader to check facts, probe assumptions and spot missing context.

  12. by Enrico Frumento

    Forensic single-image geolocation: builds competing place hypotheses, verifies them across independent evidence, falsifies the runner-up and only names an exact spot after a strict gate.

    Also: Python

How this list is ranked

Ranked by 20 points for an editor's pick, plus 4 points per copy of the install command or SKILL.md up to 10, plus a point per 5 page views up to 100; ties go to the most recently updated. Discontinued skills are never ranked.

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