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evidence-synthesis-forge

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Orchestrates systematic reviews, scoping reviews, evidence maps, meta-analyses, umbrella reviews, and AI-assisted evidence synthesis. Use when designing protocols, eligibility criteria, search strategies, screening workflows, coding manuals, effect-size plans, synthesis reports, or reproducible evidence-review packages.

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environment-life-review-forge

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Adapts evidence synthesis workflows for environmental, ecological, biomedical, and life-science questions. Use for PECO/PICO frameworks, exposure-outcome reviews, ecological heterogeneity, dose-response evidence, risk-of-bias planning, environmental indicators, NDVI or vegetation-index models, partial least squares regression, PLS VIP audits, ecosystem-service relationships, ESR synergy/trade-off mapping, interpretable machine learning, GWR/XGBoost spatial modeling, threshold-oriented ecological management, optimal interval identification, air pollution crop-yield models, ozone/aerosol food-security co-benefits, SIF-based crop productivity, soil biodiversity, aridity gradients, ecosystem stability, climate-stress moderation, soil fauna meta-analysis, ant-mediated carbon cycling, SOC and CO2 dual-outcome synthesis, organism/tissue/time-scale coding, wetland methane scaling, small-patch geospatial upscaling, cryosphere or permafrost evidence products, near-surface ground ice mapping, geospatial environmental ma

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meta-analysis-forge

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Designs and audits first-order meta-analyses of primary studies. Use for effect-size extraction, effect-size harmonization, fixed/random/multilevel models, robust variance estimation, heterogeneity, prediction intervals, meta-regression, publication-bias diagnostics, sensitivity checks, coding sheets, reproducible meta-analysis reports, ecological meta-analysis, ecological meta-analysis plus random forest or path modeling, soil-carbon meta-analysis, stock-versus-flux outcome separation, and trait-mediated moderator design.

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umbrella-review-skeptic

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Reviews umbrella reviews and second-order meta-analyses. Use when synthesizing existing systematic reviews/meta-analyses, assessing primary-study overlap, duplicate evidence, review quality, AMSTAR/ROBIS-style concerns, discordant conclusions, temporal second-order meta-regression, ecosystem-service trade-offs, and whether review-level statistical pooling is defensible.

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prediction-modeling-forge

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Builds and audits tabular-data prediction-model workflows for research papers. Use for clinical, environmental, biological, social-science, environmental-economics, or economics prediction models; tidymodels, random forest, XGBoost, logistic-regression baselines, partial least squares regression, PLS VIP, NDVI or environmental indicator models, enterprise carbon-emission forecasting, stable time-series prediction, causal-invariant prediction, distribution shift, cross-region/cross-industry/cross-policy validation, train/test splits, cross-validation, hyperparameter tuning, ROC/AUC, calibration, decision-curve analysis, bootstrap uncertainty, confidence intervals, prediction bands, variable importance, leakage checks, and manuscript-ready methods/results language.

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sustainability-assessment-forge

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Builds and audits sustainability-assessment workflows for research papers and emerging technologies. Use for life cycle assessment, LCA, life cycle inventory, LCIA framing, techno-economic analysis, TEA, CAPEX and OPEX review, minimum selling price, levelized cost logic, uncertainty analysis, sensitivity analysis, scenario design, process comparison, scale-up realism, commercialization readiness, electrochemical process papers, catalytic systems, carbon management, circular-economy technologies, agriculture and bioresource process assessment, biomass conversion, agricultural residues, waste-to-value systems, anaerobic digestion, digester microbiome-metabolome systems, biorefineries, fertilizer substitution, electricity-mix assumptions, coproduct treatment, functional units, system boundaries, burden shifting, safe-boundary framing, policy-portfolio comparison, and manuscript-ready sustainability interpretation.

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econ-identification-skeptic

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Acts as a skeptical applied-economics identification reviewer. Use when evaluating DID, IV, RDD, event-study, panel fixed effects, synthetic control, matching, or causal ML designs; auditing robustness checks; preparing referee-style critiques; assigning causal-credibility verdicts; or strengthening the identification section of an empirical economics paper.

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empirical-research-forge

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Orchestrates bilingual empirical research workflows from research question to reproducible paper package. Use when writing, reviewing, replicating, or packaging empirical economics/social-science papers; designing DID, IV, RDD, event-study, panel, synthetic-control, matching, or causal ML workflows; auditing tables and identification claims; checking method-source alignment; or turning research practice into reusable agent skills.

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SkillMD is not just a keyword search box. It is an open map that organizes public skills by occupation, creator, and repository, helping you see which workflows, judgment criteria, and domain habits people are writing for AI agents.

Then follow creators and GitHub repositories back to the source: compare the skills a team maintains, whether the repo is active, and how the README frames the work before you open, install, or reuse anything.

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SEO KNOWLEDGE HUB & TECHNICAL OVERVIEW

Standardizing Agent Capabilities with SKILL.md and Model Context Protocol (MCP)

In the rapidly evolving landscape of artificial intelligence, LLM agents (Large Language Model agents) have transitioned from simple text predictors to autonomous problem solvers. To orchestrate complex, multi-step agentic workflows, developers require a standardized format to specify agent capabilities, prompt instructions, system rules, and database bindings. This is where SKILL.md and the Model Context Protocol (MCP) have emerged as standard developer paradigms. SkillMD serves as the central directory for indexing, exploring, and sharing these critical agent configurations.

Our open-source registry currently tracks over 1.7 million collected SKILL.md configurations and system prompts. By compiling agent configurations from active developers on GitHub, we bridge the gap between prompt engineering research and production execution. Whether you are building agents with Anthropic's Claude Code, OpenAI's GPT-4, Google's Gemini, or local models using Ollama and LlamaIndex, standardized skill definitions ensure your agents behave predictably across different runtime environments.

What is the Model Context Protocol (MCP)?

The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is an open-source standard designed to connect LLMs to data sources, developer tools, and external environments. MCP establishes a bidirectional communication channel between client applications (like Cursor, Claude Desktop, or custom agent systems) and servers hosting data or capabilities. Standardizing instructions via SKILL.md enables LLMs to query databases, read local files, execute terminal commands, and integrate third-party APIs. SkillMD allows you to find ready-to-run MCP servers and prompt instructions for various occupations and technical tasks.

The Structure of a Professional SKILL.md File

A valid SKILL.md configuration is designed to be easily read by humans and parsed by LLMs. It contains precise system instructions, trigger conditions, required parameters, and execution examples. Below is the typical architectural blueprint of a professional agent skill:

  • Metadata & Core Scope: Declares the name of the skill, author details, target models, and a description of the capability.
  • Triggers & Intent Detection: Details semantic triggers that help the agent decide when to invoke this skill.
  • System Prompts: Explicit system-level instructions that direct the agent's behavior, personality, safety guardrails, and formatting preferences.
  • Capabilities & Tools: Lists the files, databases, or APIs the agent must access to complete the tasks.
  • Few-Shot Examples: Demonstrates real inputs and outputs, helping the model generalize behavior through in-context learning.

Optimizing Agent Workflows for Modern LLMs

Writing effective agent skills requires deep knowledge of prompt engineering. With the release of advanced reasoning models like Claude 3.5 Sonnet, ChatGPT o1, and DeepSeek-V3, prompt templates must focus on structured thinking. Developers are encouraged to use XML tags (e.g., <thought>, <context>, and <rules>) to isolate execution boundaries. Standardized prompts prevent agents from suffering from context drift, ensuring that long-running tasks remain aligned with the initial system parameters.

Exploring by SOC Occupations and Creator Profiles

What makes SkillMD unique is its taxonomy. Instead of simple text search, we parse and organize files according to the Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. This means you can discover skills written for Computer and Mathematical roles, Business and Financial operations, Legal, Design, and and Educational Instruction fields. By tracking creator profiles, developers can study how different teams organize their custom instructions, compare version updates, and fork public configs for specialized enterprise use cases.

SkillMD operates as a high-performance index running on a fast Go backend and a highly responsive Astro SSR frontend. All search queries execute in milliseconds, featuring smart debouncing to prevent multiple API requests while keeping user data secure. Join our community of developers to standardize your AI agent instructions and optimize your LLM prompting workflows today.

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A practical guide to agent skills: what they are, how to inspect them, and how SkillMD helps you explore the ecosystem.