🦌 DeerFlow Built-in Skills Guide

DeerFlow ships with 21 ready-to-use skills covering academic research, data analysis, content creation, and more. Each skill is an independent .skill package that the Agent loads automatically based on your needs.

How Skills Are Invoked

Skills are invoked on-demand automatically — you don’t need to manually specify which skill to use. Just express your needs, and the Agent will match and load the most appropriate skill.

Auto-trigger Flow


Your question → Agent understands intent → Matches skill description → Loads skill

Examples:

“Analyze this Excel file” → triggers data-analysis
“Search for latest papers on Transformers” → triggers deep-research
“Chart this data” → triggers chart-visualization

Manual Trigger

Method	Description
Explicit	Say “use deep-research skill to…”
Discover	Say “find a skill for [your need]” → triggers `find-skills`
Install	Agent will ask to install when a matching skill is found

Skill Directory

📚 Academic & Research

deep-research — Multi-angle deep web research
academic-paper-review — Single paper peer review
systematic-literature-review — Multi-paper systematic review

📊 Data Analysis

data-analysis — Excel/CSV data analysis
chart-visualization — 26 chart types

💼 Business & Consulting

consulting-analysis — Professional consulting reports
newsletter-generation — Newsletters & digests

💻 Development & Design

code-documentation — Code documentation generation
frontend-design — Frontend UI design
github-deep-research — GitHub repo analysis
web-design-guidelines — UI standards review
vercel-deploy-claimable — One-click Vercel deploy

🎨 Creative & Content

image-generation — AI image generation
video-generation — AI video generation
ppt-generation — PowerPoint generation
podcast-generation — Text-to-podcast

🔧 System & Meta Skills

skill-creator — Create custom skills
find-skills — Discover new skills
bootstrap — New user onboarding
claude-to-deerflow — Cross-platform interop
surprise-me — Creative showcase

academic-paper-review

Structured peer-review-quality analysis of academic papers. Follows standards from NeurIPS, ICML, ACL, Nature, IEEE.

Trigger: Paper URL, PDF upload, “review this paper”, “analyze this research”

Capabilities:

Structured review: summary, strengths, weaknesses, methodology
Literature positioning via targeted search
Methodology assessment (experimental design, reproducibility)
Full review + executive summary formats

Tips: URL-based papers work better than uploads. Ask for focus areas like “focus on methodology”.

bootstrap

New user onboarding skill. Guides first-time users through DeerFlow setup and records preferences in SOUL.md.

Trigger: First use, “set up my preferences”

Tips: Say “re-onboard me” to reconfigure. Preferences persist in SOUL.md.

chart-visualization

Intelligently converts data into visualizations. Auto-selects from 26 chart types and renders as images.

Trigger: “visualize this data”, “chart this”, data analysis requests

Supported types: Bar, Line, Pie, Scatter, Area, Boxplot, Radar, Heatmap, Funnel, Sankey, Fishbone, Flow, Map, Treemap, Wordcloud, and more.

Tips: Provide structured data (CSV/JSON) for best results. Specify chart type if desired.

claude-to-deerflow

Bridges Claude/other Agents with DeerFlow via HTTP API for deep research delegation.

Trigger: Cross-agent collaboration, delegating research tasks

Capabilities: Create/manage threads, send messages, query models/skills/agents, manage memory, upload files.

code-documentation

Generates professional documentation for code, APIs, libraries, and projects.

Trigger: “document this code”, “create a README”, “generate API docs”

Outputs: README, API references, inline comments, architecture docs, CHANGELOG, developer guides.

Tips: Upload full repos for best results. Specify format: “JSDoc format”, “Chinese docs”.

consulting-analysis

Two-phase professional report generation: (1) analysis framework, (2) final report with charts and insights.

Trigger: Market analysis, competitive intelligence, investment due diligence

Tips: Review phase 1 output before proceeding to phase 2. Combine with deep-research for best results.

data-analysis

Full data analysis on Excel (.xlsx/.xls) and CSV files with multi-sheet support.

Trigger: File upload + “analyze this data”

Capabilities: Aggregation, filtering, pivot tables, multi-table JOINs, SQL queries, CSV/JSON/Markdown export.

deep-research

Most commonly used skill. Systematic multi-angle web research replacing basic web searches.

Trigger: ANY question requiring online information

Capabilities: Multi-round auto-search, cross-source validation, structured reports.

Tips: Default skill for information lookup. Specify scope for focused results.

find-skills

Discovers and installs agent skills from the ecosystem.

Trigger: “find a skill for X”, “how do I do X”

Tips: Use this when the Agent can’t do something — there might be a skill for it.

frontend-design

Creates distinctive, production-grade frontend interfaces avoiding generic AI aesthetics.

Trigger: “build a website”, “design a dashboard”, UI requests

Tips: Provide reference styles. Iterate with “move nav to left”, “dark mode”.

github-deep-research

Multi-round deep research on any GitHub repository with structured Markdown reports.

Trigger: GitHub repository URL

Report includes: Executive summary, timeline, metrics, Mermaid diagrams.

image-generation

AI image generation with structured prompts and reference image support.

Trigger: “generate an image of…”

Tips: Be specific in prompts. Provide reference images for style guidance.

Generates newsletters, email digests, weekly roundups, and industry briefings.

Trigger: “create a newsletter about X”

Tips: Specify audience tone. Combine with deep-research for latest content.

podcast-generation

Converts text content into two-host conversational podcast audio.

Trigger: “turn this into a podcast”

Tips: Research content first with deep-research, then convert to podcast.

ppt-generation

Generates PowerPoint presentations from text with auto-generated slide images.

Trigger: “create a presentation about X”

Tips: Research first, then generate. Specify style: “investment deck”, “academic”.

skill-creator

Meta-skill for creating, editing, evaluating, and optimizing other skills.

Trigger: “create a skill for X”, “optimize this skill”

Capabilities: Create .skill packages, run evals, benchmark with variance analysis.

Tips: Good description = better triggering. Clear steps = better execution.

surprise-me

Creatively combines enabled skills for unexpected, delightful experiences.

Trigger: “surprise me”, “show me something interesting”

systematic-literature-review

Multi-paper systematic review with APA, IEEE, or BibTeX format output.

Trigger: Literature survey, annotated bibliography across multiple papers

Note: Use academic-paper-review for single paper analysis.

vercel-deploy-claimable

Deploys apps and websites to Vercel without authentication.

Trigger: “deploy my app”, “push this live”

Note: Claim your deployment link promptly to prevent others from claiming it.

video-generation

AI video generation with structured prompts and reference images.

Trigger: “generate a video about…“

web-design-guidelines

Reviews UI code against accessibility and design best practices.

Trigger: “review my UI”, “check accessibility”

Checks: WCAG compliance, design consistency, UX patterns, responsiveness, performance.

Installation

Skills are auto-loaded from the configured directory:


skills:
  directories:
    - ./skills/public

Discover community skills by saying “find a skill for [your need]”. Create custom skills using the skill-creator.