research
Investigate a question against high-trust primary sources and capture the findings as a Markdown file in the repo.
Skill by michielvandermeer
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Use cases: documents, backend, research, agent-building
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What this skill can do and what it asks for, from its SKILL.md. Checked Oct 25, 2026.
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~/.claude/skills/research
What's inside
- Skill name
research- Description
- Investigate a question against high-trust primary sources and capture the findings as a Markdown file in the repo. Use when the user wants a topic researched, docs or API facts gathered, or reading legwork delegated to a background agent.
- License
- MIT
- Instructions
- 9 lines in SKILL.md · view on GitHub
Files (1)
- SKILL.md
SKILL.md (first lines)
Spin up a `skills:researcher` **background agent** to do the research, so you keep working while it reads. Give it the absolute path of [`technical-writing/SKILL.md`](../technical-writing/SKILL.md) — `/technical-writing` does not load as a skill. Its job: 1. Investigate the question against **primary sources** — official docs, source code, specs, first-party APIs — not a secondary write-up of them. Follow every claim back to the source that owns it. 2. Write the findings to a single Markdown file, citing each claim's source. Read `technical-writing/SKILL.md` at that path first and follow it — the file outlives the question, so it holds the durable-document bar. 3. Save it where the repo already keeps such notes; match the existing convention, and if there is none, put it somewhere sensible and say where.
From michielvandermeer/skills, MIT.
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Signals
- Stars
- 9
- Forks
- 0
- Open issues
- 8
- Last commit (this folder)
- Oct 16, 2026 (14 days ago)
From GitHub (fetched Oct 24, 2026).
Details
- License
- MIT
- Repository
- github.com/michielvandermeer/skills
- First seen
- Oct 24, 2026
- Last checked
- Oct 24, 2026
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- GitHubgithub-graphql
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research skill. Agent Mart. https://agentmart.dev/skills/michielvandermeer-research (last updated 2026-10-24)