research
Investigate a question against high-trust primary sources and capture the findings as a Markdown file in the repo.
Skill by toverux
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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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Files it touches
~/.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 (2)
- SKILL.md
- openai.yaml · agents/
SKILL.md (first lines)
Spin up a **background agent** to do the research, so you keep working while it reads (Claude Code: do not use `run_in_background: false`). Start it with a fresh context window. 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. 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 toverux/cantrips, MIT.
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- 0.606score
review-gate
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The review gate — effort-scaled, multi-angle review of the working diff or the changes since a fixed point, every finding independently verified.
SkillAFreshness: A★ 3Claude Code +9 - 0.604score
compound
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Capture this session's durable learnings and route each to the right knowledge store, every write gated on the user or their deputy.
SkillAFreshness: A★ 3Claude Code +9 - 0.601score
simplify
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Optional pre-review quality pass — preserving fixes through the reuse, simplification, and efficiency lenses.
SkillAFreshness: A★ 3Claude Code +9 - 0.601score
compound-refresh
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Garbage-collect the knowledge stores — audit AGENTS.md, and docs/solutions/ where that store is enabled, against the current code.
SkillAFreshness: A★ 3Claude Code +9 - 0.601score
commit
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Scan the session for compound-worthy learnings, then commit the working tree with a repo-appropriate, value-communicating message.
SkillAFreshness: A★ 3Claude Code +9 - 0.600score
sync-upstream
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Reconcile this repo's forked skills with a new upstream release.
SkillAFreshness: A★ 3Claude Code +9 - 0.598score
setup-cantrips-loop
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Configure this repo's cantrips loop — knowledge stores and storage backend — by writing docs/agents/cantrips-loop.md.
SkillAFreshness: A★ 3Claude Code +9 - 0.598score
implement
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Implement a spec or a single ticket, driving TDD at the seams agreed in the spec.
SkillAFreshness: A★ 3Claude Code +9 - 0.596score
deputy
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Engage a stand-in that answers every later round, gate and closing in your place for the rest of the session, handing back only the decisions you kept, or…
SkillAFreshness: A★ 3Claude Code +9 - 0.590score
afk
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Keep the session's prompt cache warm while you step away.
SkillAFreshness: A★ 3Claude Code +9 - 0.584score
diagnosing-bugs
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Diagnosis loop for hard bugs and performance regressions.
SkillAFreshness: A★ 3Claude Code +9 - 0.579score
codebase-design
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Signals
- Stars
- 3
- Forks
- 0
- Open issues
- 0
- Last commit (this folder)
- Sep 1, 2026 (1 month ago)
- Last release
- Oct 18, 2026 (12 days ago)
From GitHub (fetched Oct 24, 2026).
Details
- License
- MIT
- Repository
- github.com/toverux/cantrips
- First seen
- Oct 24, 2026
- Last checked
- Oct 24, 2026
- Source
- GitHubgithub-graphql
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- 0.606score
review-gate
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The review gate — effort-scaled, multi-angle review of the working diff or the changes since a fixed point, every finding independently verified.
SkillAFreshness: A★ 3Claude Code +9 - 0.604score
compound
toverux
Capture this session's durable learnings and route each to the right knowledge store, every write gated on the user or their deputy.
SkillAFreshness: A★ 3Claude Code +9 - 0.601score
simplify
toverux
Optional pre-review quality pass — preserving fixes through the reuse, simplification, and efficiency lenses.
SkillAFreshness: A★ 3Claude Code +9 - 0.601score
commit
toverux
Scan the session for compound-worthy learnings, then commit the working tree with a repo-appropriate, value-communicating message.
SkillAFreshness: A★ 3Claude Code +9 - 0.601score
compound-refresh
toverux
Garbage-collect the knowledge stores — audit AGENTS.md, and docs/solutions/ where that store is enabled, against the current code.
SkillAFreshness: A★ 3Claude Code +9 - 0.600score
sync-upstream
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Reconcile this repo's forked skills with a new upstream release.
SkillAFreshness: A★ 3Claude Code +9
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research skill. Agent Mart. https://agentmart.dev/skills/toverux-research (last updated 2026-10-24)