Category: Productivity
Research
Investigates a question against high-trust primary sources and captures findings in Markdown.
Works with
What it does
- Spin up a background agent to do the research, so you keep working while it reads. Start it with a fresh context window.
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- Write the findings to a single Markdown file, citing each claim's source.
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- 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.
When to use it
Investigates a question against high-trust primary sources and captures findings in Markdown.
How to install
- Run the command below in your terminal. Pick the agents you use (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, Copilot, and more) and it installs into the right folder.
npx skills add https://github.com/mattpocock/skills --skill research
- To install manually, download the
researchskill folder from the GitHub repository and copy it into your agent's skills folder, such as~/.claude/skills/or.cursor/skills/. - Ask your agent for a related task and the skill is used automatically.