About research
A repository research skill that delegates investigation to a background agent while work continues, or runs the research directly when invoked by a subagent. It focuses on primary sources and saves cited findings as a Markdown note following the repository’s AGENTS.md conventions.
Key features
- 01Background-agent research
- 02Primary-source verification
- 03Cited Markdown findings
- 04Repository note placement
Use cases
- 01Researching a technical question while other work continues
- 02Recording source-backed findings in a repository
Install
Copy the command and run it in a terminal.
$
npx skills add https:/After installing, type/researchin Claude Code to confirm it loaded.
Bundled filesagents/openai.yamlapm.yml
Details
From the project READMESpin up a background agent to do the research, so you keep working while it reads. When you are already a subagent, do the research yourself with the same job.
Its job:
- Investigate the question against primary sources (official documentation, source code, specifications, first-party APIs), not a secondary write-up of them. Follow every claim back to the source that owns it.
- Write the findings to a single Markdown file, citing each claim's source.
- Save it where the repository already keeps such notes, as
AGENTS.mdnames them; match the existing convention. If there is none, put it somewhere sensible, say where, and add one line to the nearestAGENTS.mdsaying what the notes hold and when to read them.
Comments
Markdown supported