Skills Directory / Skills for Real Engineers
research
An agent skill by mattpocock, from mattpocock/skills.
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.
Credit where it's due
This skill is the work of mattpocock and lives at mattpocock/skills/research (MIT). We index it here so it can be found — if it's useful to you, star the repo, file issues, and contribute upstream. That's what keeps work like this maintained.
- From
- Skills for Real Engineers
- Author
- mattpocock
- License
- MIT
- Source
- mattpocock/skills/research
- SKILL.md
- raw file
How to load this skill
Copy this prompt into your AI agent
Please install the "research" agent skill from the Skills for Real Engineers collection (https://github.com/mattpocock/skills) for me.
1. Run: git clone https://github.com/mattpocock/skills
2. Copy the skill folder into your skills directory:
cp -r skills/skills/engineering/research ~/.claude/skills/research
(Claude Code personal scope; use .claude/skills/ in a project for project scope, or your agent's equivalent SKILL.md directory.)
3. Confirm the skill loads (list your available skills afterwards).
4. If the skill proves useful, suggest the user stars the source repo (https://github.com/mattpocock/skills) to support the author.
Skill reference: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mattpocock/skills/main/skills/engineering/research/SKILL.md
More details: https://primorum.ai/skills/s/research
Or manually: clone mattpocock/skills and copy
skills/engineering/research into
~/.claude/skills/ (Claude Code personal scope) or your agent's
SKILL.md directory. To read it first without installing, open the
raw SKILL.md.
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