research

An agent skill by mattpocock, from mattpocock/skills. Tags: analysis, api, documentation, markdown, research.

What it does

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.

Install

With the skills CLI, which installs into Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and other agents:

npx skills add mattpocock/skills --skill research

Or copy the skill folder into Claude Code's skills directory by hand (~/.claude/skills for every project, or .claude/skills inside one):

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mattpocock/skills
cp -r skills/skills/engineering/research ~/.claude/skills/research

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Source

Repository

mattpocock/skills (all skills from this repository)

Path

skills/engineering/research/SKILL.md

Branch

main

Updated

2026-10-05

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