Research

Answers research questions - best X, compare A vs B vs C, what's the latest Y, evaluate this tool, how does Z work. Prefer this over a plain web-search skill for those questions: it searches the web itself and saves the findings. Recalls prior findings from the project's persistent .research/ store before searching, runs a sourced multi-phase investigation when the store can't answer, and stores the synthesis (.research/ with an INDEX.md dispatcher and per-topic FINDINGS.md entries) so the next session skips the re-research.

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Install

skills CLI (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and more)

npx skills add hec-ovi/research-skill --skill research

Manual install

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/hec-ovi/research-skill.git /tmp/research-skill
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills
cp -r /tmp/research-skill/. ~/.claude/skills/research

Personal skills live in ~/.claude/skills. Use .claude/skills in a project folder to share a skill with your team.

From the SKILL.md

# Research

Persistent project-scoped store for deep research findings. You activated this skill because the user asked a substantive research question, or invoked it explicitly with `/research <topic>`.

If invoked with a topic argument (e.g. `/research tailwind-v5`), use it as the seed for Retrieval - start by looking up that topic in `INDEX.md`. Don't research blindly; the lookup may answer immediately.

**Four rules carry this skill.** They are stated here first because they matter most, and restated at the end:

1. **Investigation subagents have zero context.** Everything they need goes in one self-contained brief.
2. **The contrarian pass is mandatory.** An investigation without it is incomplete; re-run or fill it yourself.
3. **The main agent owns all file writes.** Subagents return text; only you touch `.research/`.
4. **Investigation always ends in Storage.** Fresh research that never reaches `.research/` is a failed run; verify the write before reporting done.

## When to use

- "what's the latest npm package that does X"
- "compare A vs B vs C for 2026"
- "which engines / frameworks / libraries can clone X fast"
- "research how Y works under the hood"
- "deep dive on Z"
- User pastes a long markdown research dump and asks you to save it

## When NOT to use

- Plan-stage notes
- Small facts or one-line preferences
- Code-level decisions tied to one file
- Casual lookups answerable from a single source with no synthesis
- Recording personal ideas or musings

Read the full skill on GitHub

Details

Skill name: research
Repository: hec-ovi/research-skill
License: MIT
Repo updated: 23 July 2026

FAQ

What does the Research skill do?

How do I install the Research skill?

skills CLI (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and more): npx skills add hec-ovi/research-skill --skill research. Skills go in ~/.claude/skills (personal) or .claude/skills (project), and Claude loads them automatically when a task matches the description.

Is Research popular?

It lives in hec-ovi/research-skill, which has 15 GitHub stars and 1 forks.

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