Research Claude Skills
2 269 research skills from 396 authors. They find sources and get you up to speed on unfamiliar ground. Half of them fit into 2 278 tokens or less — that is what one costs your context window when the agent loads it. 663 ship runnable scripts rather than instructions alone. 4 of them cannot work without an MCP server, most often rube. We also found 264 copies of these same skills sitting in other people's repositories — counted once here, not 264 times.
2 269 unique 396 authors 1 169 updated this month 93 from vendors
Use when a user needs distinct, feasible Research Architect research-question options from a raw topic, available materials, constraints, and—when available—transferable logic from a target reference paper.
Use when a Research Architect project needs accessible target-reference papers analyzed for transferable research logic, or candidate questions positioned against literature, gaps, evidence standards, and independent study options—not generic bibliography collection.
Use when a Research Architect project has an evidence-ready spine, evidence and claim trail, citation support, and adapted reference logic that need to become a field-appropriate first draft or an audited revision.
Use when a Research Architect project or existing draft needs claim-level literature support for background, positioning, methods, interpretation, limitations, or revision, rather than broad generic literature searching.
Use when executed research materials, results, observations, analyses, or draft claims need to become a Research Architect evidence bank, claim register, evidence-display plan, and bounded interpretation trail.
Use when a user needs the end-to-end Research Architect workflow to turn a raw idea, user-designated accessible target reference paper, partial research materials, results, or an existing draft into an auditable research plan, draft, or revision path.
Mine online communities and analyze existing assets to understand what customers actually think, say, and struggle with. Use when the user wants to do customer research, ICP research, voice-of-customer (VOC), review mining, Reddit mining, YouTube comment analysis, G2/Capterra scraping, build customer personas, map jobs to be done, understand churn reasons, or find authentic customer language for copy. Also use when given transcripts, surveys, or support tickets to synthesize.
Research Reddit discussions with high signal using scrape_reddit_leads and scrape_reddit — pain points, intent discovery, and trend tracking. Use when the user wants to mine subreddits for leads, find threads worth replying to, or track what a community says about a topic.
>- Create GEDCOM 5.5.1 compliant genealogy files from natural language, JSON, or markdown table input. Use when the user wants to generate a family tree interchange file from research data.
>- GPS-aligned genealogical research assistant for family history, ancestor research, record analysis, source-information-evidence classification, conflict resolution, citations, FAN research, privacy-sensitive document analysis, and proof statements, summaries, or arguments. Use for census, vital, probate, land, military, church, newspaper, DNA-plus-documentary, and other genealogy evidence tasks. Not for GEDCOM creation (use gedcom-creator), general history questions, DNA-kit shopping, or generic writing tasks.
Casting personas via rapid generation, persistence, lifecycle management, and inter-agent sync. Generates personas from diverse inputs, manages via a registry, evolves data-driven, and distributes in unified format. Use when creating, updating, or syncing personas across agents. Not for UI walkthroughs (Echo) or user research design (Field).
Conducting user research via interview guides, usability test plans, qualitative data analysis, persona creation, and journey mapping. Complements Echo's UI validation. Use when user research design or analysis is needed.
Collecting user feedback via NPS surveys, review analysis, sentiment analysis, feedback classification, and insight extraction reports. Use when establishing feedback loops.
Distill complex topics into layered, actionable summaries. Start with the key insight, layer in detail, end with recommended next action.
| Search CrossRef, OpenAlex, PubMed, Semantic Scholar, and optional Scopus; deduplicate results, download open-access PDFs by DOI, classify papers, monitor new results, and analyze coverage. Use when asked to search literature, monitor a topic, download an open-access paper, classify papers, or analyze literature gaps.
McKinsey顾问式问题解决系统。从商业问题出发,通过假设驱动的结构化分析方法,生成McKinsey风格研究报告和PPT。融合Problem Solving方法论、MECE原则、Issue Tree拆解、Hypotheses形成、Dummy Page设计、智能数据收集和专业PPT生成能力。
Multi-source deep research agent. Searches the web, synthesizes findings, and delivers cited reports.
Research a topic from the last 30 days on Reddit + X + Web, become an expert, and write copy-paste-ready prompts for the user's target tool.
Validate, clean, and audit academic references with OneCite from a local repository checkout. Use when a workflow needs deterministic citation verification, BibTeX cleanup, benchmark gating, or template discovery.
Use when the user needs multi-source research with citation tracking, evidence persistence, and structured report generation. Triggers on "deep research", "comprehensive analysis", "research report", "compare X vs Y", "analyze trends", or "state of the art". Not for simple lookups, debugging, or questions answerable with 1-2 searches.
Create research-backed product and technical solution plans from a user's requirement. Use when the user asks for detailed feasibility analysis, technology selection, architecture, implementation roadmap, library/vendor comparison, "解决方案", "技术方案", "产品方案", "选型", "调研分析", or a Lovstudio.ai / 手工川工作室 branded solution. Prioritize modern popular open-source DIY options over legacy libraries, from-scratch builds, commercial APIs, and commercial products.
DEFAULT for all research and web queries. Use for any lookup, research, investigation, or question needing current info. Fast and cost-effective. Only use parallel-deep-research if user explicitly requests 'deep' or 'exhaustive' research.
ONLY use when user explicitly says 'deep research', 'exhaustive', 'comprehensive report', or 'thorough investigation'. Slower and more expensive than parallel-web-search. For normal research/lookup requests, use parallel-web-search instead. Supports multi-turn: pass --previous-interaction-id from a prior research or enrichment to continue with context.
Discover entities (companies, people, products, etc.) matching a natural-language description. Use when the user asks to 'find all X' or 'list every Y that…' — e.g., 'Find AI startups that raised Series A in 2026', 'List roofing companies in Charlotte NC', 'Show me YC W24 dev tools companies'. Different from web-search (which returns webpages) and deep-research (which returns a narrative report). Use this when the user wants a structured list of entities.
Bulk data enrichment. Adds web-sourced fields (CEO names, funding, contact info) to lists of companies, people, or products. Use for enriching CSV files or inline data. Supports multi-turn: pass --previous-interaction-id from a prior research task to carry context forward.
Get completed research task result by run ID
Check running research task status by run ID
Batch download academic paper full-text (PDF/XML) from a list of DOIs. Handles 25 DOI prefixes across 19 publisher families via three layered routes: (1) publisher TDM APIs requiring institutional subscription (Elsevier ScienceDirect, Wiley Online, Springer Nature), (2) Open Access sources (Crossref, Unpaywall, OpenAlex), and (3) a browser-based fallback for paywalled publishers without TDM access (ACS, RSC, IEEE, AIP, IOP, APS, Annual Reviews, T&F, Chinese journals). Browser fallback offers two routes — Route A drives the user's logged-in Chrome via the OpenClaw `browser` tool with `profile="user"` (best for interactive sessions), Route B uses the standalone `auto-paper-harvester` CLI with its built-in Playwright (best for unattended bulk runs). Use when the user wants to harvest, scrape, fetch, or bulk-download papers from a DOI list, savedrecs export, or Excel; or wants to fill missing full-text PDFs for an existing literature collection. Triggers on phrases like "批量下载文献", "下载全文", "harvest papers", "scrape full text", "TDM API", "下载 Elsevier 全文", "Wiley 批量下载", "下载 PDF".
> Manages a Zotero academic reference library through both the local API using a structured collection hierarchy (Inbox / Active Projects / Background / Reading Queue / Archive / Meta) plus project, status, priority, and type tags. Handles adding papers with full metadata, deduplication, attaching provenance notes, moving items between collections, updating tags after reading, listing the prioritized reading queue, and setting up the literature scaffold for a new project. Use when the user asks to add / save / file / organize a paper in Zotero, check / list / clean up the reading queue, move papers between collections, tag papers for a project, query their library ("what do I have on X?"), or set up Zotero for a new research project.
> Conducts a systematic related-work / literature-survey / state-of-the-art review for a research question by defining survey dimensions, searching each axis, building a taxonomy of prior work, identifying the gap, and producing a positioning narrative for a paper's Related Work section. Goes beyond a flat paper list to deliver structured analysis. Use when the user is starting a new research project and needs to map the landscape, asks "what's been done on X?" or "how does my idea compare to existing work?", needs to write or revise a Related Work / Background / Prior Art section, wants to identify a research gap or position their contribution, or asks to build a taxonomy of approaches in a research area.
> Reads and analyzes academic papers (arXiv preprints, conference / journal standard read (10 min), or deep analysis (30 min). Produces structured digests covering problem, method, key innovation, results, limitations, reproducibility, hidden assumptions, and connections to the user's other work. Use when the user shares an arXiv link, PDF, or paper title and asks to read / summarize / digest / TL;DR / analyze / review / critique / explain / break down a paper, asks about a paper's contributions / methods / results / equations / figures, wants to compare two papers side by side, or needs a reading note for their records.
> Extracts paper recommendations from social-media posts and online articles (小红书 / Xiaohongshu / RedNote, 微信公众号 / WeChat Official Accounts, Twitter / X threads, Reddit posts, Bilibili videos, blog posts, newsletters, Jina Reader URLs), identifies the underlying academic papers, locates the authoritative original sources (arXiv, conference proceedings, DOI), and triages relevance to the user's research before any library action. Use when the user forwards a social-media link, screenshot, or article that mentions a paper / method / model, asks to "find the original paper" from a blog or thread, shares a 调研贴 / 论文推荐 / paper recommendation post, or wants to evaluate whether a buzz-worthy paper is worth reading before adding it to Zotero.
> Generates publication-quality academic figures (framework diagrams, pipeline illustrations, system architectures, method overviews) from a paper's method text and a target caption, using a local PaperBanana multi-agent pipeline (Retriever → Planner → Stylist → Visualizer → Critic).
> Searches and discovers academic papers across multiple sources (Semantic Scholar, arXiv, Tavily, Exa, Gemini deep research, AMiner, Google Scholar) with adaptive engine selection based on query type. Returns ranked, deduplicated results with metadata (authors, venue, year, citations, abstract, PDF link). Use when the user asks to find papers / literature / publications / preprints / references on a topic, search for related work, look up a specific paper by title or DOI or arXiv ID, find papers by an author, find recent SOTA / state-of-the-art work, survey a research area, or run a deep / comprehensive literature search with synthesis.
Convert stored Tapestry artifacts into higher-level synthesis. Use when a user wants interpretation, consolidation, research notes, or analysis built on top of an already-ingested URL or note.
Validate and iterate on the SDLC Layer Separation Architecture implementation across 6 check categories — cross-references, doc completeness, knowledge-explorer layer filters, research entry metadata, integration points, and plan consistency. Produces a structured findings report and optionally applies safe fixes. Use when validating a first-pass implementation, before claiming layer work complete, auditing layer docs or schema, or running --dry-run to preview findings without changes.
Verifies claims in backlog items, skill documentation, or plugin content against primary sources using web lookups. Spawns parallel verification agents that must use WebFetch/WebSearch/gh — training data recall is explicitly rejected as evidence. Produces VERIFIED/REFUTED/INCONCLUSIVE verdicts with citations. Use when items are marked UNVERIFIED or when verifying tool API claims, CLI flags, or documented software behavior.
Wraps investigation requests with evidence-chain discipline. Use when asked to find out why something happens, research a root cause, debug an issue, or investigate unexpected behavior. Transforms vague investigation requests into reproducible-proof investigations with a 5-step protocol — disambiguate, reproduce, read source, build evidence chain, present findings. Invoke with /find-cause followed by a description of what to investigate.
Bulk-refresh research entries in ./research/ using parallel research-curator agents. Use when /refresh-research is invoked, stale research needs updating, or bulk re-verification of research entries is requested. Inventories entries by review date and age, runs RT-ICA pre-flight, spawns agents in waves of 5, updates README and Freshness Tracking, lints and commits. Supports --all, --stale, --category, --layer, and --dry-run flags.
Orchestrate research entry lifecycle in ./research/ — create, batch-import, refresh stale entries, and validate structure. Use when asked to add a tool, research a URL, document a library, refresh research, validate entries, or given any tool or library URL. Supports --batch (parallel multi-URL), --rerun (refresh one or all entries), and --validate (structural check with auto-fix of error-severity issues).
Builds comprehensive Claude Code skills using parallel research agents — categorization, parallel documentation gathering, anti-hallucination checkpoints, and final validation. Use when building a skill from official docs, when "research for skill" or "create comprehensive skill" is requested, or when extensive multi-source documentation gathering is needed before skill creation.
Recipes and patterns for Claude Code multi-agent swarms. Use when building parallel specialist reviews, pipeline workflows, self-organizing swarms, research-then-implement flows, plan approval gates, coordinated multi-file refactoring, or any divide-and-conquer orchestration pattern requiring TeamCreate, TaskCreate, SendMessage, or Agent tool coordination.
Research community usage patterns, real-world gotchas, and client compatibility for a specific known library, tool, or protocol feature. Use when a technical-researcher orchestrator needs community-sourced evidence about a named library or feature — bug reports, workarounds, compatibility gaps, and patterns from issue trackers and discussions. Distinct from the broad ecosystem-researcher agent — this skill targets a KNOWN entity and mines what real users have actually experienced, not what exists in a domain.
Verify claims in backlog items, skill documentation, or plugin content against primary sources. Spawns parallel @dh:fact-checker agents using mcp__Ref, mcp__exa, mcp__context7 as primary tools — training data recall is rejected as evidence. WebFetch/WebSearch are last-resort fallbacks. Produces VERIFIED/REFUTED/INCONCLUSIVE verdicts with citations. Triggers on "fact check", "verify claims", "check against primary sources", or when backlog items are marked UNVERIFIED.
Wrap investigation requests with evidence-chain discipline. Use when the user asks to find out why something happens, look into something, research a root cause, debug an issue, or investigate unexpected behavior. Transforms vague investigation requests into reproducible-proof investigations. Invoke with /dh:find-cause <description of what to investigate>.
Use when SAM Stage 5 Execution has completed and task results need independent verification against acceptance criteria. Dispatches a separate reviewer agent to fact-check implementation outputs and returns COMPLETE or NEEDS_WORK with specific findings and remediation tasks.
Quantitative cost measurement for technical research — token injection costs, payload sizes, context window consumption, and file-level counts from actual repo files. Use when a technical-researcher orchestrator needs the cost dimension of adding or changing something: how many tokens will it inject, how big are the artifacts, what is the context window impact? This is NOT blast-radius analysis (which files break) — it covers size, tokens, and performance cost only.
Synthesis step in the multi-angle technical research pipeline. Receives structured outputs from all four research angles (api-state, ecosystem-research, impact-measurement, codebase-auditor), applies cross-angle signal weighting and conflict resolution, and produces a single synthesized Research section. Invoked by the technical-researcher orchestrator after all angle skills complete. Returns content to the orchestrator — does not write to the backlog.