research: Claude Code skill

What it does

Sends a background agent to read primary sources and write the findings to a file.

The description Claude matches your request against: 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.

When to use it

You need facts from docs or APIs and don't want to wait while they're gathered.

How to start it

Automatic, or /research

Claude loads it by itself when your request matches, so you rarely need the command. The suggester plugin also points it out when it fits.

Install

research is part of the planning plugin. Install just that plugin in Claude Code:

/plugin marketplace add iatee/claude-skills
/plugin install planning@iatee-skills
/reload-plugins

Or install the whole collection:

/plugin marketplace add iatee/claude-skills
/plugin install all@iatee-skills
/reload-plugins

New to this? Using skills explains what a skill is and how installing works.

Credit

Made by Matt Pocock, licensed MIT. Claude Skills is an unofficial, personal collection, not affiliated with or endorsed by Anthropic.

More in the planning plugin

• council: Seven expert personas debate a question, then give a verdict with risks and next steps.
• domain-modeling: Builds a shared vocabulary for a project in CONTEXT.md and records decisions as ADRs.
• grill-me: Starts a grilling interview about whatever you describe.
• grill-with-docs: Grilling that also writes down the decisions as a glossary and ADRs in your repo.
• grilling: The interview engine behind grill-me: relentless questions, in rounds, until the plan has no gaps.
• prototype: Builds a throwaway prototype, of the logic or of a UI, to answer one design question.
• setup-matt-pocock-skills: One-time setup for a repo: issue tracker, triage labels, where docs live.
• to-questionnaire: Turns open questions into a questionnaire someone else can fill in.
• to-spec: Turns the conversation so far into a written spec on your issue tracker.
• to-tickets: Splits a plan or spec into small tickets, each saying what it waits on.
• triage: Sorts incoming issues and pull requests, checks them, and writes agent-ready briefs.
• wayfinder: Maps a huge, unclear project as decision tickets and resolves them one by one.

All skills in the catalog