How do I install the Research skill?

Run npx skillmds@latest add jackwener/research in your terminal (requires Node.js), paste this page's agent-chat prompt into Claude, Cursor, or any MCP-connected agent, or download the SKILL.md file and copy it into your agent's skills directory.

Is Research safe to use?

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Which AI agents work with Research?

This skill is tagged as working with Claude Code, Claude.ai, OpenAI Codex. SKILL.md is an open format, so most agents that read a skills directory can load it too.

Is Research free to use?

Yes. Installing skills from SkillMD is free, and the skill stays under its author's original license.

Who published Research?

jackwener (@jackwener) published this skill. Their other Agent Skills are listed on their SkillMD profile.

Research by jackwener — Agent Skill

Name: Research
Author: jackwener

Research

Research a topic for an LLM Wiki vault. Use whenever the user invokes `/research`, asks for a sourced deep dive beyond the current wiki, or asks to discover external sources and integrate the resulting knowledge into the wiki.

jackwener 1057443 2.0 KB Updated Sep 17, 2026

File contents

Research for an LLM Wiki

Research fills a scoped gap in the wiki, then preserves the evidence and its useful conclusions. It combines query, source collection, and ingestion.

Workflow

Read wiki-purpose.md and wiki-schema.md; decline or narrow requests outside the vault's scope.
Run the query workflow first to determine what is known and define a precise research question.
Gather 5–10 high-quality sources. Prefer primary materials, official documentation, papers, and authoritative recent analysis. Seek independent confirmation for important claims.

Save each collected source under sources/YYYY-MM-DD/ before analysis. Include provenance when creating a research note:

---
title: Source Title
url: https://original-url
author: Author Name
date: YYYY-MM-DD
retrieved: YYYY-MM-DD
type: article | paper | documentation | blog | video-transcript
---

Treat files in sources/ as immutable after saving.

Apply the ingest workflow to each source: update focused, attributable wiki pages and add wikilinks rather than compiling a detached report only.

Present a final report with this structure:

## Research Report: Topic
### Question
### Findings
### Sources Added
### Wiki Pages Created/Updated
### Remaining Gaps

Create a query-synthesis page only when the cross-source conclusion is genuinely new and well supported. Then append a research entry to wiki-log.md and run llm-wiki sync.

Guardrails

Keep the research question bounded; list tangents as follow-ups.
Attribute every material claim to saved sources or cited wiki pages.
Flag outdated evidence for fast-moving topics.
Never invent a source, citation, or conclusion.

---name: researchdescription: Research a topic for an LLM Wiki vault. Use whenever the user invokes `/research`, asks for a sourced deep dive beyond the current wiki, or asks to discover external sources and integrate the resulting knowledge into the wiki.---# Research for an LLM WikiResearch fills a scoped gap in the wiki, then preserves the evidence and itsuseful conclusions. It combines query, source collection, and ingestion.## Workflow1. Read `wiki-purpose.md` and `wiki-schema.md`; decline or narrow requests outside the vault's scope.2. Run the `query` workflow first to determine what is known and define a precise research question.3. Gather 5–10 high-quality sources. Prefer primary materials, official documentation, papers, and authoritative recent analysis. Seek independent confirmation for important claims.4. Save each collected source under `sources/YYYY-MM-DD/` before analysis. Include provenance when creating a research note: ```yaml --- title: Source Title url: https://original-url author: Author Name date: YYYY-MM-DD retrieved: YYYY-MM-DD type: article | paper | documentation | blog | video-transcript --- ``` Treat files in `sources/` as immutable after saving.5. Apply the `ingest` workflow to each source: update focused, attributable wiki pages and add wikilinks rather than compiling a detached report only.6. Present a final report with this structure: ```markdown ## Research Report: Topic ### Question ### Findings ### Sources Added ### Wiki Pages Created/Updated ### Remaining Gaps ```7. Create a query-synthesis page only when the cross-source conclusion is genuinely new and well supported. Then append a `research` entry to `wiki-log.md` and run `llm-wiki sync`.## Guardrails- Keep the research question bounded; list tangents as follow-ups.- Attribute every material claim to saved sources or cited wiki pages.- Flag outdated evidence for fast-moving topics.- Never invent a source, citation, or conclusion.

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