Rylai Codex-Hermes-Claude Edition | Original portable workflow by Rylai
Runtime Compatibility
- Codex: install under
~/.agents/skills/deep-research. - Hermes: install under
~/.hermes/skills/deep-researchor expose the bundle throughskills.external_dirs. - Claude Code: install under
~/.claude/skills/deep-researchor<project>/.claude/skills/deep-research. - Claude.ai and Cowork: upload and enable the matching per-skill ZIP.
- Resolve bundled files relative to this skill directory; do not depend on paths from another machine.
- Check tools, packages, credentials, network access, and runtime capabilities before execution.
Portable Deep Research
Produce a source-backed answer to a question that genuinely needs multi-source research.
Workflow
- Define the research question, scope, date boundary, audience, and decision the report should support.
- Break the question into independent sub-questions and identify preferred primary sources.
- Search broadly, then open and inspect the most relevant sources.
- Use parallel research agents only when the runtime exposes delegation and the subtasks are independent.
- Build an evidence table containing claim, source, date, confidence, and contradiction notes.
- Triangulate important claims and explain disagreements instead of silently selecting one source.
- Synthesize the answer with citations attached to the claims they support.
- State unresolved gaps, stale evidence, and inference separately from verified fact.
Boundaries
- Ask a clarification question only when ambiguity materially changes the research result.
- Never invent a citation, quote, URL, statistic, publication date, or source conclusion.
- For current topics, verify freshness at execution time.