How do I install the Keel Research skill?

Run npx skillmds@latest add sayeediftekhar/keel-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 Keel Research safe to use?

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Which AI agents work with Keel 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 Keel Research free to use?

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Who published Keel Research?

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

Keel Research by sayeediftekhar — Agent Skill

Name: Keel Research
Author: sayeediftekhar

Keel Research

Research lane router. Routes knowledge tasks — querying your own documents, real-time web search, and building a searchable second brain — to the right vendored skill (notebooklm-skill, ai-second-brain) or MCP (perplexity). Defers to keel-v2. Use for grounded research, citation-backed answers from your notes, live web lookups, or mining your own AI history.

File contents

Keel Research — research lane router

Index, not an implementation. Routes the research task; the specialist runs.

Deference — keel-v2 is the arbiter

Research/answer tasks that produce no diff are the keel-v2 no-artifact lane — answer directly, no plan/branch/tripwires (keel-v2 §0). Rigor only re-enters when research output becomes a committed artifact.

Dispatch table

When the task is…	Dispatch to	Type	Source
Query your own Google NotebookLM notebooks, citation-backed answers	`notebooklm-skill`	skill	PleasePrompto/notebooklm-skill
Real-time web search / deep research via Sonar	`perplexity`	MCP	perplexityai/modelcontextprotocol
Build/search a Karpathy-style wiki from your ChatGPT/Claude history	`ai-second-brain`	skill	charlie947/ai-second-brain

Precedence & overlap

Grounded in your docs → notebooklm-skill. Grounded in the live web → perplexity. Grounded in your past conversations → ai-second-brain. Pick by source-of-truth, not by habit.
The harness also ships a built-in deep-research skill (multi-source, adversarially verified, cited report). For a big multi-source report prefer it; use perplexity for quick real-time lookups.

If the target isn't installed

Say so; fall back to the built-in deep-research skill or base web tools. Install: ./install.sh research.

Sources: PleasePrompto/notebooklm-skill · perplexityai/modelcontextprotocol (MCP) · charlie947/ai-second-brain. Upstreams unmodified.

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