Auto Research

Auto Research is an AI Engineering skill for Claude Code, published by huytieu in COG-second-brain.

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Install Auto Research

Copy Auto Research into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/huytieu/COG-second-brain/tree/main/skills/auto-research ~/.claude/skills/auto-research

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/huytieu/COG-second-brain.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: skills/auto-research/SKILL.md in huytieu/COG-second-brain
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/auto-research
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: AI Engineering — 2451 skills

What Auto Research does

Auto Research decomposes a strategic question into parallel research threads and synthesizes findings into actionable analysis. Use it for market, competitive, or technology questions that need evidence from multiple sources.

Auto Research is cataloged under AI Engineering on DirSkills. Auto Research comes from a repository tagged agent-loop, agent-plugins, agent-skills, agentic and ai-agents.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

COG Auto Research Skill

When to Invoke

User asks a strategic question requiring deep research
User says "research", "auto-research", "investigate", "strategic analysis", "deep dive into [topic]"
User wants to understand market forces, competitive dynamics, technology trajectories, or strategic options
User needs evidence-based analysis with real sources to support decision-making

Inspired by Karpathy's autoresearch — but for strategic thinking instead of ML training.

Agent Mode Awareness

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Commands Auto Research provides

Slash commands named in this skill’s SKILL.md, listed in the order they first appear.

/auto-research

Frequently asked about Auto Research

What else does huytieu publish alongside Auto Research?
Auto Research is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from huytieu/COG-second-brain, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Braindump, Closed-Loop Execute and Comprehensive Analysis. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Auto Research does, and is maintained by huytieu in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the huytieu/COG-second-brain page.
How does Auto Research compare to other AI Engineering skills?
Auto Research ranks #1467 by stars among the 2451 AI Engineering skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Architecture Decision Records, AI-First Engineering and Agentic OS. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Auto Research against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.