Investigative Research

Investigative Research is a Writing skill for Claude Code, published by revfactory in harness-100.

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Install Investigative Research

Copy Investigative 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/revfactory/harness-100/tree/main/en/09-documentary-research/.claude/skills/investigative-research ~/.claude/skills/investigative-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/revfactory/harness-100.git

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

In this catalog

Source file: en/09-documentary-research/.claude/skills/investigative-research/skill.md in revfactory/harness-100
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/investigative-research
Collection: One of 51 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Writing — 1012 skills

What Investigative Research does

Investigative Research guides source collection, reliability scoring, triangulation, and bias analysis for fact-checking and verification work. Use it when gathering evidence, comparing sources, or documenting research for documentaries and similar projects.

Investigative Research is cataloged under Writing on DirSkills.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Investigative Research — Investigative Research Methodology

Specialized knowledge used by the researcher and fact-checker agents when investigating and verifying materials for documentaries.

Why Systematic Research Is Needed

A documentary's credibility depends on the depth and accuracy of its research. A single incorrect statistic can undermine the entire program's trust. There is a fundamental difference between "casually searching and using" versus "verifying at investigative journalism standards."

Source Collection Hierarchy: PRIMA Framework

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

Frequently asked about Investigative Research

What else does revfactory publish alongside Investigative Research?
Investigative Research is one of 51 skills that DirSkills catalogs from revfactory/harness-100, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Ad Copywriting Formulas, Advertising Campaign and Argumentation Framework. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Investigative Research does, and is maintained by revfactory in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the revfactory/harness-100 page.
How does Investigative Research compare to other Writing skills?
Investigative Research ranks #386 by stars among the 1012 Writing skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Article Writing, Social Media Content Calendar and Knowledge Comic Creator. 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 Investigative Research against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.