Preliminary Research

by Weizhena

Preliminary Research is an Automation skill for Claude Code, published by Weizhena in Deep-Research-skills.

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Install Preliminary Research

Copy Preliminary 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/Weizhena/Deep-Research-skills/tree/master/skills/research-en/research ~/.claude/skills/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/Weizhena/Deep-Research-skills.git

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

In this catalog

Source file: skills/research-en/research/SKILL.md in Weizhena/Deep-Research-skills
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/research
Collection: One of 13 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Automation — 1523 skills

What Preliminary Research does

Preliminary Research builds an initial research framework from model knowledge, supplements it with web search, and generates outline.yaml and fields.yaml to guide deeper research.

Preliminary Research is cataloged under Automation on DirSkills. Preliminary Research comes from a repository tagged claude-code, claude-code-skills, deep-research-agent, gpt-skills and llm-agent.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Main research objects/items list in this domain
Suggested research field framework

Output {step1_output}, use AskUserQuestion to confirm:

Need to add/remove items?
Does field framework meet requirements?

Step 2: Web Search Supplement

Use AskUserQuestion to ask for time range (e.g., last 6 months, since 2024, unlimited).

Parameter Retrieval:

{topic}: User input research topic
{YYYY-MM-DD}: Current date
{step1_output}: Complete output from Step 1
{time_range}: User specified time range

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

Commands Preliminary Research provides

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

/research
/research-add-items
/research-add-fields
/research-deep

Frequently asked about Preliminary Research

What else does Weizhena publish alongside Preliminary Research?
Preliminary Research is one of 13 skills that DirSkills catalogs from Weizhena/Deep-Research-skills, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Research, Research and Research Add Fields. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Preliminary Research does, and is maintained by Weizhena in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the Weizhena/Deep-Research-skills page.
How does Preliminary Research compare to other Automation skills?
Preliminary Research ranks #512 by stars among the 1523 Automation skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Autonomous Loops, Autonomous Agent Harness and Automation Audit Ops. 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 Preliminary Research against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.