Research Assistant

by rengwu

Research Assistant is an AI Engineering skill for Claude Code, published by rengwu in wayfinder-maps.

95 stars1 forkson rengwu/wayfinder-mapsAdded 2026/07/16+2% in starsRepository updated 2026/07/14

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Install Research Assistant

Copy Research Assistant 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/rengwu/wayfinder-maps/tree/main/skills/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/rengwu/wayfinder-maps.git

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

In this catalog

Source file: skills/research/SKILL.md in rengwu/wayfinder-maps
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/research
Collection: One of 14 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: AI Engineering — 3670 skills

What Research Assistant does

Investigates questions using high-trust primary sources and saves cited findings as a Markdown file. Ideal for researching topics, gathering docs or API facts, and delegating reading legwork.

Research Assistant is cataloged under AI Engineering on DirSkills. Research Assistant comes from a repository tagged agent-skills and go.

Documentation

README

From the original repository

If your environment supports background subagents, spin one up to do the research so you keep working while it reads. Otherwise, do the research yourself in this session.

The job:

Investigate the question against primary sources — official docs, source code, specs, first-party APIs — not a secondary write-up of them. Follow every claim back to the source that owns it.
Write the findings to a single Markdown file, citing each claim's source.
Save it where the repo already keeps such notes; match the existing convention. If there is no convention, save to .plan/research/<slug>.md and say where.

Frequently asked about Research Assistant

What else does rengwu publish alongside Research Assistant?
Research Assistant is one of 14 skills that DirSkills catalogs from rengwu/wayfinder-maps, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Codebase Design, Domain Modeling and Grill Me. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Research Assistant does, and is maintained by rengwu in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the rengwu/wayfinder-maps page.
How does Research Assistant compare to other AI Engineering skills?
Research Assistant ranks #3474 by stars among the 3670 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 Research Assistant against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.