Research

Research is an AI Engineering skill for Claude Code, published by study8677 in repobrain.

1.3K stars265 forkson study8677/repobrainAdded 2026/08/20Repository updated 2026/08/14

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Install in seconds

Install Research

Copy 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/study8677/repobrain/tree/main/engine/repobrain_engine/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/study8677/repobrain.git

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

In this catalog

Source file: engine/repobrain_engine/skills/research/SKILL.md in study8677/repobrain
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/research
Collection: One of 6 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: AI Engineering — 2451 skills

What Research does

Research performs deep research on a topic by simulating a multi-step research process and returning a comprehensive result. Use it when an agent needs to investigate a subject thoroughly.

Research is cataloged under AI Engineering on DirSkills. Research comes from a repository tagged agents-sdk, ai-agent, claude-code, code-intelligence and code-search.

Documentation

README

From the original repository

deep_research(topic: str) -> str: Performs a simulated comprehensive research task.

Frequently asked about Research

What else does study8677 publish alongside Research?
Research is one of 6 skills that DirSkills catalogs from study8677/repobrain, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Agent Repo Init, Agent Repository Init and Agent Workspace Init. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Research does, and is maintained by study8677 in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the study8677/repobrain page.
How does Research compare to other AI Engineering skills?
Research ranks #1102 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 Research against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.