Research

Research is a Writing skill for Claude Code, published by stevesolun in ctx.

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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/stevesolun/ctx/tree/main/.agents/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/stevesolun/ctx.git

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

In this catalog

Source file: .agents/skills/research/SKILL.md in stevesolun/ctx
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/research
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Writing — 1012 skills

What Research does

Research investigates questions using primary sources, traceable citations, and date-aware verification. Use it for current docs, API facts, source checks, or evidence-backed comparisons.

Research is cataloged under Writing on DirSkills. Research comes from a repository tagged agents, ai-agents, anthropic, automation and claude.

Documentation

README

From the original repository

Research

Clarify the decision or question the research must support. Prefer official documentation, source code, specifications, papers, and first-party APIs. Trace material claims to the source that owns them, distinguish source facts from inference, and account for publication and event dates when recency matters.

Use parallel research lanes only when the question has independent source areas and the coordination cost is worthwhile. Keep narrow lookups local.

Return findings in the form the user requested, with citations close to the claims they support. Create a repository artifact only when requested or when it clearly serves the task and is within the authorized scope.

Frequently asked about Research

What else does stevesolun publish alongside Research?
Research is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from stevesolun/ctx, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Ask Matt, Code Review and Codebase Design. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Research does, and is maintained by stevesolun in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the stevesolun/ctx page.
How does Research compare to other Writing skills?
Research ranks #691 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 Research against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.