Research Methodology

Research Methodology is an AI Engineering skill for Claude Code, published by VAMFI in claude-user-memory.

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Install Research Methodology

Copy Research Methodology 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/VAMFI/claude-user-memory/tree/main/.claude/skills/research-methodology ~/.claude/skills/research-methodology

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/VAMFI/claude-user-memory.git

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

In this catalog

Source file: .claude/skills/research-methodology/skill.md in VAMFI/claude-user-memory
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/research-methodology
Collection: One of 5 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: AI Engineering — 3101 skills

What Research Methodology does

Research Methodology guides version-aware documentation lookup before implementation. It helps when Claude needs authoritative API details, current docs, or migration info instead of relying on stale memory.

Research Methodology is cataloged under AI Engineering on DirSkills. Research Methodology comes from a repository tagged agent-orchestration, ai-agents, ai-coding-assistant, autonomous-agents and claude-ai.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Research Methodology Skill

This skill provides a systematic methodology for conducting rapid, accurate documentation research to ground implementations in truth rather than potentially stale LLM memory.

When Claude Should Use This Skill

Claude will automatically invoke this skill when:

User mentions implementing/using a specific library or API
User asks about current documentation for a technology
User requests verification of API signatures or methods
Task requires external dependencies or third-party integrations
Updating/upgrading to new versions of frameworks

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

Frequently asked about Research Methodology

What else does VAMFI publish alongside Research Methodology?
Research Methodology is one of 5 skills that DirSkills catalogs from VAMFI/claude-user-memory, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Context Engineering, Pattern Recognition and Planning Methodology. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Research Methodology does, and is maintained by VAMFI in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the VAMFI/claude-user-memory page.
How does Research Methodology compare to other AI Engineering skills?
Research Methodology ranks #2793 by stars among the 3101 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 Methodology against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.