Research Questions

by sterlingcrispin

Research Questions is a Writing skill for Claude Code, published by sterlingcrispin in claude_slash_commands.

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Install Research Questions

Copy Research Questions 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/sterlingcrispin/claude_slash_commands/tree/main/researchquestions ~/.claude/skills/researchquestions

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/sterlingcrispin/claude_slash_commands.git

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

In this catalog

Source file: researchquestions/SKILL.md in sterlingcrispin/claude_slash_commands
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/researchquestions
Collection: One of 11 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Writing — 1227 skills

What Research Questions does

Research Questions writes structured question-only prompt documents for deep technical investigation. Use it when you need a markdown research brief that frames the problem, context, and key questions without answering them.

Research Questions is cataloged under Writing on DirSkills. Research Questions comes from a repository tagged claude-skills and codex-skills.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Research

Write a research prompt document — a structured set of questions designed to guide deep technical investigation of a domain. The output is a markdown file that can be fed to an AI (or used by the agent itself) for thorough research.

You are writing QUESTIONS, not answers. Do not research the topic yourself. Do not include findings, recommendations, or pre-baked conclusions. The entire point is to produce a document that drives research — not to do the research.

Workflow

Step 1: Understand the Topic

Ask the user what they want to research if it's not clear. Understand:

What are they trying to build or decide?
What do they already have? (Existing code, tools, context)
What's the pain point driving this research?
How far does it need to scale?

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

Frequently asked about Research Questions

What else does sterlingcrispin publish alongside Research Questions?
Research Questions is one of 11 skills that DirSkills catalogs from sterlingcrispin/claude_slash_commands, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Audit Handoff, Checkpoint and Codex Audit. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Research Questions does, and is maintained by sterlingcrispin in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the sterlingcrispin/claude_slash_commands page.
How does Research Questions compare to other Writing skills?
Research Questions ranks #1039 by stars among the 1227 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 Questions against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.