Research with Sources

Research with Sources is a Writing skill for Claude Code, published by inkeep in open-knowledge.

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Install Research with Sources

Copy Research with Sources 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/inkeep/open-knowledge/tree/main/packages/server/assets/skills/packs/knowledge-base/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/inkeep/open-knowledge.git

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

In this catalog

Source file: packages/server/assets/skills/packs/knowledge-base/research/SKILL.md in inkeep/open-knowledge
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/research
Collection: One of 18 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Writing — 1012 skills

What Research with Sources does

Research with Sources investigates a topic against preserved sources and writes a draft-status research article under research/ in a knowledge base. Use it when asked to research a topic, compare options, synthesize sources, gather evidence, or extend an existing research doc.

Research with Sources is cataloged under Writing on DirSkills. Research with Sources comes from a repository tagged 2nd-brain, agent-skills, claude, codex and company-brain.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Research — gather sources and write provisional findings

This skill is pack guidance. The platform /open-knowledge skill (read/write/preview/linking/grounding rules) still governs every markdown operation — this layers the procedure on top.

Conduct evidence-driven research on a topic and produce a provisional research article under research/. Provisional, not canonical: research articles capture findings, trade-offs, and open questions at a point in time. They are promoted to canonical articles via the /consolidate-notes skill only when decisions solidify.

The content directory is the resolved content.dir — read it with config({ key: 'content.dir' }) if you don't already know it. Paths below are relative to it.

Three paths

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

Commands Research with Sources provides

Slash commands named in this skill’s SKILL.md, listed in the order they first appear.

/open-knowledge
/consolidate-notes

Frequently asked about Research with Sources

What else does inkeep publish alongside Research with Sources?
Research with Sources is one of 18 skills that DirSkills catalogs from inkeep/open-knowledge, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Codebase Wiki, Consolidate Notes and Frame a Proposal. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Research with Sources does, and is maintained by inkeep in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the inkeep/open-knowledge page.
How does Research with Sources compare to other Writing skills?
Research with Sources ranks #187 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 with Sources against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.