research
research is an agent skill published by mattpocock, listed under research. It lives in the mattpocock/skills repository, which has 303,549 GitHub stars and is licensed under MIT; we last read it on 2026-09-16.
This tool investigates a question using high-trust primary sources and records the findings in a Markdown file within the repository.
Install
skills is a generic installer for any repository of Claude agent skills -- it reads mattpocock/skills’s own structure rather than assuming one, the same way this page reads the skill’s own SKILL.md rather than assuming a format.
npx skills add mattpocock/skills
Maintenance
Investigate a question against high-trust primary sources and capture the findings as a Markdown file in the repo. Use when the user wants a topic researched, docs or API facts gathered, or reading legwork delegated to a background agent.
research compared with similar skills
| Skill | Publisher | What it does | Repo stars | Last update |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| research (this page) | mattpocock | Investigate a question against high-trust primary sources and capture the findings as a Markdown file in the… | 303,549 | 2026-10-22 |
| huggingface-paper-publisher | huggingface | Publish and manage research papers on Hugging Face Hub. Supports creating paper pages, linking papers to mode… | 11,213 | 2026-10-23 |
| huggingface-papers | huggingface | Look up and read Hugging Face paper pages in markdown, and use the papers API for structured metadata such as… | 11,213 | 2026-10-23 |
| amazon-alexa-qa | browser-act | Amazon Alexa for Shopping Q&A automation: submits questions to Amazon's Alexa/Rufus AI shopping assistant and… | 6,277 | 2026-08-24 |
| amazon-best-selling-products-finder-api-skill | browser-act | This skill helps users extract structured best-selling product data from Amazon via the BrowserAct API. Agent… | 6,277 | 2026-08-24 |
| amazon-competitor-analyzer | browser-act | Scrapes Amazon product data from ASINs using browseract.com automation API and performs surgical competitive… | 6,277 | 2026-08-24 |
| amazon-listing-competitor-analysis-skill | browser-act | This skill helps users analyze Amazon competitor listings by ASIN and produce structured competitive intellig… | 6,277 | 2026-08-24 |
Skills from the same repository first, then others for this job by repository stars. Figures are from each repository when we last read it.
Common questions about research
- What does research do?
- This tool investigates a question using high-trust primary sources and records the findings in a Markdown file within the repository.
- How do I install research?
- Run npx skills add mattpocock/skills. The skills installer reads the repository’s own structure, so it works for any repository of agent skills.
- Who publishes research?
- mattpocock.
- Is research maintained, and what licence does it use?
- Its repository has 303,549 GitHub stars and its state in our directory is listed. Its last commit we recorded was on 2026-10-22. The repository declares the MIT licence.
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