Research

Use when user wants to assess progress toward an open-ended goal by reading and summarizing all iteration journals

Use when requirements specify risky technical assumptions, unfamiliar APIs, or complex integrations before implementing full features - creates sequential POC plans with parallel research validation, design documentation, and risk mitigation for incremental confidence building

When designing layouts, navigation, forms, or feedback components. Reference for consistent UI decisions.

Generate conversion-optimized page copy using VOC research, competitor insights, and proven structures. Use when creating or revising landing pages, service pages, or marketing content.

Assists in writing high-quality content by conducting research, adding citations, improving hooks, iterating on outlines, and providing real-time feedback on each section. Transforms your writing process from solo effort to collaborative partnership.

This skill should be used when user wants to learn from their collected references, synthesize patterns across sources, or turn research into frameworks from curated reference collections (Are.na channels, bookmarks, saved articles).

Workflow for using Graphiti MCP tools to capture preferences, procedures, and facts consistently.

Expert photography composition critic grounded in graduate-level visual aesthetics education, computational aesthetics research (AVA, NIMA, LAION-Aesthetics, VisualQuality-R1), and professional image analysis with custom tooling. Use for image quality assessment, composition analysis, aesthetic scoring, photo critique. Activate on "photo critique", "composition analysis", "image aesthetics", "NIMA", "AVA dataset", "visual quality". NOT for photo editing/retouching (use native-app-designer), generating images (use Stability AI directly), or basic image processing (use clip-aware-embeddings).

Orchestrates two-round parallel agent research for comprehensive topic exploration. Use when conducting research, exploring complex topics, gathering multi-faceted information, or synthesizing findings from parallel investigation streams.

Research-backed skill creation workflow with automated firecrawl research gathering, multi-tier validation, and comprehensive auditing. Use when "create skills with research automation", "build research-backed skills", "validate skills end-to-end", "automate skill research and creation", needs 8-phase workflow from research through final audit, wants firecrawl-powered research combined with validation, or requires quality-assured skill creation following Anthropic specifications for Claude Code.

Convert dense source-grounded content into a two-speaker dramatized script with persona roles, prosody cues, and interruptions. Use for audio-friendly overviews that stay faithful to cited material.

Complete technical reference for the professional mixer system architecture, audio routing, recording implementation, and all internal mechanics

Complete refactoring workflow with tracking, validation, and cross-layer impact checklists. Integrates with beads for progress tracking and ensures no references to old names remain after refactoring.

Meta-cognitive reasoning specialist for evidence-based analysis, hypothesis testing, and cognitive failure prevention. Use when conducting reviews, making assessments, debugging complex issues, or any task requiring rigorous analytical reasoning. Prevents premature conclusions, assumption-based errors, and pattern matching without verification.

Performs accurate research and fact-checking using reliable sources. Ideal for validating claims, clarifying complex topics, summarizing findings, and ensuring information accuracy.

Performs comprehensive, multi-layered research on any topic with structured analysis and synthesis of information from multiple sources. Use when the user needs thorough investigation, market research, technical deep-dives, due diligence, or comprehensive analysis on any subject.

Create a structured notes directory for studying and documenting remote GitHub repositories. Use this skill when the user wants to set up a workspace for researching, analyzing, or taking notes on an external GitHub repository. Creates separate committed notes/ directory and gitignored code/ directory.

Document ID management for Git repositories. Validates, assigns, and tracks immutable doc_ids across Markdown/YAML files. Use when working with doc_id, document IDs, "@see docid" references, document integrity validation, or shirushi commands.

Search the web using OpenAI Codex CLI to find current documentation, best practices, solutions, and technical information. Use when the user needs to research libraries, find API documentation, troubleshoot errors, or learn about new technologies. Requires Codex CLI installed.

Bootstraps new projects by running a 5-question intake and generating a minimal scaffold (WORKPLAN.md, BRIEF.md, OUTLINE.md, SOURCES.md, LOG.md) plus optional folders for writing/research/coding. Use when the user asks to start a new project, plan a workflow, scaffold folders/files, or set up a reusable pipeline.