Agent skill

Research Report

by amd in amd/gaia

Research a topic on the open web and write a cited Markdown report.

MITAuto-check passedResearch & Science

Install Research Report

skills CLI
$ npx skills add amd/gaia --skill research-report -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install amd/gaia research-report --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/amd/gaia.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/hub/skills/research-report .claude/skills/research-report && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
research-report
GitHub stars
1.6k
Token cost
~620 tokens
SKILL.md length
286 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
44
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Research a topic on the open web and write a cited Markdown report.

  • Works in 5 steps: Decompose. Restate the topic as 3–5… → Search each sub-question with… → Read the best sources. For the 2–3 most… → …
  • The user asks for a report
  • SKILL.md covers Procedure, When the answer must outlive…, Notes and Fork this
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Research Report is an agent skill from amd/gaia. Research a topic on the open web and write a cited Markdown report. Use when the user asks for a report, a literature scan, a competitive landscape, or a "what's the current state of X" answer that needs sources.

Its SKILL.md is about 620 tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

It sits in Research & Science, covering Deep research. The repository describes itself as: Build AI agents for your PC. The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • The user asks for a report
  • A literature scan
  • A competitive landscape
  • A whats the current state of X answer that needs sources

Example prompts

  • “s the current state of X”
  • “/research-report”

Workflow steps

5 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

  1. Decompose. Restate the topic as 3–5 sub-questions that together answer it.
  2. Search each sub-question with search_web(query, num_results=5). Use a
  3. Read the best sources. For the 2–3 most promising results per
  4. Write the report with this shape
  5. Deliver as Markdown in the reply.

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 6c3bb5c. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Research Report loads about 620 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 57 tokens; SKILL.md has 286 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~57
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~620

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from amd/gaia at commit 6c3bb5c, republished under its MIT licence (© amd). 286 words, ~620 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/research-report/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
research-report
description
Research a topic on the open web and write a cited Markdown report. Use when the user asks for a report, a literature scan, a competitive landscape, or a "what's the current state of X" answer that needs sources.
license
MIT
version
1.0.0

Research Report

Turn one broad question into a sourced Markdown report. The value is in the decomposition — a single search rarely answers a real research question.

Procedure

  1. Decompose. Restate the topic as 3–5 sub-questions that together answer it. Show them to the user before searching so they can redirect you early.
  2. Search each sub-question with search_web(query, num_results=5). Use a different phrasing per sub-question; do not reuse the user's wording verbatim for all of them.
  3. Read the best sources. For the 2–3 most promising results per sub-question, call fetch_page(url) to get the actual text. Never cite a page you only saw as a search snippet.
  4. Write the report with this shape:
    • One-paragraph answer to the original question, up front.
    • One section per sub-question.
    • Every non-obvious claim followed by an inline [source](url) link.
    • A "What I could not confirm" section — say so when the web disagreed or went quiet. An honest gap beats a confident guess.
  5. Deliver as Markdown in the reply.

When the answer must outlive the session

If the user wants to keep querying the material later, save each fetched page with write_file(file_path, content) and index_document(file_path) it. After that query_documents answers follow-ups from the indexed corpus instead of re-fetching the web.

Notes

  • search_web uses DuckDuckGo. It is rate-limited and occasionally returns nothing; if a query comes back empty, rephrase once, then say so rather than inventing results.
  • Prefer primary sources (documentation, filings, the project's own site) over aggregators.

Fork this

Point it at a domain and it becomes a specialist: change the sub-question template in step 1 to your field's standard questions (for a competitor scan: pricing, positioning, recent launches, public complaints), and pin step 2 to the sites you trust.

© amd, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

Just SKILL.md in hub/skills/research-report of amd/gaia.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 6c3bb5c

Compare with similar skills

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Questions about Research Report

What does Research Report do?

Research a topic on the open web and write a cited Markdown report. Research Report is an agent skill from amd/gaia. Research a topic on the open web and write a cited Markdown report.

When should I use Research Report?

Research Report fits situations like: the user asks for a report; A literature scan; A competitive landscape; A whats the current state of X answer that needs sources.

How do I install Research Report in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add amd/gaia --skill research-report -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (hub/skills/research-report in amd/gaia) into .claude/skills/research-report in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Research Report in Codex?

Run `npx skills add amd/gaia --skill research-report -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (hub/skills/research-report in amd/gaia) into .agents/skills/research-report in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Research Report in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add amd/gaia --skill research-report -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/research-report, .gemini/skills/research-report, .github/skills/research-report and .opencode/skills/research-report in your project.

What does Research Report need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Research Report is instructions for the agent only.

Does Research Report access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Research Report safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Research Report use?

Research Report is published under the MIT licence (declared in SKILL.md). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Research Report use?

About 620 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 2.5k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

What are the alternatives to Research Report?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Research Report: GitHub Deep Research (bytedance/deer-flow, 83k stars), Deep Research Workflow (TokenRhythm/opensquilla, 7.1k stars), X Research (rohunvora/x-research-skill, 1.2k stars) and Deep Research (sanjay3290/ai-skills, 430 stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Research Report?

amd (a GitHub organization) maintains it in amd/gaia, which has 1,580 GitHub stars. The repository holds 44 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 6, 2026.

Source: amd/gaia on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.