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Agent skill

Research

by bestofjs in bestofjs/bestofjs

Investigate a question against high-trust primary sources and capture the findings as a Markdown file in the repo.

MITAuto-check passed

Install Research

skills CLI
$ npx skills add bestofjs/bestofjs --skill research -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install bestofjs/bestofjs research --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/bestofjs/bestofjs.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/.agents/skills/research .claude/skills/research && 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
GitHub stars
3.1k
Used in
22 other repos
Token cost
~199 tokens
SKILL.md length
87 words
Files
2
Skills in repo
13
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Investigate a question against high-trust primary sources and capture the findings as a Markdown file in the repo.

  • Works in 3 steps: Investigate the question against primary… → Write the findings to a single Markdown… → Save it where the repo already keeps…
  • The user wants a topic researched
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
  • API facts gathered

What it does

Research is an agent skill from bestofjs/bestofjs. 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.

Its SKILL.md is about 200 tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 2 other files (for example `agents/openai.yaml`).

The repository describes itself as: :star: A place to find the best components to build amazing web applications. The best of JavaScript! The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • The user wants a topic researched
  • API facts gathered
  • Reading legwork delegated to a background agent

Example prompts

  • “/research”

Workflow steps

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

  1. Investigate the question against primary sources — official docs, source code, specs, first-party APIs — not a secondary write-up of them…
  2. Write the findings to a single Markdown file, citing each claim's source.
  3. Save it where the repo already keeps such notes; match the existing convention, and if there is none, put it somewhere sensible and say…

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 5d82633. 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 loads about 199 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 62 tokens; SKILL.md has 87 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~62
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~199

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 bestofjs/bestofjs at commit 5d82633, republished under its MIT licence (© bestofjs). 87 words, ~199 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/research/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder). This skill also uses 1 other file; get the full folder from GitHub.
name
research
description
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.

Spin up a background agent to do the research, so you keep working while it reads.

Its job:

  1. Investigate the question against primary sources — official docs, source code, specs, first-party APIs — not a secondary write-up of them. Follow every claim back to the source that owns it.
  2. Write the findings to a single Markdown file, citing each claim's source.
  3. Save it where the repo already keeps such notes; match the existing convention, and if there is none, put it somewhere sensible and say where.

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

Files

SKILL.md and 1 other file in .agents/skills/research of bestofjs/bestofjs.

  • SKILL.md
  • agents/openai.yaml

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 5d82633

Used in 22 other repositories

We found 26 copies of this SKILL.md (exact, near-identical or edited) in other folders, from 22 other GitHub owners. This page covers the copy in bestofjs/bestofjs, which our catalogue first saw on October 7, 2026.

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Internal Investigationanthropics/claude-for-legal9.6k3 repos~6.9kAutomated safety check: PassApache-2.0

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Questions about Research

What does Research do?

Investigate a question against high-trust primary sources and capture the findings as a Markdown file in the repo. Research is an agent skill from bestofjs/bestofjs. Investigate a question against high-trust primary sources and capture the findings as a Markdown file in the repo.

When should I use Research?

Research fits situations like: the user wants a topic researched; API facts gathered; reading legwork delegated to a background agent.

How do I install Research in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Research in Codex?

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

Can I use Research 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 bestofjs/bestofjs --skill research -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, .gemini/skills/research, .github/skills/research and .opencode/skills/research in your project.

What does Research need to run?

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

Does Research 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 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 use?

Research is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Research use?

About 199 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 796 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?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Research: Capture (alirezarezvani/claude-skills, 28k stars), Root Cause Investigation (garrytan/gstack, 136k stars), Source Maps (thedaviddias/Front-End-Checklist, 74k stars) and Investigation Open (anthropics/claude-for-legal, 9.6k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Research?

bestofjs (a GitHub organization) maintains it in bestofjs/bestofjs, which has 3,136 GitHub stars. The repository holds 13 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 4, 2026.

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