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Answer one cited question: how code works, or whether a repeated pattern deserves a rule.
Apache-2.0Auto-check: notes
Install Research
$ npx skills add boshu2/agentops --skill research -a claude-codeProject install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.
$ gh skill install boshu2/agentops research --agent claude-codeProject scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/boshu2/agentops.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/research .claude/skills/research && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.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/
Install the "research" agent skill from https://github.com/boshu2/agentops/tree/main/skills/research into .claude/skills/research/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "research", then confirm the skill loads.Claude Code copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$skill-installer install https://github.com/boshu2/agentops/tree/main/skills/researchType this inside Codex. $skill-installer <name> installs a curated skill from openai/skills. The installer writes to $CODEX_HOME/skills (default ~/.codex/skills). Restart Codex if the skill does not show up.
$ npx skills add boshu2/agentops --skill research -a codexProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.codex/skills/.
$ gh skill install boshu2/agentops research --agent codexProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/boshu2/agentops.git skills-src && mkdir -p .agents/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/research .agents/skills/research && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.agents/skills/ instead of .agents/skills for a personal install.
Codex skills documentation · loads skills from .agents/skills/
Install the "research" agent skill from https://github.com/boshu2/agentops/tree/main/skills/research into .agents/skills/research/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "research", then confirm the skill loads.Codex copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ npx skills add boshu2/agentops --skill research -a cursorProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.cursor/skills/.
$ gh skill install boshu2/agentops research --agent cursorProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/boshu2/agentops.git skills-src && mkdir -p .cursor/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/research .cursor/skills/research && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.cursor/skills/ instead of .cursor/skills for a personal install.
Cursor skills documentation · loads skills from .cursor/skills/, .agents/skills/, .claude/skills/, .codex/skills/
Install the "research" agent skill from https://github.com/boshu2/agentops/tree/main/skills/research into .cursor/skills/research/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "research", then confirm the skill loads.Cursor copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ gemini skills install https://github.com/boshu2/agentops.git --path skills/research--scope user (default) or --scope workspace; --path is the subfolder of the repo that holds the skill; --consent skips the security confirmation prompt.
$ npx skills add boshu2/agentops --skill research -a gemini-cliProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.gemini/skills/.
$ gh skill install boshu2/agentops research --agent gemini-cliProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/boshu2/agentops.git skills-src && mkdir -p .gemini/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/research .gemini/skills/research && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.gemini/skills/ instead of .gemini/skills for a personal install, then run /skills reload.
Gemini CLI skills documentation · loads skills from .gemini/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "research" agent skill from https://github.com/boshu2/agentops/tree/main/skills/research into .gemini/skills/research/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "research", then confirm the skill loads.Gemini CLI copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ gh skill install boshu2/agentops researchInstalls for Copilot at project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Preview a skill first with gh skill preview. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).
$ npx skills add boshu2/agentops --skill research -a github-copilotProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.copilot/skills/.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/boshu2/agentops.git skills-src && mkdir -p .github/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/research .github/skills/research && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.copilot/skills/ instead of .github/skills for a personal install. Commit .github/skills so cloud agent and code review can use it.
GitHub Copilot skills documentation · loads skills from .github/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "research" agent skill from https://github.com/boshu2/agentops/tree/main/skills/research into .github/skills/research/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "research", then confirm the skill loads.GitHub Copilot copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ npx skills add boshu2/agentops --skill research -a opencodeOpenCode documents no install command of its own. Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.config/opencode/skills/.
$ gh skill install boshu2/agentops research --agent opencodeProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/boshu2/agentops.git skills-src && mkdir -p .opencode/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/research .opencode/skills/research && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.config/opencode/skills/ instead of .opencode/skills for a personal install.
OpenCode skills documentation · loads skills from .opencode/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "research" agent skill from https://github.com/boshu2/agentops/tree/main/skills/research into .opencode/skills/research/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "research", then confirm the skill loads.OpenCode copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
Facts
- Skill name
research- GitHub stars
- 448
- Used in
- 1 other repo
- Token cost
- ~1.7k tokens
- SKILL.md length
- 707 words
- Files
- 10 (incl. scripts, references)
- Skills in repo
- 31
- Repo updated
- First seen
- Licence
- Apache-2.0
At a glance
Answer one cited question: how code works, or whether a repeated pattern deserves a rule.
- Works in 3 steps: State the question and the decision it… → Inspect the smallest relevant sources… → Lead with the answer, then show evidence…
- Whether to enforce a pattern
- SKILL.md covers Evidence rules, Investigation, Repository tracing and Pattern evidence, plus 1 more section
- Runs Shell scripts from its folder
What it does
Research is an agent skill from boshu2/agentops. Answer one cited question: how code works, or whether a repeated pattern deserves a rule. Use when: asked how, why, or whether to enforce a pattern.
Its SKILL.md is about 1.7k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 16 other files, including scripts and reference files (for example `references/codebase-recon/pack-contract.md`, `references/pattern-mining/pack-contract.md` and `schemas/findings.json`).
The repository describes itself as: DevOps discipline for AI coding agents: shape the work, track it as a graph, and get each change judged by a context that didn't write it. The licence is Apache-2.0.
When your agent uses it
- Whether to enforce a pattern
Example prompts
- “/research”
Requirements
- A Bash shell
- Pre-approved tools (allowed-tools): Read, Grep, Glob, Bash, Write
Workflow steps
3 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.
- State the question and the decision it informs. Reuse the accepted scope and
- Inspect the smallest relevant sources and verify search hits against the
- Lead with the answer, then show evidence and remaining gaps. Each part of the
What it can do on your machine
Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 8704853. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.
Tool permissions
Pre-approves these tools, so the agent can use them without asking each time:
ReadGrepGlobBashWrite
From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.
Runs code
Ships 3 files in scripts/ (Shell), which the agent can run.
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 1.7k tokens when it runs, and up to ~3.4k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 39 tokens; SKILL.md has 707 words of instructions outside code blocks.
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: notes
The automated check noted patterns worth knowing about, such as sudo or a known installer.
- NotePre-approves every shell command (allowed-tools: Bash)SKILL.md
allowed-tools: Read, Grep, Glob, Bash, Write
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); the scripts in this folder are not scanned.
SKILL.md
The full file from boshu2/agentops at commit 8704853, republished under its Apache-2.0 licence (© boshu2). 707 words, ~1,653 tokens.
Download SKILL.mdSave it as
.claude/skills/research/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder). This skill also uses 9 other files; get the full folder from GitHub.- name
- research
- description
- Answer one cited question: how code works, or whether a repeated pattern deserves a rule. Use when: asked how, why, or whether to enforce a pattern.
- allowed-tools
- Read, Grep, Glob, Bash, Write
- practices
- pragmatic-programmer, ddd-bounded-context
- hexagonal_role
- driving-adapter
- consumes
- research-question
- produces
- research-report, codebase-recon.v1, pattern-mining.v1
- skill_api_version
- 1
- user-invocable
- true
- metadata.capabilities
- research, codebase_recon, pattern_mining
- metadata.effects
- write_research_report, write_recon_pack, write_pattern_evidence
- metadata.canonical_status
- canonical
- metadata.disposition
- keep_specialist
Research
Answer the caller's bounded question with cited evidence. Choose ordinary investigation, repository tracing or pattern evidence according to the question; these are optional modes, not a sequence. A quick answer needs no report file. Plan owns unified discovery and resumption when the question is part of shaping a change; return this cited answer to that existing intent without restarting its interview or taking over caller choices.
Evidence rules
- One lineage counts once. Copies, ports and repeated quotations of one upstream source are a single exemplar, however many files or reports carry them. Check provenance before counting instances as independent.
- Separate the invariant from the incidental. Align instances by their role in the behavior; name what must hold, what legitimately varies and what is incidental syntax. An instance missing the invariant is not an instance.
- Recurrence does not earn a gate. A blocking check needs a demonstrated cost of violation: an incident, defect or measured harm traced to the pattern's absence. Recommend the least committed useful shape: no action, a reference or checklist line, a template, a helper, and only then a gate.
- Thin evidence stays a hypothesis. Fewer than three independent exemplars, or no passing holdout, leaves a pattern a hypothesis; say what evidence would confirm or refute it.
- Keep observation, inference, contradiction and unknown separate. Every material claim cites evidence; source agreement does not erase shared provenance.
Investigation
- State the question and the decision it informs. Reuse the accepted scope and identify what evidence would answer it; do not expand the objective mid-search.
- Inspect the smallest relevant sources and verify search hits against the actual source. External facts that change (versions, vendor behavior, standards) need current primary sources. This skill pre-approves only local tools: use the host's web tools when available and permitted; otherwise mark the external claim unknown and name the source that would settle it.
- Lead with the answer, then show evidence and remaining gaps. Each part of the question is answered or explicitly unknown with the searched scope disclosed.
Code claims cite the observed commit plus file:line. For uncommitted content,
state HEAD and the changed-file status; do not claim the working bytes can be
replayed from HEAD. Keep source identity and freshness visible. Search output,
CASS, MS and prior reports are leads, not authority or required phases. Use the
current agent by default; additional readers and runtimes require caller
selection or existing authorization.
For several supplied reports, retain each source's identifier, author/runtime when known and revision/date. Compare claims as agreement, contradiction or unknown while preserving their original evidence. Verify decisive claims at their source and return one synthesis; do not launch recursive synthesis passes.
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Repository tracing
For a repository model or audit, start from its declared entry points in docs, build manifests or command help and verify them against executable paths. Follow a relevant flow through entry, domain logic, integration and tests; prefer a completed trace to a shallow directory inventory. Report an interrupted trace at its exact file/line and explain what is missing. Choose a useful lens such as persistence, authorization, CLI, build or test without requiring a sweep of every lens.
An inline investigation may use dirty working-tree evidence with explicit
limits. A selected durable codebase-recon.v1 pack is commit-bound and follows
the recon pack contract, checked by
skills/research/scripts/codebase-recon/validate-output.sh.
Pattern evidence
For a recurring implementation shape, test whether the similarity represents a reusable rule under the evidence rules above. Record replayable searches, examined hits and exclusions, then report:
exemplars: <file:line> per independent lineage; copies listed under their source
invariant: <what every exemplar shares and the behavior needs>
variation: <legitimate differences>; incidental: <syntax, names>
cost: <demonstrated cost of violation, or "none found">
shape: <no action | reference line | template | helper | gate> and why
outcome: hypothesis | promote (three independent exemplars, passing holdout and back-application)A selected durable pattern-mining.v1 record follows the
pattern pack contract, checked by
skills/research/scripts/pattern-mining/validate-output.sh. Research returns
evidence; adoption remains an explicit caller decision.
Output and boundaries
Return a cited answer directly unless a durable output was requested or the
selected evidence contract requires one. Ordinary durable reports follow
findings.json: question, scope, answer, evidence,
contradictions, unknowns, checked and unchecked areas. Multi-report synthesis
also retains source_ledger and comparison. Selected recon and pattern modes
retain their own validated formats instead of forcing them into this schema.
Use only authorized sources and destinations. For restricted or mined episode material, follow Memory's access and storage boundary. Research selects no work, owns no merged context store, mutates no lifecycle state and issues no semantic verdict. The native caller owns implementation, judgment and completion of the authorized outcome.
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Files
SKILL.md and 9 other files (scripts, references) in skills/research of boshu2/agentops.
- SKILL.md
- references/codebase-recon/codebase-recon.feature
- references/codebase-recon/pack-contract.md
- references/pattern-mining/pack-contract.md
- references/pattern-mining/pattern-mining.feature
- references/research.feature
- schemas/findings.json
- scripts/codebase-recon/validate-output.sh
- scripts/pattern-mining/validate-output.sh
- scripts/validate.sh
Open the folder on GitHubat commit 8704853
Used in 1 other repository
We found 1 copy of this SKILL.md (exact, near-identical or edited) in other folders, from 1 other GitHub owner. This page covers the copy in boshu2/agentops, which our catalogue first saw on October 7, 2026.
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| Citebrycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills | 4.5k | — | ~480 | Automated safety check: Notes | Custom licence | |
| Answering Research Questionswentorai/Research-Claw | 858 | — | ~4.9k | Automated safety check: Pass | Custom licence |
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Questions about Research
What does Research do?
Answer one cited question: how code works, or whether a repeated pattern deserves a rule. Research is an agent skill from boshu2/agentops. Answer one cited question: how code works, or whether a repeated pattern deserves a rule.
When should I use Research?
Research fits situations like: whether to enforce a pattern.
How do I install Research in Claude Code?
Run `npx skills add boshu2/agentops --skill research -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/research in boshu2/agentops) 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 boshu2/agentops --skill research -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/research in boshu2/agentops) 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 boshu2/agentops --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?
Going by SKILL.md and its folder, Research needs a shell for the scripts in its folder. Our summary lists: A Bash shell. Its frontmatter pre-approves these tools: Read, Grep, Glob, Bash, Write.
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 notes only (pre-approves every shell command (allowed-tools: bash)), nothing it rates as a warning. It is not a guarantee. The check reads SKILL.md only: the scripts in the folder are not scanned, so read them before running anything.
What licence does Research use?
Research is published under the Apache-2.0 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 1.7k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 6.6k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full. Its references folder adds about 1.7k tokens, read only when the agent opens those files.
What are the alternatives to Research?
Skills that share tags, products or a category with Research: Answer Ads Questions (gooseworks-ai/goose-skills, 1.2k stars), Find And Cite (outline/outline, 41k stars), Logseq Answer Machine (logseq/logseq, 45k stars) and Cite (brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills, 4.5k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.
Who maintains Research?
boshu2 (a GitHub user) maintains it in boshu2/agentops, which has 448 GitHub stars. The repository holds 31 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 9, 2026.
Source: boshu2/agentops on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.