Agent skill

Research

by Gerstep in Gerstep/cybos

Company due diligence, technology deep-dives, market analysis, and topic exploration for cyber•Fund investment decisions, content creation, and personal projects.

No licenceAuto-check passedMarketing & SEO

Install Research

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

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install Gerstep/cybos 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/Gerstep/cybos.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/.claude/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
104
Used in
1 other repo
Token cost
~945 tokens
SKILL.md length
322 words
Files
20
Skills in repo
9
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
None found

At a glance

Company due diligence, technology deep-dives, market analysis, and topic exploration for cyber•Fund investment decisions, content creation, and personal projects.

  • Works in 4 steps: Agents do ALL data gathering - Main… → No redundancy - Each agent makes its own… → Dynamic selection - Agents chosen based… → …
  • Tasks that involve Market research
  • SKILL.md covers Capabilities, Research Intensity Levels, Workflow and Agent Selection, plus 5 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Research is an agent skill from Gerstep/cybos. Company due diligence, technology deep-dives, market analysis, and topic exploration for cyber•Fund investment decisions, content creation, and personal projects. Supports 3 intensity levels (quick/standard/deep) for speed-quality tradeoffs.

Its SKILL.md is about 950 tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 22 other files (for example `evals/README.md`, `evals/baseline/BASELINE-GUIDE.md` and `evals/baseline/RESULTS.md`).

It sits in Marketing & SEO, covering Market research and Fundraising and pitch decks.

When your agent uses it

  • Tasks that involve Market research
  • Tasks that involve Fundraising and pitch decks

Example prompts

  • “/research”

Workflow steps

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

  1. Agents do ALL data gathering - Main session orchestrates, agents make MCP calls
  2. No redundancy - Each agent makes its own calls autonomously
  3. Dynamic selection - Agents chosen based on research type + intensity
  4. Quality loop - Deep mode includes quality-reviewer (max 1 iteration)

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 2f0646f. 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 945 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 63 tokens; SKILL.md has 322 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~63
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~945

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

Without a licence we can't republish the file, so here is its outline and opening line. It has 322 words (~945 tokens).

“Company due diligence, technology deep-dives, market analysis, and topic exploration for cyber•Fund investment decisions, content creation, and personal projects.”

— opening of SKILL.md by Gerstep
name
research

Read the full SKILL.md on GitHub

Files

SKILL.md and 19 other files in .claude/skills/Research of Gerstep/cybos.

  • SKILL.md
  • evals/README.md
  • evals/baseline/BASELINE-GUIDE.md
  • evals/baseline/RESULTS.md
  • evals/baseline/company-anthropic-2026-01-02.md
  • evals/baseline/market-ai-infra-2026-01-02.md
  • evals/baseline/tech-tees-2026-01-02.md
  • evals/company-research-eval.json
  • evals/market-research-eval.json
  • evals/tech-research-eval.json
  • evals/topic-research-eval.json
  • shared/agent-selection-matrix.md
  • shared/error-handling.md
  • shared/intensity-tiers.md
  • shared/investment-lens.md
  • shared/logging.md
  • shared/mcp-strategy.md
  • shared/output-standards.md
  • … and 2 more

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 2f0646f

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 Gerstep/cybos, which our catalogue first saw on October 7, 2026.

Compare with similar skills

Research next to the 5 skills that share the most tags, products or categories with it. Stars are the repository's; “used in” counts other GitHub owners with a copy.

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Research this skillGerstep/cybos1041 repos~945Automated safety check: PassNone
Consulting Analysisbytedance/deer-flow83k5 repos~8.4kAutomated safety check: PassMIT
Deep ResearcherKaranjot786/agent-skills-cli1821 repos~1.6kAutomated safety check: PassMIT
Market Researchcohen-liel/hivemind1107 repos~557Automated safety check: PassApache-2.0
Market Researchc0x12c/ai-toolkit106—~719Automated safety check: PassNone
Client Deliverablesgarrettjsmith/localseoskills112—~5.8kAutomated safety check: PassMIT

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Questions about Research

What does Research do?

Company due diligence, technology deep-dives, market analysis, and topic exploration for cyber•Fund investment decisions, content creation, and personal projects. Research is an agent skill from Gerstep/cybos. Company due diligence, technology deep-dives, market analysis, and topic exploration for cyber•Fund investment decisions, content creation, and personal projects.

When should I use Research?

Research fits situations like: tasks that involve Market research; tasks that involve Fundraising and pitch decks.

How do I install Research in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add Gerstep/cybos --skill research -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (.claude/skills/Research in Gerstep/cybos) 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 Gerstep/cybos --skill research -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (.claude/skills/Research in Gerstep/cybos) 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 Gerstep/cybos --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?

No licence was found for Research or its repository. Without one, default copyright applies: ask the author before reusing or redistributing it.

How many tokens does Research use?

About 945 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 3.8k 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: Consulting Analysis (bytedance/deer-flow, 83k stars), Deep Researcher (Karanjot786/agent-skills-cli, 182 stars), Market Research (cohen-liel/hivemind, 110 stars) and Market Research (c0x12c/ai-toolkit, 106 stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Research?

Gerstep (a GitHub user) maintains it in Gerstep/cybos, which has 104 GitHub stars. The repository holds 9 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on September 1, 2026.

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