Research

Research and analysis skill for in-depth technical investigation.Use when: analyzing technical problems, exploring solutions, investigating issues, comparing technologies, understanding root causes.Keywords: research, analyze, investigate, technical problem, comparison, evaluation, deep dive, root cause analysis.This is the optional first step of the spec-driven development workflow, before create-prd.

Research a market, pinpoint an underserved customer pain, and design a venture that can capture the opportunity within 12 months. Comprehensive 10-step workflow from market mapping to 90-day action plan.

Measurement framework for Answer Engine Optimization (AEO). Provides AI visibility metrics, share of voice tracking, citation monitoring, and referral demand measurement. Use when discussing AEO/GEO metrics or AI visibility performance.

Guidance for writing and verifying SPARQL queries against RDF datasets, particularly university/academic ontologies. This skill should be used when tasks involve querying RDF data with SPARQL, working with academic datasets (students, professors, departments, courses), or performing complex graph pattern matching with filters and aggregations.

Develop research-backed AI competitive strategies combining academic research, market trends, and social sentiment analysis

Guidance for bypassing HTML/JavaScript sanitization filters in security testing contexts. This skill should be used when tasked with finding XSS filter bypasses, testing HTML sanitizers, or exploiting parser differentials between server-side filters and browsers. Applies to CTF challenges, authorized penetration testing, and security research involving HTML injection and JavaScript execution through sanitization bypasses.

Product discovery frameworks for PMs - customer interviews, assumption mapping, JTBD, RICE prioritization, and opportunity solution trees. Transforms research into product decisions.

Guidance for writing SPARQL queries against RDF/Turtle datasets, particularly for university or academic data. This skill should be used when tasks involve querying RDF data with SPARQL, filtering entities based on multiple criteria, aggregating results, or working with Turtle (.ttl) files.

Research external open-source repositories to learn patterns and implementations.This skill should be used when agents need to study external codebases, check forexisting research before cloning, manage temporary workspaces, and persist findingsto the global thoughts system. Triggers include: studying external repos, learningfrom open source, cloning for pattern research, or checking what has been researched.

Guidance for building digital logic circuits that compute composite functions like Fibonacci of integer square root. This skill applies when implementing combinational and sequential logic in gate-level simulators, particularly when combining algorithms (like isqrt and Fibonacci) under resource constraints (gate counts, simulation steps). Use for circuit synthesis, HDL-style logic design, or gate-level algorithm implementation tasks.

Plan lifecycle management for Codex plans stored in $CODEX_HOME/plans (default ~/.codex/plans). Use when a user asks to create, find, read, update, delete, or manage plan documents for implementation work or overview/reference documentation.

Guides architects on when and how to use goal-seeking agents as a design pattern.This skill helps evaluate whether autonomous agents are appropriate for a givenproblem, how to structure their objectives, integrate with goal_agent_generator,and reference real amplihack examples like AKS SRE automation, CI diagnostics,pre-commit workflows, and fix-agent pattern matching.

Synthesize competing positions through structured thesis-antithesis-synthesis process. Use when stakeholders disagree, trade-offs exist, or multiple valid perspectives need integration. Produces integrated positions with acknowledged trade-offs.

Manage thoughts directory operations including initialization, synchronization, and metadata generation. Use after creating or modifying research documents, implementation plans, or notes to keep the searchable directory synchronized. Also use when gathering git metadata for document frontmatter.

Performs quick research using web search and synthesis when user asks about unfamiliar topics, new technologies, or needs current information. Activates on questions like 'how does X work', 'what is Y', or when encountering unknown concepts. For deep comprehensive research, suggests knowledge-builder command.

Use when aligning with Georgios’s default Git/GitHub conventions—cloning with gh, Conventional Commits, atomic staging, and guarded GitHub Actions for Rust/Python/TypeScript—so work matches his standard workflows.

Analyzes events through journalistic lens using 5 Ws and H, investigative methods, source evaluation,fact-checking, newsworthiness criteria, and ethical journalism principles.Provides insights on story angles, information gaps, credibility, public interest, and media framing.Use when: Breaking news, information verification, source analysis, story development, media criticism.Evaluates: Factual accuracy, source credibility, completeness, newsworthiness, bias, public interest.

Use when building ML pipelines, orchestrating training workflows, automating model lifecycle, implementing feature stores, or managing experiment tracking systems.

Comprehensive framework for deep analysis of articles, papers, and long-form content using 10+ thinking models (SCQA, 5W2H, critical thinking, inversion, mental models, first principles, systems thinking, six thinking hats). Use when users want to: (1) deeply understand complex articles/content, (2) analyze arguments and identify logical flaws, (3) extract actionable insights from reading materials, (4) create study notes or learning summaries, (5) compare multiple sources, (6) transform knowledge into practical applications, or (7) apply specific thinking frameworks. Triggered by phrases like 'analyze this article,' 'help me understand,' 'deep dive into,' 'extract insights from,' 'use [framework name],' or when users provide URLs/long-form content for analysis.

Comprehensive CLI reference and search strategies for osgrep semantic code search. Use for detailed CLI options, index management commands, search strategy guidance (architectural vs targeted queries), and troubleshooting. Complements the osgrep plugin which handles daemon lifecycle.