Research

Use after 2 consecutive failed attempts at solving a problem - STOP guessing and research documentation, codebase, and online resources before resuming

[Dev] Extracts and organizes best practices for a given topic into a minimal tree structure (max depth 3, max 5 children per node). Use during task planning when writing subtasks in Docs/{name}_Task.md - output is added under each subtask as a concise reference guide. Pure reasoning task with strict formatting rules: keywords/noun phrases only, no prose. (project)

Generate comprehensive "Shownotes" summaries from longform articles, papers, transcripts, videos, or audio content. Use when users request shownotes, episode summaries, content summaries with takeaways, or when they reference the mdynotes.com format. Creates structured summaries with metadata, hooks, takeaways, quotes, and references.

Access comprehensive LaTeX templates, formatting requirements, and submission guidelines for major scientific publication venues (Nature, Science, PLOS, IEEE, ACM), academic conferences (NeurIPS, ICML, CVPR, CHI), research posters, and grant proposals (NSF, NIH, DOE, DARPA). This skill should be used when preparing manuscripts for journal submission, conference papers, research posters, or grant proposals and need venue-specific formatting requirements and templates.

Research legal technology topics for blog posts on alt-counsel (Ang Hou Fu's blog). Use when the user asks to research topics, find sources, fact-check claims, gather statistics, or find expert opinions for blog content. Prioritizes Singapore/ASEAN perspectives and flags US/EU-centric information. Outputs research findings to research.md in the post folder with proper citations.

Comprehensive VSCode extension development expert that guides you through creating extensions using the official Yeoman generator tool. Provides interactive setup, configuration guidance, and development workflow support. Covers scaffolding with yo code, extension anatomy, debugging, testing, publishing, and API reference. Features primary access to complete VS Code API documentation at `@source/vscode-docs/api/` for authoritative reference. Use when starting new VSCode extensions, setting up development environment, configuring extension manifests, debugging extensions, or when mentioning VSCode extension creation, TypeScript extensions, plugin development, or editor customization. Built with official VS Code documentation, generator best practices, and complete API reference.

Use when encountering any bug, test failure, or unexpected behavior, before proposing fixes - four-phase framework (root cause investigation, pattern analysis, hypothesis testing, implementation) that ensures understanding before attempting solutions

Agent Development Kit (ADK) expertise for the latest Python SDK and API reference

Token-efficient context gathering and synthesis from multiple sources (memory, docs, web). Orchestrates MCP tools to build comprehensive context before analysis or interviews. Use when starting discovery, research, or analysis tasks.

Audit outputs against provided sources, enforce grounding, and log an audit trail. Use when strict source fidelity is required.

Research-backed feature implementation workflow enforcing gap analysis, incremental planning, agent coordination, and continuous integration best practices. Auto-invoked for ALL feature implementation requests to prevent code duplication and ensure CLAUDE.md compliance.

Generate intelligent content for PARA Obsidian vault templates. Use when asked to create new notes (project, area, resource, task, capture, daily, weekly-review, booking, checklist, itinerary, trip-research), populate template sections with AI-generated content, or understand what fields a template requires before creation.

Use when testing Claude Code plugins programmatically, building SDK applications, encountering plugin loading failures (plugins array empty), getting AttributeError on message.type, or needing verified Claude Agents SDK Python patterns - provides complete reference for correct message handling (isinstance not .type), plugin loading (setting_sources required), content block iteration, and all working patterns from official documentation

Execute the Recursive Thought Committee (RTC) protocol by generating and harmonizing inputs from 5 specialized cognitive personas.

Comprehensive toolkit for writing high-quality computer science research papers (conference, journal, thesis). Provides narrative construction guidance, sentence-level clarity principles (Gopen & Swan), academic phrasebank, CS-specific conventions, and section-by-section quality checklists. Use when assisting with academic paper writing, revision, or structure planning across all stages from drafting to submission.

Research-first content creation optimized for both human readers and AI search engines (Claude, ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini). Creates authentic, authoritative content that becomes the go-to citation source for AI models answering user questions.Use this skill when:- Creating content that should appear in AI search results (Perplexity, ChatGPT, Claude)- Building topical authority to become THE source AI cites for a topic- Launching a new product and need compelling, citable content- Creating blog posts, articles, social media, or press releases- Need content that references real trends, people, and recent events- Want AI-assisted content that doesn't sound AI-generated- Creating thought leadership content in any industryTriggers: "create content for", "write about", "research and write", "find experts for", "content for launch", "blog post about", "article on", "press release for", "AI search", "show up in AI", "Perplexity", "be cited by AI"

Fetch reference implementations from core-supabase repository. Use when (1) implementing Repository layer with Supabase, (2) need RPC function usage patterns, (3) checking correct parameter structures and type assertions, (4) verifying Supabase integration patterns.

Hypothesis-driven debugging with hybrid dual-track parallel execution (Opus 4.5 + GPT 5.2). Spawns two independent chains of subagents where each reviews and improves upon its own previous work, then synthesizes findings from both tracks. Use when debugging hard-to-reproduce bugs, CI/E2E test failures, flaky tests, or when standard fixes have failed.

Fetch official documentation for major libraries and frameworks. Use for library lookups, API references, how-to queries, and framework-specific questions

Orchestrates concurrent workstreams via Task tool for non-trivial requests. Decomposes complex tasks into 3-10 parallel agents with independent scopes and synthesizes results. Use when requests involve: (1) multiple investigative paths or validation layers, (2) research, analysis, or debugging exceeding trivial scope, (3) implementation planning requiring facet exploration, or (4) any moderate+ complexity task benefiting from parallel execution.