research-director
Strategic research leadership for designing high-impact research agendas, coordinating teams, and translating research into policy and institutional influence.
Install / Use
npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills --skill research-directorInstalls into whichever agent you are using.
SKILL.md
Installable skill definition
Quality Score
Category
AutomationSupported Platforms
Our assessment of research-director
research-director scores 87/100 on our quality scale, 1022nd of 1,753 Automation skills we index.
We have not analysed the SKILL.md file itself yet, so the content part of this score is an estimate until our crawler reaches it.
With 4,360 GitHub stars, it is one of the more widely adopted skills in the catalogue.
Maintenance, license and trust
- The repository was last updated 4 days ago, so research-director is actively maintained.
- No license is declared. By default that means all rights are reserved: you can read it, but reusing or redistributing it is not clearly permitted. Ask the author before building on it commercially.
- Its trust signals score 88/100, with 1 caution from licensing, adoption, age or documentation. These come from repository metadata, not a code audit — read the skill file before letting an agent act on it.
research-director compared with similar skills
All 4 of these similar skills score higher than research-director; compare them before choosing.
| Skill | Score | Stars | Updated | Format |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| research-director (this skill)by brycewang-stanford | 87 | 4.4k | 4d ago | SKILL.md |
| Agent-Reachby Panniantong | 100 | 85.7k | 12d ago | CLAUDE.md |
| rufloby ruvnet | 100 | 73.4k | today | CLAUDE.md |
| Scraplingby D4Vinci | 100 | 84.0k | today | MCP Server |
| algorithmic-artby anthropics | 100 | 177.9k | 5d ago | SKILL.md |
Frequently asked questions
- How do I install research-director?
- Run
npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills --skill research-director. The install tabs above show the steps for each supported agent. - Which AI agents does research-director work with?
- It is written for Universal, as a SKILL.md file. Other agents that read the same format can often use it too.
- Is research-director safe to use?
- It declares no license and scores 88/100 on trust signals. Skills are instructions an agent will follow, so read the file before installing it and do not approve commands you do not understand.
- Is research-director still maintained?
- The repository was last updated 4 days ago, so research-director is actively maintained.
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Trust signals
From repository metadata: license, adoption, age and documentation. Not a code audit — see the Safety scan above for what the skill file itself contains.