research-agent
Research agent for external documentation, best practices, and library APIs via MCP tools
Install / Use
npx skills add parcadei/Continuous-Claude-v3 --skill research-agentInstalls into whichever agent you are using.
SKILL.md
Installable skill definition
Quality Score
Category
Content & MediaSupported Platforms
Our assessment of research-agent
research-agent scores 79/100 on our quality scale, 439th of 622 Content & Media 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 3,943 GitHub stars, it is one of the more widely adopted skills in the catalogue.
Maintenance, license and trust
- The repository was last updated about 8 months ago. That is recent enough to be usable, but agent tooling moves fast, so check the instructions against your agent's current version.
- It is released under the MIT license, a permissive license that allows use, modification and commercial use with attribution.
- Its trust signals score 94/100, 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-agent compared with similar skills
All 4 of these similar skills score higher than research-agent; compare them before choosing.
| Skill | Score | Stars | Updated | Format |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| research-agent (this skill)by parcadei | 79 | 3.9k | 8mo ago | SKILL.md |
| Agent-Reachby Panniantong | 100 | 85.7k | 12d ago | CLAUDE.md |
| headroomby headroomlabs-ai | 100 | 73.9k | today | CLAUDE.md |
| rufloby ruvnet | 100 | 73.4k | today | CLAUDE.md |
| CowAgentby zhayujie | 100 | 47.1k | today | CLAUDE.md |
Frequently asked questions
- How do I install research-agent?
- Run
npx skills add parcadei/Continuous-Claude-v3 --skill research-agent. The install tabs above show the steps for each supported agent. - Which AI agents does research-agent 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-agent safe to use?
- It is MIT-licensed and scores 94/100 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-agent still maintained?
- The repository was last updated about 8 months ago. That is recent enough to be usable, but agent tooling moves fast, so check the instructions against your agent's current version.
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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.