Research

Evaluate research rigor. Assess methodology, experimental design, statistical validity, biases, confounding, evidence quality (GRADE, Cochrane ROB), for critical analysis of scientific claims.

Direct REST API access to PubMed. Advanced Boolean/MeSH queries, E-utilities API, batch processing, citation management. For Python workflows, prefer biopython (Bio.Entrez). Use this for direct HTTP/REST work or custom API implementations.

Systematic peer review toolkit. Evaluate methodology, statistics, design, reproducibility, ethics, figure integrity, reporting standards, for manuscript and grant review across disciplines.

Gateway skill for research methodology - automatically loads relevant research skills based on task context

Interview techniques, persona creation, journey mapping, and usability testing patterns. Use when planning research, conducting user interviews, creating personas, mapping user journeys, or designing usability tests. Essential for user-research, requirements-analysis, and interaction-architecture agents.

Apply scientific debugging methodology through conversational investigation. Use when investigating bugs, forming hypotheses, tracing error causes, performing root cause analysis, or systematically diagnosing issues. Includes progressive disclosure patterns, observable actions principle, and user-controlled dialogue flow.

Investigates technical and regulatory landscape for strategic opportunities. Use when: researching regulations, technical standards, compliance requirements, technology feasibility, or regulatory frameworks.

Coordinates multi-task sprint execution, manages research workflow, and ensures quality. Use when: executing complete sprints, coordinating multiple tasks, managing research workflow.

name: "sprint-executor" description: | Orchestrates execution of multi-task research sprints with parallel task coordination. Activates when: executing complete sprints, managing multiple tasks, coordinating research workflows, tracking sprint progress, or synthesizing cross-sprint analyses. Manages sprint initialization, parallel execution, quality validation, and release creation. allowed-tools: - Read - Write - Grep - Glob - Bash - Task - TodoWrite --- ---

Creates implementation roadmaps, resource plans, timelines, and risk mitigation strategies. Use when: planning implementation, creating roadmaps, resource planning, or risk assessment.

name: "research-synthesizer" description: | Creates comprehensive synthesis documents distilling research findings into actionable insights. Activates when: creating synthesis.md files, aggregating research findings, integrating multi-source data, extracting strategic insights, or resolving conflicting information. Operates across technical, market, architecture, certification, and roadmap domains. Ensures evidence-based synthesis with full traceability to source research files. allowe

Synthesizes final reports from all research, applies scoring rubric, generates recommendations. Use when: creating final reports, scoring opportunities, or generating go/no-go recommendations.

name: "report-generator" description: | Creates comprehensive final reports (Task 06) synthesizing all research into executive-ready strategic assessments. Activates when: generating final reports, creating Task 06 deliverables, synthesizing sprint findings, producing strategic recommendations, or creating stakeholder-ready documents. Serves dual audiences (business executives and technical decision-makers) with 5,000-7,500 word reports including opportunity scores, go/no-go recommenda

name: "quality-validator" description: | Validates research deliverables against quality standards including file counts, citation density, synthesis presence, and content quality. Activates when: checking quality standards, validating sprint deliverables, assessing research completeness, verifying citation compliance, or generating quality reports. Operates across all research tasks (01-06) and produces pass/fail assessments with actionable recommendations for improvement. allowed-too

name: "opportunity-scorer" description: | Calculates quantitative opportunity scores (0-100) using multi-dimensional rubrics from configuration. Activates when: scoring opportunities, calculating weighted scores, applying scoring rubrics, generating go/no-go recommendations, comparing opportunity scores, or ranking multiple opportunities. Reads research findings, extracts evidence, applies scoring criteria, and produces justified scores with threshold-based recommendations (STRONG GO,

name: "opportunity-discovery" description: | Automatically identifies strategic opportunities by analyzing host company capabilities against client domain needs. Activates when: discovering opportunities, identifying strategic fit areas, generating research sprints, analyzing company-client alignment, or creating sprint configurations without predefined opportunities. Reads company profile and client context, performs strategic fit analysis, and generates 5-10 opportunity definitions r

Analyzes market opportunity, competitive landscape, TAM/SAM/SOM sizing, and customer needs. Use when: researching market size, competitors, customer segments, pricing, or market trends.

Researches certification pathways, testing strategies, and compliance requirements. Use when: investigating certification, testing requirements, compliance pathways, or validation.

name: "comparative-analyzer" description: | Performs cross-sprint comparative analysis to rank opportunities, identify patterns, and recommend prioritization. Activates when: comparing multiple sprints, ranking opportunities, analyzing portfolio strategy, identifying cross-opportunity patterns, recommending execution sequences, or allocating resources across opportunities. Generates strategic insights spanning multiple opportunities with investment allocation and prioritization recomme

Research topics and document findings in Notion with organized structure and sources

**Author:** Dr. Aneesh Joseph **Implementation:** Claude (Anthropic) **Version:** 2.2 | December 2025 ---

Discovers and compiles lists of relevant influencers across platforms based on niche, audience demographics, content style, and brand fit. The foundation of any successful influencer marketing program.

This skill helps you discover, analyze, and prioritize keywords for SEO and GEO content strategies. It identifies high-value opportunities based on search volume, competition, intent, and business relevance.

This skill provides comprehensive analysis of competitor SEO and GEO strategies, revealing what's working in your market and identifying opportunities to outperform the competition.

Generate testable hypotheses. Formulate from observations, design experiments, explore competing explanations, develop predictions, propose mechanisms, for scientific inquiry across domains.