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Research Analyst

Category: Science & Research  ·  Sub-category: research-methods  ·  Last updated:
Use this agent when you need comprehensive research across multiple sources with synthesis of findings into actionable insights, trend identification, and detailed reporting. Specifically:\\n\\n<example>\\nContext: A company is planning to enter a new technology market and needs deep research on market size, competitors, technologies, and growth trends.\\nuser: \"Research the current state of the AI-assisted code generation market. We need to understand market size, key competitors, technology trends, growth projections, and potential market entry strategies for the next 2-3 years.\"\\nassistant: \"I'll conduct comprehensive market research across industry reports, competitor analyses, technology trends, and market forecasts. I'll gather data on market size and growth rates, identify and profile major competitors, analyze technology trends and innovations, assess market segments, and synthesize findings into a detailed report with strategic recommendations for market entry.\"\\n<commentary>\\nInvoke research-analyst when you need wide-ranging research that synthesizes information from multiple sources into a comprehensive report with trends, competitive landscape, and strategic insights. This agent excels at pulling together disparate information into coherent analysis.\\n</commentary>\\n</example>\\n\\n<example>\\nContext: An organization needs to understand regulatory changes and their implications across multiple jurisdictions and time periods.\\nuser: \"Research GDPR implementation requirements and how they've evolved since 2018. We need to understand initial regulations, amendments, enforcement trends, fines imposed, and current compliance best practices globally.\"\\nassistant: \"I'll research GDPR regulations comprehensively: gathering initial framework documentation, tracking regulatory amendments and guidance updates, analyzing enforcement actions and penalties imposed, identifying global compliance variations, and synthesizing this into a timeline showing evolution and current best practices for implementation.\"\\n<commentary>\\nUse research-analyst for research requiring deep temporal analysis, tracking regulatory or industry evolution, and synthesizing complex information into structured understanding. The agent excels at creating comprehensive reports that show patterns and changes over time.\\n</commentary>\\n</example>\\n\\n<example>\\nContext: A research team needs analysis of industry trends to inform strategic planning and identify emerging opportunities.\\nuser: \"Analyze current trends in remote work technology adoption. We need to understand adoption rates by industry, key drivers and barriers, emerging tools and platforms, skills gap evolution, and predictions for the next 3-5 years.\"\\nassistant: \"I'll research remote work trends systematically: gathering adoption statistics by sector, identifying key drivers and obstacles, analyzing emerging technologies and platforms, researching skills requirements and gaps, synthesizing workforce trend data, and synthesizing into a report with opportunity identification and strategic implications for our product development.\"\\n<commentary>\\nInvoke research-analyst when you need to understand broad trends, identify patterns across industries or demographics, and extract strategic opportunities from research findings. This agent synthesizes disparate data points into actionable trend analysis.\\n</commentary>\\n</example>

About this skill (catalog notes)

Research Analyst includes at least one code block. The SKILL.md runs to about 841 words, in the catalog's typical mid-range.

Original author
Muath2000
Indexed lastmod
Catalog position
Science & Research · research-methods
Indexed related skills
10

How Research Analyst fits the catalog

Research Analyst sits in the Science & Research category under the research-methods sub-topic in the ClaudSkills catalog. There are 10 related skills indexed alongside it; comparing a few before installing usually reveals which fits your workflow best.

These notes are auto-generated from features detected in the SKILL.md file and from this catalog's structure — they aren't part of the source repository.

From the source SKILL.md

You are a senior research analyst with expertise in conducting thorough research across diverse domains. Your focus spans information discovery, data synthesis, trend analysis, and insight generation with emphasis on delivering comprehensive, accurate research that enables strategic decisions.

What this skill does

Research Analyst is a community-contributed Claude Code skill in the research-methods sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/research-analyst/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.

Who uses this skill

The Research Analyst Claude Code skill is built for researchers, data scientists, academics, and analysts working with complex data and scientific literature. It's part of ClaudSkills (also referred to as Claude Skills or Claude Code Skills) — the open community-curated registry of 116,000+ SKILL.md files for Anthropic's Claude Code agent and the wider Claude ecosystem (Claude API, Claude Agent SDK).

How to install

Free

Manual install (2 steps)

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/research-analyst
curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/research-analyst/SKILL.md \
  -o ~/.claude/skills/research-analyst/SKILL.md

Or just download SKILL.md directly and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/research-analyst/. Claude Code auto-discovers it on next session.

Skills live at ~/.claude/skills/research-analyst/SKILL.md on macOS/Linux, or %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\research-analyst\SKILL.md on Windows. See the full install guide for step-by-step instructions.

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Frequently asked questions

How do I install the Research Analyst Claude Code skill?
Install via the ClaudSkills desktop app (one click) or copy SKILL.md from the source repository to ~/.claude/skills/research-analyst/SKILL.md and restart Claude Code. Both flows are detailed at claudskills.com/install/.
What does the Research Analyst skill do?
Use this agent when you need comprehensive research across multiple sources with synthesis of findings into actionable insights, trend identification, and detailed reporting. Specifically:\\n\\n<example>\\nContext: A company is planning to enter a new technology market and needs deep research on market size, competitors, technologies, and growth trends.\\nuser: \"Research the current state of the AI-assisted code generation market. We need to understand market size, key competitors, technology trends, growth projections, and potential market entry strategies for the next 2-3 years.\"\\nassistant: \"I'll conduct comprehensive market research across industry reports, competitor analyses, technology trends, and market forecasts. I'll gather data on market size and growth rates, identify and profile major competitors, analyze technology trends and innovations, assess market segments, and synthesize findings into a detailed report with strategic recommendations for market entry.\"\\n<commentary>\\nInvoke research-analyst when you need wide-ranging research that synthesizes information from multiple sources into a comprehensive report with trends, competitive landscape, and strategic insights. This agent excels at pulling together disparate information into coherent analysis.\\n</commentary>\\n</example>\\n\\n<example>\\nContext: An organization needs to understand regulatory changes and their implications across multiple jurisdictions and time periods.\\nuser: \"Research GDPR implementation requirements and how they've evolved since 2018. We need to understand initial regulations, amendments, enforcement trends, fines imposed, and current compliance best practices globally.\"\\nassistant: \"I'll research GDPR regulations comprehensively: gathering initial framework documentation, tracking regulatory amendments and guidance updates, analyzing enforcement actions and penalties imposed, identifying global compliance variations, and synthesizing this into a timeline showing evolution and current best practices for implementation.\"\\n<commentary>\\nUse research-analyst for research requiring deep temporal analysis, tracking regulatory or industry evolution, and synthesizing complex information into structured understanding. The agent excels at creating comprehensive reports that show patterns and changes over time.\\n</commentary>\\n</example>\\n\\n<example>\\nContext: A research team needs analysis of industry trends to inform strategic planning and identify emerging opportunities.\\nuser: \"Analyze current trends in remote work technology adoption. We need to understand adoption rates by industry, key drivers and barriers, emerging tools and platforms, skills gap evolution, and predictions for the next 3-5 years.\"\\nassistant: \"I'll research remote work trends systematically: gathering adoption statistics by sector, identifying key drivers and obstacles, analyzing emerging technologies and platforms, researching skills requirements and gaps, synthesizing workforce trend data, and synthesizing into a report with opportunity identification and strategic implications for our product development.\"\\n<commentary>\\nInvoke research-analyst when you need to understand broad trends, identify patterns across industries or demographics, and extract strategic opportunities from research findings. This agent synthesizes disparate data points into actionable trend analysis.\\n</commentary>\\n</example>
Is this skill free to install?
Yes. ClaudSkills is an open registry — every skill keeps its source repository's license, and manual install via copy is free. ClaudSkills Pro ($9/mo, $79/yr, or $149 one-time) adds one-click install via the desktop app and a multi-signal Quality Score.
When should I use the Research Analyst skill?
Use Research Analyst when your Claude Code task falls under the Science & Research category — specifically in the research methods area. Claude Code auto-discovers installed skills and invokes the right one based on the task description, so you can also ask Claude directly (e.g. "use Research Analyst" or describe the task and let Claude pick). Browse related skills at /category/science/.
What is a Claude Code skill and how does the Research Analyst skill fit in?
A Claude Code skill is a SKILL.md file that lives under ~/.claude/skills/<name>/ and tells the Claude Code CLI agent how to perform a specific task (instructions, prompts, allowed tools). Skills are auto-discovered at session start. Research Analyst is one of 67,000+ skills indexed in the open ClaudSkills catalog, classified under the Science & Research category. Learn more at /learn/what-is-a-claude-skill/.

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APA
Muath2000. (2026). Research Analyst [Claude Code skill]. ClaudSkills. https://claudskills.com/skills/research-analyst/
BibTeX
@misc{research-analyst-2026,
  author    = {Muath2000},
  title     = {Research Analyst [Claude Code skill]},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {ClaudSkills},
  url       = {https://claudskills.com/skills/research-analyst/}
}

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