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Research Brief

Category: Science & Research  ·  Sub-category: research-methods  ·  Last updated:
Produce a structured research brief on any topic — TL;DR, key facts with citations, notable quotes, suggested angles, open questions. 3-15 queries by depth, multi-source (WebSearch + WebFetch + optional Firecrawl/Exa MCP). Output is a markdown file ready for downstream consumption by carousel-builder, reel-builder, viral-text, essay-write, landing-copy. Use when the user says 'research X', 'gather facts on Y', 'brief me on Z', 'what's known about W', 'prepare research for a post / carousel / reel about Q'.

From the source SKILL.md

<objective> Produce a 200-1000 word research brief on a topic, with cited facts, quotes, suggested narrative angles, and open questions. Save to a markdown file under ./generated/research/<topic-slug>.md so downstream skills can ingest via --research <path>.

What this skill does

Research Brief 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-brief/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.

When to invoke it: Use when the user says 'research X', 'gather facts on Y', 'brief me on Z', 'what's known about W', 'prepare research for a post / carousel / reel about Q'.

Who uses this skill

The Research Brief 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 69,000+ 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-brief
curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/research-brief/SKILL.md \
  -o ~/.claude/skills/research-brief/SKILL.md

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

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

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