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Comprehensive Research Agent

Makes the agent validate sources, recover from tool errors, and document reasoning during multi-step research.

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Repository
muratcankoylan/Agent-Skills-for-Context-Engineering
Stars
18,282
Licence
MIT
Files
4 files

What it does

This skill gives the agent a set of disciplined habits for research tasks that involve several searches or page reads. The agent is told to rank sources before reading them, check every tool result for errors and explain how it recovers, cite only pages it actually retrieved, and list gaps in the final report instead of claiming the research is complete. It is a set of written instructions and examples, not a tool that fetches information by itself.

Great for

  • People who run an AI agent for multi-step web research and want fewer unsupported claims
  • Teams producing research reports that need a visible list of sources actually read and gaps left open
  • Developers building or testing research workflows who want a checklist of common failure modes

Skip it if

  • Simple one-question lookups, where the extra protocol adds overhead without benefit
  • Tasks needing verified facts from sources the agent cannot access, since the skill cannot make a source reliable or add retrieval capability
  • Anyone expecting the skill to provide search or browsing tools; it only shapes how the agent behaves with whatever tools it already has

Try asking

  • “Research the current state of context engineering techniques and write a report that lists which sources you could not access”
  • “Search for recent papers on retrieval-augmented generation, rank the results by credibility, then summarize the top three”
  • “Compile a market overview from several websites and flag any claims that only appear in one source”
Step-by-step guide: how to use Comprehensive Research AgentInstall, first run, examples, tips and FAQs

Install in 3 steps

  1. 1

    Download the skill

    The ZIP contains the 4 original files, the MIT licence and an attribution note.

    comprehensive-research-agent.zip
  2. 2

    Add it to your agent

    Claude Code (all projects)

    mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && unzip comprehensive-research-agent.zip -d ~/.claude/skills/

    Claude Code / Agent SDK (this project only)

    mkdir -p .claude/skills && unzip comprehensive-research-agent.zip -d .claude/skills/

    Claude apps (web/desktop): Settings → Capabilities → Skills → Upload skill, and choose the ZIP.

  3. 3

    Ask for the task

    No special command needed — the agent reads the skill's description and loads it when your request matches. Try one of the prompts above.

Get better results

  • Give the agent the search and read tools you want it to use, since this skill only governs how it uses them
  • Ask for the Limitations and Gaps section explicitly so the report includes unresolved items
  • Review the source list in the final report, because the skill cannot verify that cited pages say what the agent claims

What's inside

  • references/optimization_summary.json
  • references/optimized_prompt.txt
  • references/patterns_found.json
  • SKILL.md

Redistributed unmodified from muratcankoylan/Agent-Skills-for-Context-Engineering under the MIT licence. The assessment was drafted with AI from the skill's files on 2026-10-29. Skills can instruct your agent to run code — read SKILL.md and any scripts before installing.