Skill

research

Investigate a question against high-trust primary sources and capture the findings as a Markdown file in the repo. Use when the user wants a topic researched, docs or API facts gathered, or reading legwork delegated to a background agent.

v1.3.1MIT3/3 watchmen clearedinstructions only

Take it home

Then run, where you saved it
mkdir -p ~/.marktplatz/claude-code/.claude-plugin
mv marketplace.json ~/.marktplatz/claude-code/.claude-plugin/
claude plugin marketplace add ~/.marktplatz/claude-code
claude plugin marketplace update marktplatz
claude plugin install research@marktplatz
claude plugin update research@marktplatz

Read the recipe below before you install; it is what your agent will follow.

Put it in thy scroll with others →

The recipe SKILL.md

Spin up a background agent to do the research, so you keep working while it reads.

Its job:

  1. Investigate the question against primary sources (official docs, source code, specs, first-party APIs), not a secondary write-up of them. Follow every claim back to the source that owns it.
  2. Write the findings to a single Markdown file, citing each claim's source.
  3. Save it where the repo already keeps such notes; match the existing convention, and if there is none, put it somewhere sensible and say where.

What's inside

Every turn it costs ~62 tokens of context (its name and description); when it fires, ~130 more. It is instructions only, no scripts.

The watch

SpectorCiscoATR Cleared by all 3 watchmen.
WatchmanVersionNotesReport
SkillSpector NVIDIA2.9.6–raw
Skill Scanner Cisco AI Defense2.1.01raw
Agent Threat Rules the ATR project4.0.0–raw
Read the 1 note
  • info Skill Scanner MANIFEST_MISSING_LICENSE: Skill does not specify a license

Scanned offline at admission. Each watchman's raw report is linked above, and the summary the market reads is kept beside them; see also what the watch does and does not prove.

Provenance

Taken from mattpocock/skills at tag v1.3.1, commit 24fe0ef7737e, folder skills/engineering/research, under the MIT charter. The market serves this exact copy from commit 8f3e8e3e01bb of marktplatz-dev/marktplatz-dev; its files hash to sha256-1a5c408b1843aba2ef8e67faa23bb02d83ddc6ac3e414101c555c938f5fc9033.

Versions

  • v1.3.1admitted 2026-10-18cleared
  • v1.2.3admitted 2026-09-25cleared