Research Brief

Answers “what is known about this” with a sourced brief: overviews, competitor and industry analysis, fact checks with conflicts flagged, every claim tied to a dated source and every unknown named.

npx skills add arm-pz/research-brief

4 files and 520 lines, free under MIT. Built from arm-pz/research-brief at f855689.

Quality record

Know what you are installing.

Version, date and limits are read from the repo on every sync, and the check runs every night. Real-world runs are listed only with their evidence.

Version
Unversionedcommit f855689
Updated
18 Oct 2026last commit to the repo
Works in
Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Qoder and any agent that loads a SKILL.mdplain text; no API keys
Nightly check
PassingNo failures or warnings. How it is checked
Last real-world run
No public run yetRuns are published only with their evidence.
Known limits
Not built for:
  • Turning findings into a recommendation and roadmap (use strategy-memo)
  • For analysing the user's own dataset (use data-readout)
  • For being taught a topic step by step (use topic-primer)

What it is for

Decision-grade research: topic overviews, competitor and industry analysis, literature reviews, fact checks with conflicting sources flagged, synthesis of expert positions, trend scans, due diligence on a partner or investment, interpretation of numbers found in public sources and one-page executive briefs, with every claim tied to a dated source read in the session and unknowns named instead of filled in. Use whenever someone asks what is known about a subject: research X for me, who else does this, is this claim true, what is the market size, brief me before I meet them, summarise this literature, even if they never say research.

Not for

  • Turning findings into a recommendation and roadmap (use strategy-memo)
  • For analysing the user's own dataset (use data-readout)
  • For being taught a topic step by step (use topic-primer)

Every file it installs

Measured from the packed archive at commit f855689. A skill is plain text your agent reads, so this list is all of it.

FileLinesBytes
SKILL.md13510,262 B
references/due-diligence.md1128,162 B
references/report-formats.md17110,975 B
references/verification.md1027,392 B
4 files52014 KB

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Read it before you install it: the skill lives at skills/research-brief in arm-pz/research-brief.

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