All 94 skillsPlan and decide8 of 15
stryx:research
You need an answer with evidence and sources: compare libraries, check current versions, map a codebase.
/stryx:researchInside its piece: 14 specks, one for each file on its shelf. Its fourteen group-mates glow on the open book behind it. The light splits toward red, the band of Plan and decide.
In numbers
counted 2026-10-12 in the installed set- 9reference files
- 3helper scripts
- 14files in the skill
- 145KB on disk
- 11chapters
- 1agent works by this book
Use it when
in the skill’s own wordsWhen the user wants something researched or investigated and needs an evidence-based answer rather than an opinion
- "research X"
- "look into this"
- "find out whether"
- "investigate"
- "what's the best way to"
- "compare X and Y"
- "which library should we use"
- "evaluate this package"
- "what are the alternatives"
- "research this before I build"
- "discovery"
- "explore the space"
- "pre-build competitive survey"
- "research the latest on"
- "a briefing / literature review / topic scan with sources"
- "map this codebase"
- "how is this project structured"
- When a question depends on current docs, versions or platform features memory may have wrong, or on /stryx:research
Not for
another skill does it- A graded adopt-or-reject verdict→ stryx:pov
- Competitors or a market→ stryx:market-intel
- Where to buy cheapest→ stryx:price-comparison
- A knowledge graph→ stryx:knowledge-graph
- How something works→ stryx:explain
- Reading code before changing it→ stryx:patterns
- Raw data off sites→ stryx:scraping
- Diagnosing a bug→ stryx:debug
On its shelf
14 files, 145 KB- references/9
- scripts/3
- SKILL.md1
- evals/1
Inside the book
11 chapters, by title only- Hard rules
- Step 0: scope
- Modes
- The research pipeline
- Evidence rules (summary)
- Library evaluation (summary)
- Codebase mapping (summary)
- Verify agent claims (empirical validation)
- The report
- Done means
- References and scripts
Its helper
1 agent works by this book- stryx:researcherWhen a question needs research with checked sources: current docs, library choices, earlier work.
Works with
the skills it names most- stryx:pov→You want one firm verdict for this project: adopt it or not, switch or stay.
- stryx:market-intel→You want live facts on competitors, a market or what people say about a brand.
- stryx:scraping→When data must be pulled off websites, or a scraper comes back empty or blocked.
- stryx:architect→When the hard part is structure: how the parts of a system fit, and the trade-offs between designs.
- stryx:explain→You ask how or why something works, or want a recap of past work.
- stryx:knowledge-graph→You want a folder of files turned into a map of how they connect, to ask questions of.
Claude loads it by itself when the moment comes; by hand, type the line at the top. It comes with the whole set: Installs all 94 skills, 32 agents and the brain program as one set. The skill’s own text is private source and is not shown here.