Claude skills for research
Decompose the question, gather independent sources, cross-check, synthesize. These skills run a real research process instead of a single long answer.
- Deep ResearchRuns a thorough multi-source research process - decompose the question, gather independent sources, cross-check, synthesize - and delivers a structured, cited brief with confidence levels and gaps. Use when someone asks "research this topic in depth", "give me everything on X", "what does the evidence say about Y", or needs a broad question answered from secondary sources with citations. Do NOT use for designing a study that collects new data - use primary-research instead; for distilling an already-gathered pile of 20+ sources into themes, use research-synthesis; for verifying one discrete claim, use fact-checker.Research
- Research SynthesisTurns many sources into a decision-ready synthesis - atomic claims clustered into named themes, surfaced tensions between sources, gaps no source answers, and explicit so-what/now-what implications with confidence ratings. Use when someone says "synthesize this research", "what do all these reports agree on", "pull the themes out of these articles", or has a pile of sources and needs conclusions rather than source-by-source summaries. Do NOT use for synthesizing user interview transcripts - use interview-synthesis instead; for a formal academic literature review, use literature-review.Productivity
- content-research-briefResearch topics by collecting real source articles and generating structured research briefs for content creation.Research
- Research ReadoutTurns synthesized research findings into a crisp stakeholder readout - so-what up front, 3-5 confidence-tagged findings each following the finding-evidence-implication rule, and owned recommendations. Use when someone says "present these research findings", "turn this study into a readout for leadership", "our research isn't landing with the product team", or needs a deck or brief that gets findings acted on. Do NOT use for building a narrative around quantitative metrics and charts - use data-story instead; for the upstream analysis that produces the findings, use interview-synthesis or research-synthesis; for slide craft itself, use slide-deck-builder.Research
- user-research-synthesisSynthesize qualitative customer data into structured, actionable insights using JTBD framing.Research
- Deep ResearchProduce evidence-rich research memos and decision briefs with cited sources, verified claims, and explicit limitations - single-agent-first, fanning out only when parallel work clearly helps.Research
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Questions
How is this better than just asking Claude to research?
The skill encodes the process: source independence, cross-checking, confidence levels, and gaps. Bare prompts skip the discipline.