research
Agent skill (SKILL.md) for research, published in mattpocock/skills. Load it into Claude Code, Codex, Cursor or another SKILL.md-aware agent.
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What it helps with
Agent jobs: Any agent
Security scan and details
- Scan result
- Repo security-scanned on 2026-10-17 at commit 49dd158d1076: pass. The verdict covers the whole repo (mattpocock/skills); this skill wasn't scanned separately.
- License
- MIT
- GitHub stars
- 295,016
- Last updated
- 2026-10-13
- Installs on skills.sh
- 677,354 (source, 2026-10-17). Not our download count.
- Source
- github.com/mattpocock/skills
- Parent repo
- Matt Pocock Skills (handoff, research, grill-me)
Automated static scan of the source at a pinned commit (custom prompt-injection, malware and exfiltration rules plus semgrep, gitleaks and osv-scanner); flagged lines get a manual review. Hosted APIs with no code to scan stay at Needs review. A scan lowers risk; it doesn't prove safety.
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