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external-research

87 / 100 · Low risk

Fine to try.

By alexandru/skills (GitHub) · writing · 51 stars · scanned at commit 1361a8f

Researches evidence unavailable locally: external documentation, public repositories at specific refs, archives, and published dependency artifacts (JARs, source JARs, POMs, dependency graphs), reusing a persistent cache of Git clones and Maven artifacts. Use for library docs, upstream source and history, dependency source or metadata, or any question needing external evidence.

Works with any agent that supports SKILL.md skills.

What this skill can do

Install

Paste this into your terminal. It downloads exactly the version we scanned, not whatever is newest.

if [ -e ~/.agents/skills/'external-research' ] || [ -L ~/.agents/skills/'external-research' ]; then echo 'A skill folder named external-research already exists — not replacing it' >&2; false; else d=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --quiet --filter=blob:none --no-checkout 'https://github.com/alexandru/skills' "$d" && git -C "$d" checkout --quiet '1361a8f6801e9f7e6f7305de641453a6c6640760' -- 'skills/tools/external-research' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'skills/tools/external-research' ~/.agents/skills/'external-research' && rm -rf "$d"; fi

Codex reads ~/.agents/skills directly. For Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, Gemini CLI, Antigravity or OpenCode, also link it. For Claude Code: ln -s ~/.agents/skills/'external-research' ~/.claude/skills/'external-research' (other agents: ~/.cursor/skills, ~/.copilot/skills, ~/.gemini/skills, ~/.gemini/config/skills, ~/.config/opencode/skills). Or install through the finder skill, which does both.

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