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cast-research

95 / 100 · Low risk

Fine to try. Some of what it can do is expected: a coding skill usually runs build and test commands.

By codecast-sh/codecast (GitHub) · coding · 44 stars · scanned at commit fc0f0d8

Document how the code works today before anyone decides what to change. Turns a goal into neutral questions about the existing code, then has a fresh session that never sees the goal answer them in a research doc with file and line references and no recommendations. Use before planning a change that reaches into unfamiliar code, or when asked to research how something works.

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/'cast-research' ] || [ -L ~/.agents/skills/'cast-research' ]; then echo 'A skill folder named cast-research already exists — not replacing it' >&2; false; else d=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --quiet --filter=blob:none --no-checkout 'https://github.com/codecast-sh/codecast' "$d" && git -C "$d" checkout --quiet 'fc0f0d8c2340edbbdb9708d9a8eacf22aaa1d67b' -- 'packages/cli/skills/cast-research' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'packages/cli/skills/cast-research' ~/.agents/skills/'cast-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/'cast-research' ~/.claude/skills/'cast-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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