using-research

82 / 100 · Low risk

Fine to try. Some of what it can do is expected: a research skill usually looks things up on the internet.

By DavidSouther/ailly (GitHub) · research · 16 stars · scanned at commit 3b72cbd

Bootstrap skill for research. Loaded at session start to establish when to invoke each research skill.

Works with any agent that supports SKILL.md skills.

What this skill can do

Downloads and installs other software

The author does not mention this.

Found in 1 place.

research/skills/using-research/references/configuring/codebase.md, line 57- [ ] **Python** — present when `pyproject.toml`, `setup.py`, or `*.py` exists. Install pyright (`pip install pyright` or `npm install -g pyright`); pylsp is th

Connects to the internet

This is disclosed by the author in the skill's SKILL.md or README. Expected for a research skill.

Found in 5 places.

research/skills/using-research/references/configuring/public.md, line 10This skill installs the harness that `research:public` consumes. The core transport — `WebSearch` and `WebFetch` — is **built in**: it needs no install, no key,
research/skills/using-research/references/configuring/public.md, line 24Capability count: **3** — two unconditional (built-in `WebSearch` / `WebFetch`), one conditional (augmented search).
research/skills/using-research/references/configuring/public.md, line 29{ result: "not-available", capability: "augmented-search", reason: "<no augmentation provider configured; falls back to built-in WebSearch>" }

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research/skills/using-research/references/configuring/public.md, line 32The practice skill treats Not-Available as a routing signal, not as an error: with no augmentation configured it uses built-in `WebSearch`, which is always avai
research/skills/using-research/references/configuring/public.md, line 59- [ ] **Search-augmentation provider** — probe the configured search-augmentation MCP for this project (a hosted search-API connector, or a domain-scoped index

Install

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

if [ -e ~/.agents/skills/'using-research' ] || [ -L ~/.agents/skills/'using-research' ]; then echo 'A skill folder named using-research already exists — not replacing it' >&2; false; else d=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --quiet --filter=blob:none --no-checkout 'https://github.com/DavidSouther/ailly' "$d" && git -C "$d" checkout --quiet '3b72cbd7d7d6d933ac8e173639b08c833d2a844a' -- 'research/skills/using-research' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'research/skills/using-research' ~/.agents/skills/'using-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/'using-research' ~/.claude/skills/'using-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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Score history

Date	Version	Score
2026-11-12	`3b72cbd`	82