Been building Claude Code skills and wanted to share one that’s been really useful for me. What it does: You type /research [any question] and it: Breaks your question into 2-4 parallel research workstreams Launches agents simultaneously, each writing to its own file in real-time Monitors progress, kills stuck agents, relaunches automatically Synthesizes everything into a single document with executive summary, key findings, contradictions, and confidence assessment Example output: I ran it on “psychology of dating in your mid-30s” and got 4 markdown files, ~1,700 lines, fully cited with inline URLs, in about 10 minutes. The key design insight: Agents that research without writing get stuck in loops. The strict alternating protocol (search > write > search > write) prevents this entirely. If an agent’s line count hasn’t changed between check-ins, it gets killed and relaunched with its data pre-loaded. Install: Clone the repo and copy one file: git clone https://github.com/altmbr/claude-research-skill.git cp claude-research-skill/SKILL.md ~/.claude/commands/research.md That’s it. Feedback welcome, especially on the stuck agent recovery logic. GitHub: https://github.com/altmbr/claude-research-skill submitted by /u/bryanaltman
Originally posted by u/bryanaltman on r/ClaudeCode