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Researching

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desplega-ai·vlatest·other

This skill swiftly gathers information on any topic, boosting your knowledge and enabling informed decisions quickly.

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Install on your platform

Showing Claude Code. One command installs this skill into any of the agents below.

  1. 1

    Run this in your project

    terminal
    $ npx skills add desplega-ai/ai-toolbox --skill researching -a claude-code

  2. Uses the open-source skills CLI and needs Node.js. Add -g to install it for your user instead of this project.

What we know about this skill

Publisher

desplega-ai

Taken from the source listing. We haven't verified who controls this account.

Install target

Live repository

Not pinned. Installing fetches whatever the repository holds at the time you run the command.

No human has reviewed this code. The checks below are a static scan of the files at one commit — nobody has run this skill or judged whether it works. A skill runs with whatever access you give your agent, so read the source before you install it.

Automated safety checks

scanned

This skill passed all 6 checks. We read its files at one commit and looked for the things that make a skill dangerous to run — not for whether it works.

  • Declares what it does: passed

    SKILL.md parses and declares a name and a description.

    SKILL.md exists, its frontmatter parses, and it declares a name and a description.

  • No undeclared network calls: passed

    Makes no network calls.

    Every host the skill dials — from its scripts, its config endpoints or the commands it tells the agent to run — is either well-known package and API infrastructure or declared in its own frontmatter. Links in documentation are not counted.

  • No obfuscated payloads: passed

    No encoded or obfuscated payloads.

    No base64, hex or compressed blob is decoded and then executed, and no encoded shell commands.

  • No credential access: passed

    Reads no keys, tokens, keychains or credential files.

    Neither the code nor the SKILL.md instructions read SSH keys, cloud credentials, keychains, token stores, browser cookie databases or dotfiles that hold secrets.

  • No pipe-to-shell installers: passed

    No pipe-to-shell or download-and-run installers.

    No `curl … | sh` pattern, in the code or in the instructions, that runs code fetched at run time.

  • Pinned to a commit: passed

    Scanned desplega-ai/ai-toolbox at 9748aabf72.

    The exact upstream commit SHA that was scanned is recorded, so the result refers to specific bytes.

Commit
9748aabf72
Manifest
cc-plugin/base/skills/researching/SKILL.md
Scanned
2 files, 229 lines
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About this skill

What it does

The researching skill allows AI agents to gather information from various sources. It can be used to find answers to questions, summarize topics, and provide background information on a wide range of subjects. This skill is designed to augment an agent's knowledge base with up-to-date data.

When to use it

  • Answering complex customer inquiries: Quickly research product details or competitor offerings to provide comprehensive responses.
  • Generating reports: Gather data from multiple sources and compile them into a structured report on a specific topic.
  • Brainstorming new ideas: Explore different concepts and gather supporting information for innovative projects.
  • Staying informed about industry trends: Research current events or emerging technologies to keep your agent's knowledge relevant.

Key capabilities

  • Information gathering from various sources
  • Question answering
  • Topic summarization
  • Background research

Example prompts

  • "Research the latest advancements in sustainable energy."
  • "What are the key features of the new iPhone?"
  • "Summarize the main arguments for and against universal basic income."

Tips & gotchas

The quality of the research depends on the clarity and specificity of your prompt. Providing context or specific keywords will improve results.