research

SkillDocs & knowledge

Lets your agent run research tasks and write up findings as documentation files.

Instructions available. Your AI can read the instructions. Execution depends on the setup they require.

Add ahel to your AI once: Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Claude Code or Codex. Then ask it to use this.

Then ask your AI: use the research skill

About this skill

Run a research task to generate documentation

What this skill tells your AI

The instructions your AI receives, as published by bradtraversy/coding-with-ai-course-resources in skills/research/SKILL.md and read by ahel’s review.

Task

Execute research task: $ARGUMENTS


Instructions

  1. If no argument provided, error: "Usage: /research "
  2. Look for prompt file at context/research/{$ARGUMENTS}.md
  3. If not found, error: "Prompt file not found at context/research/{$ARGUMENTS}.md"
  4. Read the prompt file which should contain:
    • Output: Where to write results (e.g., context/content-types.md)
    • Research: What to investigate
    • Include: Specific details to capture
    • Sources: What files/tools to use
  5. Execute the research using appropriate tools:
    • Read files (Prisma schema, constants, components)
    • Query database via Neon MCP if needed
    • Search codebase for patterns
  6. Write findings to the specified output location
  7. Summarize what was discovered

Rules

  • This command produces DOCUMENTATION only
  • Do NOT modify source code files
  • Do NOT create branches or commits
  • Output should go to /docs/ unless otherwise specified
  • Use subagents for thorough exploration if needed

Signals

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Item type
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Key
research-bradtraversy
Source
github.com/bradtraversy/coding-with-ai-course-resources