The /research skill I use for all coding

Wednesday, April 22, 2026 AI

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I’m a heavy Claude Code user and while I love Plan mode, I find it’s actually not all that thorough in its planning. While it certainly has an obscene amount of data in its training corpus, it doesn’t have everything and is obviously missing anything recent. So I’ve found that making sure a given task has the latest docs and latest web search results tends to solve problems much more efficiently. For docs, it detects if you’ve got the Context7 MCP installed. There’s a lot of debate on the efficacy of Context7. The argument being that web searching/scraping works just fine. But I find that a substantial number of developer sites are extremely javascript heavy or behind auth (which is certifiably insane). So Context7 fills in the gap much more efficiently. For design, it uses the the ui.sh toolkit, though that's not required. At any rate, here’s the /research skill I tack on to just about any new feature or bug I’m working through. This is geared towards Claude, but you should be able to adapt to whatever harness you use relatively easily.