# Research Projects With Verified Sources

Research tasks often lose scope, citations, and source quality. This skill gives Claude, Codex, and Claude Code a repeatable research workflow.

## Install

```bash
npx skillstore add consiliency/project-research
```

## Metadata

- Status: approved
- Slug: consiliency-project-research
- Skillstore revision: r1
- Version status: missing
- Tree hash: c261b739a55215c0cb6f2076f9e669cfba031f23ed609b53ecfe80801f733d1d
- Author: Consiliency
- GitHub username: Consiliency
- License: MIT
- Repository: https://github.com/Consiliency/treesitter-chunker/tree/main/.ai-dev-kit/skills/stack-analyzer/templates/project-research
- Ref: d11af420e07cd866fe39cfa937efef3223896c06
- Supported tools: Claude, Codex, Claude Code
- Audit status: complete
- Agent install advisory: allowed
- Manual install advisory: allowed
- Artifact signature: available
- Audit attestation: unavailable
- Human verification: not\_verified
- Risk factors: external\_commands
- Quality score: 78
- Quality tier: bronze
- Public page: https://skillstore.pages.dev/skills/consiliency-project-research
- Manifest: https://skillstore.pages.dev/api/skills/consiliency-project-research/manifest

## Capabilities

- Defines research questions, sub-questions, boundaries, and required source types.
- Guides source selection across web, documentation, and academic sources.
- Records confidence levels and citations for each consulted source.
- Synthesizes findings into summaries with consensus, disagreements, and attribution.
- Supports coordination with research subagents when available.
- Provides placeholders for project-specific sources, vocabulary, and quality criteria.

## Use Cases

- Prepare Technical Research: A developer uses the workflow to compare libraries, collect documentation, and summarize tradeoffs with citations.
- Build Product Briefs: A product manager scopes market or feature research and receives a concise synthesis with confidence notes.
- Maintain Knowledge Bases: A documentation lead standardizes how assistants gather sources and convert findings into project guidance.

## Prompt Templates

### Scope a Research Question

```
Use the project-research skill to define the main question, related sub-questions, boundaries, and required source types for this topic: [topic].
```

### Collect Verified Sources

```
Use the project-research workflow to research [topic]. Consult up to [number] sources, note confidence for each source, and include citations.
```

### Synthesize Conflicting Evidence

```
Research [topic] and synthesize areas of agreement, disagreement, evidence quality, and open questions. Use a comprehensive style with citations.
```

### Coordinate Research Subtasks

```
Plan a research effort for [topic] using available research subagents. Divide the work by source type, then synthesize results with attribution and confidence levels.
```

## Limitations

- It is a template and needs project-specific approved sources before production use.
- It does not fetch sources by itself without tool access from the host assistant.
- It does not validate citation accuracy beyond the assistant's research process.
- It does not include domain-specific patterns until the user adds them.

## Best Practices

- Replace placeholder source lists with approved project sources before regular use.
- Ask the assistant to separate facts, inferences, and recommendations.
- Review citations and confidence notes before sharing research externally.

## Anti Patterns

- Do not accept claims that lack source citations or confidence notes.
- Do not use the template without defining the research boundary.
- Do not treat generated synthesis as final expert review for regulated decisions.

## Security Audit

- Audited at: 2026-07-06T07:51:41.108\+00:00
- Summary: The static findings are false positives caused by Markdown code fences and inline code formatting in SKILL.md. No prompt injection, data exfiltration intent, or unsafe command execution was found in the reviewed file.

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