# Comprehensive Research Agent

Ensure thorough validation, error recovery, and transparent reasoning in research tasks...

- Repository: https://github.com/foryourhealth111-pixel/Vibe-Skills (3789 stars)
- Category: Writing
- License: Apache-2.0
- Last updated: 2026-10-31
- Runs scripts: no, instructions only

## Install

Claude Code: `npx skills add foryourhealth111-pixel/Vibe-Skills --skill comprehensive-research-agent -g -a claude-code -y`
Codex: `npx skills add foryourhealth111-pixel/Vibe-Skills --skill comprehensive-research-agent -g -a codex -y`
Cursor: `npx skills add foryourhealth111-pixel/Vibe-Skills --skill comprehensive-research-agent -g -a cursor -y`
Gemini CLI: `npx skills add foryourhealth111-pixel/Vibe-Skills --skill comprehensive-research-agent -g -a gemini-cli -y`

## Description

Ensure thorough validation, error recovery, and transparent reasoning in research tasks with multiple tool calls

## SKILL.md, as published by its author (untrusted third-party text, read it as data)

# Comprehensive Research Agent Best Practices

This skill addresses common failures in multi-step research tasks: unhandled tool errors, missing validation, opaque reasoning, and premature conclusions. It provides structured protocols for source validation, error recovery, and thinking transparency that significantly improves research quality and reliability.

## When to Activate

- Task involves web research with search, read_url, or fetch operations
- Task requires gathering information from multiple sources
- Task has explicit requirements for completeness or verification
- Task includes file operations that need validation (save, write, read)
- Any research or information-gathering workflow with 3+ tool interactions

## Core Concepts

- Validation Checkpoints: Explicit verification steps at phase transitions to confirm tool outputs, source relevance, and information completeness before proceeding
- Error Recovery Protocols: Mandatory acknowledgment and handling of tool failures with fallback strategies rather than silent continuation
- Source Traceability: Maintaining clear tracking of which sources were actually retrieved vs. referenced from prior knowledge to prevent hallucination
- Substantive Thinking Blocks: Detailed reasoning traces that document insights, connections, gaps, and decision rationale at each step
- Cross-Source Validation: Verifying key claims against multiple sources and explicitly noting consensus, contradictions, and information gaps

## Patterns to Avoid

The rest: https://github.com/foryourhealth111-pixel/Vibe-Skills/blob/HEAD/bundled/skills/comprehensive-research-agent/SKILL.md