# Provider Research

Research every provider behind Pipecat's services for new models and API affordances...

- Repository: https://github.com/pipecat-ai/pipecat (16982 stars)
- Category: Writing
- License: BSD-2-Clause
- Last updated: 2026-11-01
- Runs scripts: no, instructions only

## Install

Claude Code: `npx skills add pipecat-ai/pipecat --skill provider-research -g -a claude-code -y`
Codex: `npx skills add pipecat-ai/pipecat --skill provider-research -g -a codex -y`
Cursor: `npx skills add pipecat-ai/pipecat --skill provider-research -g -a cursor -y`
Gemini CLI: `npx skills add pipecat-ai/pipecat --skill provider-research -g -a gemini-cli -y`
Claude Code plugin marketplace: `/plugin marketplace add pipecat-ai/pipecat`

## Description

Research every provider behind Pipecat's services for new models and API affordances, writing per-service reports and local branches for clear-cut updates; publishing is scripts/provider-watch/publish.py's job, run outside this skill

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

Run a provider-research sweep: one researcher subagent per service unit, a concise dated report per unit, and a committed branch for every change a researcher is confident about. Everything stays local, this skill publishes nothing. Pushing reports, opening draft PRs on pipecat and filing the digest issue are `scripts/provider-watch/publish.py`'s job, run after the research by whoever invoked it; the run ends by printing the commands. You are the orchestrator; the research itself happens in `provider-watch-researcher` subagents following `RESEARCH_GUIDE.md`.

## Arguments

```
/provider-research [--only a,b] [--date YYYY-MM-DD] [--limit N] [--concurrency N]
```

- `--only a,b`, providers or unit ids (`openai`, `deepgram/stt`). Default: every unit.
- `--date YYYY-MM-DD`, the run date. Defaults to today; separate runs over disjoint `--only` slices with the same date compose into one sweep.
- `--limit N`, research only the first N selected units (deterministic order). For test runs.
- `--concurrency N`, researchers per batch. Default 6; use 1 for a linear test run.

Examples:

- `/provider-research --only deepgram,groq --limit 2 --concurrency 1`, smoke test
- `/provider-research --only groq`, exercise the branch path; review the branch with the command the report prints

## Instructions

### Step 1: Resolve paths and prerequisites

The rest: https://github.com/pipecat-ai/pipecat/blob/HEAD/.claude/skills/provider-research/SKILL.md