Turn an open question into a bounded, evidence-led investigation rather than a plausible-sounding synthesis. It preserves a practical method, local reference material, and reusable templates so an agent can do more than produce a generic answer. The method requires research to leave behind durable, source-linked artifacts that others can discover and reuse.

Use it when the work needs a repeatable process and an inspectable result. It is portable across Agent Skills-compatible clients and does not require a profile system or a particular task orchestrator.

What You Get

Path	What it provides
`SKILL.md`	Trigger conditions, workflow, and guidance for loading deeper resources.
`references/`	Journalistic, industry, comprehensive, technical-verification, source-evaluation, synthesis, and media-evidence routing guidance.
`assets/`	Research brief/log plus a media claim ledger for source-to-experiment closure and sampling audits.

Quick Start

Choose the research track in SKILL.md, then start from assets/research-brief.md and maintain a research log. Preserve the retained evidence and extracted claims in the long-lived research surface your agent and users normally use before delivering the synthesis.

For research involving media, also copy assets/media-claim-ledger.md. Use this skill to audit claims and evidence; use the ffmpeg skill for probes, extraction, experiments, editing, and verification.

Install or expose this directory using your agent's standard Agent Skills loading mechanism, then ask for work that matches the triggers below.

Triggers

Plan, conduct, evaluate, and synthesize rigorous research. Use for journalistic, industry, or technical investigations that need credible evidence and a traceable method.
Requests involving the method, deliverables, or review process described in SKILL.md.
Work where a reusable template or reference from this skill would reduce avoidable mistakes.
Media research that needs sourced technical claims, build-specific reproduction records, sampling-completeness checks, or a clean handoff between FFmpeg evidence and human editorial judgment.

Requirements

No runtime dependency. Use appropriate retrieval tools and retain source URLs and access dates in the research log.

Source and maintenance

This skill was extracted from magnus919/hermes-profiles at commit 867a555. The portable methodology was retained; Hermes-specific profile, orchestration, and memory assumptions were removed.