# Research Topic

> Research a topic in depth and create a current, citation-rich Markdown report for an intermediate reader at upper-level undergraduate depth. Use this skill when the user asks for deep research, a comprehensive research report, a literature review, a literature-grounded topic overview, a course-level treatment, an explainer on how a technology, protocol, or tool works, or broad and deep coverage of a subject rather than a summary of one supplied paper. Match sources to the topic — scholarly literature for scientific subjects, official documentation and specifications for technical ones — explain specifics with casual analogies and metaphors, and produce output compatible with convert-to-epub and send-to-reader. Do NOT use when the primary task is to summarize a particular research paper; use summarize-research instead.

## Facts
- Page: https://tashan.sh/capability/skill-shanejorr-research-topic
- tashan id: skill:shanejorr/research-topic
- Source: https://github.com/shanejorr/ai-plugins
- Type: skill
- Category: search
- tashan score: not scored (catalogued only — too little public evidence)
- Adoption: 9.0
- Upkeep: 61.0
- Freshness: 92.0
- Evidence coverage: 84% of the inputs this score can use
- Health: active
- Instruction depth: not yet graded
- Official: no

## Install

```sh
cp -r research-topic ~/.claude/skills/
```

## Security audit
Not scanned. We audit npm-published capabilities; this one has no npm package we can resolve, or has not reached the queue. This is not a clean bill of health.

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Measured 2026-08-15 by tashan (https://tashan.sh) from public evidence. Scorer s5.