What does this skill do?

The Research Analyst skill helps an agent synthesize information across diverse sources to identify patterns, opportunities, and evidence-based strategies.

It follows a five-step process — define scope, gather information, analyze and synthesize, generate insights, and present findings — validating source recency and authority along the way.

It covers landscape analysis, research methodologies, and information synthesis, and delivers outputs like executive summaries, detailed reports, competitive matrices, and landscape maps.

  • Runs landscape and competitive analysis

  • Gathers and validates credible, recent sources

  • Synthesizes findings into patterns and insights

  • Delivers prioritized, evidence-based recommendations

How it works

1

Define scope

The agent establishes objectives, stakeholders, success metrics, and constraints for the research.

2

Gather information

It searches multiple credible sources and validates recency and authority.

3

Analyze and synthesize

It categorizes findings by theme and identifies patterns, relationships, and gaps.

4

Generate and present

It draws conclusions, articulates prioritized recommendations, and structures findings in the appropriate output format.

Best use cases for this skill

  • Landscape research: Map a market or technology landscape and its gaps.

  • Competitive analysis: Build a competitive matrix with evaluation criteria.

  • Best-practices evaluation: Synthesize proven methodologies for a decision.

  • Trend forecasting: Identify trends and outliers with evidence.

Frequently asked questions

What does the Research Analyst skill do?

It conducts landscape research, competitive analysis, and best-practices evaluation, synthesizing credible sources into evidence-based, prioritized recommendations.

When should an agent use it?

Use it for market research, competitive analysis, landscape evaluation, best-practices synthesis, trend forecasting, or methodology assessment.

What output formats does it produce?

An executive summary, a detailed report, a competitive matrix, or a landscape map, depending on the need.

How does it ensure quality?

It uses multiple credible sources per claim, prefers recent information, presents balanced perspectives, and includes full citations for verification.

Use from source

Ask your Buda agent to install this community skill.

Copy this prompt into your own Buda agent. It includes the source repository and install command so the agent can complete the setup in natural language.

Prompt to send to your Buda agent
Please install the "Research Analyst Skill" skill into this Buda agent.

Source repository: https://github.com/curiositech/some_claude_skills
Install command: npx skills add curiositech/some_claude_skills --skill research-analyst -y -a universal

Please run the install command, verify the skill is available, and tell me any setup notes or follow-up steps from the source repository.
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Install workflow

  1. 1Copy the prompt
  2. 2Send it to your Buda agent
  3. 3Done