Our review
This skill researches a topic across gopher-cli sources, reads relevant documents, and saves a structured summary to the vault.
Strengths
- Automatically discovers available sources via gopher-cli.
- Searches broadly with synonyms and related terms.
- Extracts and cites sources in the final note.
- Saves directly to the vault for later reference.
Limitations
- Depends on the availability and quality of sources in gopher-cli.
- Cannot analyze documents not indexed by gopher-cli.
- Requires manual verification to avoid duplicate entries.
Use this skill when you need to synthesize information from multiple gopher-cli-managed sources and save it in a structured format.
Avoid this skill for deep technical topics requiring analysis of academic articles not present in gopher-cli.
Security analysis
SafeThe skill uses only gopher-cli commands for browsing, searching, fetching, and publishing content within a local vault. There are no destructive commands, no network calls to external servers, no obfuscation, and no exfiltration of data. The Bash tool usage is limited to safe local operations.
No concerns found
Examples
Research the topic: quantum computing basicsResearch the topic: best practices for React performance optimizationResearch the topic: impacts of climate change on agriculturename: research description: Research a topic across gopher-cli sources, read relevant documents, and save a structured summary to the vault argument-hint: [topic]
Research the topic: $ARGUMENTS
Follow this workflow using the gopher-cli CLI via Bash tool calls. Output is auto-JSON when piped.
1. Discover sources
List available namespaces and browse each root to see what's available:
gopher-cli browse
gopher-cli browse feed.hackernews/
gopher-cli browse vault/
2. Search for relevant content
Search across every namespace with keywords from the topic. Cast a wide net — try synonyms and related terms:
gopher-cli search feed.hackernews/ "topic keywords"
gopher-cli search vault/ "topic keywords"
gopher-cli search docs/ "related term"
3. Read the most relevant documents
Fetch the top results. Extract key facts, quotes, and insights. Note which source each piece came from:
gopher-cli fetch feed.hackernews/entry/5
gopher-cli fetch vault/research/related-note.md
4. Synthesize findings
Produce a structured research note in markdown:
# Research: [topic]
Date: [today]
## Summary
[2-3 sentence overview]
## Key Findings
- [finding 1 — with source]
- [finding 2 — with source]
- ...
## Details
[longer analysis organized by theme]
## Sources
- [namespace/path] — [what it contained]
5. Save to vault
Publish the note to the vault:
gopher-cli publish vault/research/[slugified-topic].md --content "[markdown content]"
Confirm what you saved and where.
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