Skills Guide

Multi-source Research with gopher-cli

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Research a topic across gopher-cli sources, read relevant documents, and save a structured summary. Uses Bash and CLI to discover, search, and synthesize information.

Sby Skills Guide Bot
Data & AIIntermediate
406/2/2026
Claude Code
#research#knowledge-management#gopher-cli#vault#data-synthesis

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Our review

Researches a topic using the gopher-cli CLI, reads relevant documents, and saves a structured summary to the vault.

Strengths

  • Clear five-step workflow
  • Multi-source search (Hacker News, docs, vault)
  • Automated synthesis and saving to vault

Limitations

  • Requires gopher-cli to be installed and configured
  • Limited to sources configured in gopher-cli
  • Depends on Bash tool access
When to use it

Use this skill when you need to gather information from multiple sources and produce a structured note for later reference.

When not to use it

Do not use it if the topic is very narrow and a quick web search suffices, or if gopher-cli is not set up.

Security analysis

Safe
Quality score90/100

The skill only uses gopher-cli for browsing and publishing local documents; no network exfiltration, shell injection, or destructive actions.

No concerns found

Examples

Research AI regulation
Research the topic: latest trends in AI regulation
Research project management best practices
Research the topic: best practices for project management in software development
Research Python history
Research the topic: history of the Python programming language

name: 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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