Use Case
Research Assistant is a powerful AI agent skill that extends your assistant with new capabilities. Organized research and knowledge management for agents. Use when you need to structure, store, retrieve, and export research notes across topics. Supports adding notes with tags, listing topics, searching across all notes, and exporting to markdown. Perfect for multi-session projects, tracking ideas, and maintaining structured knowledge. This guide walks you through installing Research Assistant, configuring it for your setup, and running your first commands β so you can start getting value in minutes.
Install Research Assistant: npx clawhub@latest --dir ~/.claude/skills install research-assistant
Restart your AI client (Claude Code, Cursor, Gemini CLI, or OpenClaw)
Type a natural language request related to documents & notes to trigger Research Assistant
Review the output and refine your prompt for better results
Combine Research Assistant with other skills to build multi-step workflows
Copy these prompts and use them with your AI agent after installing Research Assistant
Help me get started with Research Assistant
What can Research Assistant do for my documents & notes workflow?
Show me an example of using Research Assistant
Select your agent
Option 1: Install via CLI (recommended)
Recommended (no pre-install needed)
npx clawhub@latest --dir ~/.claude/skills install research-assistantOr via clawhub CLI (if already installed)
clawhub --dir ~/.claude/skills install research-assistantβ οΈ Requires Node.js 18+. No Node? Use Option 2 below to download the ZIP instead. Install Node.js β
Option 2: Manual install (no Node required)
Download the ZIP, extract it, and place the folder at the path below. Restart your agent to activate.
Install path
~/.claude/skills/research-assistant/π‘Extract and place the folder at the path above, then restart your agent.