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Go from a question to a sourced research brief

You'd normally lose the day to open tabs and a doc of pasted links you half-trust. One sentence, and every claim comes back with its source.

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search-strategy  by anthropics

Breaks your question into the right searches across sources, then brings back one answer with every claim attributed.

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The problem

  • Someone needs an answer with evidence — a client, the board, your own pricing call.
  • So you open the tabs — and an hour later you have nine of them, two contradicting numbers, and a doc of links you no longer trust.

How it works

You give Cowork the broken file and one sentence:

Research where Pix is heading versus cards for Brazilian retail — current share, trajectory, what changes in 2026 — cite every claim and flag anything uncertain.

And this is what comes back:

Before — the tab ritual
tab: a 2024 stat inside a 2026 argument
tab: two sites, two different numbers
doc: links pasted, claims unpinned
the question, still unanswered: what do we tell the client?
After — one cited brief
Headline answerin one line
Current sharemulti-source
The 2026 storywith timeline
Flagged (3)not guessed
✓ every claim linked · projections labeled as projections

Why use it

  • The tab-day back — the question gets split into the right searches; you read one brief.
  • Every claim linked — trust the brief, or click through and check it yourself.
  • Confidence labeled — solid numbers separated from single-source projections. Our run flagged 3 uncertainties instead of smoothing them over.
  • Decision-shaped — it ends with what this means for you, not a pile of facts.
~½ day
of tab-hopping, back
3
uncertainties flagged, 0 smoothed
1
sentence typed

Do it yourself, step by step

1

Download the skill

Click here to download it — or use the Download button on its Claudinho page. A .skill file lands in your Downloads folder.

2

Drag that file into Cowork

Open your Downloads folder and drag the file into the Claude desktop app window. Steps 1 and 2 are once — from now on you start at step 3.

3

Start a task — no files needed

Just bring the question you actually need answered.

4

Type the sentence

You don't need to mention the skill: Claude recognizes a research question and uses it on its own.

Research where Pix is heading versus cards for Brazilian retail — current share, trajectory, what changes in 2026 — cite every claim and flag anything uncertain.
5

Read the brief

Claims linked, confidence labeled, flags where the sources disagree. Click any source you want to verify.

Prefer a command? npx skills add https://github.com/anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins/tree/main/search-strategy does the same.

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