Research Toolkit

Research Toolkit

AI/ML research and verification tools for software development.

Features

Skills

Skill	Description
ai-dev-research	World-expert technical research on AI-enabled software development topics. Covers RAG architectures, agentic workflows, LLM integration, embeddings, and AI coding tools.
ai-twitter-radar	Discover trending AI tools, news, and insights from influential developers and AI advocates on Twitter/X using Bird CLI. Read-only skill for research and discovery.
research-verification	Pre-flight verification checklist for research tasks. Prevents assumptions from becoming errors when gathering information about external systems, APIs, or configurations.
kcap	Capture and distill knowledge from URLs into structured markdown notes. Supports web articles, YouTube videos, and Twitter/X posts with dual-agent security architecture.
starduster	Catalog GitHub starred repos into a structured Obsidian vault with AI-synthesized summaries, normalized topic taxonomy, graph-optimized wikilinks, and Obsidian Bases index files.

Installation

Via Marketplace

/plugin marketplace add https://github.com/swannysec/robot-tools
/plugin install research-toolkit@robot-tools

Manual Installation

git clone https://github.com/swannysec/robot-tools.git
cd robot-tools
cc --plugin-dir ./research-toolkit

Usage

Skills activate automatically via trigger phrases:

ai-dev-research:

• "research AI", "AI research"
• "compare LLMs", "which model should I use"
• "RAG architecture", "agentic workflow"
• "AI coding tools", "best practices for AI development"

ai-twitter-radar:

• "AI Twitter", "trending AI tools", "AI news from Twitter"
• "what are AI developers saying", "AI tweets"

research-verification:

• "verify research", "check assumptions", "validate findings"

kcap:

• "capture this url", "save this article", "kcap"
• "knowledge capture", "distill this", "save to obsidian"
• "capture this video", "capture this tweet", "save this for later"

starduster:

• "catalog my github stars", "starduster", "export github stars"
• "github stars to obsidian", "index my starred repos", "organize my github stars"
• "starred repos catalog", "star catalog", "summarize my stars", "what have I starred"
• "obsidian github stars", "starred repo notes"

kcap vs ai-twitter-radar: Use kcap to save/distill a specific URL to a structured note. Use ai-twitter-radar to browse, discover, or search AI tweets. starduster vs kcap: Use starduster to bulk-catalog your GitHub stars into a vault. Use kcap to capture a single specific URL.

Example Commands

"Research the current state of RAG architectures"
"Compare Claude, GPT-4, and Gemini for code generation"
"Verify my research on vector databases"
"What's the best approach for building an agentic workflow?"
"What are AI developers saying on Twitter about Claude?"
"Find trending AI tools on Twitter"
"kcap https://example.com/some-article"
"Capture this YouTube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ"
"kcap https://x.com/user/status/123456789 focus on the tooling recommendations"
"kcap --deep https://example.com/long-analysis"
"starduster"
"starduster 50"
"Catalog my GitHub stars into Obsidian"
"starduster --full"

Requirements

• Claude Code CLI
• GitHub CLI (gh) (for starduster — GitHub stars fetching)
• jq (for starduster — JSON data extraction)
• Bird CLI (for ai-twitter-radar and kcap Twitter capture)
• trafilatura (for kcap web article extraction)
• youtube-transcript-api (for kcap YouTube capture)

Optional (fallback tools):

• html2text (fallback for web extraction when trafilatura unavailable)
• yt-dlp (fallback for YouTube transcripts + metadata extraction)

License

MIT License with Commercial Restriction