Authoring playbook for building agents that search, read, and synthesize information into a report. Use this when the user wants an agent to research a topic, summarize sources, compare options, do competitive analysis, monitor news, generate briefs, or pull together a citation-backed report from the web or internal documents.
How to install research-agent?
mastra-ai/mastra/research-agent
$npx -y skills add mastra-ai/mastra --skill research-agentInstalls into the current project.
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Run `npx skills use "https://github.com/mastra-ai/mastra" --skill "mastra-ai/mastra/research-agent"` and follow the generated skill instructions now. Read its complete output, redirecting it to a temporary file first if necessary. Resolve relative paths from the supporting-files directory it provides.
Use the skills in "https://github.com/mastra-ai/mastra" that are relevant to the current task. Run `npx skills add "https://github.com/mastra-ai/mastra"` and select the relevant skills, then follow their instructions.
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