feat(me): simplify research skill with upstream context

[baleen37]

Summary

• Update research command description for better clarity
• Replace verbose SKILL.md with concise upstream version from everything-claude-code
• Focus on core research workflow: understand, explore, hypothesize, verify, summarize
• Streamline tool recommendations and output format

Changes

• Modified plugins/me/commands/research.md description
• Added simplified plugins/me/skills/research/SKILL.md based on upstream context

Test plan

• Verify research skill structure matches skill format
• Test research skill invocation
• Validate skill behavior matches simplified workflow

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• Documentation
  • Updated research mode description to emphasize exploration, investigation, and learning with evidence-based analysis.
  • Added a comprehensive research workflow guide: goals, behavioral guidelines (read widely, ask clarifying questions, document progressively), step-by-step process (understand, explore, hypothesize, verify, summarize), preferred tools, and recommended output format.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

This PR updates the research command's front matter description and adds a new skill guide (SKILL.md) that documents a research-focused workflow, behavioral guidelines, process steps, and preferred tools.

Changes

Cohort / File(s)	Summary
Research Command Metadata plugins/me/commands/research.md	Front matter description changed from "Web research with citations and evidence-based analysis" to "Research mode - exploration, investigation, learning with evidence-based analysis". No other behavioral or control-flow changes.
Research Skill Guide plugins/me/skills/research/SKILL.md	New file introducing a research workflow: mode/focus, behavioral guidelines (read widely, ask clarifying questions, document progressively), step-by-step process (understand → explore → hypothesize → verify → summarize), preferred tools (code reads, grep/glob, web search/fetch, Explore agent), and output format (findings first, recommendations second).

Sequence Diagram(s)

(omitted — changes are documentation/metadata and do not introduce multi-component control-flow)

Estimated code review effort

🎯 2 (Simple) | ⏱️ ~10-15 minutes

Possibly related PRs

• feat(me): simplify research skill with upstream context #177: Adds the same plugins/me/commands/research.md update and a plugins/me/skills/research/SKILL.md with near-identical content.
• feat(me): add refactor-clean command and standardize argument-hint across commands #48: Modifies plugins/me/commands/research.md front matter (adds argument-hint), overlapping with this PR's metadata edits.

Poem

🐰 In burrows bright I read and peep,

I chase the threads of knowledge deep,
Step by step I sniff and find,
With notes and questions on my mind,
Hop, explore — discoveries leap!

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 3

✅ Passed checks (3 passed)

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Description Check	✅ Passed	Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check	✅ Passed	The PR title 'feat(me): simplify research skill with upstream context' accurately describes the main changes: updating the research command and introducing a simplified research skill guide based on upstream content.
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check.

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