desk-research-sprint
Run a timeboxed desk-research sprint that ends with an answer instead of forty tabs — the question decomposition, the source plan by question type, the capture discipline that prevents re-reading, and the stop rule that beats completionism. Use when asked research this market/tool/topic by Friday, I have two hours to get smart on X, structure my desk research, or I keep researching and never concluding. Produces the decomposed questions, the source plan, the capture format, and the timeboxed synthesis with confidence labels.
npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill desk-research-sprint --agent claude-code
Same command for any agent — swap --agent for codex, cursor, copilot.
Weekly change comes from our own snapshots, not the repository page — it measures attention, not adoption.
# Desk Research Sprint Skill Unstructured research expands to fill all available time and ends with tabs instead of answers — because "research X" was never converted into questions that can be *done*. The sprint fixes the shape: decompose into 3–5 answerable questions (each with what-good-enough-looks-like), plan sources by question type (market numbers, user sentiment, and technical claims live in different places), capture findings in one running doc *at reading time* (re-reading is the silent time-thief), and obey the stop rule — the timebox ends, the synthesis gets written from whatever's captured, gaps labeled honestly. ## What This Skill Produces - **The question set** — the vague topic decomposed into 3–5 answerable questions with good-enough bars - **The source plan** — per question: where answers of that type actually live, and the [source-triangulation](../source-triangulation/SKILL.md) depth it deserves - **The capture doc** — one running format: finding → source → confidence → which question it feeds - **The synthesis** — the answers at their earned confidence, the gaps named, the next-sprint questions if any ## Required Inputs Ask for these if not provided: - **The re
- What This Skill Produces
- Required Inputs
- Framework: The Sprint Rules
- Output Format
- The Questions
- Source Plan
- The Capture Doc (running)
- Synthesis
- Quality Checks
- Anti-Patterns
What does the desk-research-sprint skill do?
Run a timeboxed desk-research sprint that ends with an answer instead of forty tabs — the question decomposition, the source plan by question type, the capture discipline that prevents re-reading, and the stop rule that beats completionism. Use when asked research this market/tool/topic by Friday, I have two hours to get smart on X, structure my desk research, or I keep researching and never concluding. Produces the decomposed questions, the source plan, the capture format, and the timeboxed synthesis with confidence labels.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill desk-research-sprint --agent claude-code` — it drops the skill into your project so the agent can pick it up. Swap the --agent value for codex, cursor or copilot if you use one of those.
Where does this skill come from?
From mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills, a repository with 1,255 stars. We read it straight from the repository tree rather than a submitted listing, so what you see here is what is actually published.
Is a popular skill a good skill?
Not necessarily. Stars measure attention, not adoption — a repository can trend for a week and be abandoned. That is why we show the weekly change from our own snapshots next to the total, instead of a single flattering number.