Research — Hybrid Router + Fallback

The runtime orchestrator for the research domain. Architecture C: deterministic classification → specialist delegation OR own plan-decompose-search-synthesize-cite workflow.

Portability

Requires WebSearch + WebFetch for the fallback workflow; specialist skills (pulse, grants, litreview, syllabus, patent, dossier) must be present for delegation to work. Node.js with docx package required if Q2 = document mode. Works in Claude Code CLI natively. In Claude.ai with web tools + Code Execution, the workflow is supported.

Distinct From engineering/autoresearch-agent

These two skills share the word "research" but serve completely different use cases:

• research/research/ (this skill) — research-query router + fallback workflow ("Research X")
• engineering/autoresearch-agent/ — Karpathy's autonomous file-optimization experiment loop ("Make this code faster")

No overlap. They coexist.

Hybrid Architecture (C)