research-library
Research library
$RESEARCH_HOME (default ~/research) is a shared, cross-project store for reference material that
shouldn't live inside any single git repo: vendor repo clones, PDFs/epubs, mirrored docs-site
snapshots. It exists to avoid two things: (1) agents reading unvetted third-party content ambiently
just because it happens to sit inside a repo's working tree, and (2) every project re-cloning the
same reference material into its own gitignored folder.
This skill assumes a library exists. It is a plain directory — nothing installs it and nothing
but the conventions below depends on the layout. If $RESEARCH_HOME is unset and ~/research does
not exist, say so and offer to create it rather than silently falling back to fetching from the web;
setting RESEARCH_HOME in a shell profile is the only setup step.