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comprehensive-research-agent
Ensure thorough validation, error recovery, and transparent reasoning in research tasks with multiple tool calls
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# Comprehensive Research Agent Best Practices
This skill addresses common failures in multi-step research tasks: unhandled tool errors, missing validation, opaque reasoning, and premature conclusions. It provides structured protocols for source validation, error recovery, and thinking transparency that significantly improves research quality and reliability.
## When to Activate
- Task involves web research with search, read_url, or fetch operations
- Task requires gathering information from multiple sources
- Task has explicit requirements for completeness or verification
- Task includes file operations that need validation (save, write, read)
- Any research or information-gathering workflow with 3+ tool interactions
## Core Concepts
