extern-researcher

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Study external code, avoid reinventing the wheel.

Authormalhashemi
Version1.0.0
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What problem does it solve?

This Skill helps agents avoid redundant work by researching existing open-source repositories before cloning, ensuring that solutions and patterns are not reinvented.

Core Features & Use Cases

  • Pre-cloning Research: Checks a global catalog for prior studies on a repository.
  • Temporary Workspaces: Clones repositories into a disposable .extern/ directory.
  • Persistent Knowledge: Saves research findings to a structured global catalog for future reference.
  • Use Case: Before starting a new feature that might exist in a popular open-source project, an agent uses this Skill to check if similar implementations have already been studied, learning from them instead of cloning and analyzing from scratch.

Quick Start

Research the repository at https://github.com/example/repo to learn about its patterns.

Dependency Matrix

Required Modules

pyyamlpdfplumber

Components

scriptsassetsreferences

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Name: extern-researcher
Download link: https://github.com/malhashemi/dotfiles/archive/main.zip#extern-researcher

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