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title: "Research Agent Authoring Playbook - Air Market"
description: "You want an assistant that goes and reads things for you and comes back with a written answer, not a pile of links. This is a guide for building one: it searches, reads what it finds, and pulls it to…"
canonical: "https://airmarket.ai/app/research-agent"
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[Air Market](/) / [Research](/category/research) / Research Agent Authoring Playbook

Skill by [Mastra](/@mastra-ai)

# Research Agent Authoring Playbook

Build an agent that reads the sources and writes the brief

## What this does

You want an assistant that goes and reads things for you and comes back with a written answer, not a pile of links. This is a guide for building one: it searches, reads what it finds, and pulls it together into a report with sources attached. Reach for it when you keep doing the same kind of digging by hand.

### Top 3 things it does for you

- Build an agent that researches a topic and reports back
- Set up automated competitive analysis
- Create a news monitor that produces briefs

## Information

**Research Agent Authoring Playbook at a glance**

|  |  |
| --- | --- |
| Kind | Skill |
| Publisher | [Mastra](/@mastra-ai) |
| Category | [Research](/category/research) |
| Works with | Agent Skills - an open standard supported by 40+ agents |
| Size | 8 KB |
| Licence | _Not recorded_ |
| Repository | [mastra-ai/mastra](https://github.com/mastra-ai/mastra/tree/d8a79afe06a6352c90d0fb7bef0f394ad0af8eff/packages/editor/src/ee/workspace/skills/research-agent) |
| GitHub stars | 27,423 (as of Nov 2026) |

## Security report

**Verified.** AIR scanned this exact version of Research Agent Authoring Playbook and flagged nothing. AIR's verdict: **safe**.

**What Research Agent Authoring Playbook's check was run against**

|  |  |
| --- | --- |
| Commit | d8a79afe06a6352c90d0fb7bef0f394ad0af8eff |
| Content hash | d23d8f96fd954c6af3d855367ba8af36d7fa908f4255ee578c9d682de635be76 |
| Files read | [Browse the files at this exact commit](https://github.com/mastra-ai/mastra/blob/d8a79afe06a6352c90d0fb7bef0f394ad0af8eff/packages/editor/src/ee/workspace/skills/research-agent/SKILL.md) |

A scan is named by the exact content it read, not by a version number. A different version is a different artifact, and nothing here applies to a version AIR has not scanned.

[Read the full security report for Research Agent Authoring Playbook](/security/research-agent)

## About Research Agent Authoring Playbook

A playbook for building agents whose job is research: search for information, read it, and synthesize what they found into a report.

It covers the range of things people ask research agents for - summarizing sources, comparing options, competitive analysis, monitoring news, generating briefs - and producing a report backed by citations.

The material to work from can be the web or internal documents.

## What's inside

- SKILL.md - instructions

## Questions

### Is Research Agent Authoring Playbook safe to install?

AIR scanned this exact version of Research Agent Authoring Playbook and flagged nothing. AIR's verdict: safe. The verdict is named by the content that was read, at commit d8a79afe06a6, so it cannot drift onto a version nobody scanned. The full report is at https://airmarket.ai/security/research-agent.

### How do I install Research Agent Authoring Playbook?

Open https://airmarket.ai/app/research-agent on Air Market and use the install action: Air Market hands Claude a prompt naming this exact skill, and Claude sets it up. Source, pinned to the exact commit this listing describes: https://github.com/mastra-ai/mastra/tree/d8a79afe06a6352c90d0fb7bef0f394ad0af8eff/packages/editor/src/ee/workspace/skills/research-agent. Install from that link, not the branch.

## Related on Air Market

- [More Research listings](/category/research)
- [Everything by Mastra](/@mastra-ai)

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Canonical URL: <https://airmarket.ai/app/research-agent>