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title: "Research Start - Air Market"
description: "You have been handed a legal issue and do not know where to begin. This lays out a starting map: statutes worth checking, areas of case law to look into, relevant regulatory frameworks, and search te…"
canonical: "https://airmarket.ai/app/research-start"
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[Air Market](/) / [Research](/category/research) / Research Start

Skill by [Anthropic](/@anthropics)

# Research Start

Know where to start looking when a legal question is new to you

## What this does

You have been handed a legal issue and do not know where to begin. This lays out a starting map: statutes worth checking, areas of case law to look into, relevant regulatory frameworks, and search terms for Westlaw. These are leads, not citations you can rely on, so you still verify and build out everything yourself.

### Top 3 things it does for you

- Get a research roadmap for a legal issue
- Find which statutes and case law areas to check
- Spot the gaps in research you have already done

## Information

**Research Start at a glance**

|  |  |
| --- | --- |
| Kind | Skill |
| Publisher | [Anthropic](/@anthropics) |
| Category | [Research](/category/research) |
| Works with | Agent Skills - an open standard supported by 40+ agents |
| Size | 11 KB |
| Licence | Apache-2.0 |
| Repository | [anthropics/claude-for-legal](https://github.com/anthropics/claude-for-legal/tree/4a6c651889c97cc9140580363c73e0eb17379c2b/legal-clinic/skills/research-start) |
| GitHub stars | 9,242 (as of Nov 2026) |
| Installs | 715, counted by skills.sh (Nov 2026) |

## Security report

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

**What Research Start's check was run against**

|  |  |
| --- | --- |
| Commit | 4a6c651889c97cc9140580363c73e0eb17379c2b |
| Content hash | 5cea26de112fa5876fc6068456461a35d83bc053c5013c94cf13eb54eb5d5d5d |
| Files read | [Browse the files at this exact commit](https://github.com/anthropics/claude-for-legal/blob/4a6c651889c97cc9140580363c73e0eb17379c2b/legal-clinic/skills/research-start/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 Start](/security/research-start)

## About Research Start

This builds a research roadmap for a legal issue: statutes to check, case law areas to investigate, regulatory frameworks that may apply, and search terms for Westlaw.

What it gives you are leads and frameworks, not authoritative citations. Students verify and develop everything from there.

Use it when you are not sure where to start researching an issue, when you want a roadmap laid out, or when you want gaps identified in research you have already done.

## What's inside

- SKILL.md - instructions

## Questions

### Is Research Start safe to install?

AIR scanned this exact version of Research Start and flagged nothing. AIR's verdict: safe. The verdict is named by the content that was read, at commit 4a6c651889c9, so it cannot drift onto a version nobody scanned. The full report is at https://airmarket.ai/security/research-start.

### How do I install Research Start?

Open https://airmarket.ai/app/research-start 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/anthropics/claude-for-legal/tree/4a6c651889c97cc9140580363c73e0eb17379c2b/legal-clinic/skills/research-start. Install from that link, not the branch.

## Related on Air Market

- [More Research listings](/category/research)
- [Everything by Anthropic](/@anthropics)

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