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title: "Research Before Coding - Air Market"
description: "It is easy to write something from scratch that already exists, better, somewhere else. This searches for existing tools, libraries and patterns first and brings back what it finds. Reach for it at t…"
canonical: "https://airmarket.ai/app/search-first"
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[Air Market](/) / [Developer Tools](/category/devtools) / Research Before Coding

Skill by [xuxiang](/@xu-xiang)

# Research Before Coding

Check whether somebody already built it before you do

## What this does

It is easy to write something from scratch that already exists, better, somewhere else. This searches for existing tools, libraries and patterns first and brings back what it finds. Reach for it at the start of a task, before the first line of custom code.

### Top 3 things it does for you

- Look for an existing library before writing your own
- Find the established pattern for a problem
- Research a problem before starting to code

## Information

**Research Before Coding at a glance**

|  |  |
| --- | --- |
| Kind | Skill |
| Publisher | [xuxiang](/@xu-xiang) |
| Category | [Developer Tools](/category/devtools) |
| Works with | Agent Skills - an open standard supported by 40+ agents |
| Size | 7 KB |
| Licence | MIT |
| Repository | [xu-xiang/everything-claude-code-zh](https://github.com/xu-xiang/everything-claude-code-zh/tree/dfbf9467b90dfd29bffa842c4e0a6977112900e2/skills/search-first) |
| GitHub stars | 1,908 (as of Nov 2026) |
| Installs | 38, counted by skills.sh (Nov 2026) |

## Security report

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

**What Research Before Coding's check was run against**

|  |  |
| --- | --- |
| Commit | dfbf9467b90dfd29bffa842c4e0a6977112900e2 |
| Content hash | b7f67a0abaebdbbb00072ebc5e7ac2c3de47fb4eff07dde0c0b608ea00d396b3 |
| Files read | [Browse the files at this exact commit](https://github.com/xu-xiang/everything-claude-code-zh/blob/dfbf9467b90dfd29bffa842c4e0a6977112900e2/skills/search-first/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 Before Coding](/security/search-first)

## About Research Before Coding

A research-before-coding workflow. Before custom code gets written, it searches for existing tools, libraries and patterns that already cover the problem, dispatching the researcher agent to do the looking.

## What's inside

- SKILL.md - instructions

## Questions

### Is Research Before Coding safe to install?

AIR scanned this exact version of Research Before Coding and flagged nothing. AIR's verdict: safe. The verdict is named by the content that was read, at commit dfbf9467b90d, so it cannot drift onto a version nobody scanned. The full report is at https://airmarket.ai/security/search-first.

### How do I install Research Before Coding?

Open https://airmarket.ai/app/search-first 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/xu-xiang/everything-claude-code-zh/tree/dfbf9467b90dfd29bffa842c4e0a6977112900e2/skills/search-first. Install from that link, not the branch.

## Related on Air Market

- [More Developer Tools listings](/category/devtools)
- [Everything by xuxiang](/@xu-xiang)

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