Claude-Research-Space-Plugin

Claude Code plugin: research workflow — source logging, source summarization, and deep-dive primitives, with ten variants for different research modes — including an Obsidian-vault variant that doubles as a working vault. Public workspaces are auto-registered into the Open-Research-Workspaces-Index.

Part of the danielrosehill Claude Code marketplace.

What you get

Primitives (globally available once installed)

Under /research-space:*:

• research-init — load workspace state at session start
• source-log — log a new source (URL, document, quote, transcript, OSINT artifact) into sources/
• summarize-sources — per-source summaries + a rolled-up synthesis in outputs/
• deep-dive — structured investigation on a topic, produces a report
• research-status — compact state report for the current workspace
• export-report — compose a shareable report from accumulated outputs

Tech research team (subagents)

Under agents/tech-research-team/ — a 30-agent network for hardware/software stack evaluations, folded in from the former Claude-Tech-Research-Team repo. All agents are namespaced tr-* to avoid collisions.

• Managers: research-lead, prompt-organiser, output-manager, context-organiser, gitignore-manager
• Input: prompt-to-spec, transcript-cleaner, context-saver
• Option exploration: saas-finder, open-source-finder
• Source finders (hardware): us-sources-finder, israel-sources-finder, amazon-uk, amazon-to-israel, aliexpress
• Research: evaluator, reputation-checker, oem-investigator, pn-checker, rrp-retrieval, support-check, durability-probe, deep-spec-probe
• Compatibility: mobile, linux-software-check, linux-hardware-check
• Comparison & reporting: comparisons, ranker, author
• Specialists: deployment-process

Pair these with the stack, technical, or purchasing workspace variants.

Provisioning skill

• /research-space:new-workspace <name> [--variant=<variant>] [--local-only] [--private] [--no-index]

Scaffolds a new research workspace (CLAUDE.md + variant-specific layout), personalises from ~/.claude/CLAUDE.md, by default creates a public GitHub repo, and — for public workspaces — appends an entry to Open-Research-Workspaces-Index. Use --private for a private repo (skips index registration); --no-index to publish publicly but skip the index.

Variants

Variant	Use case
deep-research	General-purpose investigation around a central question (default)
technical	APIs, libraries, protocols, hardware — version-sensitive technical research
osint	Open-source intelligence with provenance, chain-of-custody, red-teaming
georeaction	Comparative regional reactions to an event or policy
stack	Tool/stack evaluation — criteria, candidates, scoring
ecosystem	Actor mapping — companies, orgs, relationships, segments
competitor	Competitor intelligence — product, pricing, team, positioning
purchasing	Structured purchase research — spec → candidates → shortlist → decision
general-research-workspace	Openly-logged Q&A research space — user asks, Claude writes longform answers, pairs periodically consolidated into PDFs
obsidian-vault	The same research loop, scaffolded as a working Obsidian vault — committed .obsidian/ config, frontmatter schema, wikilink discipline, templates, canvas

The obsidian-vault variant

Optimised for two readers rather than one. It is the standard research scaffold — context, questions, sources, findings, outputs — expressed so that opening the folder in Obsidian gives a configured vault rather than a pile of markdown: graph colour groups per folder, backlinks that resolve, a properties schema the Properties panel understands, note templates wired to the core Templates plugin, and a canvas of the research loop.

No community plugins are required: each folder carries a hand-maintained map of content, so the vault works on a fresh install. Meta/Dataview Queries.md mirrors those views as live queries for anyone who has Dataview.

The scaffold's CLAUDE.md teaches the agent the vault conventions it would not otherwise follow — quoted link values in frontmatter, one claim per note, never linking a note that does not exist, and rewriting backlinks by hand when renaming from the shell (Obsidian only does that for renames it performs itself).

Also published standalone as Obsidian-Research-Vault-Template, a GitHub template repo, for use without the plugin. template/obsidian-vault/ here is the source of truth; the standalone repo mirrors it.

Pattern

Primitives live in the plugin and are reachable from any cwd. Workspace scaffolds are shipped as plain data (no .claude/ tree). Plugin updates never touch your workspace data.

See PLAN.md in Claude-Workspace-Reshaping-190426 for the full pattern spec this plugin follows.

Install

/plugin marketplace add danielrosehill/Claude-Code-Plugins
/plugin install research-space

License

MIT.