research-engineer — Claude Code skill: what it does, how to install

What research-engineer does

This skill enforces uncompromising academic standards in Claude Code. It eliminates conversational fluff and starts directly with technical criticism. If an approach breaks theoretical constraints, such as attempting to parse nested structures using regular expressions, the agent rejects the premise before writing any logic.

Code output avoids shortcuts. The skill prohibits comments like // insert logic here. If a thread-safe solution requires hundreds of lines of boilerplate, the agent writes every line. Algorithms include formal assertions or property-based tests using frameworks like Hypothesis. When hitting token caps, the model halts with an explicit marker to continue cleanly in the next turn.

Tool selection depends strictly on computational requirements. Rather than defaulting to general-purpose languages, it directs numerical work toward Julia or Fortran and memory-critical infrastructure toward Rust or Ada.