# research-integration

Researches a product or vendor before an Elastic integration is built. Use it to inspect APIs, logs, field schemas, ECS candidates, and collection settings.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 513 installs · ★ 16
- Author: elastic
- License: Apache-2.0 · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/elastic/integration-skills/tree/HEAD/skills/research-integration/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-16
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## What it does

The skill investigates a product, vendor, or feature and prepares the information needed for an Elastic integration. It checks collection methods, API or log documentation, sample data formats, field schemas, ECS mapping candidates, and configuration requirements. The main brief is saved under `research_results/<product_slug>/research-brief.md`.

It delegates parallel work to research subagents, combines local reference material with its findings, and writes the results to disk. API-based research also produces `test-api.py`; a later `/create-integration` run then needs `mito`, `celfmt`, `ceplx`, and `stream`. Automatic invocation is disabled, so start it with `/research-integration`.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add elastic/integration-skills --skill research-integration -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/research-integration/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/research-integration/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add elastic/integration-skills --skill research-integration -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/research-integration/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add elastic/integration-skills --skill research-integration -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/research-integration/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install elastic/integration-skills research-integration
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/research-integration/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add elastic/integration-skills --skill research-integration -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/elastic/integration-skills --path skills/research-integration
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/research-integration/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add elastic/integration-skills --skill research-integration -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/elastic/integration-skills/tree/HEAD/skills/research-integration/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- inspect a product API or log format
- collect event samples and field schemas
- identify possible ECS field mappings
- record data collection requirements
- prepare a research brief for an Elastic integration

## Example prompts
- Run `/research-integration` for Okta System Log and investigate its event API.
- Use `/research-integration` for Checkpoint Harmony Endpoint, focusing on alerts, threat events, and audit logs.
- Research `Cisco Meraki syslog events` from its documentation and focus on firewall and IDS events.

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---
name: research-integration
description: "Research a vendor, product, or feature to collect all information needed before building an Elastic integration. Investigates data collection methods, API or log documentation, sample data formats, field schemas, ECS mapping candidates, and configuration requirements. Outputs a structured research brief to research_results/<product>/. Invoke manually with /research-integration."
license: Apache-2.0
metadata:
  author: elastic
  version: "1.0"
disable-model-invocation: true
---

# Research Integration

You are the **research orchestrator**. Your job is to thoroughly investigate a vendor, product, or feature and produce a structured research brief that a downstream integration builder can use as the primary input for `/create-integration`.

You delegate parallel research and analysis to research subagents, synthesize their findings with any locally provided reference material and your own grounded knowledge, and write the final brief to disk.

Each research subagent is dispatched via the platform's **generic / general-purpose subagent** (Cursor: `generalPurpose` Task agent; Claude Code: `general-purpose` Task agent; or the equivalent on other platforms). The subagent reads its operating manual (`references/research-subagent-guidance.md`) itself when dispatched — the orchestrator passes only the **path** in the task prompt, never the file's contents. See "Before you start" below.

Research subagents are **write-capable** -- they can download repositories, install packages, run Python analysis scripts, and write findings to files on disk. This is by design: many data sources have schemas, SDKs, or specifications too large to return inline.

## What you provide

Include any combination of the following when you invoke this command.
Use `@`-mentions for files/folders and paste links inline.

| Input | How to provide | Examples |
|-------|----------------|----------|
| Product / vendor / feature | free text | "Checkpoint Harmony Endpoint", "Okta System Log", "AWS CloudTrail via S3" |
| Known collection method | free text (optional) | "REST API", "syslog", "S3/SQS", "Azure Event Hub" |
| Documentation URLs | paste URLs | `https://docs.vendor.com/api/v2`, `https://docs.vendor.com/logging-guide` |
| Local reference material | `@`-mention files | `@samples/vendor_event.json`, `@notes/vendor-api-notes.md` |
| Scope constraints | free text | "only the alerts API", "focus on firewall logs", "audit events only" |
| Output name override | free text | "checkpoint_harmony" (defaults to sanitized product name) |

Anything typed after `/research-integration` is your research goal.

### Invocation examples

```
/research-integration Checkpoint Harmony Endpoint security events
  API docs: https://developer.checkpoint.com/reference/harmony-endpoint
````
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