# research-tool-updates

Audits upstream releases of supported AI coding assistants, detects gaps in rulesync feature coverage, and scouts new tools with file configs.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · ★ 1557
- Author: dyoshikawa
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/dyoshikawa/rulesync/tree/HEAD/.rulesync/skills/research-tool-updates/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-24
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/research-tool-updates

## What it does

This skill automates research on upstream updates for tools supported by rulesync. It reads the current capability matrix straight from `README.md`, evaluating changes across hooks, rules, subagents, and MCP configurations. Investigation tasks are delegated to subagents running up to five in parallel to prevent system overload.

Every gap between upstream releases and rulesync adapters undergoes local verification. The subagent inspects code in `src/**` and executes `pnpm run dev generate` with `--dry-run`. It then files a GitHub issue per tool or appends comments to open tracking discussions.

GUI-only applications are dropped immediately. Without `pnpm` available in the local project environment, the dry-run validation step will fail.

## Requirements
- Works with: GitHub

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add dyoshikawa/rulesync --skill research-tool-updates -a claude-code
```

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

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add dyoshikawa/rulesync --skill research-tool-updates -a codex
```

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

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add dyoshikawa/rulesync --skill research-tool-updates -a cursor
```

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

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install dyoshikawa/rulesync research-tool-updates
```

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

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add dyoshikawa/rulesync --skill research-tool-updates -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/dyoshikawa/rulesync --path .rulesync/skills/research-tool-updates
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

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

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add dyoshikawa/rulesync --skill research-tool-updates -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/dyoshikawa/rulesync/tree/HEAD/.rulesync/skills/research-tool-updates/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- monitor upstream changelogs for supported coding agents
- detect unmapped configuration fields in rulesync adapters
- validate rule generation using dry-run CLI commands
- discover emerging coding assistants that support file-based configs

## Example prompts
- Check recent releases for Claude Code and report missing features
- Audit all supported targets in the rulesync matrix
- Investigate upstream updates for Cursor

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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---
name: research-tool-updates
description: >-
  Research recent upstream releases of every rulesync target tool, detect
  capabilities rulesync has not yet followed, file one GitHub issue per tool for
  the gaps, and scout popular or promising coding agents rulesync does not
  target yet.
targets:
  - "*"
---

# Research Tool Updates

TARGET = the user's request

Purpose: for every target tool rulesync supports, investigate the tool's recent
releases (official release notes / GitHub releases preferred), compare them
against rulesync's current implementation, and open a per-tool GitHub issue for
any upstream capability rulesync has not yet caught up with. When an issue for
that tool already exists, supplement it with a comment instead of filing a
duplicate.

The matrix bounds the per-tool research, so a full run also scouts **outside**
it: Step 2.5 looks for coding agents rulesync does not target yet and proposes
the strongest ones as new targets, so a tool gaining traction is not missed just
because nobody has added it to the matrix by hand.

## Step 0: Determine Scope

- If `TARGET` is provided, investigate **only that tool**. Accept either the
  display name (e.g., `Claude Code`) or the `--targets` id (e.g., `claudecode`).
  Validate it against the supported tool list from Step 1; if it does not match
  any known tool, stop and report the valid options.
- If `TARGET` is empty, investigate **all** supported target tools.

## Step 1: Enumerate Supported Target Tools

Read the **`Supported Tools and Features`** matrix in `README.md`. This matrix
is the authoritative source of what rulesync supports today. Extract, for each
in-scope tool:

- The display name and the `--targets` identifier.
- The currently supported feature columns (`rules`, `ignore`, `mcp`,
  `commands`, `subagents`, `skills`, `hooks`, `permissions`) and their scope
  markers, using the legend:
  - ✅ project mode, 🌏 global mode, 🎮 simulated (project only),
    🔧 MCP tool config.

Do not hardcode the tool list from memory — re-read the matrix each run so the
skill stays in sync with the README.

Then read `references/new-target-watchlist.md` in the `rulesync-feature-research`
skill. It records products that are not targets yet but were worth re-checking,
each with the condition that would change that. Evaluate every entry in the same
run: promote one whose condition is met to a target proposal (a GitHub issue,
after the duplicate check in Step 4-1) and remove it from the file, retire an
entry that can no longer be met, and leave the rest with their rows' current
figures refreshed from this re-check. Report which entries were
promoted, retired or left in the final report.

## Step 2: Launch One Research Subagent per Target Tool

For each in-scope tool, delegate the investigation to a subagent via the Agent
tool. Run them in parallel, but cap concurrency to roughly **5 at a time** to
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