Overview
autonomous-investigation is an open-source productivity skill for Claude Code and compatible agents, published by deanpeters. Its author describes it as: “The protocol behind every investigation skill. Use when AI research must proceed without you: search-plan gate, Fact/Inference/Assumption labels, confidence stacking, diffable outputs.”. The project has 6.5k stars on GitHub and ships custom license terms, so review them before reuse. Add it to your setup with `/plugin marketplace add deanpeters/Product-Manager-Skills`.
What autonomous-investigation does
Provide the canonical contract for **investigation skills** — research the AI performs in the world (web search, published data, public filings) while you review the evidence instead of feeding it context. Where `workshop-facilitation` governs skills that ask you questions one at a time, this protocol governs skills that *proceed without you*: they budget their questions, show their plan, label every claim, and produce output stable enough to diff against last quarter's run. That last property is the payoff — an investigation honoring this contract can run as an agent task, in a loop, or on a…
What’s inside
The SKILL.md for autonomous-investigation is organised into these sections:
- Purpose
- Input
- Key Concepts
- Two protocols, two jobs
- The contract
- The Confidence Stacking Rule
- Guardrails
- Application
- For skills implementing this protocol
- For agents running an investigation
- Examples
- Common Pitfalls
Installation
Add autonomous-investigation to your agent with:
/plugin marketplace add deanpeters/Product-Manager-SkillsReview a skill’s source before installing it — skills can instruct your agent to run commands. This command comes from the skill’s public repository, which is the source of truth for setup steps. New to skills? Read how to install Claude Code skills.
Supported agents
- Claude Code — ships a claude code plugin marketplace
License
deanpeters has not declared a standard open-source license for this repository (Other). Confirm the terms with the author before reusing it.
Strengths
- Ships in deanpeters/Product-Manager-Skills, an established project with 6,527 GitHub stars
- Works with Claude Code
- Actively maintained — repository updated in the last 90 days
Things to check
- No license declared — confirm terms with the author before reuse
Author
Topics
Frequently asked questions
- What does autonomous-investigation do?
- The protocol behind every investigation skill. Use when AI research must proceed without you: search-plan gate, Fact/Inference/Assumption labels, confidence stacking, diffable outputs.
- How do I install autonomous-investigation?
- Run /plugin marketplace add deanpeters/Product-Manager-Skills in your agent, then reload your skills. Review the source at https://github.com/deanpeters/Product-Manager-Skills before installing.
- Is autonomous-investigation free to use?
- autonomous-investigation is publicly available on GitHub, but deanpeters has not declared a standard open-source license (Other). Confirm the terms with the author before reusing it.
- Which agents does autonomous-investigation work with?
- autonomous-investigation lists Claude Code — named in its SKILL.md, its plugin marketplace or its repository topics. Skills use the portable SKILL.md format, so other agents that read that format may load it too.
- Where does autonomous-investigation come from?
- autonomous-investigation ships inside deanpeters/Product-Manager-Skills, a repository that contains 41 catalogued skills in total. The repository's 6,527 GitHub stars apply to that whole collection, not to this skill on its own.