Claude Code · Research & Knowledge
15 workflows that use Claude Code for research & knowledge work. An agentic coding tool that works in your terminal and IDE.
Built five Claude Code agents (cleaner, analyzer, visualizer, report writer, summarizer) chained by an orchestrator for end-to-end data analysis.
Original post ↗The poster built an MCP server so Claude Code summarizes about 30 Reddit threads in around 10 seconds as research before coding.
Original post ↗A non-engineer keeps research in a folder of plain-text files managed with Obsidian and uses Claude Code for equity research.
Original post ↗A commenter had Claude Code write file-by-file summaries of non-obvious methods in a research project, then reviewed them to keep track of the work.
Original post ↗Poster gave a Claude Code agent access to about 2M papers to search before each attempt; it found techniques it otherwise wouldn't know and beat a baseline agent.
Original post ↗Scheduled scripts produce a daily arXiv digest, and a nightly script launches Claude Code agents to summarize each saved PDF into a notes folder.
Original post ↗The poster has Claude Code fetch filings, transcripts and SEC documents for a company, cite sources, and write a bear case on a holding.
Original post ↗Claude Code is pointed at transcripts and PDFs to produce theme summaries, evidence tables and annotated bibliographies; a UX researcher runs 50-transcript studies this way.
Original post ↗Claude Code writes the SQL and vector queries against a public read-only index, and can set email alerts for nuanced criteria.
Original post ↗A researcher used Claude Code as the main agent to build data pipelines and do the data analysis for a paper, generating over 98% of the code.
Original post ↗The author uses Claude Code in their Obsidian vault to add backlinks and entity notes to journal entries and to turn brain dumps into formatted book reviews.
Original post ↗The author uses Claude Code with NotebookLM and Obsidian to turn 20 videos into cited notes, audio overviews, a knowledge graph and flashcards.
Original post ↗An agent extracted key insights from 20 articles, found common themes and produced a cited summary; the write-up estimates 18 minutes versus hours by hand.
Original post ↗Claude Code, guided by a CLAUDE.md, searches research papers, scans and PDFs via Spotlight, extracts text, and files daily notes in dated folders.
Original post ↗Claude Code browses a personal library with CLI tools and surfaces trails of related excerpts across books.
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