CRAFT Tutorials · Getting Started · 10 of 12
When you need facts, current information, or a quick scan of what’s out there, Claude can search the web right inside your CRAFT session — and, just as importantly, keep what it finds in your project.
In the last post you met the helper team — including René, the research specialist. This is René’s home turf, but you don’t have to name anyone to do it: research works the same way as everything else in CRAFT — you just ask.
The basic move
Ask Claude to look something up:
Research current options for <thing>.
Claude searches the web, reads the results, and gives you a summary. Then — because you’re inside a CRAFT project — you can ask Claude to keep it, so the findings become part of your project instead of vanishing when the session ends:
✓ You’ll know it worked when Claude gives you the summary, then confirms it saved a note of the findings into your project — there to pick up next session, not gone when you close the window.
Why do it inside CRAFT?
Plain web search hands you an answer and forgets it. Researching inside a CRAFT project means the findings are captured, organized, and waiting for your next session — the same memory that makes everything else in CRAFT useful. Your research compounds instead of evaporating.
Good habit: when research matters, ask Claude to save a short note of what it found and where it came from. Future-you — and your future sessions — will be glad the sources are right there.
Bigger research jobs
For deep, multi-source research — or for pairing dedicated external research tools with CRAFT — there’s a more powerful approach in the Advanced material. The basics above cover everyday “look it up and keep it” research, which is all most work needs.
That’s research in CRAFT: ask Claude to look it up, then ask it to save — and the answer stays part of your work. Next up: What is a cheatsheet? — your quick reference to every recipe and how to trigger it.