git:20260930.b8f4ba9 to git:20261002.8c813e9

1 added, 8 removed. Audit A to A.

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name: research

description: Investigate a question against high-trust primary sources and capture the findings as a Markdown file in the repo. Use when the user wants a topic researched, docs or API facts gathered, or reading legwork delegated to a background agent.

author: Matt Pocock (https://github.com/mattpocock/skills)

license: MIT

source: mattpocock-skills

source_path: skills/engineering/research/SKILL.md

source_ref: v1.2.0

upstream: https://github.com/mattpocock/skills

- selection_status: dependency-support

- publishability: publishable

- rationale: Investigate questions against high-trust primary sources and produce structured Markdown findings.

- provenance:

- type: git

- repository: https://github.com/mattpocock/skills

- ref: v1.2.0

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Spin up a **background agent** to do the research, so you keep working while it reads.

Its job:

- 1. Investigate the question against **primary sources** — official docs, source code, specs, first-party APIs — not a secondary write-up of them. Follow every claim back to the source that owns it.

+ 1. Investigate the question against **primary sources** - official docs, source code, specs, first-party APIs - not a secondary write-up of them. Follow every claim back to the source that owns it.

2. Write the findings to a single Markdown file, citing each claim's source.

3. Save it where the repo already keeps such notes; match the existing convention, and if there is none, put it somewhere sensible and say where.