research git:20260930.b8f4ba9A

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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
---
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.
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.