research git:20261002.da773d3A

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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.
license: MIT
metadata:
  author: Matt Pocock (https://github.com/mattpocock/skills)
  source_repo: mattpocock-skills
  source_path: skills/engineering/research/SKILL.md
  source_ref: v1.2.0
  upstream: https://github.com/mattpocock/skills
---
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.