Research

by mattpocockc55ee46073edNo licenseListed Oct 8, 2026Updated Oct 8, 2026

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.

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Delegates question research to a background agent that investigates primary sources and writes cited findings to a Markdown file.

What it does: This skill instructs an agent to spin up a background agent that investigates a question against primary sources such as official documentation, source code, specifications and first-party APIs. It traces each claim back to the source that owns it and writes the findings into a single Markdown file with citations. The file is saved where the repository already keeps such notes, following existing convention, or in a sensible location that is reported back.
When to use it: Use it when the user wants a topic researched, documentation or API facts gathered, or reading legwork delegated to a background agent. It suits situations where the main agent should keep working while the investigation proceeds in parallel.
Requirements: No scripts are shipped; it is instructions only. It relies on the agent's ability to run a background agent and to read primary sources, and it needs write access to the repository to save the Markdown findings file.

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

Its job:

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

Source and attribution

Source:mattpocock/skillsinskills/engineering/researchat commitc55ee46

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