Research
Investigate a question against high-trust primary sources and capture the findings as a Markdown…
by mattpocock · MIT
The skill
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.
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.
Use this skill
Connect your agent to the Skill Store MCP server and ask for it by ref: mattpocock/research-13594786858.
Details
- Publisher
- mattpocock
- Category
- Science & Education › Research & academia
- License
- MIT
- Updated
- 2026-10-09
References
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