research skill (mattpocock/skills)

What it does. 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. Part of mattpocock/skills (Skills for Real Engineers) (mattpocock/skills).

Install

• npx skills add mattpocock/skills --skill research, or copy the skill folder into ~/.claude/skills/research/.
• Raw file: curl -sL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mattpocock/skills/HEAD/skills/engineering/research/SKILL.md

SKILL.md (verbatim)

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.

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.

Other files in this skill

• agents/openai.yaml

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