/researching-web

description: Web research via platform web tools. Use for technical comparisons, current-state
  and release-behavior questions, recent facts, ecosystem news, best practices, standards,
  or questions needing grounded web evidence. NOT for exact API syntax, config keys,
  or code examples — use looking-up-docs for those. NOT for repo-specific questions
  — search local files first.
name: researching-web

Web Research

Answer with current, cited evidence and keep sourced facts apart from your recommendation. Research questions get web evidence, not answers from memory.

Never put private code, secrets, credentials, or proprietary data into a web query; answer those from local context and say what that limits.

Tools

Match the tool to the question with whatever web tools the runtime provides:

• Simple fact: one focused search or answer query.
• Source selection: search, then fetch the best primary sources.
• Broad investigation: a deep or asynchronous research tool when available;

otherwise chain searches with targeted fetches and note the fallback.

• Detail on a source already found: fetch that URL instead of searching again.

Fetch enough sources to support each claim; fetch every citation only when the risk or ambiguity justifies it. For source ranking, stale-source signals, and Pi web tools, read [references/sources.md](references/sources.md).

Judgment

• Prefer specifications, official docs, maintainer release notes, and primary

announcements. Treat blogs and forum answers as supporting evidence.

• Check sourced facts against the local project's constraints before

recommending a change.

• When sources conflict, cite both sides and lower confidence unless one is

clearly more authoritative or current.

• Flag stale-source risk when recency matters.
• When live web access is unavailable, say so and label the answer as limited

instead of presenting an uncited recommendation as fact.

Platform additions

No target-specific additions.

Output

## Research Result

### Research Question

<question and the decision it informs>

### Answer

<concise answer>

### Evidence

- <source title/url> — <what it supports>

### Recommendation

<recommendation separated from sourced facts, or none>

### Fit For This Repo

<what changes because of local constraints>

### Unknowns and Gaps

<conflicts, stale-source risk, missing evidence, or blocked retrieval>