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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.
Claude Code
$ npx -y skills add mattpocock/skills --skill research --agent claude-code
Codex
$ npx skills add mattpocock/skills --skill research -a codex -y
Cursor
$ npx skills add mattpocock/skills --skill research -a cursor -y
Gemini CLI
$ npx skills add mattpocock/skills --skill research -a gemini-cli -y
GitHub Copilot
$ npx skills add mattpocock/skills --skill research -a github-copilot -y
OpenCode
$ npx skills add mattpocock/skills --skill research -a opencode -y
Windsurf
$ npx skills add mattpocock/skills --skill research -a windsurf -y
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research.SKILL.mdname: 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. Start it with a fresh context window.
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.
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