---
name: mattpocock-research
title: research
kind: skill
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.
updated: 2026-10-12
authored_by: mattpocock
author_url: https://github.com/mattpocock
source_url: https://github.com/mattpocock/skills/tree/HEAD/skills/engineering/research
brought_by: kt
license: MIT
---

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.