research

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  "ocm": "1",
  "id": "mattpocock-skills-research",
  "kind": "skill",
  "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.",
  "publisher": "mattpocock",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "capabilities": {
    "domains": [
      "coding"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "skill-md",
      "skills-sh"
    ],
    "languages": [
      "en"
    ]
  },
  "quality_prior": 0.6,
  "examples": [
    "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."
  ],
  "primary": false,
  "metadata": {
    "source": {
      "provider": "skills.sh",
      "repository": "https://github.com/mattpocock/skills",
      "path": "skills/engineering/research/SKILL.md",
      "ref": "HEAD",
      "url": "https://www.skills.sh/mattpocock/skills/research",
      "key": "mattpocock/skills/skills/engineering/research/SKILL.md"
    }
  },
  "instructions": "Spin up a **background agent** to do the research, so you keep working while it reads.\n\nIts job:\n\n1. 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.\n2. Write the findings to a single Markdown file, citing each claim's source.\n3. 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.",
  "cost": {
    "context_tokens": 129
  }
}