research

Investigate a question against high-trust primary sources and capture the findings as a Markdown file in the repo.

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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.

Use cases: documents, backend, research, agent-building

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What this skill can do and what it asks for, from its SKILL.md. Checked Oct 25, 2026.

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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.
License: MIT
Instructions: 9 lines in SKILL.md · view on GitHub

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SKILL.md
openai.yaml · agents/

SKILL.md (first lines)

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.

From mattpocock/skills, MIT.

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Stars: 302,383
Forks: 25,428
Open issues: 184
Last commit (this folder): Aug 19, 2026 (2 months ago)
Last release: Oct 4, 2026 (25 days ago)

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License: MIT
Repository: github.com/mattpocock/skills
Website: aihero.dev/skills
First seen: Oct 24, 2026
Last checked: Oct 24, 2026
Source: GitHub github-graphql

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research skill. Agent Mart. https://agentmart.dev/skills/mattpocock-research (last updated 2026-10-24)