research
Investigate a question against high-trust primary sources and capture the findings as a Markdown file in the repo.
Skill by nikhil-vytla
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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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What's inside
- 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
- Metadata
- source: https://github.com/mattpocock/skills/blob/main/skills/engineering/research/SKILL.md · license: MIT
- Instructions
- 9 lines in SKILL.md · view on GitHub
Files (1)
- SKILL.md
SKILL.md (first lines)
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.
From nikhil-vytla/skills, MIT.
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Signals
- Stars
- 1
- Forks
- 0
- Open issues
- 0
- Last commit (this folder)
- Sep 24, 2026 (1 month ago)
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Details
- License
- MIT
- Repository
- github.com/nikhil-vytla/skills
- First seen
- Oct 24, 2026
- Last checked
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