---
name: fradser-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:
  decimalai-skill-id: "844d63c3-4ba6-46a0-825b-e090e8234f38"
  decimalai-version-id: "f2806a35-af4c-456a-a5b1-242c691bd65c"
  decimalai-version: "3"
  decimalai-body-sha256: "702f49c0d5b15e727790b95a7c4de563059c461ef776fe060831224265d594b1"
  decimalai-name: "fradser/research"
  decimalai-format: "1"
  decimalai-invocation: "model"
  decimalai-category: "research"
  decimalai-source: "https://app.decimal.ai/s/fradser-research@3/SKILL.md"
---
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.

## CRITICAL: Primary sources only

Investigate against primary sources — official docs, source code, specs, first-party APIs — never a secondary write-up of them. Follow every claim back to the source that owns it, and cite each claim's source in the findings file.