---
name: mattpocock-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:
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  decimalai-version-id: "3a26341b-70e9-4c15-bdc8-ea405f1d3e0a"
  decimalai-version: "2"
  decimalai-body-sha256: "b229ed26202ddcc9acd2e4a2b8e848675e0f948f01a3ebeba358a94237f5dbfc"
  decimalai-name: "mattpocock/research"
  decimalai-format: "1"
  decimalai-invocation: "model"
  decimalai-category: "research"
  decimalai-source: "https://app.decimal.ai/s/mattpocock-research@2/SKILL.md"
---
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.