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Investigate a question against high-trust primary sources

research is an agent skill from Matt Pocock's skills collection, listed on skills.sh. It starts a background agent that investigates a question against primary sources (official docs, source code, specs) and writes the findings to one Markdown file with a source for every claim. A skill is a SKILL.md file of instructions (sometimes with scripts and reference notes) that an AI agent loads only when a task calls for it, so the agent knows the steps to follow and what to avoid. It is free and open source.