# Research

> Investigate a question against high-trust primary sources - official docs, source code, specs, first-party APIs - and capture the findings as a cited Markdown file in the repo. Use when you want a topic researched, docs or API facts gathered and verified, or the reading legwork delegated to a background agent while you keep working.

- Skill: `mahdtech/research` (Agent Skill)
- Install (CLI): `npx skillmds@latest add mahdtech/research`
- Raw SKILL.md: https://api.skillmd.com/api/skills/mahdtech/research/raw
- Safety review: pending
- Works with: Claude Code, Claude.ai, OpenAI Codex
- Category: AI & ML
- Author: MAHDTech (https://skillmd.com/u/mahdtech)
- Updated: 2026-09-17
- Page: https://skillmd.com/skills/mahdtech/research

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# Research

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.

> Adapted from [mattpocock/skills](https://github.com/mattpocock/skills) (MIT).