y3owk1n Research
Primary source means the artefact that owns the fact: official docs, the source code, the spec, the first-party API reference, the changelog. A blog post explaining any of those is secondary — useful for finding the primary source, never for citing.
Process
1. Split the question
List every claim the answer depends on. A question that looks like one fact is usually four, and the wrong one is the one nobody checked.
2. Follow each claim to the artefact that owns it
- A version, flag, or signature → the source or the release notes for that version, not the docs homepage.
- A behaviour → the code, or a spec section number.
- A security or licensing claim → the primary text. Never a summary of it.
Dispatch parallel subagents when claims are independent. Read the returned file rather than trusting the summary.
3. Record what you could not verify
An unverifiable claim is a finding, not a gap to paper over. Say which source you wanted, what you found instead, and how confident that leaves you.
4. Write it up
One Markdown file. Every claim carries its source URL or path:line. Match the repo's convention for notes; if there is none, put it in $TMPDIR and say where.
Completion
Done when: every claim in the findings file cites a primary source or is explicitly marked unverified with the reason, and no conclusion rests on a secondary write-up. Checkable: read the findings file and confirm each claim has a citation, and that each cited URL is a docs/spec/source/changelog host rather than a blog or aggregator.