SkillProduct

Research

mattpocock144.9k

Investigate a question against high-trust primary sources and capture findings as a Markdown file in the repo for PM and founder discovery work.

How to install

npx skills add github.com/mattpocock/skills/tree/main/skills/engineering/research --skill research

Installs to .cursor/skills/

Manual install
  1. Copy SKILL.md below
  2. .cursor/skills/research/SKILL.md
Cursor docs

SKILL.md

---
name: 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.
---

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.

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