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Matt Pocock
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aihero.dev renders an install widget above every skill page. Each page then repeated the same commands in its body, and the two copies had drifted: the widget uses the current `npx skills@latest ...` wording while the hand-written blocks mostly carried the older bare `npx skills ...`. Pages showed the right command and a stale one together. Delete the block from all 25 pages and record the rule in .agents/writing-docs.md: install wording belongs to the site, not the page. The template no longer carries a Quickstart, and .agents/install-block.md notes that docs pages are not one of its consumers.
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[Source](https://github.com/mattpocock/skills/tree/main/skills/engineering/research)
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## What it does
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`research` answers a question by reading the sources that own the answer and leaving a cited Markdown file behind. It works only from **primary sources** — official docs, source code, specs, first-party APIs — never a secondary write-up of them, so what it saves is traceable back to something authoritative rather than a summary of a summary.
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## When to reach for it
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Type `/research`, or the agent reaches for it automatically when a task turns into reading legwork.
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Reach for it when the next step is *finding something out* — how an API behaves, what a spec actually says, whether a claim holds — and you'd rather not stall your own thread doing the reading. For sharpening a plan by interview instead of by reading, use [grilling](https://aihero.dev/skills-grilling); for exploring what to build with throwaway code, use [prototype](https://aihero.dev/skills-prototype).
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## Delegated legwork
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The defining move is that the reading runs as a **background agent**. You keep working; it goes off, follows each claim back to its primary source, and drops a single cited Markdown file into wherever the repo keeps such notes. Research is legwork you delegate, not thinking you outsource — you get back a document to react to, with its sources attached.
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## Where it fits
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A reach-for-it-anytime standalone that feeds the thinking skills: the file it produces is something to grill, plan, or design against, so it sits upstream of work like [grilling](https://aihero.dev/skills-grilling) and [to-spec](https://aihero.dev/skills-to-spec) rather than in the build chain. For the whole map, see [ask-matt](https://aihero.dev/skills-ask-matt).
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