| name | research |
| description | Investigate a question against high-trust primary sources and capture cited findings in a vault research artifact. Use when the user wants a topic researched, documentation or API facts gathered, or reading legwork delegated. |
Load /vault, then spin up a background agent to do the research while the primary thread keeps moving.
Its job:
- 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.
- Return one cited Markdown body plus a short topic suitable for a vault artifact.
- Create the durable record with
vlt create --type research --topic "<topic>" --json, then write the returned body with vlt update <stem> --stdin --json.
- Link the research artifact to its source spec, wayfinding ticket, or decision when one exists using
vlt link.
Keep transient notes in the OS temporary directory. The vault artifact is the durable output.