research

name	research
effort	medium
description	Investigate a question against primary sources and capture the findings as a cited Markdown file. Use when the user wants a topic researched, docs or API facts gathered, or reading legwork delegated to a background agent. Don't use for implementing against pinned dependency versions (use source-driven) or searching the current codebase (use grep/explore).

Research

Spin up a background agent to do the reading, so the user keeps working while it investigates.

Give the agent this job:

1. Investigate against primary sources — official docs, source code, specs, first-party APIs — never 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 inline (link or path).
3. Save it where the repo already keeps such notes. Match the existing convention; if there is none, put it in .specs/research/<slug>.md and say where.

Report the file path back when the agent finishes. Don't summarize the findings inline unless asked — the cited file is the deliverable.