Skill v1.0.1

version: "1.0.1" 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. disable-model-invocation: true

Spin up exactly one background agent to do the research, so you keep working while it reads.

Recursion guard

Before spawning, check RESEARCH_SUBAGENT:

• If RESEARCH_SUBAGENT=1, this pane is already the delegated researcher. Do not spawn any agent or pane. Perform the research and write the report directly.
• Otherwise, create one background pane with herdr pane split ... --env RESEARCH_SUBAGENT=1, and explicitly tell that agent not to delegate or spawn subagents.

Never create a second research agent as a retry. If the delegated agent stalls or fails, stop/close it and complete the research in the original pane.

The background agent's 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.