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What problem does it solve? Decisions often stall on missing knowledge — how a library behaves, what a protocol mandates, what a regulation requires, or whether an approach is still current. This Skill closes that gap by gathering authoritative external sources and producing a structured, cited research report, without touching code or project documentation. ## Core Features & Use Cases - Question framing and gap analysis: Restates the topic as specific, answerable questions and checks the project's own documentation, decision records, and memory before searching externally. - Cited, dated reporting: Produces a report that leads with a direct answer, corroborates load-bearing claims with independent sources, dates every claim that can go stale, and separates sourced fact from inference. - Non-interactive operation: Runs from context and environment alone, stopping with an error rather than asking for clarification, making it suitable for CI and away-from-keyboard workflows. - Use Case: Before choosing between two HTTP client libraries, ask the agent to research their streaming support and maintenance status; it returns a report with a direct answer, dated citations, and open questions, ready to feed into a decision record. ## Quick Start Ask the agent to research how a specific library handles streaming responses and write a cited report to your research notes directory.