/research — a model-invoked engineering skill that spins up a background agent to investigate a question against high-trust primary sources — official docs, source code, specs, first-party APIs, “not a secondary write-up of them” — following every claim back to the source that owns it, and captures the findings as a single cited Markdown file in the repo (artifact-research-md). “Delegable reading legwork”: you keep working while it reads, and get back a document to grill, plan, or design against. mp-wayfinder fires one research subagent per research ticket to burn them down in parallel.
It enacts pattern-source-grounding (cite primary sources, flag the unverified) and runs as a fresh-context background agent. Its closest cross-framework counterpart is GSD’s gsd-phase-researcher (parallel domain research → RESEARCH.md); it also relates to BMAD’s bmad-research (align-time market/domain/tech research) and the Compound Engineering researcher sub-agents.
See Also
- gsd-phase-researcher — GSD’s parallel-research counterpart → artifact-research-md.
- bmad-research — BMAD’s align-time research relative.
- addy-source-driven-development — the same cite-primary-sources discipline as an implementation skill.
- mp-wayfinder — runs this per research ticket.
- stage-plan — the canonical stage this implements (research as planning input).
Version history
v1.2.0 (2026-08-05)
- mp-wayfinder began firing a research subagent per research ticket, capturing findings on a throwaway
research/<name>branch.
Added in v1.1.0 (2026-07-08; ingested 2026-07-09)
- New skill.