Agent Skills: research

Language

All agent-authored prose MUST follow ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English. Apply it to questions, explanations, recommendations, issue text, reports, handoffs, and procedures.

• Use short, complete sentences and active voice.
• Use one term for one meaning.
• Put conditions before commands.
• Use imperative sentences for procedures.
• Keep code, identifiers, commands, quoted text, product names, and exact domain terms unchanged.
• Use the simple-english skill for the full rule set.

Local repository rules

Before reading or writing workflow or domain artifacts:

1. Follow ALIGNMENT-ROOT.md.
2. Resolve alignment paths against ALIGNMENT_ROOT.
3. Keep source code and ordinary project files relative to repository-root.
4. Do not silently mix alignment roots.
5. All agent-authored prose MUST follow ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English.

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

Its 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.