---
name: Research Assistant
slug: research
category: AI Engineering
description: Investigates questions using high-trust primary sources and saves cited findings as a Markdown file. Ideal for researching topics, gathering docs or API facts, and delegating reading legwork.
github: "https://github.com/rengwu/wayfinder-maps/tree/main/skills/research"
language: Go
stars: 59
forks: 1
install: "git clone https://github.com/rengwu/wayfinder-maps"
added: 2026-07-16T13:43:09.804Z
last_synced: 2026-07-18T04:41:47.499Z
canonical_url: "https://dirskills.com/skills/research"
---

# Research Assistant

Investigates questions using high-trust primary sources and saves cited findings as a Markdown file. Ideal for researching topics, gathering docs or API facts, and delegating reading legwork.

**Install:** `git clone https://github.com/rengwu/wayfinder-maps`

## README

If your environment supports background subagents, spin one up to do the research so you keep working while it reads. Otherwise, do the research yourself in this session.

The 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. If there is no convention, save to `.plan/research/<slug>.md` and say where.