research

SkillFiles & storage

Investigate a question against high-trust primary sources and capture the findings as a cited Markdown file. Use when the user wants a topic researched, docs or API facts gathered, or reading legwork delegated.

Available today. Use it from your connected AI after setup.

Connect ahel once, and every AI you use reads what you have installed.

Then ask your AI: use the research skill

What this skill tells your AI

The instructions your AI receives, as published by rengwu/wayfinder-maps in skills/research/SKILL.md and read by ahel’s review.

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.

Signals

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Jul 2026
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skill
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research-rengwu
Source
github.com/rengwu/wayfinder-maps