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Investigate a question against primary sources, cite every claim, and write the findings into the repository's own notes.

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# Research

Answer a question from the sources that own the facts, and leave a document another agent can act on without repeating the reading. Research writes notes; it never edits source, configuration, or state.

The reading half is a saved workflow, not a procedure this skill performs inline. Its single source of truth is `.claude/workflows/research-sweep.js` in the genie repository's canonical workflow catalog (see `.claude/workflows/README.md` there); this skill is its front door. On a runtime that runs saved workflows, run the script at `<repository root>/.claude/workflows/research-sweep.js` when that file exists, otherwise `~/.claude/workflows/research-sweep.js` (delivered by `genie install` / `genie update`); give the runtime that explicit script path, never a bare name — both scopes now carry these names and the order a name resolves in is undocumented. Pass `{question, sources[], notesHint?, maxReaders?, model?, timestamp?}`. The question and the source list are settled here and arrive FROZEN: the workflow never re-asks, narrows or widens the question, and never adds a source of its own. Relay the returned findings document unchanged, and list `notConvened` (agents that returned nothing), the unread sources, and every injection attempt beside it rather than filling any of those gaps yourself.

## What stays with you

1. **Settle the question.** One question, stated as the caller means it. Splitting it into sub-questions, or widening it after the first surprising finding, is a second sweep with a second frozen question — not an edit to this one.
2. **Name the sources you already know.** URLs or repository-relative paths, the primary ones first. The sweep reads the list it is handed and adds nothing; a source you did not name is a source nobody opens.
3. **Write the findings into the repository's notes.** The sweep writes no file. Record the notes inside the repository, under the brainstorm directory for the work that prompted them, or in the wish that owns the question. Match the convention already in place. The operating system's temporary directory is not a destination: notes written there are lost before anyone reads them, and they never reach the reviewer.
4. **Take the decision.** A sweep returns evidence, not a verdict. What the findings mean for the work is yours to say, and to say out loud.

## Primary sources only