Write research note

Answer one question from sources outside the session and leave the answer behind as a note in which every claim points at where it came from. Done means the note is written, its citations are spot-checked, and its path and short answer are reported.

Procedure

1. Pin the question. One sentence, answerable, with the decision it feeds ("Does library X support streaming in v3, so we can drop our polling code?"). A topic ("research X") becomes a question first: state the question you chose in the brief and in the note.
2. Dispatch one background agent with the Agent tool (general-purpose) so the fetched pages stay out of this session. Name the model: the session's own model when the note settles a decision, a cheaper one for a plain fact-find. The brief carries everything, because the agent sees none of this conversation:
   • the question and the decision it feeds;
   • the source rules under Rules, verbatim;
   • the output path and the format under Output;
   • "Return only the note's path and its Answer section."
3. Spot-check before reporting. When the agent returns, open the note, pick the two or three claims the answer rests on, and fetch their sources yourself. A citation that does not say what the note claims is fixed in the note or the claim moves to Not found. Record the check in the note's Checked line.
4. Report the path, the answer, and anything under Not found.

Rules

• Primary sources first: the project's own docs, specification, source code, changelog, release notes, the paper, the vendor's own page. A blog, forum answer, or AI summary is cited only to point at a primary source or when nothing primary exists, and is marked secondary.
• Every claim carries its citation in the same sentence: [n] pointing at the Sources list. A sentence with no citation is labelled as inference.
• Quote what is contested. Where sources disagree or the wording matters (a limit, a license term, a deprecation), quote the exact words and give both sides.
• Dates matter. Record each source's publication or last-updated date. For anything that changes fast (APIs, prices, versions), flag a source older than a year.
• "Not found" is a finding. Searching and finding nothing is reported with what was searched, never filled with what is probably true.

Output

Save to .agents_workspace/research/<YYYYMMDD>-<topic>.md in the working directory, creating the directory if needed, filling assets/research-note.template.md, per references/research-note-schema.md.