official-source-researchlisted

# Official Source Research ## Overview Collects evidence directly from primary institutional sources: a company's own docs/pricing/changelog/press releases, government and regulatory sites, standards bodies, court/legal filings. Every record from this skill is tier 1 by definition — this skill exists specifically to reach the root instead of settling for a relay. **Layer rule:** produces evidence, not results. Synthesis and confidence status are the orchestrator's job. ## When to use Direct use: "what does their pricing page say", "check the actual filing", "what does the spec say". As a component: this is also the skill other source skills route to when their origin tracing surfaces a press release, filing, or official announcement as the root of something they found secondhand (news-research and blog-research both point here in their own workflows) — dispatch it to fetch that root directly rather than settling for the relay's account of it. Don't use for: coverage or reaction to an official source (→ news-research, social-research), an interpretation of what a filing means (that's synthesis, not evidence collection — this skill records what the document says, not what it implies). ## Workflow 1. **Go to the primary domain directly** when it's known (the company's own site, the regulator's site, the standards body's site) rather than searching generally and hoping to land on it — this skill's whole value is bypassing relays. 2. **When dispatched to resolve another so