atlas-search

Delegate to the atlas-research subagent and report what it returns.

The rules live there and only there: search first, never from memory, the date checked on anything that changes, two sources that disagree both reported, a gap named rather than filled. Repeating them here would mean two copies to keep aligned, and the copy is the one that goes stale.

What the delegation buys is where the pages land. Searching in this conversation leaves every fetched page in it for the rest of the session; the subagent reads them in a context that is discarded and hands back only the answer with its sources.

Do it here instead only when the caller has already fetched the page and is asking about something now in front of both of you.

A catalogue question goes to the same subagent, in its catalogue mode. "Is there a free API for X", "what could host this for nothing", "is there already a skill / a plugin / an MCP server that does this": first run the catalogue command here, where no web page is in context — node "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/tools/catalog.mjs" <kind> "<two or three words>" (kind: skills, mcp, plugins, extras or all; at most eight lines per source) — then delegate to atlas-research with those lines and the absolute path of search/catalog.md beside this file (${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/atlas-search/search/catalog.md), the file that holds the sources and the checks. The agent reads pages and runs nothing. It finds; the install command comes back as text, for the person to run.

A question about what people say goes to the same subagent too. Opinions, experiences, complaints, whether others hit the same problem, or a social network or forum named in the request, in any language: first run node "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/tools/social.mjs" "<two or three words>" here, then delegate to atlas-research with those lines and the absolute path of search/social.md beside this file (${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/atlas-search/search/social.md). The answer always ends by saying what was read, what was seen only as a snippet and what was not looked at.

This command means the answer, unless the request asks for sources. "Give me sources", "where can I read about this", "find me some videos", in any language: then it means the places to read — videos, discussions, articles, grouped by kind, one line each — and no answer. Same subagent, its other shape; the words in the request pick it, so nothing is guessed and nothing is asked.

The active compression level governs the prose here. It never overrides the format above: the shape stays, the words inside it shorten. A command that adds work is not permission to write long — what it adds is content, the prose around it is not.