version: "1.0.0" name: search-first description: Check current documentation and prior art before writing code against any external API, library, or framework. Use whenever the task touches a third-party library, SDK, API, CLI flag, config format, or language/framework version behavior. Especially when writing code from memory about how something works, when a version number is involved, or when an API "should" work a certain way but hasn't been verified.

Search First (router)

This skill is tuned per model. Pick the file that matches the model actually running, and apply it in full — the verification order and cost-sense judgment are the same everywhere, but how much narration to expect and how eagerly to delegate a lookup differs by tier.

Read the file matching the model actually running before applying this skill.

Running a model not listed above (an older generation, a different model family entirely)? sonnet-5.md carries the fullest general-purpose version of the underlying procedure — read that one rather than skipping this skill.