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data_retrieval looks up specific records from your connected services: issues, pull requests, messages, and threads. It returns the actual items, not explanations or summaries of them. Your agent uses it when it has a specific identifier or filter (a repo, author, status, date range, channel, or issue key) and needs matching results.

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What it retrieves

  • Single issues by key
  • Filtered lists by project, status, assignee, or date range
  • Epics, sprints, and board contents
  • Issues by label or saved filter

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When your agent uses it

  • Listing or summarizing pull requests by author or status.
  • Finding recent commits or checking CI/build status for a PR.
  • Summarizing a messaging channel or thread.
  • Looking up issues, epics, or sprint work.
  • Checking what someone worked on during a given time period.
  • Finding who is the expert on a specific file or topic.

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When your agent uses something else

  • For understanding why code exists the way it does, unblocked_context_engine provides the surrounding context.
  • For broad investigations that span multiple systems, research_task summarizes what it finds across sources.