Game research: web search that survives dead forums

Modding knowledge lives on forums that died in 2020, in Discord channels nobody can fetch anonymously, and on pages that move. This skill makes searching for it systematic: archive first, live sources second, screenshots as evidence, and an explicit handoff when a page needs the human's login.

Search engines are the index, not the source — every conclusion gets a real URL behind it.

Never fetched

• Leaked code, SDKs or builds; pirated games, ROMs or ISOs; keygens or license keys; cracked exes; DRM or anti-cheat bypass tools. Don't fetch, link or paste them. What others learned from a leak can go in the journal in your own words, with where it came from (CONTRIBUTING.md).
• Forum attachments, archived downloads and file-host mirrors. Read the posts; install tools only from their official repo or releases, with the human's OK (skills/mod-any-game/references/safety.md).

Core loop