Hi @j0dan, tbh I’ve never used that one and simply fetched whatever I needed outside of the Code node (before running any code). Perhaps you want to simply put a Set node in front of your Code node and use $("<node-name>").item in the Set node? $("<node-name>").item also seems to work when using the Code node in the “for each” mode.
As for the documentation of the .itemMatching() method, I’ll leave a note for the docs team so they consider adding an example.