What problem does it solve?
This Skill automates the technical research step for a project phase by validating the phase, collecting relevant phase context, checking prior research, and launching a dedicated subagent to produce a focused RESEARCH.md, so engineering teams can separate investigation from planning and preserve main-context clarity.
Core Features & Use Cases
- Phase validation and discovery: Confirms the requested phase exists on the roadmap and extracts phase metadata before any work begins.
- Existing research handling: Detects prior RESEARCH.md and offers update, view, or skip options to avoid duplicated effort.
- Subagent orchestration: Spawns a gsd-phase-researcher with resolved model settings, provides file paths for reading, enforces quality gates, and writes structured research output for downstream planning.
- Use Case: Run a targeted feasibility or ecosystem study for Phase 3 to collect architecture patterns, standard stacks, pitfalls, and code examples without bloating the primary conversation context.
Quick Start
Run gsd-research-phase with the phase identifier to validate the phase, gather context, and spawn a gsd-phase-researcher that outputs a phased RESEARCH.md.