research-analyze-plan

What problem does it solve?

This Skill helps you turn ambiguous decision requests into a defensible choice by grounding your reasoning in external evidence and structured comparison rather than intuition.

Core Features & Use Cases

• Research synthesis: Gathers unbiased information from multiple sources and captures key features, pros, cons, and design philosophies.
• Deep comparative analysis: Maps external concepts to your internal terminology, performs gap analysis, and organizes findings into a decision matrix.
• Clear decision and actionable plan: Produces a final verdict with justification and translates the result into updated specs or documentation.

Quick Start

Use the research-analyze-plan skill when you want to evaluate competing approaches for a technology or architecture decision and turn the outcome into a documented plan.