What problem does it solve?
It prevents inconsistent or guess-based planning by structuring external research into a repeatable process that produces decision-ready insights.
Core Features & Use Cases
- Mode-based research coverage: Runs a full or lite checklist (or skips entirely) depending on task complexity and risk.
- Tool-aware research and adaptive retrieval: Selects the best available tools (MCP docs, web search/fetch, LTM recall) while always falling back to offline codebase and local documentation analysis.
- Gap discovery and escalation loop: Detects unknowns during implementation, pauses work, and produces targeted research findings that update the task’s insights.
- Pre-flight artifact discovery: Reduces planning drift by verifying that named artifacts and assumptions still match the live project state.
- Provider contract verification: Ensures third-party endpoint input/output shapes are empirically validated before implementation depends on them.
Quick Start
Run the research-workflow skill to generate an insights document for task {task-id} by verifying versions, best practices, breaking changes, compatibility, and any necessary endpoint contracts.
