ring:pre-dev-research

Pre-development research can be conducted by dispatching parallel research agents to gather codebase patterns, external best practices, framework docs, and user research findings into a comprehensive Gate 0 research document. This aggregates findings into research.md with file:line references and a synthesis section to guide PRD creation.

Gate 0 research is a formal pre-development workflow that grounds feature decisions in documented evidence. It verifies codebase patterns, external best practices, and user needs by searching docs/solutions for prior implementations and documenting tech stack versions from manifests, preventing duplicated effort and planning stalls.

You can document codebase patterns and best practices by running parallel research agents that aggregate findings into a consolidated research.md file. The output includes specific file:line references, topology-aware outputs for single-repo or multi-repo contexts, and a synthesis section for product guidance.

Yes, pre-dev research supports topology-aware outputs for single-repo, monorepo, and multi-repo setups. The research agents adapt to your repository structure to collect framework documentation and codebase patterns across your specific project topology.

Yes, the parallel research workflow includes dedicated product and UX research components. One of the four dispatched agents specifically collects user research findings to ensure pre-development decisions account for user needs alongside technical framework documentation and codebase patterns.

The best way is to dispatch parallel research agents that automatically document tech stack versions from manifests and collect framework documentation. This aggregates external best practices and prior solutions from docs/solutions into a single research.md file before development begins.