bmad-domain-research

Start the workflow by stating your research topic and goals. The skill confirms scope, then runs six guided steps covering industry analysis, competitors, regulations, and technology trends, writing cited findings to a markdown research document.

It produces a comprehensive markdown research report with an executive summary, table of contents, industry and competitive analysis, regulatory requirements, technical trends, strategic recommendations, and full source citations saved under your planning artifacts folder.

Yes, web search is a hard prerequisite. The workflow aborts if web search is unavailable because every factual claim must be verified against current public sources rather than relying on training data.

Yes, a customize.toml file supports prepend and append activation steps, persistent facts loaded from project files, and an on_complete hook. Team and user-level TOML overrides merge with the defaults using structural merge rules.

Findings depend on the quality and availability of public web sources, so niche or emerging domains may have data gaps. The workflow flags uncertain information with confidence levels and documents research limitations in the final report.