bmad-technical-research

Start the workflow by stating your research topic and goals. The skill guides you through scope confirmation, technology stack analysis, integration and architectural patterns, implementation research, and a final synthesis, producing a cited Markdown report.

It covers programming languages, frameworks, databases, cloud platforms, API design, communication protocols, microservices integration, architectural patterns, scalability, security, and implementation practices for any technology domain you specify.

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

Each section includes source URLs from web searches, applies multi-source validation for critical claims, and assigns confidence levels to uncertain information. The final document includes a methodology section documenting all sources and search queries.

Yes, the customize.toml file supports 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.

It depends entirely on web search quality and availability, requires user confirmation at each of the six steps so it cannot run fully unattended, and needs the BMAD project configuration files to resolve output paths and language settings.