bmad-technical-research

Start the skill and state your research topic, such as React vs Vue for large-scale applications. The workflow confirms scope, then runs six guided steps covering technology stack, integration patterns, architecture, implementation, and synthesis, producing a cited markdown report.

The workflow covers architecture analysis, implementation approaches, technology stacks, integration patterns, and performance considerations. Example topics include GraphQL vs REST, serverless deployment options, and framework comparisons.

Yes, web search is a hard prerequisite and the workflow aborts if it is unavailable. Every claim must be verified against current public sources with URL citations and confidence levels rather than relying on training data alone.

The report is created in the planning artifacts folder under a research subfolder, named with the topic slug and date. Content is appended step by step, and the final synthesis adds an executive summary, table of contents, and recommendations.

Yes, a customize.toml file supports activation steps prepended or appended to the workflow, persistent facts loaded from project files, and an on_complete hook. Team and user-level TOML overrides merge with the defaults.