research

What problem does it solve? Teams often need to understand an unfamiliar domain or validate a direction before committing to implementation. This Skill runs a structured explore-and-understand workflow that produces an approved design document and a discovery report, without generating any code. ## Core Features & Use Cases - Composite Research Workflow: Chains the SENSE, DEFINE, and DISCOVER phases while skipping PLAN, BUILD, REVIEW, SHIP, and CAPTURE. - Approved Design Output: Produces an APPROVED design doc plus a discover-report summarizing ADRs, lessons applied, and overlapping skills. - Resumable Session: Findings persist so the operator can later continue into planning with /li:resume if the research validates the direction. - Use Case: A customer asks what a proposed feature would look like. Run the research workflow to survey existing patterns, answer the six DEFINE forcing questions, and deliver an approved design doc before any build commitment. ## Quick Start Ask the agent to run the research skill to investigate a new domain and produce a design doc and discovery report without writing any code.