Library use: Apply the compatibility and execution contract. Source roles, memory claims, command names, hooks, and integrations are instructions or prerequisites—not installed capabilities.

Research

When to use

Search, evaluate, and synthesize evidence before recommending implementation.

Inputs

User objective, project constraints, relevant source or evidence, and explicit success criteria.

Procedure and handoffs

1. Load the search-first procedure. Search existing code and documented alternatives relevant to the task.
2. Load the research-synthesist procedure. Record scope, source quality, disagreements, and uncertainty.
3. Load the deep-research procedure. Use deeper research when needed; deliver supported findings and explicit gaps.

Verification and output

Produce the artifacts required by the selected procedures and an evidence-backed status: completed, failed, skipped with reason, or blocked on a named prerequisite. Carry unresolved findings forward. Do not treat an unavailable tool, an unrun check, or a reviewer failure as a pass.

Scope and compatibility

Select stages proportionate to the task. Preserve required gates of the chosen variant; record exceptions. Read the compatibility policy before combining conflicting variants. These instructions do not grant tool access or authorize publishing, commits, deployment, or communications.

Related skills and principles

• core/goal-driven-execution
• core/simplicity-first
• core/surgical-changes
• core/think-before-coding
• research/deep-research
• research/research-synthesist
• research/search-first

Source provenance

• ecc/skills/search-first/SKILL.md
• agency-agents/research/research-synthesist.md
• ecc/skills/deep-research/SKILL.md