research
FeaturedResearches an open-ended question — options, possible solutions, prior art, trade-offs, or how something works — and produces a durable, evidence-backed, adversarially-validated report that recommends an option without committing the team to any artifact. Use when you want to research approaches, weigh options, survey prior art or the state of the art, or understand how something works before committing to a direction. Does not diagnose a bug, failure, or root cause — use investigate. Does not specify a feature — use plan-a-feature. Does not create or update a coding standard — use coding-standard. Does not compare two concrete artifacts for gaps — use gap-analysis. Does not assess an existing module's architecture — use architectural-analysis. Does not capture feedback on Han's own skills — use han-feedback.
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Quality Score: 94/100
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- Author
- testdouble
- Repository
- testdouble/han
- Created
- 4 months ago
- Last Updated
- today
- Language
- Shell
- License
- MIT
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Answer a question that needs searching rather than deciding. By default it investigates THIS repository: a goal is split into 3-7 staged hypotheses, each stage routed by complexity, up to 16 agents concurrently, cross-validated for contradictions and gaps — local files, grep and git only, never the web. `--web` instead decomposes the question into 2-5 parallel lookups against documentation, APIs, specs and standards, for what this repository cannot answer. Use on 'find out how X works', 'research this', 'wie funktioniert das hier', 'finde raus', 'recherchier das'.
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Investigate code, behavior, documentation, or technical facts without proposing or choosing changes. Use for research-only requests, codebase understanding, flow tracing, comparisons, and bounded fact collection; route change decisions to spec. Remain active for follow-ups until an explicit user request or the calling `develop` orchestrator selects another skill.
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Use when answering research questions, exploring ideas, or investigating technical topics. Triggers include open-ended questions ("how should we approach X"), factual queries ("what is X"), comparative analysis ("compare X vs Y"), or any request for thorough investigation. Usable by both humans and agents. Caller selects mode or the skill auto-detects from intent.