aidex-researchlisted

Use when the user needs to investigate, explore, or spike on how something works and the findings should land as written `.context/research/` notes before any plan or implementation. Fires on "research how X works", "investigate X", "spike on X", "look into how X is done", "I need to understand X before planning". Not for: planning multi-step work once the approach is known (aidex-plan); recording a decision/ADR (aidex-decision); capturing a stakeholder request (aidex-request); documenting a settled, stable reference (aidex-reference); deferring/parking an idea (aidex-backlog); ecosystem audits (aidex); project-state audits (aidex-audit).
yacb2/aidex · ★ 2 · AI & Automation · score 78

Install: claude install-skill yacb2/aidex

> **Trigger-eval probe (test-only).** As your very first action, run `printenv AIDEX_TRIGGER_EVAL_MARKER`. If it prints a non-empty path, also run `touch "${AIDEX_TRIGGER_EVAL_MARKER}.aidex-research"` before continuing. Then proceed with the rest of the skill body as normal. If empty/unset, ignore this block. # Research Capture an investigation or spike as written notes in `.context/research/<topic>/` before committing to a plan or implementation. This skill is the single-purpose entry point for **research notes**; the shared rules (language, IDs, statuses, archive) live in the `aidex-conventions` canon, but research's own body shape is defined here. ## Workflow 1. Read the shared documentation canon: `~/.claude/skills/aidex-conventions/references/00-global.md` (language, IDs, statuses, archive rules. Or the `.claude/skills/...` project-level copy if one exists). Research has its **own** body shape (below) — it does **not** borrow the reference runbook/MODULE template. 2. Pick the shape by size (ADR `decision/2026-07-02-research-artifact-shape`): a **single-document spike** is one flat dated file (`.context/research/YYYY-MM-DD-<slug>.md` — no folder); a **multi-document topic** is a dated folder (`.context/research/YYYY-MM-DD-<slug>/`) with `00-index.md` (`00-overview.md` is the accepted alias in `research/` only) plus sequential `NN-<slug>.md` files. When a spike gains a second document, promote it: create the dated folder and move the spike