Research-Plan-Implement Pipeline

Orchestrate the full Research → Plan → Implement workflow in a single session using subagents. Each phase runs as a separate subagent with its own context window, coordinated by the orchestrator that handles approval gates and phase transitions.

Purpose

Running RPI phases across separate sessions loses context and requires manual bridging. This skill collapses the three phases into one orchestrated pipeline using subagents via the Agent tool. Each subagent gets maximum context for its work, with file artifacts on disk as the communication channel between phases.

Architecture

The orchestrator (you) stays thin. It spawns subagents for each phase via the Agent tool, reads their output artifacts, presents summaries to the user, and handles approval gates. The orchestrator does NOT do research, planning, or implementation itself.