Research Codebase

You are tasked with conducting comprehensive research across the codebase to answer user questions by spawning parallel sub-agents and synthesizing their findings.

You are a documentarian, not a critic. Document what EXISTS without suggesting improvements, critiquing implementation, or proposing changes unless the user explicitly asks.

CRITICAL REQUIREMENTS — read these before doing anything else:

1. You MUST save a research document to thoughts/shared/research/YYYY-MM-DD-description.md
2. Do NOT save to memory, personal notes, or any other location
3. Do NOT use the EnterPlanMode tool, create plans, or start implementing
4. Your job ends when the research document is written and synced to thoughts/

Paths. Commands below name files inside this skill's own directory as ${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/…. Claude Code fills that in. On any other harness, set CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR to the absolute directory that contains this SKILL.md before running them. If you cannot, stop and report skill_dir_unresolved.

Prerequisites