research
Research
The pre-design research round produces a persisted evidence artefact —
research.md — that later stages cite instead of re-deriving. Two read-only
threads (governance applicability; code map) plus cross-thread synthesis,
assembled by the orchestrating agent into one document.
The artefact lives at .doctrine/slice/NNN/research/ — directly in the slice
folder, gitignored in place. Runtime tier: disposable working evidence;
durable findings are harvested at slice close.
The verb: doctrine slice research <id> — run it when the round starts
(it mints the research folder and stamps the staleness baseline,
baseline.toml), and again whenever you consume the artefact, to check
freshness. It is advisory, never a gate:
drift output is a prompt to refresh, and the command always succeeds. Flags
and mechanics: the CLI's help.