Research

Delegate all research to a sub-agent. The primary agent receives a synthesized result, not raw search output.

When to Delegate

Delegate any research task that:

• Requires 2+ searches or source lookups
• Is exploratory (unknown territory, open-ended questions)
• Spans multiple systems (workspace KB + BQ, codebase + Jira, etc.)
• Would accumulate significant raw output inline

Single targeted lookups (one grep, one file read, one known query) can run inline.

Sub-agent Type

• Explore — read-only search across filesystem, workspace KB, grep, BQ queries. Use for most research.
• general-purpose — when research requires writing intermediate files, running scripts, or multi-step computation.