Autonomous Multi-Phase Codebase Exploration

When to use

• Need to understand how a feature/system works across the codebase
• Starting work on unfamiliar codebase or component
• Planning changes that span multiple layers/components
• User asks "how does X work?" for non-trivial X
• Need architecture understanding before implementation

Skip when

• Pure reference lookup (function signature, type definition)
• Checking if specific file exists (yes/no question)
• Reading error message from known file location

Sequence

Runs before: ring:write-plan

Related

Similar: dispatching-parallel-agents