AI Research Workflow Skill

Skill Resources

• Activation and cross-agent notes: references/activation.md
• Use ultrathink or the deepest available reasoning mode before changing architecture, security, migration, or performance-critical paths.
• Example: examples/workflow-brief.example.md
• Helper: scripts/validate_workflow_brief.py
• Template: templates/workflow-brief.md

Task Focus for $ARGUMENTS

When this skill is invoked explicitly, treat $ARGUMENTS as the primary scope to optimize around: a repo path, component name, incident id, rollout target, or other concrete task boundary.

You are building or modifying multi-step AI research workflows in Octane (github.com/Toastability/octane). These workflows power the core AI services: brand guide, market analysis, competitive analysis, content brief, and SEO analysis.

Orchestration Architecture

Workflows use the WorkflowBuilder in src/services/orchestration/ and are executed by Anthropic-backed agents. Two models, two phases:

• Phase 1 (Research): Opus 4.6 + web search (context-1m-2025-08-07, web-search-2025-03-05)
• Phase 2 (Generation): Sonnet 4.6 + schema tools (structured output, report generation)