best-practice-research
Best-Practice Research
Use this skill when a task depends on current external best practices, version-aware guidance, standards, official recommendations, or upstream behavior. This is a workflow wrapper: it routes evidence gathering and synthesis; it is not a new research authority and it does not replace researcher.
Purpose
Produce a cited, reusable best-practice answer or handoff that separates current external evidence from repo-local facts and dependency-selection decisions. For pre-planning investigation, this is the ordinary first research wrapper: gather official/upstream evidence, then hand it to $ralplan or the caller as planning input. Do not present $best-practice-research as a final architecture component or as a validator-gated research loop.
Terminal By Default
This skill is terminal and read-only by default. It gathers evidence and produces a cited recommendation with a handoff, then stops. Do not write or edit files, create or amend commits, run mutating commands, or otherwise modify repository state under this skill — even when the question has clear implementation implications. When implementation is warranted, stop and hand off rather than continuing: name $ralplan for planning and $ultragoal, $team, or executor for execution, and resume only after the user explicitly switches to that workflow.
Activate When
- The user asks for best practices, recommended approach, current guidance, official recommendations, standards, or version-aware external behavior.
$ralplan,$deep-interview,$team, or another workflow needs current external evidence before planning or execution can be correct.- The task involves an already chosen technology and needs authoritative usage guidance, migration notes, API behavior, lifecycle rules, or current safety guidance.