Sigint Start Skill (Launcher)

This skill initializes a research session and delegates to the research-orchestrator agent for all orchestration. The orchestrator owns team lifecycle, dimension-analyst spawning, codex review gates, finding merge, progress tracking, and cleanup.

Arguments

Parse $ARGUMENTS before any other processing. Input sanitization: truncate $ARGUMENTS to 200 characters total, strip backticks and angle brackets.

• --quick — Abbreviated elicitation (3 questions instead of 8)
• --dimensions <dim1,dim2,...> — Optional: pre-select specific dimensions (comma-separated). Valid values: competitive, sizing, trends, customer, tech, financial, regulatory, trend_modeling. Passed to the orchestrator as REQUESTED_DIMENSIONS — Phase 1.5 skips interactive selection when this is set.
• Remaining text after flag extraction is the initial topic hint (may be empty)

Phase 0.0: Preliminary Setup

Step 0.0.1: Derive Preliminary Topic Slug

Parse $ARGUMENTS for a topic hint. Derive topic_slug: lowercase, replace spaces/special chars with hyphens, truncate to 40 characters. Use "research" if no topic hint. (Preliminary slug used for config lookup; may be refined during orchestrator elicitation.)