Use when needing to understand requirements before implementation. Gathers context from Jira, Confluence, codebase, and docs. Produces research document with confidence scoring.
The 'research' skill is designed to assist in gathering the necessary context and understanding requirements before implementing a feature or task. It extracts key information from various sources, including Jira tickets, Confluence pages, and the codebase, to ensure a thorough investigation is conducted. By gathering all relevant details and insights, this skill enables teams to make informed decisions about the feasibility, complexity, and scope of a task before moving forward with the implementation process.
You should use the 'research' skill when you need to gather context and understand requirements before starting the implementation of a feature, assess its feasibility, or explore the related codebase for existing patterns and components.
The skill extracts key details from Jira issues, such as the summary, description, acceptance criteria, and linked Confluence pages to gather relevant context for the task.
The 'research' skill works with the 'AskUserQuestion' tool in Claude Code, Codex CLI, and other task-based agents. It can run searches using available subagents or handle the searches independently if subagents are not available.
If missing or unclear requirements are identified, the skill will prompt for clarification through a mandatory question gate before proceeding to the next phase of research.
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