english/.opencode/skills/ck-plan/references/research-phase.md

Research & Analysis Phase

When to skip: If provided with researcher reports, skip this phase.

Core Activities

Parallel Researcher Agents

• Spawn multiple researcher agents in parallel to investigate different approaches
• Wait for all researcher agents to report back before proceeding
• Each researcher investigates a specific aspect or approach

Sequential Thinking

• Use ck:sequential-thinking skill for dynamic and reflective problem-solving
• Structured thinking process for complex analysis
• Enables multi-step reasoning with revision capability

Documentation Research

• Use ck:docs-seeker skill to read and understand documentation
• Research plugins, packages, and frameworks
• Find latest technical documentation using llms.txt standard

GitHub Analysis

• Use gh command to read and analyze:
  • GitHub Actions logs
  • Pull requests
  • Issues and discussions
• Extract relevant technical context from GitHub resources

Remote Repository Analysis

When given GitHub repository URL, generate fresh codebase summary:

# usage: 
repomix --remote <github-repo-url>
# example: 
repomix --remote https://github.com/mrgoonie/human-mcp

Debugger Delegation

• Delegate to debugger agent for root cause analysis
• Use when investigating complex issues or bugs
• Debugger agent specializes in diagnostic tasks

Best Practices

• Research breadth before depth
• Document findings for synthesis phase
• Identify multiple approaches for comparison
• Consider edge cases during research
• Note security implications early