Results for “research-before-coding”

You MUST use this before any creative work - creating features, building components, adding functionality, or modifying behavior. Explores user intent, requirements and design before implementation.

Use BEFORE generating, refactoring, reviewing, or debugging code. Trigger phrases include "write a function/script/class for X", "review this code/diff/PR", "refactor this", "debug this error", "is this implementation correct", "what's wrong with this code", "improve this code", "translate from X to Y", or any prompt with a code block the user wants you to act on. Also fires when planning architectural changes, picking algorithms or data structures, or evaluating dependency upgrades. Calls the code MCP tool to retrieve an engineering scaffold (failure pattern, procedure, correct-pattern example, verification step) before generating. Catches hallucinated APIs, lost edge cases, premature algorithm commitment, silent contract violations, refactors that change behavior masked by passing tests. Do NOT trigger for pure code reading with no action requested, simple syntax questions, file...

Scaffolds a program.md research program for autoresearch by auto-detecting codebase signals and interviewing for missing details.

Decision guide for when to proactively use Claude Code slash commands — /think, /model, /compact, /clear. Use when choosing whether to invoke a command before or during a task, or when a complexity-classifier hook has flagged a task as high or critical. Pairs with the complexity-classifier UserPromptSubmit hook.

Routing guide for the built-in QwenWork Connector tools (mcp__qw-builtin__qw_query / mcp__qw-builtin__qw_action). Load ONLY right before calling them to view or manage QwenWork's OWN tasks/sessions or app configuration, or when a qw tool result explicitly asks. Before loading, always check whether another skill or tool can do the job — if so, use that instead. Unless the user explicitly asks, never use it to view skills, plugins, MCP servers, or third-party connectors. Never load in any non-essential scenario (content creation, PPT/docs, coding, research, web tasks), even when the topic is QwenWork itself. If in doubt, do not load.

Use this skill whenever a developer wants to turn an idea into a complete, production-ready, end-to-end system plan BEFORE writing any code. Trigger on 'plan this system', 'design the architecture for', 'help me blueprint', 'deep plan for X', 'break this idea into components', 'expand into action points', 'full implementation plan', or when the user pastes a project idea wanting architecture, components, pipelines, and file-level execution mapped out. Casual phrasing also triggers: 'help me think this through end-to-end', 'plan before coding'. Also covers living-workspace patterns: self-improving knowledge bases, reflection loops with auditor agents, four-agent teams, schema-as-code, wiki health scoring. **Resume triggers**: 'where did we leave off', 'continue this plan', 'resume my blueprint' - rehydrates state from disk via SESSION.md/NEXT.md/decisions/. Web research is mandatory every invocation.