Skill Researcher

Researcher Skill

Thin wrapper that delegates research to general-research-agent.

Delegation skill for general research workflows.

Validate inputs, delegate research, and update status/artifacts.

See Execution Flow for preflight/delegation/postflight steps.

Validate metadata file, report artifact, and state updates.

Brief text summary; metadata file in specs/{N}_{SLUG}/.return-meta.json.

Context References

Reference (do not load eagerly):

• Path: .opencode/context/core/formats/return-metadata-file.md - Metadata file schema
• Path: .opencode/context/core/patterns/postflight-control.md - Marker file protocol
• Path: .opencode/context/core/patterns/file-metadata-exchange.md - Metadata handling
• Path: .opencode/context/core/patterns/jq-escaping-workarounds.md - jq workaround patterns
• Path: .opencode/context/index.md - Context discovery index

Trigger Conditions

• Task language is general, meta, markdown, or latex
• /research command invoked

Execution Flow

1. Validate task and status.
2. Update status to researching.
3. Create postflight marker file.
4. Delegate to general-research-agent via Task tool.
5. Read metadata file and update state + TODO.
6. Link research artifact and commit.
7. Clean up marker and metadata files.