Research Before Planning Protocol
Before planning any fix, tracing any issue, or proposing any solution:
- Search online for current official documentation to confirm the behavior is NOT intended or already fixed
- Search for state-of-the-art solutions, known community workarounds, and recent discussion on this problem type
- Use parallel sub-agents to search multiple sources simultaneously
- Report all findings before any code tracing begins
Then trace each problem end-to-end through the actual source code using parallel sub-agents. Do not stop until ≥95% confident in the root cause for every issue being investigated.