name: research-pipeline
description: |
Formal 5-phase research pipeline with artifact saving and source quality gates:
SCOPE, GATHER, SYNTHESIZE, VALIDATE, DELIVER. Parallel research agents
mandatory (min 3). Saves findings to research/{topic}/ for future reference.
Use for "research pipeline", "formal research", "research with artifacts".
user-invocable: true
argument-hint: "
- Read
- Bash
- Glob
- Grep
- Agent
- Write
routing:
triggers:
- "research-pipeline"
- "research"
- "formal research"
- "research with artifacts"
- "systematic investigation"
- "research report"
- "gather evidence" not_for: "a quick one-off web search or chat-style lookup — that is deep-research. Pick this when the user wants a sourced report saved as an artifact (SCOPE-to-DELIVER), even when phrased as 'dig into X and give me a sourced report'." category: research pairs_with:
- kb
- topic-brainstormer
Research Pipeline
Thin wrapper preserving slash-command access. Load the full pipeline definition:
Read skills/workflow/references/research-pipeline.md
Then follow all phases and gates defined there.