Research

Coordinates multi-task sprint execution, manages research workflow, and ensures quality. Use when: executing complete sprints, coordinating multiple tasks, managing research workflow.

name: "sprint-executor" description: | Orchestrates execution of multi-task research sprints with parallel task coordination. Activates when: executing complete sprints, managing multiple tasks, coordinating research workflows, tracking sprint progress, or synthesizing cross-sprint analyses. Manages sprint initialization, parallel execution, quality validation, and release creation. allowed-tools: - Read - Write - Grep - Glob - Bash - Task - TodoWrite --- ---

Creates implementation roadmaps, resource plans, timelines, and risk mitigation strategies. Use when: planning implementation, creating roadmaps, resource planning, or risk assessment.

name: "research-synthesizer" description: | Creates comprehensive synthesis documents distilling research findings into actionable insights. Activates when: creating synthesis.md files, aggregating research findings, integrating multi-source data, extracting strategic insights, or resolving conflicting information. Operates across technical, market, architecture, certification, and roadmap domains. Ensures evidence-based synthesis with full traceability to source research files. allowe

Synthesizes final reports from all research, applies scoring rubric, generates recommendations. Use when: creating final reports, scoring opportunities, or generating go/no-go recommendations.

name: "report-generator" description: | Creates comprehensive final reports (Task 06) synthesizing all research into executive-ready strategic assessments. Activates when: generating final reports, creating Task 06 deliverables, synthesizing sprint findings, producing strategic recommendations, or creating stakeholder-ready documents. Serves dual audiences (business executives and technical decision-makers) with 5,000-7,500 word reports including opportunity scores, go/no-go recommenda

name: "quality-validator" description: | Validates research deliverables against quality standards including file counts, citation density, synthesis presence, and content quality. Activates when: checking quality standards, validating sprint deliverables, assessing research completeness, verifying citation compliance, or generating quality reports. Operates across all research tasks (01-06) and produces pass/fail assessments with actionable recommendations for improvement. allowed-too

name: "opportunity-scorer" description: | Calculates quantitative opportunity scores (0-100) using multi-dimensional rubrics from configuration. Activates when: scoring opportunities, calculating weighted scores, applying scoring rubrics, generating go/no-go recommendations, comparing opportunity scores, or ranking multiple opportunities. Reads research findings, extracts evidence, applies scoring criteria, and produces justified scores with threshold-based recommendations (STRONG GO,

name: "opportunity-discovery" description: | Automatically identifies strategic opportunities by analyzing host company capabilities against client domain needs. Activates when: discovering opportunities, identifying strategic fit areas, generating research sprints, analyzing company-client alignment, or creating sprint configurations without predefined opportunities. Reads company profile and client context, performs strategic fit analysis, and generates 5-10 opportunity definitions r

Analyzes market opportunity, competitive landscape, TAM/SAM/SOM sizing, and customer needs. Use when: researching market size, competitors, customer segments, pricing, or market trends.

Researches certification pathways, testing strategies, and compliance requirements. Use when: investigating certification, testing requirements, compliance pathways, or validation.

name: "comparative-analyzer" description: | Performs cross-sprint comparative analysis to rank opportunities, identify patterns, and recommend prioritization. Activates when: comparing multiple sprints, ranking opportunities, analyzing portfolio strategy, identifying cross-opportunity patterns, recommending execution sequences, or allocating resources across opportunities. Generates strategic insights spanning multiple opportunities with investment allocation and prioritization recomme

Identify and challenge implicit assumptions in plans, proposals, and technical decisions. Use when strategic-cto-mentor needs to surface hidden assumptions and wishful thinking before they become costly mistakes.

Detect common technical and organizational anti-patterns in proposals, architectures, and plans. Use when strategic-cto-mentor needs to identify red flags before they become problems.

Systematic approach for gathering authoritative, version-accurate documentation. Claude invokes this skill when research is needed before implementation. Ensures truth over speed while achieving both.

Analyse rhétorique et épistémologique d'articles, discours et textes argumentatifs. Utiliser ce skill quand l'utilisateur demande d'analyser la qualité argumentative d'un texte, d'identifier des sophismes ou biais, d'évaluer la fiabilité des sources citées, de déconstruire la logique d'un raisonnement, ou de produire une réécriture critique structurée d'un document.

Research topics and document findings in Notion with organized structure and sources

**Author:** Dr. Aneesh Joseph **Implementation:** Claude (Anthropic) **Version:** 2.2 | December 2025 ---

**Systematic Practices for AI Metacognition** Version 1.0 | November 2025 Created by Dr. Aneesh Joseph using Basho 9.2 ---

Systematic research methodology for building comprehensive, current knowledge on any topic. Requires web_search tool. Use when questions require thorough investigation, recent developments post-cutoff, synthesis across multiple sources, or when Claude's knowledge may be outdated or incomplete. Triggered by "Research", "Investigate", "What's current on", "Latest info on", complex queries needing validation, or technical topics with recent changes.

This skill analyzes Search Engine Results Pages to reveal what's working for ranking content, which SERP features appear, and what triggers AI-generated answers. Understand the battlefield before creating content.

This skill helps you discover, analyze, and prioritize keywords for SEO and GEO content strategies. It identifies high-value opportunities based on search volume, competition, intent, and business relevance.

This skill provides comprehensive analysis of competitor SEO and GEO strategies, revealing what's working in your market and identifying opportunities to outperform the competition.

This skill provides comprehensive cryptocurrency research by orchestrating multiple specialized AI agents that analyze different aspects of the crypto market in parallel.