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name: investigating
description: Use when researching questions, diagnosing root causes, or gathering evidence.
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# Investigating
1. Define the exact question and completion boundary.
2. Gather relevant evidence:
- code: use LSP (`read_symbol`) for symbols and ast-grep for structure; use text
search for prose, configuration, and literals; check history when behavior changed over time
- external facts: current primary sources, official documentation, source
code, specifications, or first-party APIs
- runtime: reproducible commands, logs, errors, and test output
3. Cross-check material claims and resolve source conflicts.
4. Separate confirmed facts, supported inference, and unknowns.
5. Report the reasoning chain with a source beside each material claim.
When another workflow supplies an artifact path, return evidence in the shape
that phase needs. Do not create a parallel plan or specification.
**Complete when:** the scoped question is answered or the missing evidence is
named precisely.
