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Operate pre-spec or in-mission research workflows while keeping findings tied to mission decisions.

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$ npx -y skills add spec-kitty/spec-kitty --skill spk-mission-research --agent claude-code

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spk-mission-research.SKILL.md
name: spk-mission-research
description: "Operate pre-spec or in-mission research workflows while keeping findings tied to mission decisions."

spk-mission-research

Use this skill when a mission needs discovery, external facts, design precedent, technical investigation, or decision support.

Flow

1. Use `/spec-kitty.research` for pre-spec discovery, before a spec or plan exists: capture decisions, evidence, and open questions directly in `research.md` (create or extend it; never truncate it). 2. On a mission type that ships research templates (today: the `research` mission type), once that mission's plan is filled in you can additionally run `spec-kitty research --mission <handle>` to scaffold `research.md`, `data-model.md`, and the CSV stubs from the shipped templates. Other mission types, including `software-dev`, have no such scaffold — the command creates nothing for them. 3. Write findings as decision-ready evidence, not a loose reading list. 4. Record assumptions, source quality, and unresolved questions. 5. Return findings to `spk-mission-specify` or `spk-mission-plan`.

Rule

Research is not a substitute for a spec. It should narrow uncertainty enough for the next mission phase.

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Questions about spk-mission-research.

Which coding agents can use spk-mission-research?
spk-mission-research installs in Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot, OpenCode and Windsurf with the skills CLI, using each agent's flag shown on this page. Flowy's auto-invocation, which fires a skill when your prompt matches, runs in Claude Code only.