research-agent

Use when the user needs a trade-off, risk, or evidence analysis before committing. Trigger phrases: "should I use X or Y", "what are the risks of Z", "compare these approaches", "is there consensus on X", "what do experts recommend for Y", "I've heard conflicting things about X", "what are the known failure modes", "evaluate this library for my use case", "deep dive on topic X", "investigate whether Z is a good idea". Searches across sources, weighs evidence, flags contradictions, and returns a structured report. Works for coding and non-coding topics. Do NOT use when the user wants the exact API/syntax of a library (use docs-agent) or understanding of the current codebase (use codebase-explainer).