skill-researcher-hard

# Researcher Hard Skill Hard-mode wrapper that delegates research to `general-research-hard-agent` subagent. Extends `skill-researcher` with hard-mode behavioral contracts (H2, H3, H4) and postflight logging of adversarial verification status. **Relationship to base skill**: This skill is structurally identical to `skill-researcher` except it dispatches to `general-research-hard-agent` and logs `adversarial_verification_triggered`. Maintenance note: changes to `skill-researcher` postflight should be mirrored here. ## Context References Reference (do not load eagerly): - Path: `.claude/context/formats/return-metadata-file.md` - Metadata file schema - Path: `.claude/context/contracts/anti-analysis.md` - H2 contract (loaded by agent) - Path: `.claude/context/contracts/reference-grounding.md` - H3 contract (loaded by agent) - Path: `.claude/context/contracts/adversarial-verification.md` - H4 contract: Claim Verification Bar, Confidence Level Taxonomy, Contradiction Resolution Protocol (MANDATORY, loaded by agent) - Path: `.claude/context/patterns/postflight-control.md` - Marker file protocol - Path: `.claude/context/patterns/jq-escaping-workarounds.md` - jq escaping patterns ## Trigger Conditions This skill activates when: - `/research N --hard` is invoked and no extension hard variant exists - Routed here by `command-route-skill.sh` with `effort_flag="hard"` --- ## Execution Flow ### Stage 1: Input Validation Validate required inputs: - `task_number` - Must be provided and exist in state.json ```bash task_data=$(jq -r --argjson num "$task_number" \ '.active_projects[] | select(.project_number == $num)' \ specs/state.json) if [ -z "$task_data" ]; then return error "Task $task_number not found" fi task_type=$(echo "$task_data" | jq -r '.task_type // "general"') status=$(echo "$task_data" | jq -r '.status') project_name=$(echo "$task_data" | jq -r '.project_name') description=$(echo "$task_data" | jq -r '.description // ""') ``` --- ### Stage 1.5: Hard-Mode Cost Note Emit one-time cost note (via session flag) on first hard-mode invocation: ```bash session_flag_file="/tmp/.hard-mode-notified-${SESSION_ID:-$$}" if [ ! -f "$session_flag_file" ]; then echo "[hard-mode] Hard mode active. Cost: ~3-5x standard. Use --hard for deflection-prone or formally complex tasks." >&2 touch "$session_flag_file" fi ``` --- ### Stage 2 + Stage 3: Preflight Status Update and Postflight Marker Source `skill-base.sh` once, then follow `@.claude/context/patterns/skill-preflight-flow.md` in full for Stage 2 (preflight status update) and Stage 3 (marker creation): ```bash source .claude/scripts/skill-base.sh padded_num=$(printf "%03d" "$task_number") skill_name="skill-researcher-hard" operation="research" ``` **Marker unification note**: this skill's marker previously dropped `created` and `stop_hook_active` (Shape C) — a drift, not a hard-mode design decision. Routing through `skill_create_postflight_marker` restores both fields as part of this conversion, matching every other importer's Shape A schema. --- ### Stage 3a: Read Artifact Number ```bash artifact_number=$(jq -r --argjson num "$task_number" \ '.active_projects[] | select(.project_number == $num) | .next_artifact_number // 1' \ specs/state.json) if [ "$artifact_number" = "null" ] || [ -z "$artifact_number" ]; then padded_num=$(printf "%03d" "$task_number") count=$(ls "specs/${padded_num}_${project_name}/reports/"*[0-9][0-9]*.md 2>/dev/null | wc -l) artifact_number=$((count + 1)) fi artifact_padded=$(printf "%02d" "$artifact_number") ``` --- ### Stage 4a: Memory Retrieval (Auto) ```bash if [ "$clean_flag" != "true" ]; then memory_context=$(bash .claude/scripts/memory-retrieve.sh "$description" "$task_type" "$focus_prompt" 2>/dev/null) || memory_context="" fi ``` **Literature Detection and Injection (Stage 4a, shared block)** Follow `@.claude/context/patterns/lit-stage4a-flow.md` in full to resolve `--lit` and set `lit_context`: call `literature-lit-flag-resolve.sh`, branch on all six directives (`LIT_DISABLED`, `SUBINDEX_PRESENT`, `GLOBAL_MISSING`, `PROMPT_NEEDED`, `AUTONOMOUS_GLOBAL`, `SPARSE_PROMPT_NEEDED`), issue the real four-option `AskUserQuestion` for the two interactive directives (including the "Search online to ingest" option wired to the STABLE-CONTRACT `literature-ingest-online.sh` bridge), apply the two-checkpoint sparse re-prompt after "Use global corpus now", and take the deterministic `[lit:auto]` autonomous fallback when `orchestrator_mode == "true"` (never calling `AskUserQuestion` in that case). This skill supplies the shared block's preconditions: `lit_flag`, `description`, and `orchestrator_mode` (read from the delegation context; default `"false"` when unset). **Note**: `lit_flag` is independent of `clean_flag`. Using `--clean --lit` suppresses memory retrieval but still injects literature briefing. Literature briefing is gated solely on `lit_flag == "true"`. --- ### Stage 4: Prepare Delegation Context ```json { "session_id": "{session_id}", "delegation_depth": 1, "delegation_path": ["orchestrator", "research", "skill-researcher-hard"], "timeout": 3600, "task_context": { "task_number": N, "task_name": "{project_name}", "description": "{description}", "task_type": "{task_type}" }, "artifact_number": "{artifact_number}", "focus_prompt": "{optional focus}", "effort_flag": "hard", "model_flag": "{model_flag from command, null if not set}", "roadmap_path": "specs/ROADMAP.md", "metadata_file_path": "specs/{NNN}_{SLUG}/.return-meta.json" } ``` --- ### Stage 4b: Read Format Specification ```bash format_content=$(cat .claude/context/formats/report-format.md) ``` --- ### Stage 5: Invoke Subagent ``` Tool: Agent Parameters: - subagent_type: "general-research-hard-agent" - prompt: [task_context, delegation_context, format specification, memory_context, lit_context, focus] - description: "Execute hard-mode research for task {N}" ``` Include format specification, memory context, and literature briefing in prompt as per `skill-researcher` pattern. If `lit_context` is non-empty, inject it as a `<literature-briefing>` block after the memory context and before the task-specific instructions. --- ### Stage 5b: Self-Execution Fallback Follow `@.claude/context/patterns/skill-self-execution-fallback.md` in full. This skill's success status value for that block's write obligation is `"researched"`. --- ## Postflight (ALWAYS EXECUTE) ### Stage 6: Parse Subagent Return Read metadata file and extract: status, artifact_path, artifact_type, artifact_summary, memory_candidates, and additionally `adversarial_verification_triggered`. ```bash metadata_file="specs/${padded_num}_${project_name}/.return-meta.json" if [ -f "$metadata_file" ] && jq empty "$metadata_file" 2>/dev/null; then status=$(jq -r '.status' "$metadata_file") artifact_path=$(jq -r '.artifacts[0].path // ""' "$metadata_file") artifact_type=$(jq -r '.artifacts[0].type // ""' "$metadata_file") artifact_summary=$(jq -r '.artifacts[0].summary // ""' "$metadata_file") memory_candidates=$(jq -c '.memory_candidates // []' "$metadata_file") adversarial_triggered=$(jq -r '.adversarial_verification_triggered // false' "$metadata_file") else status="failed" adversarial_triggered="false" fi # Log adversarial verification status echo "[hard-mode] Adversarial verification triggered: $adversarial_triggered" >&2 ``` --- ### Stage 6a: Validate Artifact Content (non-blocking) ```bash if [ "$status" = "researched" ] && [ -n "$artifact_path" ] && [ -f "$artifact_path" ]; then bash .claude/scripts/validate-artifact.sh "$artifact_path" report --fix || true fi ``` --- ### Stage 7, 7a, 8, 8a, 9: Postflight Status, Memory Candidates, Artifact Linking, Notify, Cleanup Follow `@.claude/context/patterns/skill-postflight-flow.md` in full for Stage 7 (postflight status update), Stage 7a (memory-candidate propagation), Stage 8 (artifact linking), Stage 8a (TTS notify), and Stage 9 (cleanup). Real imports replace the prior `Same as skill-researcher Stage 7a` / `Stage 8` prose cross-references — both targets were valid, so this is drift-proofing (a cross-reference can silently go stale; an `@`-import cannot): ```bash field_name='**Research**' next_field='**Plan**' ``` This skill supplies the shared block's preconditions: `task_number`, `padded_num`, `project_name`, `session_id`, `operation`, `status`, `artifact_path`, `artifact_type`, `artifact_summary`, `memory_candidates`, `field_name`, `next_field`. **Research-specific addition, NOT covered by the shared block**: increment `next_artifact_number` immediately after the shared block's Stage 7 call, guarded the same way as `skill-researcher`: ```bash if [ "$status" = "researched" ]; then bash .claude/scripts/state-write.sh \ '(.active_projects[] | select(.project_number == '$task_number')).next_artifact_number = (((.active_projects[] | select(.project_number == '$task_number')).next_artifact_number // 1) + 1)' \ --session-id "$session_id" fi ``` --- ## MUST NOT (Postflight Boundary) After the agent returns, this skill MUST NOT: 1. **Edit source files** - All research work is done by agent 2. **Run build/test commands** - Verification is done by agent 3. **Use MCP/WebSearch tools** - Research tools are for agent use only 4. **Analyze or grep source** - Analysis is agent work 5. **Write reports** - Artifact creation is agent work The postflight phase is LIMITED TO: - Reading agent metadata file - Calling `update-task-status.sh` for status updates (state.json + TODO.md) - Incrementing `next_artifact_number` via jq - Linking artifacts in state.json - Cleanup of temp/marker files Reference: @.claude/context/standards/postflight-tool-restrictions.md