best-practice-research

name	best-practice-research
description	[Omagy] Bounded best-practice research wrapper using official/upstream evidence first
argument-hint	<technology|decision|practice question>

Best-Practice Research

Use this skill when a task depends on current external best practices, version-aware guidance, standards, official recommendations, or upstream behavior. This is a workflow wrapper: it routes evidence gathering and synthesis; it is not a new research authority and it does not replace the researcher lane.

Purpose

Produce a cited, reusable best-practice answer or handoff that separates current external evidence from repo-local facts and dependency-selection decisions.

Activate When

• The user asks for best practices, recommended approach, current guidance, official recommendations, standards, or version-aware external behavior.
• /omagy:ralplan, /omagy:deep-interview, /omagy:team, or another Omagy workflow needs current external evidence before planning or execution can be correct.
• The task involves an already chosen technology and needs authoritative usage guidance, migration notes, API behavior, lifecycle rules, or current safety guidance.

Do Not Activate When

• The answer is fully repo-local; use omagy explore --prompt "<narrow lookup>" --json for codebase facts.
• The main question is whether to adopt, replace, upgrade, or compare dependencies; route back to /omagy:plan with an explicit dependency decision scope instead of deciding it inside this skill.
• The user only needs implementation against already-grounded requirements; use /omagy:ralph, /omagy:team, or the direct executor lane as appropriate.
• The task can be answered from stable local project conventions without current external lookup.

Specialist Routing

1. Use omagy explore --prompt "<narrow lookup>" --json first for brownfield facts: current code usage, local constraints, versions, config, and integration points.
2. Use the Antigravity/Omagy researcher lane when available for official/upstream docs, release notes, standards, migration guides, source-backed examples, and current best-practice evidence for an already chosen technology.
3. If no dedicated researcher lane is available, use the normal external research path, cite official/upstream URLs, and explicitly mark any evidence gap. Do not invent authority from memory.
4. Route dependency adoption, upgrade, replacement, or comparison decisions back to /omagy:plan as a dependency decision; this skill may provide source evidence but does not choose the dependency.
5. Return to the caller with explicit evidence, uncertainty, and any implementation handoff constraints.

Source-Quality Rules

• Prefer official documentation, upstream source, release notes, changelogs, standards, and maintainer guidance.
• Include source URLs for material claims.
• State date/version context for current best-practice claims.
• Label third-party summaries as supplemental; do not use them before official/upstream sources.
• Flag stale, conflicting, undocumented, or version-mismatched evidence.
• Do not over-fetch: gather the smallest evidence set that can support the decision.

Workflow

1. Classify the question: conceptual best practice, implementation guidance, migration/version guidance, standards/compliance guidance, or mixed local + external guidance.
2. Gather repo-local facts with omagy explore --prompt "<narrow lookup>" --json when local usage or constraints affect the answer.
3. Gather external evidence with the researcher lane or normal external research path when current or version-aware practice affects correctness.
4. Synthesize a concise answer with source quality, version/date context, caveats, and an implementation or planning handoff.
5. Stop when the answer is grounded enough for the caller; otherwise report the exact blocker or specialist handoff needed.

Output Contract

## Best-Practice Research: <question>

### Direct Recommendation
<actionable guidance or decision support>

### Evidence Used
- Official/upstream: <source URL> - <what it establishes>
- Supplemental, if any: <source URL> - <why it is secondary>

### Version / Date Context
<versions, dates, release channels, or unknowns>

### Repo-Local Context
<facts from omagy explore, or "not needed">

### Boundaries / Non-goals
<what this research does not decide>

### Handoff
<planning/execution/test implications>

Stop Rules

• Stop after a source-backed recommendation is reusable by the caller.
• Stop and route upward if the task becomes dependency comparison, broad architecture, or implementation.
• Do not continue researching when remaining work would only polish wording rather than change the recommendation.

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