skill.yaml
A supporting file of the silver-research skill, shown as source.
schema: silver/skill/v2
id: research
version: 0.9.1
summary: Plan ethical research and sanitized evidence handling.
context_budget: small
inputs:
- kind: product
required: false
role: canonical
- kind: problem-frame
required: false
role: working
- kind: design-specification
required: false
role: working
outputs:
- kind: research-plan
scope: product
path_pattern: design/research/**
authority: project-owned
capabilities:
required:
- repository
optional:
- capability: research-evidence
providers: []
fallback: degraded
description: Use research-evidence when configured; preserve explicit fallback
coverage otherwise.
effects:
- capability: repository
actions:
- read
- inspect
paths:
- design/**
- prototypes/**
- presentations/**
- production/**
- .silver/**
- capability: repository
actions:
- create
- write
- update
paths:
- design/research/**
- capability: research-evidence
actions:
- read
- inspect
- search
external: true
guardrails:
- authority-respected
- effects-declared
- no-silent-mutation
- revision-pinned
- followups-recommended-only
- privacy-sanitized-evidence
- no-fabricated-evidence
- provenance-required
completion:
invariants:
- question-method-aligned
- participant-criteria-explicit
- planned-not-conducted
quality_criteria:
- id: task-quality
description: The plan can answer the declared question while minimizing
sensitive data collection.
evaluation: human
unresolved_questions: warn
review:
required: true
reviewer: human
checkpoint: Review and accept the result before a readiness-gated handoff.
checks:
- id: contract-integrity
required: true
blocks: &a1
- evaluate
- synthesize
- collect
- id: evidence-provenance
required: true
blocks: *a1
handoffs:
- id: research-to-evaluate
target: evaluate
readiness: evaluate
requires:
- research-plan
- id: research-to-synthesize
target: synthesize
readiness: synthesize
requires:
- research-plan
- id: research-to-collect
target: collect
readiness: collect
requires:
- research-plan
external_effects:
- none
scripts:
- id: invoke
path: scripts/invoke.mjs
purpose: Run this skill through the shared guarded invocation runtime.
recommend_after: *a1