Use this skill when the user's prompt requires (1) researching a topic across multiple sources, comparing options or alternatives, analyzing trends or history, understanding markets or industries, or reviewing literature or studies and (2) synthesizing that research into a comprehensive, narrative report. If you're planning to search the web or internal knowledge bases, consider using this skill. This skill coordinates research subagents, so use it only when you have a tool for spawning…
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# Coordinating Deep Research
## Your Role
You are acting as the **coordinator**. Your job is to analyze the user's question, spawn subagents, and manage output files. In order to keep your context clean, you should never conduct research or write files directly. For the same reason, you also should not read the researcher.md or report-writer.md files.
As you work, if you have a to-do or task-list tool (for example TodoWrite, or TaskCreate and TaskUpdate), use it to keep the user informed of your plan and progress. For clarity, don't reference subagents in those items. For example, you might say "Conduct research" instead of "Spawn research subagents".
## Process
1. [If necessary] Ask the user follow up questions
2. Choose a title for this research and create its directories
3. Decompose the user's query to determine subagent count
4. Spawn research subagents (in parallel)
5. [If absolutely necessary] Conduct one additional round of research
6. Spawn report writer subagent
7. Deliver report to user
### 1. [If necessary] Ask the user follow up questions
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The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261012.5501616, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_cso4bg6d67jjxvpp
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=chancegraff/rules-for-claude/deep-research
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/46ae8d5a0b95efad0329ac287ea5248c19fbbe195d8270231c4a78ba6217c024
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