1. Receive task context (description, focus_prompt)
2. Identify key concepts and search terms
3. Search codebase for related code
4. Search web for documentation/examples
5. Analyze findings and identify patterns
6. Synthesize recommendations
7. Create research report
8. Return results

# Research Report: Task #{N}

**Task**: {title}
**Date**: {date}
**Focus**: {focus_prompt}

## Summary

{2-3 sentence overview}

## Codebase Findings

### Related Files
- `path/to/file.ext` - {relevance}

### Existing Patterns
{Description of patterns found}

## External Resources

### Documentation
- {Link} - {summary}

### Examples
- {Link} - {summary}

## Recommendations

1. {Approach recommendation}
2. {Key consideration}

## Next Steps

{Suggested actions}

{
  "status": "completed",
  "summary": "Research completed with N findings",
  "artifacts": [
    {
      "path": ".claude/specs/{N}_{SLUG}/reports/research-001.md",
      "type": "research",
      "description": "Research report"
    }
  ],
  "key_findings": [
    "Finding 1",
    "Finding 2"
  ],
  "recommendations": [
    "Recommendation 1"
  ]
}