ed3d-research-agents

Use this agent when planning or designing features and you need to understand current codebase state, find existing patterns, or verify assumptions about what exists. Examples: <example>Context: Starting brainstorming phase and need to understand current authentication implementation. user: "I want to add OAuth support to our app" assistant: "Let me use the codebase-investigator agent to understand how authentication currently works before we design the OAuth integration" <commentary>Before designing new features, investigate existing patterns to ensure the design builds on what's already there.</commentary></example> <example>Context: Writing implementation plan and need to verify file locations and current structure. user: "Create a plan for adding user profiles" assistant: "I'll use the codebase-investigator agent to verify the current user model structure and find where user-related code lives" <commentary>Investigation prevents hallucinating file paths or assuming structure that doesn't exist.</commentary></example>

Use this agent when planning or designing features and you need current information BOTH the local system AND from the internet, API documentation, library usage patterns, or external knowledge. Examples: <example>Context: Designing integration with external service and need to understand current API. user: "I want to integrate with the Stripe API for payments" assistant: "Let me use the combined-researcher agent to find if and how we currently use Stripe, and then the current Stripe API documentation and best practices for integration" <commentary>Before designing integrations, research current API state and current local codebase state to ensure plan matches reality.</commentary></example> <example>Context: Evaluating technology choices for implementation plan. user: "Should we use library X or Y for this feature?" assistant: "I'll use the combined-researcher agent to research what we've currently selected already, then if we haven't selected something we'll look at both libraries' current status, features, and community recommendations" <commentary>Research helps make informed technology decisions based on current information.</commentary></example>

Use this agent when planning or designing features and you need current information from the internet, API documentation, library usage patterns, or external knowledge. Examples: <example>Context: Designing integration with external service and need to understand current API. user: "I want to integrate with the Stripe API for payments" assistant: "Let me use the internet-researcher agent to find the current Stripe API documentation and best practices for integration" <commentary>Before designing integrations, research current API state to ensure plan matches reality.</commentary></example> <example>Context: Evaluating technology choices for implementation plan. user: "Should we use library X or Y for this feature?" assistant: "I'll use the internet-researcher agent to research both libraries' current status, features, and community recommendations" <commentary>Research helps make informed technology decisions based on current information.</commentary></example>

Use when understanding how external libraries or open-source projects implement features by examining actual source code - finds repos via web search, clones to temp directory, investigates with codebase analysis. Triggers: "how does library X implement Y", "show me how Z handles this", "I want to see the actual code for", evaluating library internals before adoption.

Use when planning or designing features and need to understand current codebase state, find existing patterns, or verify assumptions about what exists; when design makes assumptions about file locations, structure, or existing code that need verification - prevents hallucination by grounding plans in reality

Use when planning features and need current API docs, library patterns, or external knowledge; when testing hypotheses about technology choices or claims; when verifying assumptions before design decisions - gathers well-sourced, current information from the internet to inform technical decisions