Language: Use {communication_language} for all output. Output Language: Use {document_output_language} for documents. Output Location: {planning_artifacts} Paths: Bare paths (e.g. agents/foo.md) resolve from the skill root.

Stage 2: Contextual Discovery

Goal: Armed with the user's stated intent, intelligently gather and synthesize all available context — documents, project knowledge, and web research — so later stages work from a rich, relevant foundation.

Subagent Fan-Out

Now that you know what the brief is about, fan out subagents in parallel to gather context. Each subagent receives the product intent summary so it knows what's relevant.

Launch in parallel:

1. Artifact Analyzer (agents/artifact-analyzer.md) — Scans {planning_artifacts} and {project_knowledge} for relevant documents. Also scans any specific paths the user provided. Returns structured synthesis of what it found.

2. Web Researcher (agents/web-researcher.md) — Searches for competitive landscape, market context, trends, and relevant industry data. Returns structured findings scoped to the product domain.

Graceful Degradation

If subagents are unavailable or fail:

• Read only the most relevant 1-2 documents in the main context and summarize (don't full-read everything — limit context impact in degraded mode)
• Do a few targeted web searches inline
• Never block the workflow because a subagent feature is unavailable

Synthesis

Once subagent results return (or inline scanning completes):

1. Merge findings with what the user already told you
2. Identify gaps — what do you still need to know to write a solid brief?
3. Note surprises — anything from research that contradicts or enriches the user's assumptions?

Mode-Specific Behavior

Guided mode:

• Present a concise summary of what you found: "Here's what I learned from your documents and web research..."
• Highlight anything surprising or worth discussing
• Share the gaps you've identified
• Ask: "Anything else you'd like to add, or shall we move on to filling in the details?"
• Route to prompts/guided-elicitation.md

Yolo mode:

• Absorb all findings silently
• Skip directly to prompts/draft-and-review.md — you have enough to draft
• The user will refine later

Headless mode:

• Absorb all findings
• Skip directly to prompts/draft-and-review.md
• No interaction

Stage Complete

This stage is complete when subagent results (or inline scanning fallback) have returned and findings are merged with user context. Route per mode:

• Guided → prompts/guided-elicitation.md
• Yolo / Headless → prompts/draft-and-review.md