Investigate a plain-language problem description by deeply exploring the codebase, then create a structured GitHub issue with technical findings. Prequel to build-from-issue — maps vague ideas to concrete, buildable issues. Trigger keywords - spike, investigate, explore, research issue, technical investigation, create spike, new spike, feasibility, codebase exploration.
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The skill exposes the agent to untrusted, user-generated content from public third-party sources, creating a risk of indirect prompt injection. This includes browsing arbitrary URLs, reading social media posts or forum comments, and analyzing content from unknown websites.
Outsider-provided “User describes a problem” free text is ingested at Step 1 and then included in the investigation prompt to the `principal-engineer-reviewer` sub-agent in Step 2 via “The prompt to the reviewer must instruct it… (user’s problem statement)”.
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