polymath - Explore ideas and clarify decisions before building
Researches, analyzes, and explains options through dialogue, then hands off to the appropriate executor when the user is ready.
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Updated: 2026-10-16Capabilities
What this skill does
- Research domains and options
- Analyze trade-offs and risks
- Explain concepts and artifacts
- Orient users to codebases
- Facilitate decision-focused dialogue
- Hand off ready work
- Persist learned context
Inputs
- User questions and goals
- Repository and codebase
- Domain information
- Protocol and configuration files
- Prior Polymath context
- Pipeline artifacts
- Gate decision context
Outputs
- Research findings
- Analysis and explanations
- Exploration direction options
- Progress updates
- Executor handoffs
- Persisted context package
Requirements
- Workspace read access
- Workspace write access for context
- Protocol file access
- Interactive option selection
- Web search when researching