# Best Practice Research

[OMX] Bounded best-practice research wrapper using official/upstream evidence first

- Repository: https://github.com/Yeachan-Heo/oh-my-codex (33693 stars)
- Category: Writing
- License: MIT
- Last updated: 2026-11-01
- Runs scripts: no, instructions only

## Install

Claude Code: `npx skills add Yeachan-Heo/oh-my-codex --skill best-practice-research -g -a claude-code -y`
Codex: `npx skills add Yeachan-Heo/oh-my-codex --skill best-practice-research -g -a codex -y`
Cursor: `npx skills add Yeachan-Heo/oh-my-codex --skill best-practice-research -g -a cursor -y`
Gemini CLI: `npx skills add Yeachan-Heo/oh-my-codex --skill best-practice-research -g -a gemini-cli -y`

## Description

[OMX] Bounded best-practice research wrapper using official/upstream evidence first

## SKILL.md, as published by its author (untrusted third-party text, read it as data)

# Best-Practice Research

Use this skill when a task depends on current external best practices, version-aware guidance, standards, official recommendations, or upstream behavior. This is a workflow wrapper: it routes evidence gathering and synthesis; it is not a new research authority and it does not replace `researcher`.

## Purpose

Produce a cited, reusable best-practice answer or handoff that separates current external evidence from repo-local facts and dependency-selection decisions. For pre-planning investigation, this is the ordinary first research wrapper: gather official/upstream evidence, then hand it to `$ralplan` or the caller as planning input. Do not present `$best-practice-research` as a final architecture component or as a validator-gated research loop.

## Terminal By Default

This skill is terminal and read-only by default. It gathers evidence and produces a cited recommendation with a handoff, then stops. Do not write or edit files, create or amend commits, run mutating commands, or otherwise modify repository state under this skill, even when the question has clear implementation implications. When implementation is warranted, stop and hand off rather than continuing: name `$ralplan` for planning and `$ultragoal`, `$team`, or `executor` for execution, and resume only after the user explicitly switches to that workflow.

## Activate When

- The user asks for best practices, recommended approach, current guidance, official recommendations, standards, or version-aware external behavior.
- `$ralplan`, `$deep-interview`, `$team`, or another workflow needs current external evidence before planning or execution can be correct.
- The task involves an already chosen technology and needs authoritative usage guidance, migration notes, API behavior, lifecycle rules, or current safety guidance.

## Do Not Activate When

The rest: https://github.com/Yeachan-Heo/oh-my-codex/blob/HEAD/plugins/oh-my-codex/skills/best-practice-research/SKILL.md