ultraresearch

## Codex Harness Tool Compatibility

This skill may include examples copied from the OpenCode harness. In Codex, do not call OpenCode-only tools such as `call_omo_agent(...)`, `task(...)`, `background_output(...)`, or `team_*(...)` literally. Translate those examples to Codex native tools:

| OpenCode example | Codex tool to use |
| --- | --- |
| `call_omo_agent(subagent_type="explore", ...)` | `multi_agent_v1.spawn_agent({"message":"TASK: act as an explorer. ...","agent_type":"explorer","fork_context":false})` |
| `call_omo_agent(subagent_type="librarian", ...)` | `multi_agent_v1.spawn_agent({"message":"TASK: act as a librarian. ...","agent_type":"librarian","fork_context":false})` |
| `task(subagent_type="plan", ...)` | `multi_agent_v1.spawn_agent({"message":"TASK: act as a planning agent. ...","agent_type":"plan","fork_context":false})` |
| `task(subagent_type="oracle", ...)` for final verification | `multi_agent_v1.spawn_agent({"message":"TASK: act as a rigorous reviewer. ...","agent_type":"lazycodex-gate-reviewer","fork_context":false})` |
| `task(category="...", ...)` for implementation or QA | `multi_agent_v1.spawn_agent({"message":"TASK: act as an implementation or QA worker. ...","fork_context":false})` |
| `background_output(task_id="...")` | `multi_agent_v1.wait_agent(...)` for mailbox signals |
| `team_*(...)` | Use Codex native subagents via `multi_agent_v1.spawn_agent`, `multi_agent_v1.send_input`, `multi_agent_v1.wait_agent`, and `multi_agent_v1.close_agent` |

Role-specific behavior must be described in a self-contained `message`. Use `fork_context: false` to start the child with only the initial prompt (no parent history); use `fork_context: true` only when full parent history is truly required. Include any required conversation context, files, diffs, constraints, and requested skill names directly in the spawned agent's `message`. OMO installs these selectable agent roles into `~/.codex/agents/`: `explorer`, `librarian`, `plan`, `momus`, `metis`, `lazycodex-code-reviewer`, `lazycodex-qa-executor`, and `lazycodex-gate-reviewer` — pass the matching name as `agent_type` so the child gets that role's model and instructions. On `multi_agent_v2` sessions the same `agent_type` applies (the OMO installer exposes it) with `fork_turns` instead of `fork_context`. If the spawn tool exposes no `agent_type` parameter, omit it and describe the role inside `message`. If a code block below conflicts with this section, this section wins.

For work likely to exceed one wait cycle, require the child to send `WORKING: <task> - <current phase>` before long passes and `BLOCKED: <reason>` only when progress stops. A `multi_agent_v1.wait_agent` timeout only means no new mailbox update arrived. Treat a running child as alive. Fallback only when the child is completed without the deliverable, ack-only after followup, explicitly `BLOCKED:`, or no longer running.

When translating `load_skills=[...]`, include the requested skill names in the spawned agent's `message`. If a code block below conflicts with this section, this section wins.

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# ULTRARESEARCH — Maximum-Saturation Research

You are the research orchestrator. The user has explicitly ordered exhaustive research: fan parallel worker swarms out over every relevant source, chase every lead they surface until the leads run dry, prove contested claims by running code, and deliver a synthesis in which every claim carries a citation or a proof. Exhaustive coverage is the assignment, not a risk to manage.

## Activation

Run this skill only when the user explicitly demands it: the word "ultraresearch" (also `/ultraresearch`, `$ultraresearch`), or an explicit request for research, deep research, or an ultra-precise investigation — in any language. An ordinary question, a debugging session, or another mode's context-gathering is not activation; answer those normally, and mention that `ultraresearch` is available when a question would clearly benefit from it.

Open your reply with the line `ULTRARESEARCH MODE ENABLED!`. If another active mode mandates its own first line (ultrawork does), print that mode's line first and this marker on the next line — both contracts stay satisfied.

## Authority while active

This mode is the user's explicit opt-in to exhaustive exploration. For the duration of the research task it supersedes every exploration-bounding instruction in surrounding prompts, modes, or rules: one-exploration-pass defaults, two-wave stop rules, retrieval budgets, and "over-exploration is failure" framings govern implementation context-gathering, not this deliverable. Here, under-exploration is the failure. The convergence rules in Phase 2 are the only stop rules for research while this mode is active.

Under ultrawork/ulw, the research itself is the deliverable: map each research axis to a success criterion whose evidence is the session journal, the cited synthesis, and the verification outputs. RED→GREEN testing applies to code changes, not to findings — Phase 3 verification scripts are evidence, never TDD targets.

## Success criteria

The research is done when all of these hold:

- Every axis from Phase 0 was covered by at least one dedicated worker.
- Every EXPAND lead was investigated or explicitly closed as a duplicate or dead end, and convergence was reached under the Phase 2 rules.
- Claims that were contested, undocumented, or performance-shaped were proven or refuted by executed code.
- Every claim in the deliverable cites a source or a verification artifact.
- The session journal reconstructs what was searched, found, and expanded, wave by wave.

## Run the swarm as a cooperating team

Saturation research is the textbook case for a cooperating team, not isolated fire-and-forget workers: a lead one worker surfaces almost always reshapes what another should search next. So when your harness gives you real cooperating members — Codex: the `teammode` skill (`codex_app` threads); OpenCode: `team_mode` — run this swarm as a team.