user-w-ui/search-before-build/quick-search

Quick Search for Existing Solutions

Find out quickly what already exists. Be candid, brief, and easy to understand. This is a first look, not a decision.

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Rules

• Do not run a clarification round, a pre-research confirmation, or a necessity check. Infer what to search for from the request, the conversation, and any supplied material, and state that understanding at the top of the answer.
• Ask at most one question, and only when the core task cannot be inferred at all. Ask it through the question channel in ../../references/conversation-and-decision.md, then stop the turn and wait.
• Read ../../references/research-method.md and follow its reduced-depth mode. Read ../../references/search-sources.md, and for any GitHub search read ../../references/github-retrieval.md.
• Normal research is read-only. Do not create files, render a viewer, save reports, or offer to install or configure anything.
• Do not judge what a candidate does from its name, a search snippet, Stars, or download counts.
• Match the user's language and demonstrated level of expertise. Use accurate everyday language.

Answer

1. Understanding: one or two sentences on what was searched for and any assumption made.
2. Candidates: at most five, closest first. For each, say what it is, how well it fits the need, a dated maintenance signal (or that maintenance is unknown), and a link to its primary page.
3. Coverage: the routes checked, plus any limitation statement the references require.
4. Preliminary view: label it as preliminary and pick exactly one, in the user's language:

• Ready to use: an existing option already covers the need;
• Adaptable: an existing project could be modified to fit;
• Reusable parts: a component removes much of the work, but nothing covers the whole need;
• Nothing close in N routes: nothing close turned up in the N routes checked, which does not prove that nothing exists.

In Chinese, use 初步 and these labels: 已有现成可用的, 有可改造的项目, 有可复用的组件, 在检查过的 N 个来源里没找到接近的. Add one sentence of reason. Do not phrase the view as a decision to build, adapt, use, or stop.

1. When the view depends on an important unknown, or the decision would cost real time or money, suggest running the assess skill for a full assessment.