{
  "path": "skills/product-research/SKILL.md",
  "responsibility": "Find and compare current FF&E candidates from a design brief, with sourced purchasing facts and optional CSV-library save. Use to research or source products; not to match from an image or pair coordinating items.",
  "inputs": "Supplied task and selected source scope; exact destination only for requested persistence or application work. Load project context only when the task needs project records.",
  "owned_records": [],
  "non_owned_records": [
    "PROJECT.md",
    "STUDIO.md",
    "TASKS.csv",
    "TIME.csv",
    "proposals/",
    "agreement/",
    "INVOICES.csv",
    "ffe/items-and-schedules",
    "product-library.csv",
    "epd-library.csv",
    "ffe/jobs/input-manifests"
  ],
  "delegation": "inherit-scope-target-permissions-and-evidence",
  "modes": [
    {
      "mode": "research"
    },
    {
      "mode": "file-read"
    },
    {
      "mode": "delegate",
      "when": "Only for explicitly requested owner work: product-library saves, master-schedule adoption/revision, product-data-import accepted inputs or receive registered reports. Preserve authorization, target identity, source evidence and current revisions."
    },
    {
      "mode": "file-output",
      "when": "Only for an explicitly requested derived Markdown report at an authorized destination; canonical storage remains owner-delegated.",
      "required": [
        "file.read",
        "file.write"
      ],
      "optional": []
    },
    {
      "mode": "workbook-read",
      "when": "Only for a requested workbook evidence handoff; inspect actual values, formulas, true links, images and structure."
    },
    {
      "mode": "workbook-edit",
      "when": "Only for explicitly authorized workbook edits with suitable native backup/provider revision, mapping and feature preservation; adopted changes retain master-schedule ownership."
    }
  ],
  "execution": {
    "model": "harness-native",
    "contract": "schema/product-observations.md",
    "operations": [
      "product_observations.validate",
      "product_observations.validate-batch",
      "product_observations.adapt",
      "context.resolve",
      "workbook_preservation.compare"
    ]
  }
}