chore(documentation): Update RESEARCH.md

Author: ImDevinC

RESEARCH.md

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 **Date**: 2025-12-26  
 **Total Lines of Code**: ~1,257 lines  
 **Analysis Scope**: Complete plugin codebase review  
-**Phase 1 Status**: ✅ COMPLETED (2025-12-26)
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-## Phase 1 Implementation Summary
-
-**All Phase 1 improvements have been successfully implemented:**
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-1. ✅ **Fixed callback duplication** (Issue #2)
-   - Removed duplicate callback registrations in Mute, Deafen, TogglePTT, and ChangeVoiceChannel actions
-   - Events now fire only once through backend registration
-   - Files modified: `actions/Mute.py`, `actions/Deafen.py`, `actions/TogglePTT.py`, `actions/ChangeVoiceChannel.py`
-
-2. ✅ **Added connection state validation** (Issue #3)
-   - Implemented `_ensure_connected()` helper method in backend
-   - Added `_is_reconnecting` flag to prevent duplicate reconnection attempts
-   - Replaced individual client checks with centralized validation
-   - Files modified: `backend.py`
-
-3. ✅ **Fixed bare exception handlers** (Issue #11)
-   - Replaced all bare `except:` with specific exception types
-   - Added proper error logging throughout
-   - Improved debugging capability
-   - Files modified: `actions/DiscordCore.py`, `main.py`, `backend.py`, `discordrpc/asyncdiscord.py`, `discordrpc/sockets.py`
-
-4. ✅ **Extracted magic numbers to constants** (Issue #13)
-   - Created new `discordrpc/constants.py` module
-   - Extracted: socket retries (5), IPC socket range (10), timeouts (1s → 0.1s), buffer sizes (1024)
-   - Updated all files to use named constants
-   - **Bonus: Reduced socket timeout from 1.0s to 0.1s for 90% latency improvement**
-   - Files modified: `discordrpc/asyncdiscord.py`, `discordrpc/sockets.py`
-
-**Expected Impact from Phase 1:**
-- 50% reduction in callback overhead (no duplicate events)
-- 90% reduction in event latency (1000ms → 100ms)
-- Eliminated redundant reconnection attempts
-- Significantly improved code maintainability and debuggability
 
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