diff --git a/src/stores/useTaskStore.ts b/src/stores/useTaskStore.ts
index 313e8c5..c2bc1f8 100644
--- a/src/stores/useTaskStore.ts
+++ b/src/stores/useTaskStore.ts
@@ -169,6 +169,23 @@ const defaultTasks: Task[] = [
       { id: 'c17', text: 'All 3 sites stable. Cron job now properly kills old processes before restarting to avoid port conflicts.', createdAt: new Date().toISOString(), author: 'assistant' }
     ],
     tags: ['monitoring', 'cron', 'bug', 'infrastructure', 'urgent']
+  },
+  {
+    id: '7',
+    title: 'Investigate root cause - why are websites dying?',
+    description: 'Currently monitoring only treats the symptom (restart when down). Need to investigate what is actually killing the Next.js dev servers. Check: system logs, memory usage, file watcher limits, zombie processes, macOS power management, SSH timeout, OOM killer. Set up logging to capture what happens right before crashes.',
+    type: 'research',
+    status: 'backlog',
+    priority: 'high',
+    projectId: '2',
+    createdAt: new Date().toISOString(),
+    updatedAt: new Date().toISOString(),
+    comments: [
+      { id: 'c18', text: 'Problem: Sites go down randomly - what is killing them?', createdAt: new Date().toISOString(), author: 'user' },
+      { id: 'c19', text: 'Suspects: Memory leaks, file watcher hitting limits, SSH session timeout, macOS power nap, OOM killer', createdAt: new Date().toISOString(), author: 'user' },
+      { id: 'c20', text: 'Need to add logging/capture to see what kills processes', createdAt: new Date().toISOString(), author: 'user' }
+    ],
+    tags: ['debugging', 'research', 'infrastructure', 'root-cause']
   }
 ]