research-digest

research-digest is a cursor rule for Cursor from thatrebeccarae/claude-marketing. It costs 36 tokens per session (1,729 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A research-briefing guide that gathers material from RSS feeds, web searches, industry publications, and online communities, then organizes it into an analysis. RSS is a format that lets tools collect updates from websites.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to prepare research briefs with trends, data points, expert views, opposing arguments, source comparisons, and possible content angles.
Why use it?
It reduces the work of collecting information from many sources and comparing their credibility, freshness, relevance, and unique findings.

Cursor rule for Cursor

Written for Cursor: a Cursor rule (.mdc). Also seen: positional $N argument.

Good fit Use it to prepare research briefs with trends, data points, expert views, opposing arguments, source comparisons, and possible content angles.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add rules/thatrebeccarae/claude-marketing/research-digest
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/thatrebeccarae/claude-marketing

Made for: Cursor.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Per session 36 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,729 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00036 $0.01729
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.00864
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00346
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00173

Measured 9d ago against content hash 5560aa9335a9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

research-digest scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 9d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

integrations/cursor/research-digest.mdc · 257 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 257 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Research Digest

Generate structured research briefs from RSS feeds, web sources, and industry publications.

Core Capabilities

  • Pull from RSS feeds, web search, and curated sources
  • Assess source credibility and recency
  • Cross-reference findings across multiple sources
  • Extract trends, data points, and expert opinions
  • Identify counter-arguments and nuance
  • Produce actionable research briefs

Workflow

1. Source Collection

Gather raw material from:

  • RSS feeds — industry blogs, news sites, newsletters (via any RSS reader/API)
  • Web search — targeted queries for recent coverage
  • Industry reports — analyst reports, whitepapers, earnings calls
  • Social/community — Reddit, Twitter/X, LinkedIn discussions

2. Source Assessment

Evaluate each source on:

Criterion Weight Scale
Credibility 30% Original research > analysis > aggregation > opinion
Recency 25% Last 7 days > 30 days > 90 days > older
Relevance 25% Directly on topic > adjacent > tangential
Uniqueness 20% Novel data > unique angle > common knowledge

3. Synthesis

  • Identify convergent themes (3+ sources saying the same thing)
  • Flag divergent views (contradictions between sources)
  • Extract specific data points with citations
  • Note the "so what" — why this matters for the target audience

4. Brief Generation

Produce a structured markdown brief.

Brief Structure

# Research Brief: [Topic]
**Date:** YYYY-MM-DD
**Depth:** Quick scan / Standard / Deep dive
**Sources reviewed:** [count]

## Executive Summary
- [Key finding 1]
- [Key finding 2]
- [Key finding 3]

## Key Findings

### Finding 1: [Headline]
[2-3 paragraph analysis with source citations]

### Finding 2: [Headline]
[2-3 paragraph analysis with source citations]

## Data Points
| Metric | Value | Source | Date |
|--------|-------|--------|------|

## Expert Perspectives
- "[Quote]" — [Name, Title, Source]

## Counter-Arguments & Nuance
- [Opposing view with source]

## Content Angles
- [Angle 1: how to use this research in content]
- [Angle 2]

## Sources
1. [Source name] — [URL] — [Credibility: High/Medium/Low]

Read the full file on GitHub · 257 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 9d ago First seen · 257 lines · 36 tokens per session scan A 5560aa9335a9

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research-digest is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository thatrebeccarae/claude-marketing (133 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 36 tokens to every session and 1,729 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.