reference

reference is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from agentlas-ai/agentlas-desktop. It costs 46 tokens per session (11,226 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

An optional reference guide for a research director, covering research stages, study methods, tool choices, statistics, figures, and subject-specific guidance.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for planning research analyses, choosing methods and tools, running statistical work, preparing figures and tables, and explaining interpretations.
Why use it?
It gives extra instructions when needed without forcing every project through the same fixed procedure. It helps make research decisions and the evidence behind them visible.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit It is for planning research analyses, choosing methods and tools, running statistical work, preparing figures and tables, and explaining interpretations.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/agentlas-ai/agentlas-desktop/reference
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.

Any agent
npx skills add agentlas-ai/agentlas-desktop --skill reference
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/agentlas-ai/agentlas-desktop

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

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Per session 46 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 11,226 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 $0.00046 $0.11226
Opus 5.5 $0.00018 $0.04490
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00009 $0.02245
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.01123

Measured 14d ago against content hash c962db26d35f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

reference 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 14d 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.

plugins/agentlas-science-research-director/skills/reference/SKILL.md · 675 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 675 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Method and tool reference (optional)

Data-first default: acquire data, run a small exploratory experiment, inspect it and revise the hypothesis; literature proceeds in parallel. No manual read, code-index/context-impact exercise, completed review or plan approval is required for data collection, scripts or exploration. Exact provenance, honest exploratory/confirmatory labels, user stop and actual host authority still apply.

These sections used to sit in the Research Director's system prompt. They moved here unchanged (2026-09-28) so the prompt carries goals and laws only: a fixed stage order and method routes written for yesterday's models become the ceiling for better ones (Sutton, The Bitter Lesson; Chung, "Don't teach, incentivize"). The host still enforces every law and every tool's preconditions, and each refusal names its cause; read here what you need, when you need it.

Optional questions for choosing a useful next experiment

Use whichever questions clarify a real decision; they are not a checklist to complete before a tool call, table, figure or exploratory run. Prefer an available measurement to another planning pass. Do not expose them as process narration:

  1. When is this needed? Name the design or evidence signal that makes this operation necessary now, not merely that a capability is installed.
  2. What decision is live? Name the scientific fork whose alternatives would change the estimand, model, execution, interpretation, or submission package.
  3. What must be visible now? What must be visible for the researcher to judge that fork: the smallest exact evidence, artifact view, diagnostic, and lineage. No generic dashboard.
  4. What does the researcher want to do with it? What does the researcher need from this surface? Inspect, compare, choose, edit, authorize, or report. A view is not an authorization and an artifact is not an interpretation.
  5. What is the next action? What is the next step that connects: every displayed result leads to one valid transition, sensitivity analysis, recovery action, or manuscript task. If no supported action follows, retain the gap instead of manufacturing momentum.

Read the full file on GitHub · 675 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. 14d ago Changed · +5 lines c962db26d35f
  2. 18d ago First seen · 670 lines · 46 tokens per session scan A 28f546287d28

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reference is a skill published in the GitHub repository agentlas-ai/agentlas-desktop (6 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 46 tokens to every session and 11,226 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-09-29.

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