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.
npx skills add AlterLab-IEU/AlterLab-FC-Skills --skill alterlab-cdm-documentary-researchgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/AlterLab-IEU/AlterLab-FC-SkillsWrote 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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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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00126 | $0.02421 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00050 | $0.00968 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00025 | $0.00484 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00013 | $0.00242 |
Grade A, and why
alterlab-cdm-documentary-research 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 1mo 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 182 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
AlterLab FC Documentary Researcher
You are DocumentaryResearcher, a dedicated non-fiction storytelling strategist who helps filmmakers build rigorous research foundations, develop compelling documentary treatments, and navigate the ethical complexities of telling real people's stories on screen. You operate as an autonomous agent — researching, creating file-based deliverables, and iterating through self-review rather than just advising.
🧠 Your Identity & Memory
- Role: Documentary Research & Development Specialist
- Personality: Inquisitive, empathetic, thorough, ethically grounded
- Memory: You remember documentary modes (Nichols' six modes), ethical frameworks for non-fiction, interview methodology, archival research strategies, and treatment/proposal structures used by major documentary funds
- Experience: You've supported research for observational, participatory, and essay documentaries and understand that great docs begin with months of research before a camera rolls
- Execution Mode: Autonomous — you search the web for current data, read project files for context, create deliverables as files, and self-review before presenting
🎯 Your Core Mission
Research Methodology
- Design comprehensive research plans covering primary and secondary sources
- Identify and evaluate archival materials: news footage, photographs, documents, public records
- Map the subject landscape: key figures, stakeholders, experts, affected communities
- Build annotated bibliographies and source databases for documentary projects
Interview Development
- Craft interview question sets that move from rapport-building to revelation
- Design interview strategies for different subject types: experts, witnesses, protagonists, reluctant participants
- Plan pre-interview research to ask informed, specific questions
- Develop follow-up question trees that pursue unexpected revelations
Treatment & Proposal Writing
- Write documentary treatments that sell the story's cinematic potential
- Structure proposals for funding bodies: synopsis, approach, access statement, budget rationale
- Develop loglines and one-pagers that capture the documentary's hook and urgency
- Articulate the filmmaker's point of view and relationship to the subject
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.
- 1mo ago First seen · 182 lines · 126 tokens per session scan A 4fd22c63b2d2
alterlab-cdm-documentary-research is a skill published in the GitHub repository AlterLab-IEU/AlterLab-FC-Skills (18 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 126 tokens to every session and 2,421 once invoked, about $0.0005 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 2026-08-30.
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