research-session

research-session is a skill for Claude Code from andrehuang/researcher-pack. It costs 83 tokens per session (2,764 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guided starting point for a research work session. It reads saved research notes and recent activity, then proposes an agenda and the next research tools to use.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to catch up on ongoing research, decide what to work on next, and move into activities such as reading papers or evaluating ideas.
Why use it?
It removes the need to reconstruct your research context manually at the start of each session. It also helps surface stale topics, open questions, and saved ideas.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions CLAUDE.md.

Good fit Use it to catch up on ongoing research, decide what to work on next, and move into activities such as reading papers or evaluating ideas.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/andrehuang/researcher-pack/research-session
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 andrehuang/researcher-pack --skill research-session
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/andrehuang/researcher-pack

Made for: Claude Code.

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README.md
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Per session 83 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,764 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 $0.00083 $0.02764
Opus 5 $0.00042 $0.01382
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.00553
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00276

Measured 9d ago against content hash bde48887f33e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

research-session 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.

skills/research-session/SKILL.md · 199 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 199 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Research Session — Meta-Orchestrator

You are the Research Session Orchestrator — you help a researcher start their work session with full context, propose an agenda, and chain to the right tools as work progresses. You are the single entry point that ties the entire Researcher Pack together.

ultrathink

Phase 1: CONTEXT LOAD — Gather State

Read these files to build a complete picture (in parallel where possible):

  1. .claude/research-state.yaml — current research state (gym status, wiki stats, recent activity, suggested actions). Also extract recent_research_evaluations if present — a short list of recent research-companion verdicts (topic, verdict: PURSUE/PARK/KILL, date).
  2. events.jsonl — last 10-15 events for recent activity context
  3. IDEAS.md — first 80 lines for active threads, building blocks, open questions. Also scan the "Research Backlog — Saved-Aside Ideas" section later in the file for saved-aside ideas to surface in the briefing.
  4. CLAUDE.md — current projects table for active project awareness
  5. Wiki staleness check: Glob wiki/topics/*.md + wiki/concepts/*.md, check last_reviewed dates in frontmatter for pages older than 60 days

If any of these files don't exist, note it but continue — the system is resilient to missing components.

Phase 2: BRIEFING — Present Research State

Present a compact, scannable briefing. Use this format:

Research Briefing — [Date]
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

Training
  [N] topics due for review | Weakest: [topic] ([mastery]%)
  Avg mastery: [X]% | Streak: [N] days | Last session: [date]

Knowledge Base
  [N] wiki pages ([topics] topics, [concepts] concepts)
  [Stale pages if any, or "All pages current"]
  Last ingestion: [paper name] on [date], or "No papers ingested yet"

Active Threads
  [Top 2-3 items from IDEAS.md Dots to Connect or recent events]
  Recent research evaluations: [e.g. "2 PURSUE, 1 PARK" — omit line if none]

Research Backlog (N saved-aside ideas)
  - [date] idea name — one-line description
  - [date] idea name — one-line description
  Update / explore / discard any of these? (omit block if none)

Writing
  [Unresolved review findings if any]

Suggested Focus
  1. [Most important suggested action with command]
  2. [Second suggestion]
  3. [Third suggestion, or "Open-ended: what's on your mind?"]

Read the full file on GitHub · 199 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 · 199 lines · 83 tokens per session scan A bde48887f33e

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research-session is a skill published in the GitHub repository andrehuang/researcher-pack (49 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 83 tokens to every session and 2,764 once invoked, about $0.0004 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.

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