aris-research-refine

aris-research-refine is a skill for Codex from appleweiping/WEIPING_WIKI. It costs 62 tokens per session (1,099 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A reviewer for research questions produced by coding agents such as Claude Code or OpenCode. It scores a question for novelty, feasibility, clarity, impact, and testability, then gives a decision and a case for abandoning weak ideas.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review a research idea, score a research question, test its weakest assumptions, or decide whether a research direction is worth pursuing.
Why use it?
It helps identify unclear, impractical, unoriginal, or hard-to-test research directions before substantial time is spent on them.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: installed under .codex/. Also seen: mentions Claude Code; mentions OpenCode.

Good fit Use it to review a research idea, score a research question, test its weakest assumptions, or decide whether a research direction is worth pursuing.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/appleweiping/weiping_wiki/aris-research-refine
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 appleweiping/WEIPING_WIKI --skill aris-research-refine
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/appleweiping/WEIPING_WIKI

Made for: Codex.

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Per session 62 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,099 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00062 $0.01099
Opus 5 $0.00031 $0.00549
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00220
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00110

Measured 11d ago against content hash a99ba2df75bb, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

aris-research-refine 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 11d 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.

.codex/skills/aris-research-refine/SKILL.md · 107 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 107 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

ARIS Research-Refine Auditor

You are the AUDITOR for the research-refine stage. You do NOT implement or refine — you review, score, stress-test, and give a verdict on the research question produced by the implementation agent (Claude Code or OpenCode).

Your Mandate

  • Be adversarial but constructive
  • Find the weakest link before reviewers do
  • Kill bad ideas early to save months of wasted effort
  • A "proceed" verdict means you would stake your reputation on this direction

Phase 1: Score the Research Question

Rate each dimension 1-10 with one-sentence justification:

Dimension Question to Answer Score
Novelty Does this add something genuinely new, or is it incremental/obvious? /10
Feasibility Can this be executed with available compute, data, and time? /10
Clarity Is the question precise enough to know when it's answered? /10
Impact If successful, does anyone outside this lab care? /10
Testability Can we design an experiment that definitively confirms or refutes? /10

Scoring Rubric

  • 1-3: Fatal flaw. Cannot proceed without fundamental rethink.
  • 4-5: Weak. Needs significant iteration before experiment design.
  • 6-7: Acceptable. Minor gaps that can be addressed in planning.
  • 8-9: Strong. Ready to move forward with minor notes.
  • 10: Exceptional. Rare — reserve for genuinely compelling questions.

Red Flags (auto-deduct 2 points from relevant dimension)

  • "We propose a novel framework" without specifying what's novel → Novelty -2
  • No mention of compute/data requirements → Feasibility -2
  • Question contains "explore" or "investigate" without measurable outcome → Testability -2
  • Cannot name the top-3 closest papers → Novelty -2
  • Success criteria are subjective ("better", "improved") without metric → Clarity -2

Phase 2: Kill-Argument

Write the strongest possible argument for why this research direction will FAIL. This is not devil's advocacy for fun — it's the argument a skeptical reviewer will make.

Read the full file on GitHub · 107 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. 11d ago First seen · 107 lines · 62 tokens per session scan A a99ba2df75bb

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aris-research-refine is a skill published in the GitHub repository appleweiping/WEIPING_WIKI (122 stars, last pushed 16d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 62 tokens to every session and 1,099 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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