research-refine

research-refine is a skill for Claude Code from appleweiping/WEIPING_WIKI. It costs 73 tokens per session (836 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A structured process for turning an early research idea into a clear, publishable research question. It examines the idea's novelty, practicality, closest existing papers, and likely reviewer objections.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to refine a research direction, compare it with related work, define its contribution, and record the analysis in a refinement log.
Why use it?
It helps reveal whether an idea is genuinely new, already solved, too broad, or difficult to carry out before substantial research time is spent.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/. Also seen: mentions Codex.

Part of the aris plugin — 8 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to refine a research direction, compare it with related work, define its contribution, and record the analysis in a refinement log.

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

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install aris, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 8 skills.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md
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Per session 73 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 836 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 $0.00073 $0.00836
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.00418
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00167
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00084

Measured 9d ago against content hash 0fdb833f079f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

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 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.

.claude/skills/aris/skills/research-refine/SKILL.md · 77 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 77 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Research Refine

Transform a raw research idea into a publication-ready research question. This is where most bad papers die — skip nothing.

Decision Gate

Before running:

  • Is there a raw idea or direction to refine? (If not, run idea-discovery first)
  • Is the target venue clear? (NeurIPS/ICML/ICLR oral level)
  • Do you have access to the project's refine-logs/ directory?

Phase 1 — Problem Decomposition

Break the idea into atomic claims:

  1. State the core claim in one sentence: "We show that X improves Y by doing Z"
  2. Identify the gap: What existing work fails to do? Why?
  3. Novelty check: Is this a new problem framing (required) or just A+B stitching (forbidden)?
  4. Scope the contribution: Theory? Method? System? Empirical finding?

Output: refine-logs/CLAIM_DECOMPOSITION.md

Phase 2 — Literature Stress Test

Kill the idea before it kills your time:

  1. Search for prior art that already solves this (or claims to)
  2. Find the 3 closest papers — read abstracts + methods
  3. Differentiation matrix: For each close paper, state exactly how your approach differs
  4. Kill argument: Write the strongest reviewer objection. If you can't refute it, pivot.

Quality check: If differentiation from closest work is < 1 fundamental insight, STOP and reformulate.

Output: refine-logs/LITERATURE_STRESS_TEST.md

Phase 3 — Feasibility Assessment

  1. Data: What datasets? Available? Size sufficient for statistical significance (20+ seeds)?
  2. Compute: GPU hours estimate. Can you run full experiments on available hardware?
  3. Baselines: List 8+ baselines (minimum per quality standards). Are implementations available?
  4. Timeline: Weeks to first meaningful result? Weeks to full paper?
  5. Risk factors: What could make this impossible? (data access, compute, theoretical dead-end)

Quality check: If any risk factor has >30% probability of blocking, define a pivot plan.

Output: refine-logs/FEASIBILITY.md

Read the full file on GitHub · 77 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 · 77 lines · 73 tokens per session scan A 0fdb833f079f

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research-refine is a skill published in the GitHub repository appleweiping/WEIPING_WIKI (122 stars, last pushed 14d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 73 tokens to every session and 836 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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