research-foresight

research-foresight is a skill for Claude Code from ARA-Labs/Agent-Native-Research-Artifact. It costs 211 tokens per session (645 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A local question-answering tool for an Agent-Native Research Artifact, a folder containing organised research material. It searches the artifact's files and answers questions about what they contain, including possible future changes.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to investigate why a result happened, explore what-if questions, or answer grounded questions about one research artifact.
Why use it?
It lets an agent reason from the research files themselves without needing a separate service, software library, or network connection.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it to investigate why a result happened, explore what-if questions, or answer grounded questions about one research artifact.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ara-labs/agent-native-research-artifact/research-foresight
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 ARA-Labs/Agent-Native-Research-Artifact --skill research-foresight
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ARA-Labs/Agent-Native-Research-Artifact

Made for: Claude Code.

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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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 211 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 645 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 $0.00211 $0.00645
Opus 5 $0.00105 $0.00322
Sonnet 5 $0.00042 $0.00129
Haiku 4.5 $0.00021 $0.00064

Measured 11d ago against content hash 393195faf08f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

research-foresight 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.

skills/research-foresight/SKILL.md · 50 lines

What it actually says

research-foresight — the ARA World Model

You (the coding agent) are the LLM that runs the engine — no SDK, no API key, no network call. The engine is three reference contracts under this skill's references/ directory (quote every path; it may contain spaces):

  • references/CONTRACT.md — the foundation both contracts bind to; if documents disagree, it wins.
  • references/RETRIEVE.md — the Retriever: agentic search + semantic rank over the ARA's native files.
  • references/PREDICT.md — the Predictor: grounded, honest answering of the question asked.

Inputs

From the user's message (or $ARGUMENTS): an <ara_dir> (the ARA in scope) and a free-text query. If <ara_dir> turns out not to be an ARA (a plain paper, repo, or notes folder), compile it into one first with /compiler <path>, then rerun this skill.

Procedure

  1. Retrieve — adopt references/RETRIEVE.md. Read it now and follow it exactly against <ara_dir>.
  2. Answer — adopt references/PREDICT.md. Read it now and follow it exactly, consuming the retrieval from Step 1.

Render the answer prominently, then the honesty envelope (grounded_inference / speculative_leap / basis / reasoning / confidence / confidence_reason / falsifiable).

The engine is read-only: read nothing outside <ara_dir> and this skill's references/; write nothing anywhere.

Files

What ships with it

3 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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 · 50 lines · 211 tokens per session scan A 393195faf08f

Subscribe to this mod's changes

research-foresight is a skill published in the GitHub repository ARA-Labs/Agent-Native-Research-Artifact (678 stars, last pushed 16d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 211 tokens to every session and 645 once invoked, about $0.0011 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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