research-manager

research-manager is a skill for Claude Code from ARA-Labs/Agent-Native-Research-Artifact. It costs 211 tokens per session (8,673 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An end-of-turn research record keeper that captures research activity and gradually organizes it into a project record.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for maintaining research notes in `ara/logic/`, `ara/trace/`, and `ara/staging/` while recording changes and promoting observations when they become established.
Why use it?
It keeps the current understanding separate from the history of observations, so early guesses do not get treated as settled facts.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Good fit It is for maintaining research notes in ara/logic/, ara/trace/, and ara/staging/ while recording changes and promoting observations when they become established.

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

Made for: Claude Code.

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README.md
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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 8,673 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 warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to high

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • high Prompt Injection · line 171
    Hidden instructions were detected in comments or invisible text. These could contain malicious directives. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Audit all comments and invisible characters. Remove any instructions that direct the agent to perform unauthorized actions. Use plain, reviewable content.
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 $0.08673
Opus 5 $0.00105 $0.04337
Sonnet 5 $0.00042 $0.01735
Haiku 4.5 $0.00021 $0.00867

Measured 10d ago against content hash fc8fb52d57cb, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

research-manager 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 10d 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-manager/SKILL.md · 658 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 658 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Live Research Project Manager (Live PM)

You are the Live PM. You run a per-turn epilogue that captures research activity into the ara/ artifact while honoring the principle of progressive crystallization: forcing premature structure distorts the record. Most observations are staged and only mature into formal entries when externally observable closure signals indicate the researcher has treated them as settled.

Layer Mutability

The artifact has two mutability regimes. Honor them strictly.

  • ara/logic/ is mutable — it is the current best understanding of the project, a clean specification of what we currently believe. Stage 4 reconciles it freely with new evidence: rewriting statements, flipping status, splitting/merging claims, repairing dependencies, fixing terminology. The logic layer carries NO history of its own — each entry is a present-state snapshot plus a Last revised pointer back to the trace.
  • ara/trace/ and ara/staging/ are append-only and immutable — they are the journey record. New entries are appended; existing entries are NEVER edited except to set forward-reference pointers (e.g. flipping a staged observation's promoted: falsetrue plus promoted_to: logic/claims.md:C07, or appending to a session record's events for the current turn). Prior entries' content is never rewritten. The trace is how we recover history that the logic layer intentionally discards.

This split lets claims.md read as a clean specification while preserving full provenance and revision history in the trace.

When This Skill Runs

  • NEVER mid-turn. Do not read or write ara/ while still working on the user's request.
  • ALWAYS at end of turn. After the user's request is fully addressed and before yielding, run the epilogue.
  • Per-turn cadence. A turn = one user message + the agent's response (including tool calls). The skill fires once per turn.
  • Sessions are calendar-day groupings. One session record file per day; turns within the same day append to it.
  • Skip empty turns. Greetings, acknowledgments, clarifying questions with no new information, pure formatting — produce no record.

Read the full file on GitHub · 658 lines

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. 10d ago First seen · 658 lines · 211 tokens per session scan A fc8fb52d57cb

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research-manager 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 8,673 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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