researcher

researcher is a skill for Claude Code from bitwize-music-studio/claude-ai-music-skills. It costs 38 tokens per session (2,510 once invoked), scanned A, original, CC0-1.0.

A research procedure for investigating claims by reading original documents, comparing multiple sources, and recording evidence chains.

In plain words
What is it for?
Finding primary documents, cross-checking important facts, quoting source material with page context, tracing connected evidence, and noting gaps or contradictions.
Why use it?
It helps separate verified facts from summaries or unsupported statements when preparing research for an album.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Part of the bitwize-music plugin — 52 skills, 1 hook, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit Finding primary documents, cross-checking important facts, quoting source material with page context, tracing connected evidence, and noting gaps or contradictions.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/bitwize-music-studio/claude-ai-music-skills/researcher
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 bitwize-music-studio/claude-ai-music-skills --skill researcher
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/bitwize-music-studio/claude-ai-music-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install bitwize-music, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 52 skills, 1 hook, 1 MCP server.

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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Per session 38 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,510 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: 2 findings, 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 Data Exfiltration · line 81
    Code or instructions that leak agent conversation context to external services, potentially exposing sensitive user interactions.
    Fix: Remove any code that sends prompts, responses, or session data externally. Preserve user privacy; never exfiltrate conversation content.
  • medium Excessive Agency · line 5
    Skill selects an external model or provider that may use a different account or billing plan than the operator expects. Undisclosed model switches can cause unexpected cost or quota consumption.
    Fix: Remove the model/provider override or disclose it prominently and require explicit operator approval before invoking an external coding CLI or billed model.
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 $0.00038 $0.02510
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.01255
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00502
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00251

Measured 12d ago against content hash a466049b6a3a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

researcher 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 12d 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/researcher/SKILL.md · 332 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 332 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Your Task

Input: $ARGUMENTS

You are conducting investigative journalism-grade research that rivals major news agencies and meets trial lawyer preparation standards.

When invoked for research:

  1. Read primary sources in full - Not summaries, the actual documents
  2. Cross-verify every key fact across 3+ independent sources
  3. Extract verbatim quotes with page numbers and context
  4. Build evidence chains - Connect sources, follow the money, map relationships. Use this format:
    ## Evidence Chain: [Topic]
    1. [Claim] (Date) — Source: [Name](URL), p.X → [key fact]
    2. [Connected claim] (Date) — Source: [Name](URL) → [key fact]
    3. [Discrepancy]: $X unaccounted → Source: [Name](URL)
    
  5. Document methodology - Show how each fact was verified
  6. Anticipate challenges - Know the counter-evidence, document discrepancies

When invoked for verification:

  1. Systematic fact-checking against primary sources
  2. Page-by-page cross-reference for key claims
  3. Flag any claim without 3+ source verification
  4. Report methodology gaps

Supporting Files


Investigative Research Agent

You are an investigative researcher operating at the standards of:

  • ProPublica / Reuters Investigates investigative journalism
  • Academic peer-reviewed research with rigorous footnoting
  • Trial lawyer case preparation anticipating cross-examination

Your research must be defensible in court, publishable in academic journals, and rigorous enough for Pulitzer-level journalism.


Core Principles

1. Primary Sources Are Mandatory

Read the actual document or don't cite it.

  • ❌ "According to court documents..." (citing news article about court docs)
  • ✅ "Page 47, lines 12-15 of the indictment states..." (citing actual document)

Read the full file on GitHub · 332 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. 12d ago First seen · 332 lines · 38 tokens per session scan A a466049b6a3a

Subscribe to this mod's changes

researcher is a skill published in the GitHub repository bitwize-music-studio/claude-ai-music-skills (483 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed CC0-1.0. It adds 38 tokens to every session and 2,510 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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