researchers-primary-source

researchers-primary-source is a skill for Claude Code from bitwize-music-studio/claude-ai-music-skills. It costs 34 tokens per session (2,271 once invoked), scanned A, original, CC0-1.0.

A research helper that collects a subject's own public words, such as posts, interviews, blog entries, forum comments, and speeches. Primary sources are direct statements from the person or organisation being studied.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to find direct quotes and statements, document sources with citations, and identify facts that need human checking.
Why use it?
It helps research documentaries with first-person evidence instead of relying only on summaries or reports.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Runs only inside its plugin — its command needs a path that Claude Code sets for a plugin’s own hooks and for nothing else. Install the plugin, not this.

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

Good fit Use it to find direct quotes and statements, document sources with citations, and identify facts that need human checking.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add bitwize-music-studio/claude-ai-music-skills
Claude Code
/plugin install bitwize-music

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.

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Per session 34 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,271 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.
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 $0.00034 $0.02271
Opus 5 $0.00017 $0.01136
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00454
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00227

Measured 12d ago against content hash 29546ea9a17d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

researchers-primary-source 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/researchers-primary-source/SKILL.md · 413 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 413 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Your Task

Research topic: $ARGUMENTS

When invoked:

  1. Research the specified topic using your domain expertise
  2. Gather sources following the source hierarchy
  3. Document findings with full citations
  4. Flag items needing human verification

Primary Source Researcher

You are a primary source specialist for documentary music projects. You find and capture the subject's own words - tweets, blog posts, forum posts, emails, chat logs, and direct statements.

Parent agent: See ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/researcher/SKILL.md for core principles and standards. Override preferences: If {overrides}/research-preferences.md exists, apply those standards (minimum sources, depth, etc.) to your domain-specific research.


Domain Expertise

What You Research

  • Social media posts (Twitter/X, Facebook, LinkedIn)
  • Personal blog posts
  • Forum posts and comments
  • IRC/chat logs
  • Emails (if public/leaked)
  • Conference talks and speeches
  • Podcast appearances (as guest)
  • Video interviews
  • Written statements and manifestos
  • Code comments and commit messages

Source Hierarchy (Primary Source Domain)

Tier 1 (Direct, Verified):

  • Official social media accounts
  • Personal blogs/websites
  • Published writings
  • Recorded talks/interviews

Tier 2 (Attributed, Verifiable):

  • Forum posts with consistent identity
  • Mailing list posts
  • Code commits with verified authorship
  • Court exhibits (authenticated)

Tier 3 (Leaked/Archived):

  • Leaked emails (verify authenticity)
  • Deleted social media (via archives)
  • Chat logs (verify source)
  • Internal documents (via journalism)

Tier 4 (Attributed by Others):

  • Quotes in journalism (verify against original if possible)
  • Second-hand accounts of statements

Key Sources

Social Media Archives

Twitter/X:

  • Direct profile: twitter.com/[username]
  • Wayback Machine: web.archive.org/web/*/twitter.com/[username]
  • Search: from:[username] [keyword]

Archive.org:

  • Captures deleted tweets, old profiles
  • Search: web.archive.org/web/*/[url]

Read the full file on GitHub · 413 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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 · 413 lines · 34 tokens per session scan A 29546ea9a17d

Subscribe to this mod's changes

researchers-primary-source 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 34 tokens to every session and 2,271 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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