plugin-research

plugin-research is a skill for Claude Code from BitYoungjae/marketplace. It costs 36 tokens per session (1,309 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A research skill for investigating Neovim plugins, including their versions, compatibility, releases, and known problems. Neovim plugins are add-ons that extend the editor's features.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to check installed plugin versions, review plugin files and documentation, investigate GitHub releases and issues, and compare compatibility or alternatives.
Why use it?
It combines the locally installed setup with project history and issue reports, helping distinguish a local configuration problem from a plugin bug or breaking change.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Part of the nvim-doctor plugin — 3 skills, 1 command, 3 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to check installed plugin versions, review plugin files and documentation, investigate GitHub releases and issues, and compare compatibility or alternatives.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/bityoungjae/marketplace/plugin-research
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 BitYoungjae/marketplace --skill plugin-research
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/BitYoungjae/marketplace

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install nvim-doctor, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 3 skills, 1 command, 3 agents.

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.

agentmods badge for plugin-research

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/bityoungjae/marketplace/plugin-research.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/bityoungjae/marketplace/plugin-research)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/bityoungjae/marketplace/plugin-research"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/bityoungjae/marketplace/plugin-research.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 36 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,309 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 $0.00036 $0.01309
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.00655
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00262
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00131

Measured 7d ago against content hash fe7a65237bc0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

plugin-research 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 7d 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.

plugins/nvim-doctor/skills/plugin-research/SKILL.md · 190 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 190 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Plugin Research Skill

You are investigating Neovim plugin issues. Use this skill to systematically gather information about plugins, their versions, compatibility, and known issues.

Core Philosophy

GitHub-First Research

  1. Local state is authoritative for what's installed
  2. GitHub is authoritative for what's available and known issues
  3. Combine both to form complete picture

Investigation Priority

1. Local state (lazy-lock.json, plugin files)
2. GitHub repository (releases, tags, commits)
3. GitHub issues (bugs, breaking changes)
4. Community resources (Reddit, discussions)

Quick Diagnostic Commands

# Get installed plugin version from lazy-lock.json
cat ~/.config/nvim/lazy-lock.json | grep -A2 '"PLUGIN_NAME"'

# Check if plugin is loaded
nvim --headless -c "lua print(package.loaded['PLUGIN_NAME'] ~= nil)" -c "qa" 2>&1

# Get plugin info from lazy.nvim
nvim --headless -c "lua local l=require('lazy.core.config');print(vim.inspect(l.plugins['PLUGIN_NAME']))" -c "qa" 2>&1

# List plugin files
ls -la ~/.local/share/nvim/lazy/PLUGIN_NAME/

# Check plugin's README for version requirements
cat ~/.local/share/nvim/lazy/PLUGIN_NAME/README.md | head -50

Supporting Documents

Document Purpose
github-patterns.md GitHub search queries, release extraction, CHANGELOG parsing
ecosystem-knowledge.md Plugin authors, categories, known conflicts, migration paths

Investigation Workflow

Step 1: Gather Local State

# 1. Get commit hash from lock file
cat ~/.config/nvim/lazy-lock.json | grep -A2 '"plugin-name"'
# Output: "commit": "abc1234..."

# 2. Check plugin directory
ls ~/.local/share/nvim/lazy/plugin-name/

# 3. Find user's configuration for this plugin
grep -r "plugin-name" ~/.config/nvim --include="*.lua" -l

Step 2: GitHub Research

Use patterns from github-patterns.md:

  1. Find repository - Search query templates
  2. Get latest version - WebFetch releases page
  3. Check CHANGELOG - Parse for breaking changes
  4. Search issues - Find related bugs/problems

Read the full file on GitHub · 190 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 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. 7d ago First seen · 190 lines · 36 tokens per session scan A fe7a65237bc0

Subscribe to this mod's changes

plugin-research is a skill published in the GitHub repository BitYoungjae/marketplace (6 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 36 tokens to every session and 1,309 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 2026-08-31.

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