research-plan-implement

research-plan-implement is a skill for Claude Code from bostonaholic/rpikit. It costs 44 tokens per session (2,707 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow that coordinates research, planning, and implementation through separate helper agents. Each phase leaves files on disk so the next phase can use its findings.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for work that needs codebase investigation or web research, a written plan, and then implementation in one coordinated process.
Why use it?
It keeps a large coding task organized across separate sessions and reduces the need to manually transfer context between research, design, and implementation.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions subagents; names the AskUserQuestion tool.

Part of the rpikit plugin — 16 skills, 7 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it for work that needs codebase investigation or web research, a written plan, and then implementation in one coordinated process.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/bostonaholic/rpikit/research-plan-implement
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 bostonaholic/rpikit --skill research-plan-implement
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/bostonaholic/rpikit

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install rpikit, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 16 skills, 7 agents.

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README.md
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Per session 44 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,707 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 medium

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 →

  • medium Excessive Agency · line 195
    Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.
    Fix: Add human-in-the-loop confirmation for destructive, irreversible, or high-impact operations. Never auto-execute commands that modify files, send data, or alter system state.
  • medium Excessive Agency · line 325
    Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.
    Fix: Add human-in-the-loop confirmation for destructive, irreversible, or high-impact operations. Never auto-execute commands that modify files, send data, or alter system state.
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 $0.00044 $0.02707
Opus 5 $0.00022 $0.01354
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00541
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00271

Measured 8d ago against content hash 1f41a9ea8102, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

research-plan-implement 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 8d 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-plan-implement/SKILL.md · 342 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 342 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Research-Plan-Implement Pipeline

Orchestrate the full Research → Plan → Implement workflow in a single session using subagents. Each phase runs as a separate subagent with its own context window, coordinated by the orchestrator that handles approval gates and phase transitions.

Purpose

Running RPI phases across separate sessions loses context and requires manual bridging. This skill collapses the three phases into one orchestrated pipeline using subagents via the Agent tool. Each subagent gets maximum context for its work, with file artifacts on disk as the communication channel between phases.

Architecture

The orchestrator (you) stays thin. It spawns subagents for each phase via the Agent tool, reads their output artifacts, presents summaries to the user, and handles approval gates. The orchestrator does NOT do research, planning, or implementation itself.

ORCHESTRATOR (main context — stays thin)
  │
  ├── Phase 1: Spawn research subagents (parallel)
  │     ├── Subagent: codebase exploration
  │     ├── Subagent: web research
  │     └── Subagent: synthesis → writes research file
  │     └── Output: docs/plans/YYYY-MM-DD-<topic>-research.md
  │
  ├── [APPROVAL GATE: User confirms research findings]
  │
  ├── Phase 2: Spawn planning subagent
  │     └── Subagent: reads research file, writes plan file
  │     └── Output: docs/plans/YYYY-MM-DD-<topic>-plan.md
  │
  ├── [APPROVAL GATE: User approves plan]
  │
  └── Phase 3: Spawn implementation subagent
        └── Subagent: reads plan file, executes steps
        └── Output: code changes, test results

Key principle: Subagents communicate through files, not conversation context. Each subagent reads the artifacts from prior phases and writes its own artifacts for the next phase.

When to Use

Use this pipeline when:

  • A feature requires understanding unfamiliar code or APIs
  • Multiple aspects need investigation before planning
  • The full research → plan → implement cycle is needed
  • You want to avoid manually bridging sessions between phases

Read the full file on GitHub · 342 lines

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. 8d ago First seen · 342 lines · 44 tokens per session scan A 1f41a9ea8102

Subscribe to this mod's changes

research-plan-implement is a skill published in the GitHub repository bostonaholic/rpikit (20 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 44 tokens to every session and 2,707 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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