synthesizing-research

synthesizing-research is a skill for Claude Code from bostonaholic/rpikit. It costs 37 tokens per session (710 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A method for combining several research documents into one self-contained report. It groups related findings by topic and includes disagreements, gaps, and confidence where available.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it after parallel research to consolidate findings about architecture, data flow, dependencies, security, performance, or other project topics.
Why use it?
It gives readers one clear document instead of requiring them to compare separate research files. It also makes missing or conflicting information easier to spot.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter.

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

Good fit Use it after parallel research to consolidate findings about architecture, data flow, dependencies, security, performance, or other project topics.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/bostonaholic/rpikit/synthesizing-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 bostonaholic/rpikit --skill synthesizing-research
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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Per session 37 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 710 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 pass 7 Sept 2026
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 $0.00037 $0.00710
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.00355
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00142
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00071

Measured 11d ago against content hash 7cd23fb0adbe, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

synthesizing-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 11d 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/synthesizing-research/SKILL.md · 131 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 131 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Research Synthesis

Consolidate research for: $ARGUMENTS

Purpose

When research is conducted in parallel — multiple agents exploring different aspects of a problem — each produces a separate findings file. This skill combines those files into one self-contained document that a reader with no prior context can understand completely.

Process

1. Locate Research Files

Search for research files related to the topic:

Glob pattern: docs/plans/*-<topic>-*.md
Exclude: *-plan.md, *-research.md (the consolidated output)

If no files are found, ask the user to specify the file paths.

2. Read All Source Files

Read each research file completely. Note:

  • Key findings from each source
  • Overlapping or contradictory information
  • Gaps — topics mentioned but not investigated
  • Confidence levels stated by each researcher

3. Organize by Theme

Restructure findings by theme, NOT by source. Multiple researchers may have found related information — group it together rather than presenting each researcher's output sequentially.

Themes to look for:

  • Architecture and design patterns
  • Data flow and state management
  • External dependencies and APIs
  • Security and performance considerations
  • Testing patterns and coverage
  • Gaps and open questions

4. Write Consolidated Document

Create the synthesis at: docs/plans/YYYY-MM-DD-<topic>-research.md

(Use today's date in YYYY-MM-DD format)

# Research: <Topic> (YYYY-MM-DD)

## Problem Statement

[What is being investigated and why]

## Requirements

[Key requirements gathered from research]

## Findings

### [Theme 1]

[Findings organized by theme, not by source document]

### [Theme 2]

[Continue for each theme...]

## External Research

[Findings from web research with source citations and confidence
assessments]

## Technical Constraints

[Limitations, dependencies, and compatibility concerns]

## Open Questions

[Questions that remain unanswered across all research]

## Recommendations

[Synthesis of all findings into actionable recommendations]

## Sources

| Document | Researcher | Focus Area |
| -------- | ---------- | ---------- |
| [path]   | [agent]    | [scope]    |

Read the full file on GitHub · 131 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. 11d ago First seen · 131 lines · 37 tokens per session scan A 7cd23fb0adbe

Subscribe to this mod's changes

synthesizing-research is a skill published in the GitHub repository bostonaholic/rpikit (20 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 37 tokens to every session and 710 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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