Getting Started with Research Superpowers

Getting Started with Research Superpowers is a skill for Claude Code from brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills. It costs 26 tokens per session (1,288 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

An introduction to tools and methods for literature research, which means finding and reviewing published studies. It covers systematic searching, paper screening, data extraction, and following citations to related work.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to learn how to find papers, decide which ones matter, extract information, and trace a field’s sources.
Why use it?
It helps newcomers understand the main stages of a literature review before using more specialized research workflows.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: when-to-use in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it to learn how to find papers, decide which ones matter, extract information, and trace a field’s sources.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/brycewang-stanford/auto-empirical-research-skills/getting-started
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills --skill getting-started
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 26 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,288 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: 3 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 Data Exfiltration · line 99
    Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 100
    Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 101
    Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
How audits are shown
Origin unknown 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 $0.00026 $0.01288
Opus 5 $0.00013 $0.00644
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00258
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00129

Measured 12d ago against content hash e20428cf01c4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

Getting Started with Research Superpowers 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/05-kthorn-research-superpower/getting-started/SKILL.md · 121 lines

The source is not reproduced here

A licence we could not identify

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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 · 121 lines · 26 tokens per session scan A e20428cf01c4

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Getting Started with Research Superpowers is a skill published in the GitHub repository brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills (3,745 stars, last pushed 4d ago), with no licence file. It adds 26 tokens to every session and 1,288 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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