yesresearch

yesresearch is a skill for Claude Code from carsteneu/yesmem. It costs 87 tokens per session (16,517 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

An automated research workflow that breaks a research question into topic groups, sends them to separate research agents, and combines the results into a cited wiki. It is intended for research tasks rather than software development.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create a research plan, investigate several subtopics at once, collect sources, integrate findings, add cross-links, and audit citations in a wiki.
Why use it?
It organizes large research jobs into parallel areas and keeps the evidence and citations together. This reduces the need to manually coordinate separate searches and notes.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions subagents; positional $N argument.

Good fit Use it to create a research plan, investigate several subtopics at once, collect sources, integrate findings, add cross-links, and audit citations in a wiki.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/carsteneu/yesmem/yesresearch
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 carsteneu/yesmem --skill yesresearch
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/carsteneu/yesmem

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 87 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 16,517 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. 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: 11 findings, up to high

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 →

  • high Tool Misuse · line 1031
    Tool parameters are crafted to achieve unintended or unsafe behavior. Parameter abuse can bypass intended safety checks (e.g. shell=True, --force, dangerous glob patterns).
    Fix: Validate all tool parameters against an allowlist. Reject dangerous parameter values (shell=True, --force, -rf /) and use safe defaults.
  • medium Rogue Agent · line 6
    Skill establishes unauthorized persistence across sessions via cron jobs, startup scripts, or state files. Session persistence allows an attacker to maintain access beyond the current interaction.
    Fix: Remove any persistence mechanisms (cron jobs, startup scripts, state files). Skills should not maintain state across sessions without explicit user consent.
  • medium Rogue Agent · line 50
    Skill establishes unauthorized persistence across sessions via cron jobs, startup scripts, or state files. Session persistence allows an attacker to maintain access beyond the current interaction.
    Fix: Remove any persistence mechanisms (cron jobs, startup scripts, state files). Skills should not maintain state across sessions without explicit user consent.
  • medium Agent Snooping · line 52
    Skill enumerates or reads other installed skills. Access to other skills' SKILL.md files or the skills directory reveals prompt instructions, capabilities, and secrets that should be invisible to peer skills.
    Fix: Remove all code or instructions that list or read other skills' files or directories. Skills should operate independently; cross-skill access is a privilege escalation.
  • medium Agent Snooping · line 128
    Skill enumerates or reads other installed skills. Access to other skills' SKILL.md files or the skills directory reveals prompt instructions, capabilities, and secrets that should be invisible to peer skills.
    Fix: Remove all code or instructions that list or read other skills' files or directories. Skills should operate independently; cross-skill access is a privilege escalation.
  • medium Agent Snooping · line 475
    Skill enumerates or reads other installed skills. Access to other skills' SKILL.md files or the skills directory reveals prompt instructions, capabilities, and secrets that should be invisible to peer skills.
    Fix: Remove all code or instructions that list or read other skills' files or directories. Skills should operate independently; cross-skill access is a privilege escalation.
  • medium Rogue Agent · line 144
    Skill establishes unauthorized persistence across sessions via cron jobs, startup scripts, or state files. Session persistence allows an attacker to maintain access beyond the current interaction.
    Fix: Remove any persistence mechanisms (cron jobs, startup scripts, state files). Skills should not maintain state across sessions without explicit user consent.
  • medium Rogue Agent · line 227
    Skill establishes unauthorized persistence across sessions via cron jobs, startup scripts, or state files. Session persistence allows an attacker to maintain access beyond the current interaction.
    Fix: Remove any persistence mechanisms (cron jobs, startup scripts, state files). Skills should not maintain state across sessions without explicit user consent.
  • medium Rogue Agent · line 456
    Skill establishes unauthorized persistence across sessions via cron jobs, startup scripts, or state files. Session persistence allows an attacker to maintain access beyond the current interaction.
    Fix: Remove any persistence mechanisms (cron jobs, startup scripts, state files). Skills should not maintain state across sessions without explicit user consent.
  • medium Excessive Agency · line 685
    Skill allows unbounded resource consumption (API calls, storage, compute). Without rate limits or quotas, a compromised or misbehaving agent can cause denial-of-service or cost overruns.
    Fix: Set explicit rate limits, timeouts, and resource quotas for API calls, file operations, and compute. Implement circuit breakers for runaway loops.
  • low Excessive Agency · line 1204
    Skill's behavior or capabilities extend beyond its stated purpose. Scope creep allows an agent to perform actions unrelated to its documented functionality, increasing the attack surface.
    Fix: Limit the skill's scope to its documented purpose. Remove instructions that enable the agent to perform actions outside its stated functionality.
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 $0.00087 $0.16517
Opus 5 $0.00044 $0.08259
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.03303
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.01652

Measured 9d ago against content hash ba25488b5f30, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

yesresearch scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 9d 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

allowed-tools: Bash(git *) Bash(curl *) Bash(pdftotext *) Bash(mkdir *) Bash(ls *) Bash(cat *) Bash(find *) Bash(rg *) Bash(test *) Grep Glob Read Write Edit todowrite Task
skills/bundled-skills/yesresearch/SKILL.md · 1,219 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 1,219 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Autonomous Research Loop

You are an orchestrator for autonomous research. Decompose a research topic into clusters, spawn parallel research agents, integrate results into a cited wiki.

CRITICAL: Two-Tier Architecture

You are the Orchestrator (this session). You do NOT do research yourself. You spawn Bereichs-Agents (cluster agents) that do the actual research work. Each Bereichs-Agent runs autonomously in its own worktree and reports progress via scratchpad.

Orchestrator (this session, light)
  │
  ├─ READ master-plan (##  headings = clusters)
  ├─ DECOMPOSE into 5-8 file groups
  ├─ DISPATCH yesmem_spawn_agent × ≤6 (opencode TUI agents)
  ├─ MONITOR list_agents + scratchpad polling
  ├─ INTEGRATE cross-links + INDEX.md + citation audit
  └─ DELIVER commit + DONE
            │
            ▼ yesmem_spawn_agent (TUI, max 12h, ≤6 concurrent)
            │
   Bereichs-Agent (full TUI, autonomous)
     ├─ CONTEXT read master plan + cluster files
     ├─ PLAN set_plan, per-file strategy
     ├─ EXECUTE task(general) fetch+search+write
     │         task(explore) read-only citation review
     │         bash+curl+pdftotext for PDFs
     ├─ VERIFY min 2 sources/file, every claim cited
     ├─ COMMIT write files to worktree
     └─ DELIVER scratchpad DONE + send_to orchestrator

Why two-tier: Sawtooth would compress the master plan if one agent did everything. Cluster-scope agents keep context small. Plan lives in DB (scratchpad + set_plan), survives collapse.

CRITICAL: Always spawn in a worktree

When invoked from an interactive session, the user's session only does setup — it does NOT run the orchestrator pipeline inline. Setup creates the worktree, writes the master plan + scratchpad briefing, then spawns the Orchestrator as a TUI agent which takes over all 6 phases.

Setup steps (user's interactive session):

  1. Create worktree: git worktree add -b yesresearch/<topic-slug> <repo>/.worktrees/yesresearch-<topic-slug> (fresh-create) OR git worktree add -b yesresearch/<topic-slug>-update-N <repo>/.worktrees/yesresearch-<topic-slug>-update-N (update mode, branching from previous wiki commit)
  2. Write master plan to <worktree>/yesdocs/<topic>/PLAN.md (or pass existing path)
  3. Detect model & backend: Read ~/.config/opencode/opencode.json → extract model key (e.g. deepseek/deepseek-reasoner). If absent, detect from opencode's default (first entry in models.json). Backend defaults to "opencode" — override via scratchpad briefing backend: claude|codex|opencode or master plan frontmatter. Both model and backend are passed to ALL spawns (Orchestrator + Bereichs-Agents).
  4. Write Orchestrator briefing to scratchpad section yesresearch-<topic-slug>-orchestrator: worktree path, master plan path, output target, hard constraints, resolved model, mode (fresh-create or update). The briefing MUST start with the skill-read mandate: YOU ARE A YESRESEARCH-ORCHESTRATOR. MANDATORY - YOU MUST READ THE YESRESEARCH SKILL AND YOU MUST FOLLOW THE INSTRUCTIONS IN THIS SKILL. The spawned Orchestrator has NOT auto-loaded this skill — the mandate prefix is mandatory.
  5. Spawn Orchestrator: yesmem_spawn_agent(project="<project>", section="yesresearch-<topic-slug>-orchestrator", backend="<resolved-backend>", work_dir="<worktree-path>", model="<resolved-model>")
  6. Wait 15s, then relay kick: yesmem_relay_agent(to="<orchestrator-id>", content="Read scratchpad section yesresearch-<topic-slug>-orchestrator AND load the yesresearch skill (skill tool or ~/.claude/skills/yesresearch/SKILL.md). MANDATORY - YOU MUST READ THE YESRESEARCH SKILL AND YOU MUST FOLLOW THE INSTRUCTIONS IN THIS SKILL. Begin Orchestrator Phase 1 READ.") — backup if PTY is slow
  7. User's session polls list_agents + scratchpad_read until Orchestrator reports DONE.

Read the full file on GitHub · 1,219 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. 9d ago First seen · 1,219 lines · 87 tokens per session scan A ba25488b5f30

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yesresearch is a skill published in the GitHub repository carsteneu/yesmem (41 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 87 tokens to every session and 16,517 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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