dossier

dossier is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from cass-2003/local-workflow-skill. It costs 198 tokens per session (3,833 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A research method for investigating a specific company, person, nonprofit, or government organisation by testing a stated belief about it. It produces a focused dossier rather than a general biography.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to verify or disprove a business hypothesis, prepare for a meeting or pitch, investigate an organisation, and develop evidence-based conversation points.
Why use it?
It reduces the risk of collecting facts that merely confirm an assumption. Starting with a hypothesis keeps the research tied to a real decision or question.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions Claude Code.

Good fit Use it to verify or disprove a business hypothesis, prepare for a meeting or pitch, investigate an organisation, and develop evidence-based conversation points.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/cass-2003/local-workflow-skill/dossier
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 cass-2003/local-workflow-skill --skill dossier
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cass-2003/local-workflow-skill

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 198 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,833 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.
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 $0.00198 $0.03833
Opus 5 $0.00099 $0.01917
Sonnet 5 $0.00040 $0.00767
Haiku 4.5 $0.00020 $0.00383

Measured 7d ago against content hash 7a8e1ba04724, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

dossier 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 7d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 3 executable files (scripts/citation_tracker.py, scripts/disconfirming_evidence_balance.py, scripts/source_tier_classifier.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

> **Portability:** Requires `WebSearch` + `WebFetch`, Node.js with `docx` package, and optionally `bash_tool` + `curl` for free APIs (SEC EDGAR, GitHub, ProPublica). BYOK MCPs (LinkedIn, Crunchbase, Apollo, Pitchbook, Si
skills/entity-research/community/dossier/SKILL.md · 314 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 314 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Dossier — Decision-Grade Entity Research

Portability: Requires WebSearch + WebFetch, Node.js with docx package, and optionally bash_tool + curl for free APIs (SEC EDGAR, GitHub, ProPublica). BYOK MCPs (LinkedIn, Crunchbase, Apollo, Pitchbook, SimilarWeb) are optional enhancements. Works in Claude Code CLI natively.

Non-Generic Framing — The Differentiator

This skill is decision-grade entity research with hypothesis-testing. It refuses to be "tell me about Microsoft". Every invocation forces the user to expose their hypothesis upfront (Q4) so the dossier tests it rather than confirms it.

The use case shape:

"I'm pitching Microsoft Tuesday. My hypothesis is they're consolidating AI spend on their first-party Foundry platform. Validate or disprove, and give me three conversation hooks tied to what you find."

NOT:

"Tell me about Microsoft."

The forcing Q4 — the hypothesis question — is the non-generic anchor. Skip it and the skill produces a Wikipedia summary.

See references/hypothesis_testing_discipline.md for the canon.

Agent Integrity Rules (Research-Pack Convention)

Locked verbatim per PR #657 audit.

  • Execution discipline. Sequential search calls. WebSearch + WebFetch have looser rate limits than Consensus but still apply 1 q/sec etiquette. Confirm response received before next call.
  • Source discipline. Cite only sources returned by this session's tool calls. Wikipedia / training knowledge labeled [Background — verify before quoting] and excluded from primary findings count.
  • Three-count tracking. Queries sent / sources received / sources cited. Plus per-tier breakdown (primary / secondary / tertiary) unique to dossier. Surfaced in audit log.
  • Retry policy. On failure → wait 3s → retry once → log. After 3 consecutive failures: stop, alert user.
  • Source reliability tier. Each citation tagged primary (official, SEC, court records) / secondary (mainstream news, trade press) / tertiary (blogs, forums). DOCX surfaces tier on every flag.

Read the full file on GitHub · 314 lines

Files

What ships with it

6 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 · 314 lines · 198 tokens per session scan A 7a8e1ba04724

Subscribe to this mod's changes

dossier is a skill published in the GitHub repository cass-2003/local-workflow-skill (12 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 198 tokens to every session and 3,833 once invoked, about $0.0010 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 2026-09-03.

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