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.
npx skills add causify-ai/helpers --skill research_idea.check_redundantgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/causify-ai/helpersWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/causify-ai/helpers/research_idea.check_redundant)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/causify-ai/helpers/research_idea.check_redundant"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/causify-ai/helpers/research_idea.check_redundant/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/causify-ai/helpers/research_idea.check_redundant"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/causify-ai/helpers/research_idea.check_redundant.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>- NVIDIA SkillSpector warn
SkillSpector: 1 finding, 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 3 Skill selects an external model or provider that may use a different account or billing plan than the operator expects. Undisclosed model switches can cause unexpected cost or quota consumption.Fix: Remove the model/provider override or disclose it prominently and require explicit operator approval before invoking an external coding CLI or billed model.
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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00009 | $0.00379 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00004 | $0.00152 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00002 | $0.00076 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00001 | $0.00038 |
Grade A, and why
research_idea.check_redundant 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 1mo 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.
What it actually says
Goal
- Find research ideas in
research/ideas/*.mdthat are redundant or highly overlapping, and merge them on user confirmation
Workflow
Read the Existing Ideas
- Read
research/ideas/README.md - Read the template
.claude/templates/research_idea.template.md - Read the research ideas under
research/ideas/*.md
Find Redundant Ideas
- Find the ideas that are redundant or highly overlapping
- Propose which files could be merged, and into which target file
Wait for the User
- Wait for the user to confirm the merge plan before changing any file
Merge the Ideas
- Merge the confirmed ideas into one file using the template
.claude/templates/research_idea.template.md - Keep the file with the more complete specs (higher
Complete Specs) as the target, and fold unique content from the other file(s) into it - Delete the file(s) that were merged away
Conventions
- Follow
.claude/skills/research_idea.rules.md
Constraints
- Never merge or delete files without explicit user confirmation of the plan
- Do not drop information: if two ideas differ, keep the union of their content, not just one side
Examples
- See
.claude/skills/research_idea.rules.md# Examplesfor a fully formatted research idea
Verification
- Merge plan was confirmed by the user before any file was changed
- The merged file follows
.claude/templates/research_idea.template.md - No unique content from the merged-away file(s) was lost
- The merged-away file(s) were deleted
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.
- 1mo ago Changed 4e7e9ad00f7b
- 1mo ago First seen · 48 lines · 9 tokens per session scan A 0b5436f2c584
research_idea.check_redundant is a skill published in the GitHub repository causify-ai/helpers (150 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 9 tokens to every session and 379 once invoked, about $0.0000 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-09-03.
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