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.formatgit 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.format)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/causify-ai/helpers/research_idea.format"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/causify-ai/helpers/research_idea.format/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.format"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/causify-ai/helpers/research_idea.format.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 | $0.00010 | $0.00438 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00004 | $0.00175 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00002 | $0.00088 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00001 | $0.00044 |
Grade A, and why
research_idea.format 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 3d 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
- Given a file
<FILE>with raw information about a research idea, apply the research idea template and write the result back into<FILE>
Workflow
Read the Inputs
- Read
<FILE> - Read the template
.claude/templates/research_idea.template.md - Read
.claude/skills/research_idea.rules.md# Examplesfor a worked example
Apply the Template
- Map the content already in
<FILE>onto the template's sections (Status,Core Idea,Formalization,Key Examples,Questions,Research Topics,Next steps,Implementation plan,References) - Do not leave the template's placeholder bullets in a section: fill it from the idea's own content, or remove the empty bullets
- Do not invent facts, results, or citations to fill a section; write only what follows from the idea (e.g., a hypothetical example marked as illustrative)
- Do not add an
Assigneefield: assignees live only in the README table - Write references as
Author(s), _Title_. (Year) - Write the result back into
<FILE>, replacing its previous content
Conventions
- Follow
.claude/skills/research_idea.rules.md
Constraints
- Keep the file name and its status prefix unchanged; formatting does not change status
- Fit text in 85 character lines, per
.claude/skills/research_idea.rules.md
Examples
research/ideas/in_progress.RL_for_pickleball.md
Verification
-
<FILE>follows the section order of.claude/templates/research_idea.template.md - No template placeholder text is left in the file
- No fabricated facts or citations were added
- No
Assigneeline; references useAuthor(s), _Title_. (Year) - Lines fit in 85 characters
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.
- 3d ago Changed · +6 lines 6632330a9f3d
- 1mo ago Changed 7cbe115be1a3
- 1mo ago First seen · 41 lines · 10 tokens per session scan A aff254340f3f
research_idea.format is a skill published in the GitHub repository causify-ai/helpers (150 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 10 tokens to every session and 438 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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