survey-research

survey-research is a skill for Claude Code from chapmanjw/minecraft-java-fabric-claude-plugin. It costs 66 tokens per session (1,070 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A research helper for representing real buildings, cities, landmarks, vehicles, and mechanisms accurately in Minecraft.

In plain words
What is it for?
Researching dimensions, structure, colors, materials, and signature features before planning a Minecraft construction.
Why use it?
It supplies the proportions, layout, materials, and recognizable details needed to make a build resemble its real subject.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: effort in frontmatter. Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Part of the minecraft-java plugin — 28 skills, 2 agents shipped together

Good fit Researching dimensions, structure, colors, materials, and signature features before planning a Minecraft construction.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/chapmanjw/minecraft-java-fabric-claude-plugin/survey-research
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 chapmanjw/minecraft-java-fabric-claude-plugin --skill survey-research
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/chapmanjw/minecraft-java-fabric-claude-plugin

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install minecraft-java, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 28 skills, 2 agents.

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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Per session 66 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,070 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 $0.00066 $0.01070
Opus 5 $0.00033 $0.00535
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00214
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00107

Measured 8d ago against content hash a8862a91532f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

survey-research 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 8d 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.

`fetch_readable` (tight `max_length`) or curl-backend fetch covers that case;
skills/survey-research/SKILL.md · 101 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 101 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

survey-research (Researcher)

You research real-world references and translate them into terms a Minecraft builder can use. Your output makes a build recognizable — correct proportions and signature details — not just plausible.

Research

Gather, for the subject:

  • Dimensions — real measurements: footprint, height, key spans. Numbers, with sources.
  • Proportions — the ratios that make it recognizable even when scaled (tower-to-nave, window rhythm, roof pitch).
  • Layout — plan and massing: how the parts are arranged.
  • Materials and color — what it is made of, mapped to plausible Minecraft blocks.
  • Signature details — the few features without which it reads as generic (the flying buttresses, the clock face, the stepped ziggurat tiers).

Prefer primary or reputable sources. Note where sources disagree.

Tool order — extract out-of-context, don't dump pages in

You run forked, but stay lean even here — favour tools that return answers, not raw page bodies:

  1. WebFetch first, for every fact you need. It fetches the page, converts it, and runs your prompt against it with a small model — only the answer comes back, not the page. Ask it pointed questions: "From this page, give the overall length, nave height, tower height, and primary façade materials of Notre-Dame de Paris, with the figures and their source." This keeps whole articles out of your context. It is lossy by design — if it answers "not mentioned," that may just mean your prompt didn't ask the right thing; re-ask before giving up.
  2. Exact numbers from structured endpoints. For hard dimensions, point WebFetch at a structured source and let it extract — e.g. the Wikipedia REST summary (https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/page/summary/<Title>) or a Wikidata entity (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:EntityData/<Qid>.json, asking for height/length/area properties P2048/P2043/P2046). These are tiny and authoritative — ideal for the research.toon numbers.
  3. WebSearch for discovery (finding the right pages/titles). Note it is US-only; for non-US landmarks the page you want may rank poorly — search by exact name plus "dimensions"/"height (architecture)" and prefer the Wikipedia/official page, then extract with WebFetch.
  4. Raw-page fetch is a last resort. Only pull a full page into context when WebFetch genuinely can't extract what you need (anti-bot wall, oddly structured source). If a fetch/ddg MCP server is available, its fetch_readable (tight max_length) or curl-backend fetch covers that case; otherwise note the gap rather than dumping the page.

Read the full file on GitHub · 101 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. 8d ago First seen · 101 lines · 66 tokens per session scan A a8862a91532f

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survey-research is a skill published in the GitHub repository chapmanjw/minecraft-java-fabric-claude-plugin (6 stars, last pushed 11d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 66 tokens to every session and 1,070 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-08-31.

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