research

research is a skill for Claude Code from ChipAlexandru/strategy-consultant. It costs 110 tokens per session (5,063 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

An internal research phase that investigates a client question with two independent research agents and a separate validation agent.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it after the required problem definition and research context files are ready, to produce a validated research brief.
Why use it?
It reduces the risk of relying on one unchecked line of investigation or accepting weak evidence too quickly.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the strategy-consultant plugin — 8 skills, 4 commands, 6 agents, 2 MCP servers shipped together

Good fit Use it after the required problem definition and research context files are ready, to produce a validated research brief.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/chipalexandru/strategy-consultant/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 ChipAlexandru/strategy-consultant --skill research
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ChipAlexandru/strategy-consultant

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install strategy-consultant, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 8 skills, 4 commands, 6 agents, 2 MCP servers.

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.

agentmods badge for research

README.md
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Your own site
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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.

agentmods 80×15 button for research

Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 110 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 5,063 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. 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 $0.00110 $0.05063
Opus 5 $0.00055 $0.02531
Sonnet 5 $0.00022 $0.01013
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00506

Measured 11d ago against content hash 9fd36cfcbad4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

research 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 11d 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.

skills/research/SKILL.md · 281 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 281 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Research — Parallel Investigation with Validation

Conduct rigorous research by deploying two independent research agents working in parallel, followed by a validation agent that cross-checks their findings. This three-agent architecture reduces confirmation bias and produces a more trustworthy evidence base than a single research pass.

Preflight Gate (run BEFORE any other step)

This phase requires upstream state and artifacts. Before doing anything else, verify ALL of the following:

  1. engagement-state.json exists in the active workspace.
  2. "problem-definition" is in completed_phases.
  3. The following artifacts exist on disk and are non-empty:
    • precision-anchor.md
    • client-question-checklist.md
    • source-material-extraction-log.md
    • step0-answers.md

If ANY required item is missing or empty, STOP. Do not run Step 0, do not write a research brief, do not dispatch agents. Report the specific missing state field or artifact path to the user and route control back to engagement-manager. Do NOT reconstruct upstream context locally — the orchestrator owns that.

When the gate passes:

  • Read engagement-state.json and treat its workspace_path as the active workspace. All artifacts produced in this phase write into that workspace.
  • Use the precision-anchor.md and client-question-checklist.md from the workspace as authoritative — do not paraphrase or rewrite them inside this skill.

At the end of this phase, after research-validated.md is written and Checkpoint 2 is approved, append "research" to completed_phases, set current_phase to the next phase (expert-interview if scenario D/E, otherwise sense-check), update artifact_paths.research_validated, set a new next_required_action, refresh last_updated, and write engagement-state.json.

Data Source Priority Hierarchy and Scenarios

Source priority (Internal data > Expert interviews > Public research), conflict-resolution rules, attribution rules by source type, and the underlying CS-1 to CS-4 scoring scale are specified in references/research-source-guide.md. Read that file before dispatching analysts. It is the source of truth for source-quality rules; do not re-explain them inside this SKILL.

Read the full file on GitHub · 281 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 11d ago First seen · 281 lines · 110 tokens per session scan A 9fd36cfcbad4

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research is a skill published in the GitHub repository ChipAlexandru/strategy-consultant (4 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 110 tokens to every session and 5,063 once invoked, about $0.0006 per session on Opus 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 2026-08-31.

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