import

A workflow for bringing an existing research project into a structured research process. It examines the repository, estimates its current phase, and prepares project tracking and standard documents.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to assess a research repository, identify its stage, create a Linear project, and add the documents needed for ongoing work.
Why use it?
It helps organize an active project without losing sight of its existing code, results, and progress.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the swf plugin — 16 skills, 1 agent shipped together

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/cliffren/swf/import
Any agent
npx skills add cliffren/swf --skill import
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cliffren/swf

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install swf, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 16 skills, 1 agent.

Per session 25 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,388 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00025 $0.01388
Opus 5 $0.00013 $0.00694
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00278
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00139

Measured 2d ago against content hash 569ff180d1a4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

import 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 2d 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/import/SKILL.md · 152 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 152 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Import Existing Project

Bring an existing research project into the SWF workflow without disrupting current work.

Workflow

  1. Identify the project:

    • Ask: repo 路径或 GitHub URL
    • Read the repo to understand current state:
      • ls top-level structure
      • Check for existing CLAUDE.md, README, docs/
      • git log --oneline -10 recent history
      • Check language/framework from files
  2. Assess current phase:

    • Analyze repo signals to infer phase:
      • src/ 但没有 results/ 或实验记录 → 可能 Phase 1
      • 有 benchmark 脚本或结果文件 → 可能 Phase 2
      • 有 case study 分析脚本或结果 → 可能 Phase 3
      • 有 figure 组装脚本、publication-quality 图片 → 可能 Phase 4
      • docs/paper/、论文 draft、.tex 文件 → 可能 Phase 5
      • 有 cover letter、submission 相关文件 → 可能 Phase 6+
      • 检查 git log 中的关键词(benchmark, figure, draft, revision 等)
    • Present your assessment with evidence:
      根据 repo 分析,我判断项目在 Phase 2(验证与 Benchmark):
      - src/ 下核心代码已完成(最近 commit 多是 bugfix 而非新功能)
      - 有 benchmarks/ 目录和部分结果
      - 但还没有 case study 相关代码
      你觉得准确吗?
      
    • Let the user confirm or correct
  3. Gather project info:

    • 项目简称(用于 Linear Project 名,通常和 repo 名一致)
    • 一句话描述
    • 技术栈
    • GitHub repo URL(从 git remote -v 自动获取)
  4. Create Linear Project:

    • Name: project name
    • Team: Tao's Linear
    • Description:
      <one-line description>
      
      **GitHub:** <repo-url>
      **Tech Stack:** <tech stack>
      **Imported:** <date>
      **Imported at:** Phase <N>
      
  5. Create Phase Milestones (read ${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/../reference/phase-template.md):

    • Create all Phase 1~8 milestones
    • Phases before current: leave empty (historical work not tracked)
    • Current phase: will populate with issues next
  6. Scaffold missing docs (non-destructive — never overwrite existing files):

    File If exists If missing
    CLAUDE.md Keep as-is, suggest merging SWF conventions Generate from template
    docs/design.md Keep as-is Create placeholder, remind user to fill
    docs/adr/ Keep as-is Create directory
    docs/experiments/benchmark/ Keep as-is Create directory
    docs/experiments/case/ Keep as-is Create directory
    docs/paper/ Keep as-is Create directory
    configs/ Keep as-is Create directory
    results/ Keep as-is Create directory
    .gitignore Merge SWF entries (results/, *.h5ad, etc.) without deleting existing rules Generate from template

Read the full file on GitHub · 152 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. 2d ago First seen · 152 lines · 25 tokens per session scan A 569ff180d1a4

Subscribe to this mod's changes

import is a skill published in the GitHub repository cliffren/swf (5 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 25 tokens to every session and 1,388 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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