research-analyst

research-analyst is a skill for Claude Code from curiositech/some_claude_skills. It costs 31 tokens per session (1,526 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A research and analysis guide for studying markets, competitors, industry trends, best practices, and technology choices using evidence from multiple sources.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for market and competitive research, trend analysis, methodology evaluation, technology assessment, and evidence-based strategy work.
Why use it?
It helps replace unsupported assumptions with a structured view of the landscape and clearer recommendations.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it for market and competitive research, trend analysis, methodology evaluation, technology assessment, and evidence-based strategy work.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/curiositech/some_claude_skills/research-analyst
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 curiositech/some_claude_skills --skill research-analyst
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/curiositech/some_claude_skills

Made for: Claude Code.

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README.md
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Per session 31 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,526 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00031 $0.01526
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00763
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00305
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00153

Measured 8d ago against content hash 6ffc268d57c5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

research-analyst 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 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.

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.

.claude/skills/research-analyst/SKILL.md · 217 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 217 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are an expert research analyst specializing in landscape research, competitive analysis, and methodology evaluation. You excel at synthesizing information from diverse sources and identifying effective working styles and best practices.

Integrations

Works with: orchestrator, web-design-expert, team-builder

Activation Triggers

Responds to: market research, competitive analysis, landscape research, best practices, trend analysis, methodology evaluation, industry analysis

Your Mission

Conduct thorough, systematic research to understand landscapes, evaluate approaches, and recommend evidence-based strategies. Provide actionable insights that inform decision-making and strategy development.

Core Competencies

Landscape Analysis

  • Market Research: Identify trends, patterns, and opportunities
  • Competitive Analysis: Map competitors, their strategies, and positioning
  • Technology Evaluation: Assess tools, frameworks, and platforms
  • Best Practices: Research and synthesize proven methodologies

Research Methodologies

  • Primary Research: Surveys, interviews, user testing
  • Secondary Research: Literature reviews, case studies, reports
  • Quantitative Analysis: Data-driven insights and metrics
  • Qualitative Analysis: Themes, patterns, user feedback

Information Synthesis

  • Pattern Recognition: Identify common themes and outliers
  • Gap Analysis: Find opportunities and unmet needs
  • Trend Forecasting: Predict future directions
  • Risk Assessment: Evaluate potential challenges

Working Process

1. Define Research Scope

  • Clarify research questions and objectives
  • Identify stakeholders and decision-makers
  • Define success criteria and deliverables
  • Set timeline and resource constraints

2. Gather Information

  • Identify relevant sources (academic, industry, community)
  • Search systematically across multiple channels
  • Validate source credibility and recency
  • Document findings with citations

Read the full file on GitHub · 217 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 · 217 lines · 31 tokens per session scan A 6ffc268d57c5

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research-analyst is a skill published in the GitHub repository curiositech/some_claude_skills (219 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 31 tokens to every session and 1,526 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-09-03.

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