research-tool-updates

research-tool-updates is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from dyoshikawa/rulesync. It costs 50 tokens per session (3,448 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A research workflow that compares recent releases of coding tools with rulesync, a project that keeps configuration aligned across tools. It also looks for promising coding agents that rulesync does not support.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps investigate one or all supported tools, compare official release information with the current implementation, open or update GitHub issues for gaps, and suggest new targets.
Why use it?
It identifies missing support before upstream changes are overlooked and avoids filing duplicate tracking issues.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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/dyoshikawa/rulesync/research-tool-updates
Any agent
npx skills add dyoshikawa/rulesync --skill research-tool-updates
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dyoshikawa/rulesync

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 50 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,448 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 $0.00050 $0.03448
Opus 5 $0.00025 $0.01724
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00690
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00345

Measured 4d ago against content hash 36eefe8814c3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

research-tool-updates 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 4d 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.

.rulesync/skills/research-tool-updates/SKILL.md · 333 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 333 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Research Tool Updates

TARGET = the user's request

Purpose: for every target tool rulesync supports, investigate the tool's recent releases (official release notes / GitHub releases preferred), compare them against rulesync's current implementation, and open a per-tool GitHub issue for any upstream capability rulesync has not yet caught up with. When an issue for that tool already exists, supplement it with a comment instead of filing a duplicate.

The matrix bounds the per-tool research, so a full run also scouts outside it: Step 2.5 looks for coding agents rulesync does not target yet and proposes the strongest ones as new targets, so a tool gaining traction is not missed just because nobody has added it to the matrix by hand.

Step 0: Determine Scope

  • If TARGET is provided, investigate only that tool. Accept either the display name (e.g., Claude Code) or the --targets id (e.g., claudecode). Validate it against the supported tool list from Step 1; if it does not match any known tool, stop and report the valid options.
  • If TARGET is empty, investigate all supported target tools.

Step 1: Enumerate Supported Target Tools

Read the Supported Tools and Features matrix in README.md. This matrix is the authoritative source of what rulesync supports today. Extract, for each in-scope tool:

  • The display name and the --targets identifier.
  • The currently supported feature columns (rules, ignore, mcp, commands, subagents, skills, hooks, permissions) and their scope markers, using the legend:
    • ✅ project mode, 🌏 global mode, 🎮 simulated (project only), 🔧 MCP tool config.

Do not hardcode the tool list from memory — re-read the matrix each run so the skill stays in sync with the README.

Then read references/new-target-watchlist.md in the rulesync-feature-research skill. It records products that are not targets yet but were worth re-checking, each with the condition that would change that. Evaluate every entry in the same run: promote one whose condition is met to a target proposal (a GitHub issue, after the duplicate check in Step 4-1) and remove it from the file, retire an entry that can no longer be met, and leave the rest. Report which entries were promoted, retired or left in the final report.

Read the full file on GitHub · 333 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. 4d ago First seen · 333 lines · 50 tokens per session scan A 36eefe8814c3

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research-tool-updates is a skill published in the GitHub repository dyoshikawa/rulesync (1,379 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 50 tokens to every session and 3,448 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-08-30.

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