method-audit

method-audit is a skill for Claude Code from flonat/flonat-research. It costs 38 tokens per session (1,548 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A method for extracting and comparing how empirical research papers collect evidence. It produces a cross-paper comparison of those methods and their limitations.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when writing a methods section or assessing how several papers gather and support their evidence.
Why use it?
It makes differences in data collection easier to see and can expose methodological blind spots across a body of research.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it when writing a methods section or assessing how several papers gather and support their evidence.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/flonat/flonat-research/method-audit
Install

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Any agent
npx skills add flonat/flonat-research --skill method-audit
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/flonat/flonat-research

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 38 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,548 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
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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 $0.00038 $0.01548
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.00774
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00310
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00155

Measured 7d ago against content hash a6d770c3771a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

method-audit 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 7d ago.

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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/method-audit/SKILL.md · 169 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 169 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Method Audit

Reverse-engineer the data collection and empirical methods across a corpus of papers. Produce a critical comparison table that surfaces methodological blind spots.

Output Path

Per rules/review-artefact-routing.md (auto-loads in research projects (path-scoped to paper-*/ and paper/)):

  • Source slug: method-audit
  • Write reports to: reviews/_project/method-audit/<YYYY-MM-DD-HHMM>.md inside the project. Path is relative to the research project root, not the Task-Management repo.
  • Never at project root (./CRITIC-REPORT.md-style filenames are forbidden — pre-rule layout).
  • Idempotency: timestamps include hour+minute (HHMM) to disambiguate same-day runs; never overwrite an earlier run's report.
  • Index update: if reviews/INDEX.md exists, write a one-line entry under "Latest per source" pointing at the new file. Otherwise review-recap will rebuild the index next time it runs.
  • Infrastructure repos (Task-Management, atlas-workspace, etc.): this section does not apply — the path-scoped rule won't load there.

When to Use

  • Writing a methodology section — need to justify your approach relative to the literature
  • Reviewing empirical papers — need to compare data quality across studies
  • Identifying methodological gaps — what approach has nobody tried yet?
  • Preparing a replication or extension — need to understand exactly how prior work was done

When NOT to Use

  • Theoretical papers — use an installed theoretical-comparison workflow instead
  • Single-paper deep read — use split-pdf
  • Your own research design — use causal-design or experiment-design
  • Code review — use the code-review agent

Input

A .bib file, PDF directory, topic description, or list of papers. If ambiguous, ask.

Workflow

Phase 1: Corpus Assembly

Assemble 10-20 empirical papers from the supplied bibliography or directory, or through configured scholarly-search tools. Prioritise papers with empirical content and filter out pure theory, editorials, and commentaries.

Read the full file on GitHub · 169 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. 7d ago First seen · 169 lines · 38 tokens per session scan A a6d770c3771a

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method-audit is a skill published in the GitHub repository flonat/flonat-research (133 stars, last pushed 16d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 38 tokens to every session and 1,548 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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