research-proposal

research-proposal is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from frankaging/lite-research-agents. It costs 14 tokens per session (397 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A template for writing a two-page research proposal, with required sections covering the problem, data, evaluation, related work, and comparison methods.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to define a research project, describe its inputs and outputs, choose evaluation measures, review existing work, and set basic and near-perfect comparison points.
Why use it?
It prevents important parts of a proposal from being missed and replaces vague claims with specific descriptions and examples.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to define a research project, describe its inputs and outputs, choose evaluation measures, review existing work, and set basic and near-perfect comparison points.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/frankaging/lite-research-agents/research-proposal
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 frankaging/lite-research-agents --skill research-proposal
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/frankaging/lite-research-agents

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 14 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 397 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 $0.00014 $0.00397
Opus 5 $0.00007 $0.00198
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00079
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00040

Measured 8d ago against content hash 11f73e883032, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

research-proposal 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

skills/research-proposal/SKILL.md · 43 lines

What it actually says

Research Proposal

A research proposal is a structured 2-page document. Every section must be present. Be concrete — vague claims are not acceptable.


Sections

1. Problem Statement and Task Definition

What does the system do? What is its input and output? What real-world problem does it solve? Scope must be neither too narrow nor too broad.

2. Input / Output Behavior

Concrete examples of inputs and outputs. Describe what the input and output variables look like and how they interact. Reference the actual data being used — do not describe hypothetical data.

3. Evaluation Metric

How will success be measured? Why is this metric the right one for this problem? A reasonably sized dataset of example input-output pairs must be identified — either from an existing source or collected from scratch.

4. Related Works

What existing research and projects are relevant? How does the proposed work differ? Reference specific papers and systems, not general fields.

5. Baseline and Oracle

  • Baseline: a simple, easy-to-implement approach that gives a lower bound on expected performance
  • Oracle: an upper bound — what would near-perfect performance look like?
  • Neither needs to be implemented for the proposal, but both must be clearly described. If the gap between baseline and oracle is too small, the task is probably not well-chosen.

6. Methodology and Challenges

How will the problem be approached? Why does this method fit? What are the key challenges? What algorithms or models are appropriate, and what are the tradeoffs between accuracy and efficiency?


Requirements

  • 2 pages maximum
  • Every section must be present — do not skip or merge sections
  • Concrete over vague in every section
  • Related works must cite specific papers, not just name fields
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 · 43 lines · 14 tokens per session scan A 11f73e883032

Subscribe to this mod's changes

research-proposal is a skill published in the GitHub repository frankaging/lite-research-agents (3 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 14 tokens to every session and 397 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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