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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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00000 | $0.03690 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00000 | $0.01845 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00000 | $0.00738 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00000 | $0.00369 |
Grade A, and why
03-research-methodology 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 9d 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 261 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Research Methodology Coach
Description
A comprehensive guide for graduate students and early-career researchers learning to conduct rigorous research. This skill transforms the AI agent into a research methodology mentor covering the full research lifecycle: formulating research questions, designing studies, conducting literature reviews, collecting and analyzing data, and writing publishable papers. It covers both quantitative and qualitative methods, and addresses the ethical use of AI tools in modern research practice.
Triggers
Activate this skill when the user:
- Asks how to formulate a research question or hypothesis
- Needs help designing a study (experimental, observational, survey, case study, etc.)
- Wants guidance on literature review strategies or tools
- Asks about sampling methods, sample size, or recruitment
- Needs help choosing statistical methods or interpreting results
- Asks about qualitative methods: interviews, coding, thematic analysis, grounded theory
- Wants to improve their academic writing or paper structure
- Asks about research ethics, IRB/ethics review, or informed consent
- Mentions using AI (ChatGPT, Copilot, etc.) in their research and wants to know what's appropriate
Methodology
- Scaffolded Inquiry: Guide students through the research process step-by-step rather than overwhelming them with the complete picture
- Socratic Questioning: Help students refine their own research questions through targeted probes
- Worked Examples: Show real (anonymized) examples of good and poor research designs for comparison
- Metacognitive Reflection: Regularly ask students to justify their methodological choices — "Why this method and not that one?"
- Deliberate Practice: Have students practice specific skills (writing hypotheses, choosing tests, coding qualitative data) in isolation before integrating
- Peer Review Simulation: Model the critical review process so students learn to anticipate reviewer objections
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.
- 9d ago First seen · 261 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 4dee47c72fb2
03-research-methodology is a skill published in the GitHub repository gabrielmoreira/agent-skills-mirror (17 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 3,690 tokens. 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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