What is research_idea.add_from_file?

A workflow that separates an unstructured file of early research notes into distinct, titled ideas. After approval, it creates one template-based file for each idea.

Use it to group related notes, add short headings, check existing idea files, and create organized research-idea documents.

It turns mixed fragments into individually reviewable ideas without expanding or summarizing their content.

research_idea.add_from_file — Skill for Claude Code by gpsaggese

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 gpsaggese/helpers --skill research_idea.add_from_file

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/gpsaggese/helpers

Made for: Claude Code.

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README.md

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Per session 13 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 991 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00013	$0.00991
Opus 5.5	$0.00005	$0.00396
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00003	$0.00198
Haiku 4.5	$0.00001	$0.00099

Measured yesterday against content hash ed9d3ae3c8af, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

research_idea.add_from_file 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 yesterday.

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:

research_idea.add_from_file — 86% identical, 56 lines differ

.claude/skills/research_idea.add_from_file/SKILL.md · 91 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 91 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Goal

Given a file <FILE> of very early, unstructured research ideas (loose fragments, one-liners, mixed bullets), add a ## <Title> header above each distinct idea
Once the user approves, create one template-formatted research idea file per idea

Workflow

Read the Inputs

Read <FILE>
Read the template .claude/templates/research_idea.template.md
Read .claude/skills/research_idea.rules.md for file naming and directory conventions
Read the file names under research/ideas/*.md to know which ideas exist

Title and Group the Fragments

Split <FILE> into distinct ideas
- Merge fragments that describe the same idea into one group. Reordering or combining related fragments is fine
- Keep fragments that are already distinct ideas separate, even if short
Add a ## <Title> header directly above each idea's raw content
- <Title> is a short noun phrase (3-8 words) naming the idea, in the style of existing file names, e.g. Hierarchical Training, Compression as Proxy for Understanding
- If a fragment already has a ## header, keep or refine that title instead of adding a duplicate
Do not summarize, expand, or fabricate content. Only add headers and move fragments next to the other fragments of the same idea
Flag (do not silently drop) any fragment whose idea already exists as a file under research/ideas/*.md, so the user can decide whether to skip it
Write the titled, grouped result back into <FILE>

Wait for the User

Show the user the proposed titles and which fragments are grouped under each
Wait for the user to approve <FILE> before creating any new idea file
If the user requests different titles or groupings, apply them and present the file again

Create One Idea File per Approved Idea

For each approved ## <Title> section, create research/ideas/draft.<Idea_Name>.md, per .claude/skills/research_idea.rules.md ## Status Prefixes
- <Idea_Name> is <Title> in Title_Case_With_Underscores, matching existing file names (e.g. Hierarchical Training -> Hierarchical_Training)
Seed the new file with the section's raw content as the seed for Core Idea
Say in the idea file how it was generated, with this line right after the title:
```
- Generated by `.claude/skills/research_idea.add_from_file/SKILL.md`
```
Skip creating a file for any idea the user chose to skip in Step 3

Read the full file on GitHub · 91 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.

yesterday First seen · 91 lines · 13 tokens per session scan A ed9d3ae3c8af

Subscribe to this mod's changes

research_idea.add_from_file is a skill published in the GitHub repository gpsaggese/helpers (158 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 13 tokens to every session and 991 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-11-06.

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