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research_idea.check_redundant

research_idea.check_redundant is a skill for Claude Code from gpsaggese/helpers. It costs 9 tokens per session (379 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A research-maintenance task that finds research idea files covering the same or closely related questions and proposes a merge.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to compare ideas, recommend a target file, and combine confirmed ideas without losing distinct information.
Why use it?
It reduces duplicated work while requiring confirmation before files are changed or deleted.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/. Also seen: model in frontmatter; reads .claude/ paths.

not rated 158repo +1 today A scan 9 tokens original Apache-2.0

Good fit Use it to compare ideas, recommend a target file, and combine confirmed ideas without losing distinct information.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/gpsaggese/helpers/research_idea.check_redundant
View source ↗ gpsaggese/helpers
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.check_redundant
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 9 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 379 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 $0.00009 $0.00379
Opus 5.5 $0.00004 $0.00152
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00002 $0.00076
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00038

Measured yesterday against content hash 4e7e9ad00f7b, 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.check_redundant 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:

.claude/skills/research_idea.check_redundant/SKILL.md · 48 lines

What it actually says

Goal

  • Find research ideas in research/ideas/*.md that are redundant or highly overlapping, and merge them on user confirmation

Workflow

Read the Existing Ideas

  • Read research/ideas/README.md
  • Read the template .claude/templates/research_idea.template.md
  • Read the research ideas under research/ideas/*.md

Find Redundant Ideas

  • Find the ideas that are redundant or highly overlapping
  • Propose which files could be merged, and into which target file

Wait for the User

  • Wait for the user to confirm the merge plan before changing any file

Merge the Ideas

  • Merge the confirmed ideas into one file using the template .claude/templates/research_idea.template.md
  • Keep the file with the more complete specs (higher Complete Specs) as the target, and fold unique content from the other file(s) into it
  • Delete the file(s) that were merged away

Conventions

  • Follow .claude/skills/research_idea.rules.md

Constraints

  • Never merge or delete files without explicit user confirmation of the plan
  • Do not drop information: if two ideas differ, keep the union of their content, not just one side

Examples

  • See .claude/skills/research_idea.rules.md # Examples for a fully formatted research idea

Verification

  • Merge plan was confirmed by the user before any file was changed
  • The merged file follows .claude/templates/research_idea.template.md
  • No unique content from the merged-away file(s) was lost
  • The merged-away file(s) were deleted
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. yesterday First seen · 48 lines · 9 tokens per session scan A 4e7e9ad00f7b

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research_idea.check_redundant is a skill published in the GitHub repository gpsaggese/helpers (158 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 9 tokens to every session and 379 once invoked, about $0.0000 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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