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research_idea.update_readme

research_idea.update_readme is a skill for Claude Code from gpsaggese/helpers. It costs 12 tokens per session (405 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A research-project routine that updates a README tracking table from idea files. A README is a project information file, usually written in Markdown.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to add or update idea rows, fill fields from each file, sort by completion, and record the update time.
Why use it?
It keeps the tracking table aligned with newly added or changed research ideas without rewriting unrelated rows.

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 12 tokens original Apache-2.0

Good fit Use it to add or update idea rows, fill fields from each file, sort by completion, and record the update time.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/gpsaggese/helpers/research_idea.update_readme
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.update_readme
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/gpsaggese/helpers

Made for: Claude Code.

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A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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Per session 12 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 405 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 $0.00012 $0.00405
Opus 5.5 $0.00005 $0.00162
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00002 $0.00081
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00040

Measured yesterday against content hash 6a60e8b8abb3, 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.update_readme 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.

.claude/skills/research_idea.update_readme/SKILL.md · 46 lines

What it actually says

Goal

  • Update research/ideas/README.md to reflect the current content of research/ideas/*.md

Workflow

Find the Files to Process

  • Extract <TIMESTAMP> from the comment at the end of research/ideas/README.md, e.g. // Last update timestamp: "Aug 3 10:54"
  • Find every research/ideas/*.md file modified or added after <TIMESTAMP>, or with no row in the table yet
  • Build the list of those files, <FILES>

Read the Template

  • Read .claude/templates/research_idea.template.md to learn what each idea file should contain

Update the Table

  • For each file in <FILES>, add or update its row in research/ideas/README.md using the column order: | File | Links | Status | Assignee | Specs Complete | GitHub Issue | Result |
  • Fill each column from the file content and status prefix, as well as you can
  • Sort all rows by descending Specs Complete

Update the Timestamp

  • Set the // Last update timestamp: "..." comment at the end of the file to the current timestamp

Conventions

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

Constraints

  • Only touch rows of files in <FILES>. Re-sorting the table is the only change allowed to other rows
  • Do not remove a row for a file that still exists in research/ideas/*.md

Verification

  • Every file in <FILES> has a row in the table
  • Rows are sorted by descending Specs Complete
  • The // Last update timestamp: "..." comment reflects the current time
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 · 46 lines · 12 tokens per session scan A 6a60e8b8abb3

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research_idea.update_readme is a skill published in the GitHub repository gpsaggese/helpers (158 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 12 tokens to every session and 405 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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