Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to gridaco/nothing. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gridaco/nothing/main/.agents/skills/research/SKILL.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/gridaco/nothingWrote this? Show the measurements
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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/gridaco/nothing/research)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/gridaco/nothing/research"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/gridaco/nothing/research/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/gridaco/nothing/research"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/gridaco/nothing/research.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>- NVIDIA SkillSpector pass
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 | $0.00058 | $0.02403 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00023 | $0.00961 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00012 | $0.00481 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00006 | $0.00240 |
Grade A, and why
research 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 2mo 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 — 158 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Code Research Skill
Workflow for going from "how does X work?" to a documented survey grounded in prior art from upstream and peer projects.
When to Use This Skill
- Investigating how a browser engine solves a rendering/layout/compositing problem
- Looking up undocumented Skia API behavior
- Understanding CSS feature semantics before adding support
- Comparing canvas editor architectures (excalidraw, tldraw)
- Writing or extending
docs/wg/research/documents
How to Orient Yourself
Before touching any external repo, check what Grida already knows.
| What you need | How to find it |
|---|---|
| Existing research on a topic | docs/wg/research/chromium/index.md (topic map) |
| Code that cites sources | grep "based on|adapted from|ported from" --include="*.rs" |
| Vendored third-party code | ls third_party/ |
| Feature docs for a subsystem | ls docs/wg/feat-*/ |
If already documented, cite it and move on.
Reference Repositories
Local clones (optional): If ~/Documents/GitHub/ exists, it may contain default-style clones (sibling dirs named by repo, e.g. skia). Prefer searching there before cloning or using only the web.
| Repo | Lang | When to reference | Key paths |
|---|---|---|---|
| chromium | C++ | Skia usage, compositing, layer trees, paint scheduling, tiling, GPU resources | cc/ third_party/blink/renderer/ components/viz/ |
| skia | C++ | Undocumented API behavior, GPU internals, filter details | src/gpu/ src/core/ src/effects/ |
| rust-skia | Rust | Rust binding ergonomics — our direct skia-safe dependency |
skia-safe/src/ |
| resvg | Rust | SVG rendering, path conversion, filter effects | crates/resvg/src/ crates/usvg/src/ |
| servo | Rust | CSS layout, DOM, Rust browser-engine patterns. We vendor its style system | components/style/ components/layout/ |
| stylo | Rust | CSS parsing and style resolution | style/ |
| taffy | Rust | Flexbox/Grid layout algorithms | src/tree/ src/compute/ src/style/ |
| excalidraw | TS | Canvas API optimization, rendering heuristics, interaction | packages/excalidraw/renderer/ |
| tldraw | TS | CRDT state model, modular SDK, DOM/SVG canvas | packages/editor/ packages/store/ |
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.
- 2mo ago First seen · 158 lines · 58 tokens per session scan A bb3fb8b592e8
research is a skill published in the GitHub repository gridaco/nothing (54 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 58 tokens to every session and 2,403 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-30.
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