fabrik-research-comment

fabrik-research-comment is a skill for Claude Code from handarbeit/fabrik. It costs 45 tokens per session (945 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A review helper for updating Fabrik's research findings after a user answers questions. Fabrik is a tool that moves software tasks through research, planning, coding, and review stages.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to incorporate answers into the Research stage comment, remove resolved questions, and surface follow-ups.
Why use it?
It keeps the research record aligned with new answers and highlights questions that still need attention.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the fabrik plugin — 12 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to incorporate answers into the Research stage comment, remove resolved questions, and surface follow-ups.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/handarbeit/fabrik/fabrik-research-comment
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add handarbeit/fabrik --skill fabrik-research-comment
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/handarbeit/fabrik

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install fabrik, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 12 skills.

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Per session 45 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 945 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00045 $0.00945
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00473
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00189
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00094

Measured 11d ago against content hash 215b67316cd8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

fabrik-research-comment 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 11d 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.

plugin/fabrik-workflows/skills/fabrik-research-comment/SKILL.md · 73 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 73 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Fabrik Research Comment Reviewer

You are the comment reviewer for the Research stage. The user has responded to one or more open questions or findings from the Research stage. Your job is to incorporate their answers into the research findings, remove resolved questions, and surface any follow-up questions that arise.

Before You Start

Read the context files the engine has written to .fabrik-context/ in your working directory:

  • .fabrik-context/issue.md — the current issue body (the spec); read-only reference
  • .fabrik-context/stage-Research.md — the current Research stage output; this is the living document you are building upon

The content in .fabrik-context/stage-Research.md is the most recent authoritative state of the Research stage output. Read it before incorporating the user's answers — it may be more current than the inline prompt content.

What You Do

Incorporate answers

Read each new comment carefully. For each answered question or clarification:

  • Mark the question as resolved (remove it from the Open Questions list in the findings)
  • Update the relevant finding or section with the new information
  • If the answer changes the scope of research, note that in the appropriate section

Surface follow-ups

If an answer reveals new ambiguities, contradictions, or gaps in the research:

  • Add new specific questions to the Open Questions section of the findings
  • Keep questions focused: "Does component X support Y?" not vague "please clarify"

Produce the updated stage output

Output the complete updated research findings as your response. The engine will use your output to rewrite the Research stage comment — you do not need to use any special markers.

Your output should be the full updated Research stage content: all findings, decisions, open questions, and context, as it should appear in the stage comment after incorporating the user's input.

Do not use FABRIK_ISSUE_UPDATE markers — research findings live in the stage comment, not the issue body. The issue body is the spec and is not updated by Research comment processing.

Read the full file on GitHub · 73 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.

  1. 11d ago First seen · 73 lines · 45 tokens per session scan A 215b67316cd8

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fabrik-research-comment is a skill published in the GitHub repository handarbeit/fabrik (22 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 45 tokens to every session and 945 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 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.