creative-research

creative-research is a skill for Claude Code from haowjy/creative-writing-skills. It costs 50 tokens per session (652 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A research method for giving fiction accurate historical, cultural, or subject-specific detail. It compares sources and reports their reliability, confidence, and disagreements.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when writing about history, culture, mythology, specialized subjects, or how other authors and readers treat similar material.
Why use it?
It helps prevent invented or inaccurate details from weakening a story's setting or credibility.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the cw plugin — 24 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it when writing about history, culture, mythology, specialized subjects, or how other authors and readers treat similar material.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/haowjy/creative-writing-skills/creative-research
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 haowjy/creative-writing-skills --skill creative-research
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/haowjy/creative-writing-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install cw, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 24 skills.

Wrote 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.

agentmods badge for creative-research

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/haowjy/creative-writing-skills/creative-research/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/haowjy/creative-writing-skills/creative-research)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/haowjy/creative-writing-skills/creative-research"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/haowjy/creative-writing-skills/creative-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.

agentmods 80×15 button for creative-research

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/haowjy/creative-writing-skills/creative-research"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/haowjy/creative-writing-skills/creative-research.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 50 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 652 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
  • Socket pass 29 Jun 2026
  • Snyk warn 29 Jun 2026
  • 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 $0.00050 $0.00652
Opus 5 $0.00025 $0.00326
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00130
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00065

Measured 12d ago against content hash ce1296b24470, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

creative-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 12d 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

cw/skills/creative-research/SKILL.md · 74 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 74 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Creative Research

Gather material the writer can use. Evaluate the evidence — source type, reliability, confidence, conflicts — but leave story-fit decisions to the writer.

What to Look For

Primary sources. Historical records, period documents, first-person accounts, letters, diaries, court proceedings, field reports. These carry detail and texture that secondary summaries flatten.

Reference works and published fiction. Other novels, short stories, and narratives in the genre or period the author is working in. How have other writers handled similar material, settings, or problems?

History, mythology, and lore. Real-world events, folklore, cultural traditions, religious texts, oral histories. Look for the specific and surprising over the general and expected.

Wikis and encyclopedias. Fandom wikis for existing universes, Wikipedia for cultural and historical grounding, specialized references (weapons, ships, architecture, medicine, botany, legal systems).

Community discussion. Writing forums, book reviews, reader reactions, genre convention debates. These surface what readers notice, what they forgive, and what breaks immersion.

Social media and interviews. Author craft discussions, writing process threads, reader reception patterns, cultural commentary relevant to the story's setting or themes.

Domain expertise. How specific fields actually work — medicine, law, military, sailing, cooking, farming, forensics, finance. The operational details that make fiction feel grounded. Look for practitioner accounts over textbook summaries.

Place and culture. Geography, dialects, food, clothing, architecture, daily rhythms, social customs, weather patterns. The sensory and social texture of a setting.

Search for current sources over training-data recall. Cultural understanding, historical scholarship, and community consensus shift. Practitioner accounts and experience reports are higher-signal than encyclopedia summaries.

Read the full file on GitHub · 74 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. 12d ago First seen · 74 lines · 50 tokens per session scan A ce1296b24470

Subscribe to this mod's changes

creative-research is a skill published in the GitHub repository haowjy/creative-writing-skills (454 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 50 tokens to every session and 652 once invoked, about $0.0003 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.

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