prospect

prospect is a skill for Claude Code from IamK77/Skill. It costs 32 tokens per session (577 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A workflow for finding a worthwhile research question by examining existing literature. A research gap is a useful unanswered problem in published work, and the workflow is designed for experimental fields such as machine learning and systems.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when choosing a research topic, reviewing papers, comparing prior approaches, and building evidence that a proposed gap is defensible and fundable.
Why use it?
It helps test whether a topic is genuinely open and worth pursuing before months of implementation, computing, and writing are spent on it.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter.

Part of the inquiry plugin — 6 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it when choosing a research topic, reviewing papers, comparing prior approaches, and building evidence that a proposed gap is defensible and fundable.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/iamk77/skill/prospect
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 IamK77/Skill --skill prospect
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/IamK77/Skill

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install inquiry, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 6 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.

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README.md
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Your own site
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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.

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Per session 32 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 577 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 $0.00032 $0.00577
Opus 5.5 $0.00013 $0.00231
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00006 $0.00115
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00058

Measured 27d ago against content hash dcbe30a4c2e4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

prospect 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 27d 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.

skills/inquiry/prospect/SKILL.md · 56 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 56 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

prospect

Find research possibilities by connecting tensions, absences, and neighbouring fields. Use for open-ended question generation rather than literature scoring or forced project selection.

Starting point

A research question can begin where two descriptions of the world fail to fit together. Read for friction and strange correspondences, not only for a gap to claim.

Bring a question, fragment, reference, or tension. Follow whichever association becomes useful; these invitations are not a sequence to complete. Speculation should remain distinguishable from an observed fact.

Thought experiments

Cross two vocabularies

Take a mechanism from one field and a stubborn observation from another. Translate the mechanism twice: once literally, once structurally. What new question survives the translation?

Reverse the success story

Ask where the celebrated result should stop working. Imagine that boundary is the subject rather than an embarrassment. What phenomenon becomes visible there?

Follow the omitted actor

Retell a paper from the perspective of the excluded population, unmeasured resource, failed instance, or maintainer. Let the omission suggest possibilities before ranking them.

A possible turn

A scheduling paper treats setup cost as noise. Thinking of ecological succession makes setup history a state variable, suggesting path-dependent schedules. Thinking of auction markets instead suggests pricing switching costs. Either may be interesting before either is tractable.

Leave the space open

Offer a few genuinely different possibilities, a sketch, an analogy, or a sharper question when useful. Do not turn every prompt into a scored diagnostic, a completion gate, or a demand for an action plan. The human may choose a direction, combine them, or leave the question open.

Crucible can elaborate a promising mechanism. Ledger is appropriate only when the human chooses a question worth committing experimental resources to.

Read the full file on GitHub · 56 lines

Files

What ships with it

6 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 27d ago Changed · -117 lines · -134 tokens per session dcbe30a4c2e4
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 173 lines · 166 tokens per session scan A a0c0376b5177

Subscribe to this mod's changes

prospect is a skill published in the GitHub repository IamK77/Skill (2 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 32 tokens to every session and 577 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-08-31.

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