calliope

calliope is a skill for Claude Code from itsribbZ/Godspeed. It costs 67 tokens per session (1,551 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A research specialist that gathers and combines information from web sources and local research files. It is designed for broad, detailed research and returns structured notes with source citations.

In plain words
What is it for?
Finding current technical approaches, proven patterns, primary-source documentation, or combined academic and production knowledge about a topic.
Why use it?
It handles searching and reading sources for a research task while keeping the work read-only, so it does not run commands or alter files.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: model in frontmatter; mentions subagents.

Part of the godspeed plugin — 18 skills, 3 commands, 5 hooks shipped together

Good fit Finding current technical approaches, proven patterns, primary-source documentation, or combined academic and production knowledge about a topic.

Compare 6 skills from other repositories ↓
Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/itsribbz/godspeed/calliope
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 itsribbZ/Godspeed --skill calliope
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/itsribbZ/Godspeed

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install godspeed, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 18 skills, 3 commands, 5 hooks.

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 calliope

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/itsribbz/godspeed/calliope.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/itsribbz/godspeed/calliope)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/itsribbz/godspeed/calliope"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/itsribbz/godspeed/calliope.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 67 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,551 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 $0.00067 $0.01551
Opus 5 $0.00034 $0.00776
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00310
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00155

Measured 7d ago against content hash c3dc8730cb2a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

calliope 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 7d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (calliope.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

plugins/godspeed/automations/homer/muses/calliope/SKILL.md · 135 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 135 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Calliope — The Muse of Epic Research

In Homer's pantheon, Calliope was the muse of epic poetry — the longest, deepest form. In Toke's Homer, she is the worker Zeus dispatches when a task needs broad synthesis across multiple primary sources. She goes deep, not wide. She cites everything.

Role

Calliope is Homer's research specialist. Zeus dispatches her in parallel with other muses (Anthropic MARS pattern) when the Phase 1 plan includes a research subtask:

  • "Research the current SOTA for X in domain Y"
  • "Find N proven patterns for Z"
  • "Synthesize what's known about W from academic + production sources"
  • "Gather primary-source documentation on A, B, C"

Tool Allowlist

Tool Allowed Purpose
WebSearch Primary external research lever
WebFetch Deep-read of sources found via search
Read Local research corpus (Toke/research/, _learnings.md)
Grep Local corpus navigation
Glob Local research file discovery
Bash Calliope reads, never executes shell
Edit No file modifications
Write No file creations
Agent No spawning further subagents (Zeus is the orchestrator)

Output Format

Calliope always returns structured markdown with this exact shape:

# Calliope Research Report — [Topic]
**Session:** [session_id]  |  **Dispatched by:** Zeus  |  **Date:** [ISO date]

## Question
[The exact research question Zeus asked]

## Sources Consulted
1. [Title] — [URL] — tier [T1-T5]
2. ...

## Key Findings
- [Finding 1] — cited from [source #N]
- [Finding 2] — cited from [source #N, #M]
...

## Confidence Breakdown
- VERIFIED: [count] findings with ≥2 T1-T3 sources
- PROBABLE: [count] findings with 1 T1-T3 source
- UNVERIFIED: [count] findings with T4/T5 only (flagged — NOT load-bearing)

## Gaps / Followups
[Questions that emerged during research — for Zeus to consider in Phase 3 synthesis]

Boundary Discipline (non-negotiable)

Per Anthropic MARS evidence: "Without detailed task descriptions, agents duplicate work, leave gaps, or fail to find necessary information." Calliope respects these boundaries on every dispatch:

Read the full file on GitHub · 135 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 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. 7d ago First seen · 135 lines · 67 tokens per session scan A c3dc8730cb2a

Subscribe to this mod's changes

calliope is a skill published in the GitHub repository itsribbZ/Godspeed (1 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 67 tokens to every session and 1,551 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 2026-08-31.

Related

Other skills, from other repositories

docs-drift

Documentation-drift audit for this plugin monorepo. Audit either each scoped plugin's unreleased changelog claims or its latest shipped release from the previous reachable plugin-name--v tag, then verify that plugin READMEs, docs, CLAUDE.md or AGENTS.md files, and root documentation tell the truth for the matching…

gtapps/claude-code-hermit · 170 tokens

cco-tools

Show what tools actually cost in tokens — learned per-tool averages from observed results, replacing the hardcoded MCP/Agent guesses.

egorfedorov/claude-context-optimizer · 27 tokens

test-run

Run plugin test suites in this monorepo and report a concise pass/fail summary. Optional plugin slug arg; without arg, runs all plugins under plugins/.

gtapps/claude-code-hermit · 35 tokens

github-pr-creation

Creates GitHub Pull Requests with automated validation and task tracking. Use when user wants to create PR, open pull request, submit for review, or check if ready for PR. Analyzes commits, validates task completion, generates Conventional Commits title and description, suggests labels. NOTE - for merging existing…

fvadicamo/dev-agent-skills · 75 tokens

design-system-reference

Style guides and implementation rules for frontend design. Works with design-discovery agent which handles context gathering and VS-based style recommendations. Contains detailed style guides, anti-patterns, and implementation checklists.

wigtn/wigtn-plugins · 43 tokens

magic-compact

Compact this Claude Code session.

aerovato/magic-compact · 10 tokens