storm-research

storm-research is a skill for Claude Code from josherau/claude-operating-core. It costs 84 tokens per session (895 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A multi-perspective research method based on Stanford’s STORM approach, which investigates a topic through several viewpoints and maps disagreements between sources.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to research topics, markets, companies, technologies, or decisions before writing reports, proposals, or preparing for important discussions.
Why use it?
It reduces the risk of relying on one narrow search or repeating unsupported assumptions.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the operating-core plugin — 7 skills, 1 agent shipped together

Good fit Use it to research topics, markets, companies, technologies, or decisions before writing reports, proposals, or preparing for important discussions.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/josherau/claude-operating-core/storm-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 josherau/claude-operating-core --skill storm-research
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/josherau/claude-operating-core

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install operating-core, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 7 skills, 1 agent.

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Per session 84 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 895 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 $0.00084 $0.00895
Opus 5 $0.00042 $0.00447
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.00179
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00089

Measured 8d ago against content hash a29a8a0dc47f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

storm-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 8d 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/storm-research/SKILL.md · 61 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 61 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

STORM Research

Overview

Multi-perspective research method adapted from Stanford's STORM (Shao et al., NAACL 2024, github.com/stanford-oval/storm). Core principle: one query returns the majority view; five grounded perspectives plus a contradiction map returns understanding. The STORM paper reports ~25% better organization and ~10% broader coverage from multi-perspective question asking versus its single-pass baseline.

The Iron Rule: every perspective must be grounded in real retrieval. Persona-prompting without sources is five flavors of one model's blind spots hallucinating in harmony. Each perspective's claims come from actual searches (WebSearch, WebFetch, or whatever search MCPs you have wired up) with sources noted. No search → no claim.

The Four Phases

Run all four, in order. Do not stop after Phase 1 or 3.

Phase 1 — Multi-Perspective Scan

Pick 5 perspectives suited to the topic. Default set:

Perspective Asks
Practitioner What actually happens day-to-day? What breaks in reality?
Skeptic What's overhyped or wrong? What could fail?
Economist Who profits? What incentives shape the claims?
Historian Has this pattern happened before? How did it end?
Academic What does the actual evidence/data say?

Swap perspectives when the topic demands (e.g. regulator, customer, competitor, clinician). For each: generate that persona's 2-3 sharpest questions, then search to answer them. Note the source for each finding.

Phase 2 — Contradiction Map

Find where the perspectives fight and why. Rules of evidence:

  • All 5 agree → probably true.
  • Perspectives conflict → the real understanding lives here; name the disagreement and the reason (incentive, timeframe, evidence quality).
  • Nobody addressed it → you found a gap; say so explicitly.

Phase 3 — Synthesis

One briefing: what's established (with sources), the named contradictions, reliability ranking of major claims, and a specific recommended action — not a summary that hedges everything.

Read the full file on GitHub · 61 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. 8d ago First seen · 61 lines · 84 tokens per session scan A a29a8a0dc47f

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storm-research is a skill published in the GitHub repository josherau/claude-operating-core (3 stars, last pushed 29d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 84 tokens to every session and 895 once invoked, about $0.0004 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.

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