research-task

research-task is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Kastalien-Research/thoughtbox. It costs 39 tokens per session (1,403 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A structured process for researching a question or topic. It rates the task, chooses a matching research strategy from a stored library, carries it out, and checks the quality of the result.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for research ranging from a focused fact-finding question to broad, cross-field or publication-level investigations.
Why use it?
It helps match the amount and type of research to the question instead of treating every task the same. The quality check can expose weak evidence or an unsuitable approach.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/kastalien-research/thoughtbox/research-task
Any agent
npx skills add Kastalien-Research/thoughtbox --skill research-task
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Kastalien-Research/thoughtbox

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 39 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,403 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00039 $0.01403
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.00701
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00281
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00140

Measured 4d ago against content hash 6e8133574e8d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

research-task 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 4d 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.

.agents/skills/research-task/SKILL.md · 138 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 138 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Research this topic: $ARGUMENTS

Workflow

Phase 1: Task Characterization

Rate the research task on each dimension (1-5):

Dimension 1 (Low) 5 (High)
Scope Point question (single fact) Frontier mapping (state of entire field)
Domain structure Single field, established methods Distant cross-domain analogy
Evidence type Empirical data, measurements Theoretical arguments, first-principles
Time horizon What's true right now What could become true (speculative)
Fidelity Ballpark / directional Rigorous / publication-grade

Phase 1b: Workflow Library Query

Query the MAP-Elites workflow library for strategies matching this task's coordinates:

sqlite3 research-workflows/workflows.db "SELECT id, name, archetype, fitness_score FROM workflows WHERE status IN ('active', 'seed') ORDER BY fitness_score DESC LIMIT 10;"

For more targeted retrieval, filter by behavioral region:

sqlite3 research-workflows/workflows.db "SELECT w.id, w.name, ws.name as step_name, ws.description, ws.rationale FROM workflows w JOIN workflow_steps ws ON w.id = ws.workflow_id WHERE w.archetype = '<archetype>' AND w.status IN ('active', 'seed') ORDER BY w.fitness_score DESC, ws.step_order;"

Use retrieved workflows to inform Phase 2 strategy selection. Prefer workflows with high fitness scores and usage counts.

Phase 2: Strategy Selection

Based on the characterization and library query, select the most appropriate research archetype:

Exploratory (high scope, moderate fidelity)

  • Quick landscape scan — 15-minute overview of a new area
  • Deep literature review — comprehensive survey of a mature field
  • Trend detection — what's gaining momentum
  • White space identification — what isn't being worked on that should be

Confirmatory (low scope, high fidelity)

  • Fact-checking pipeline — verify specific claims with primary sources
  • Consensus mapping — what do experts agree/disagree on
  • Replication check — has this finding held up under scrutiny

Read the full file on GitHub · 138 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. 4d ago First seen · 138 lines · 39 tokens per session scan A 6e8133574e8d

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research-task is a skill published in the GitHub repository Kastalien-Research/thoughtbox (64 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 39 tokens to every session and 1,403 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.

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