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.
npx skills add KhaledSaeed18/dotclaude --skill research-methodologygit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/KhaledSaeed18/dotclaudeWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/khaledsaeed18/dotclaude/research-methodology)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/khaledsaeed18/dotclaude/research-methodology"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/khaledsaeed18/dotclaude/research-methodology/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.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/khaledsaeed18/dotclaude/research-methodology"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/khaledsaeed18/dotclaude/research-methodology.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00102 | $0.01189 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00041 | $0.00476 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00020 | $0.00238 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00010 | $0.00119 |
Grade A, and why
research-methodology 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 25d 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 67 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
The method exists to answer the question; it is chosen after the question and before the data. A method chosen for familiarity or convenience produces a thesis whose conclusions the examiner cannot accept. This skill matches each research question to a design and writes down why.
Match question type to design
| Question asks | Design | Evidence produced |
|---|---|---|
| Does X cause Y? / Is A better than B? | controlled experiment (randomised, with baselines) | effect size with confidence, under controlled conditions |
| Does X cause Y in a real setting where randomisation is impossible? | quasi-experiment (pre/post, difference-in-differences, matched groups) | effect estimate with stated confounds |
| How and why does X happen in context? | case study (single or multiple, embedded) | rich description, mechanisms, propositions |
| How prevalent is X? What do people think or do? | survey (questionnaire) | distributions, correlations, at scale |
| What is the lived experience or reasoning behind X? | interview study, focus groups, observation | themes, categories (thematic analysis, grounded theory) |
| How can we build an artifact that solves X, and does it? | design science (build and evaluate) | artifact plus evaluation against requirements |
| How can we improve practice X while studying it? | action research | cycles of change and reflection |
| What does the literature say about X? | systematic review or mapping study | synthesis with explicit protocol (systematic-review) |
| Does the finding hold across settings? | replication | confirmation or boundary conditions |
Most master's theses in computing combine two: a design-science build with an experimental evaluation, or a survey followed by interviews (explanatory sequential mixed methods). Name the combination and the order.
For each design, decide and write down
Participants, subjects, or objects: population, sampling (random, stratified, convenience with its limitation stated, purposive for interviews), sample size with the reason (power analysis for experiments via statistics-advisor; saturation for interviews; the whole population for a census of repositories).
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.
- 25d ago First seen · 67 lines · 102 tokens per session scan A 207d224f995b
research-methodology is a skill published in the GitHub repository KhaledSaeed18/dotclaude (5 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 102 tokens to every session and 1,189 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-09-22.
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