shipyard-research

shipyard-research is a skill for Claude Code from lgbarn/shipyard. It costs 79 tokens per session (418 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A research workflow for investigating technical choices in an existing software project before implementation.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when comparing libraries, services, or implementation approaches. It produces a research document with options, risks, and a recommendation, but does not implement the change.
Why use it?
It makes research account for the project’s current stack, architecture, and constraints, while documenting trade-offs instead of choosing an option only because it is easy to build.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the shipyard plugin — 25 skills, 25 commands, 20 agents, 6 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it when comparing libraries, services, or implementation approaches. It produces a research document with options, risks, and a recommendation, but does not implement the change.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/lgbarn/shipyard/shipyard-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 lgbarn/shipyard --skill shipyard-research
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/lgbarn/shipyard

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install shipyard, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 25 skills, 25 commands, 20 agents, 6 hooks.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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Per session 79 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 418 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 $0.00079 $0.00418
Opus 5 $0.00039 $0.00209
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00084
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00042

Measured 8d ago against content hash 6fcacfbb6a2b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

shipyard-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.

codex/skills-extra/shipyard-research/SKILL.md · 35 lines

What it actually says

Domain research (Codex inline-sequential)

This is the researcher role from Shipyard, adapted for Codex. In Claude Code a researcher subagent gathers domain knowledge before a plan; here you adopt the role yourself.

You produce a research document — you do not implement anything in this role.

Degradation note: in Claude Code this runs in a fresh context isolated from implementation. Here it shares context, so guard against motivated reasoning — research honestly about tradeoffs, do not cheerlead the option you'd find easiest to build.

Protocol

  1. Understand the context. Read existing .shipyard/ docs (STACK.md, ARCHITECTURE.md, ROADMAP.md) and the codebase conventions. Research that ignores the current stack and constraints is useless. Run scripts/state-read.sh first if state isn't loaded.
  2. Investigate options. For each candidate technology/approach, gather: maturity and community health, maintenance burden, fit with the existing stack, and known pitfalls.
  3. Be honest about tradeoffs. Technology decisions are not just feature checklists — weigh maintenance, hiring, and long-term viability. Name the cost of each option, not just its benefits.
  4. Recommend. Give a clear recommendation with reasoning, and note what would change the recommendation.

Deliverable

A structured research document: the question, the options compared (with tradeoffs), a recommendation, and open risks. Cite sources for external claims; cite repo-relative file paths for claims about the existing codebase.

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 · 35 lines · 79 tokens per session scan A 6fcacfbb6a2b

Subscribe to this mod's changes

shipyard-research is a skill published in the GitHub repository lgbarn/shipyard (65 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 79 tokens to every session and 418 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 2026-08-30.

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