researcher-hand-skill

researcher-hand-skill is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from librefang/librefang-registry. It costs 30 tokens per session (7,569 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of researcher-hand-skill, MIT.

A guide to deep research: defining questions, searching, judging sources, combining findings, checking important claims, and citing evidence.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for factual, comparative, causal, predictive, how-to, survey, and controversial questions that need multiple sources and careful synthesis.
Why use it?
It gives research a repeatable process and helps separate reliable information from weak or conflicting sources.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: positional $N argument.

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/librefang/librefang-registry/researcher
Any agent
npx skills add librefang/librefang-registry --skill researcher
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/librefang/librefang-registry

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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 researcher-hand-skill

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/librefang/librefang-registry/researcher.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/librefang/librefang-registry/researcher)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/librefang/librefang-registry/researcher"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/librefang/librefang-registry/researcher.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 30 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 7,569 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 100% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00030 $0.07569
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.03785
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.01514
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00757

Measured 6d ago against content hash 89a521f151da, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

researcher-hand-skill 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 6d 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.

Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to researcher-hand-skill — 0 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

hands/researcher/SKILL.md · 745 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 745 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Deep Research Expert Knowledge

Research Methodology

Research Process (5 phases)

  1. Define: Clarify the question, identify what's known vs unknown, set scope
  2. Search: Systematic multi-strategy search across diverse sources
  3. Evaluate: Assess source quality, extract relevant data, note limitations
  4. Synthesize: Combine findings into coherent answer, resolve contradictions
  5. Verify: Cross-check critical claims, identify remaining uncertainties

Question Types & Strategies

Question Type Strategy Example
Factual Find authoritative primary source "What is the population of Tokyo?"
Comparative Multi-source balanced analysis "React vs Vue for large apps?"
Causal Evidence chain + counterfactuals "Why did Theranos fail?"
Predictive Trend analysis + expert consensus "Will quantum computing replace classical?"
How-to Step-by-step from practitioners "How to set up a Kubernetes cluster?"
Survey Comprehensive landscape mapping "What are the options for vector databases?"
Controversial Multiple perspectives + primary sources "Is remote work more productive?"

Decomposition Technique

Complex questions should be broken into sub-questions:

Main: "Should our startup use microservices?"
Sub-questions:
  1. What are microservices? (definitional)
  2. What are the benefits vs monolith? (comparative)
  3. What team size/stage is appropriate? (contextual)
  4. What are the operational costs? (factual)
  5. What do similar startups use? (case studies)
  6. What are the migration paths? (how-to)

CRAAP+ Source Evaluation Framework

Standard CRAAP Criteria

Currency

  • When was it published or last updated?
  • Is the information still current for the topic?
  • For technology topics: anything >2 years old may be outdated
  • For science: check if the paper has been superseded by newer work

Relevance

  • Does it directly address your question?
  • Who is the intended audience?
  • Is the level of detail appropriate?

Read the full file on GitHub · 745 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. 6d ago First seen · 745 lines · 30 tokens per session scan A 89a521f151da

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researcher-hand-skill is a skill published in the GitHub repository librefang/librefang-registry (11 stars, last pushed 12d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 30 tokens to every session and 7,569 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to researcher-hand-skill, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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