ai-research-explore

ai-research-explore is a skill for Codex from lllllllama/RigorPilot-Skills. It costs 114 tokens per session (1,430 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A research guide for exploring possible deep-learning improvements after the task, dataset, benchmark, and evaluation method have been chosen. It treats new ideas as candidates that still need evidence, comparison, and testing.

In plain words
What is it for?
Generating and ranking research candidates, contrasting them with existing work, planning ablations, and preserving reproducibility during exploratory deep-learning experiments.
Why use it?
It keeps exploratory research comparable and auditable, without claiming that a proposed idea is novel or better before experiments and literature checks support it.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present.

Good fit Generating and ranking research candidates, contrasting them with existing work, planning ablations, and preserving reproducibility during exploratory deep-learning experiments.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/lllllllama/rigorpilot-skills/ai-research-explore
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 lllllllama/RigorPilot-Skills --skill ai-research-explore
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/lllllllama/RigorPilot-Skills

Made for: Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 114 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,430 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. Third-party audits
  • Socket warn 6 Sept 2026
  • Snyk warn 6 Sept 2026
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Rogue Agent · line 73
    Skill establishes unauthorized persistence across sessions via cron jobs, startup scripts, or state files. Session persistence allows an attacker to maintain access beyond the current interaction.
    Fix: Remove any persistence mechanisms (cron jobs, startup scripts, state files). Skills should not maintain state across sessions without explicit user consent.
How audits are shown
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 $0.00114 $0.01430
Opus 5 $0.00057 $0.00715
Sonnet 5 $0.00023 $0.00286
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00143

Measured 5d ago against content hash 40d698b71b72, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ai-research-explore 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 5d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 26 executable files (scripts/lookup/__init__.py, scripts/lookup/cache_store.py, scripts/lookup/inventory_writer.py, …), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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/ai-research-explore/SKILL.md · 126 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 126 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

ai-research-explore

Purpose

Use this as the Rigor Explore compatible skill slug after the researcher explicitly authorizes candidate-only work on top of a durable current_research anchor. The installed slug remains ai-research-explore for compatibility. Rigor Explore is for meaningful and potentially novel deep learning research candidates while preserving scientific rigor, comparability, reproducibility, and auditable collaboration. Novelty and significance remain hypotheses before literature contrast, ablation evidence, and fair comparison. The skill does not promise autonomous discovery, global benchmark completeness, novelty proof, or trusted reproduction success.

Start from the shared operating principles in ../ai-research-reproduction/references/agent-operating-principles.md, then load ../ai-research-reproduction/references/research-rigor-principles.md for research claims and ../ai-research-reproduction/references/deep-learning-experiment-principles.md when experiment details affect comparability or reproducibility.

Fit

Use this skill only when the request has both:

  • Explicit exploration authorization such as candidate-only work, isolated branch or worktree, sweep, several variants, or exploratory ranking.
  • A durable current_research context such as a branch, commit, checkpoint, run record, or already-trained local model state.

Keep narrow code-only requests on explore-code. Keep narrow run-only requests on explore-run. Keep passive repository analysis on analyze-project. Keep README-first reproduction on ai-research-reproduction.

Research Rhythm

Use a two-loop rhythm:

  • Outer loop: understand the repository, freeze task/dataset/evaluation/budget, preserve user ideas, map sources, gate ideas, and decide whether the next experiment is worth running.
  • Inner loop: make one bounded candidate change or run, smoke-check it, collect evidence, rank it against the current anchor, and either stop or return to the outer loop with the new evidence.

Read the full file on GitHub · 126 lines

Files

What ships with it

33 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. 5d ago Changed 40d698b71b72
  2. 11d ago First seen · 126 lines · 114 tokens per session scan A c72dd3436782

Subscribe to this mod's changes

ai-research-explore is a skill published in the GitHub repository lllllllama/RigorPilot-Skills (486 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 114 tokens to every session and 1,430 once invoked, about $0.0006 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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