research-notebook

research-notebook is a skill for Claude Code from ManceRayder42/jarvis-os. It costs 130 tokens per session (1,424 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A research workflow that uses NotebookLM, a tool for collecting sources and asking questions about them, through its command-line interface.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for investigating topics, comparing options, preparing overviews, and answering fact-based questions with collected sources.
Why use it?
It turns research sources, summaries, and questions into a saved, searchable record instead of leaving the work only in a chat transcript.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the jarvis-os plugin — 16 skills, 1 command shipped together

Good fit It is for investigating topics, comparing options, preparing overviews, and answering fact-based questions with collected sources.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/mancerayder42/jarvis-os/research-notebook
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 ManceRayder42/jarvis-os --skill research-notebook
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ManceRayder42/jarvis-os

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install jarvis-os, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 16 skills, 1 command.

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Per session 130 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,424 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 $0.00130 $0.01424
Opus 5 $0.00065 $0.00712
Sonnet 5 $0.00026 $0.00285
Haiku 4.5 $0.00013 $0.00142

Measured 11d ago against content hash 0b99c7523643, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

research-notebook 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 11d 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.

skills/research-notebook/SKILL.md · 112 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 112 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

research-notebook — NotebookLM-Powered Research Skill

Routes any research request through the user's local notebooklm CLI so collected sources, summaries, and Q&A become a durable, queryable artifact rather than scrollback.

Prerequisite

This skill assumes the notebooklm CLI is installed and authenticated (Google account) separately — it is not bundled with this plugin. If notebooklm list fails outright, tell the user it needs installing/logging in rather than silently falling back to plain web search.

When to use

  • User asks to research, investigate, or dig into a topic (any language).
  • User compares options, evaluates a tool, asks "what's the best way to do X", or wants a strategic overview.
  • Single-shot factual lookups that would benefit from cited sources (e.g. "find out about Vercel Edge limits in 2026").

When NOT to use

  • Trivial single-fact answers the model already knows confidently and the user just wants in chat.
  • Questions about the user's own hub/notes — that's the qmd skill, if installed.
  • An already-existing project-specific research workflow the user has of their own.
  • Pure code questions answerable by reading the repo.

Workflow

Step 1 — Extract the topic

Pull 1–5 keywords from the user message. If the topic is unclear or too broad to act on, ask ONE clarifying question before continuing. Preserve the user's language.

Step 2 — Check for an existing notebook FIRST

notebooklm list

Fuzzy-match the topic against existing titles. If a clear match exists, reuse it:

notebooklm use <partial-id>

Otherwise create a new notebook with a Title Case + descriptive name including the year:

notebooklm create "Vercel Edge Functions Best Practices 2026"

Capture the new ID from output. Never duplicate an obviously-overlapping notebook.

Step 3 — Decide scope: small vs large

Scope Heuristic Action
Small Single specific question, named tool/concept, "what is X", quick lookup NotebookLM only
Large Multi-faceted topic, "best way to do Y", N-way comparison, strategic question NotebookLM + signal main thread to fan out

Read the full file on GitHub · 112 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. 11d ago First seen · 112 lines · 130 tokens per session scan A 0b99c7523643

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research-notebook is a skill published in the GitHub repository ManceRayder42/jarvis-os (5 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 130 tokens to every session and 1,424 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 2026-08-31.

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