research-architect-design

research-architect-design is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from mmTheBest/Research-Architect. It costs 40 tokens per session (767 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A study-design workflow for turning a selected research idea and an approved example paper into a workable study plan. It covers the study design, analysis, validation, and actions for the researcher.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to define the study components, analysis plan, validation strategy, and practical execution plan for a research project.
Why use it?
It turns a promising idea into specific, feasible research steps while adapting useful methods from a paper without copying its terminology or assumptions.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to define the study components, analysis plan, validation strategy, and practical execution plan for a research project.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/mmthebest/research-architect/research-architect-design
Install

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Any agent
npx skills add mmTheBest/Research-Architect --skill research-architect-design
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mmTheBest/Research-Architect

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 40 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 767 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
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
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Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

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ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00040 $0.00767
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.00383
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00153
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00077

Measured 11d ago against content hash 205eae306d9b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

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Grade A, and why

research-architect-design 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.

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src/skills/research-architect-design/SKILL.md · 62 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 62 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Research Architect Study Design

Translate a selected research option into an executable inquiry. Adapt the reference paper's function, never its vocabulary or unexamined assumptions.

Inputs and blocking rule

Read:

paper_output/project_config.json
paper_output/source_inventory.md
paper_output/terminology_ledger.md             # when present
paper_output/gap_map.md
paper_output/motivation_options_after_literature.md or selected research-question option
paper_output/exemplar_logic_profile.md        # when target references exist
paper_output/exemplar_adaptation_plan.md      # approved when target references exist

Require a selected candidate and, when applicable, approved adaptation. Do not require confirmed_research_spine.md before preparing the design: that confirmation occurs with the design at Gate 2. Return to brainstorming or literature when no feasible candidate exists.

Read ../research-architect/references/design-family-grammars.md and ../research-architect/references/study-design-framework.md. Use ../research-architect/templates/study_design_brief.md and ../research-architect/templates/study_component_registry.csv; write the registry as paper_output/study_component_registry.md.

Outputs

Prepare:

paper_output/study_design_brief.md
paper_output/analysis_plan.md
paper_output/evaluation_plan.md
paper_output/study_component_registry.md
paper_output/threats_to_validity.md

For guided depth, produce the brief and registry first, then add the other planning artifacts when needed; standard and deep produce the full set.

Every component must state its research function, user action, evidence/material, analysis or interpretation, comparison/warrant, output, claim supported, completion criterion, and status. Use stable Object IDs for materially ambiguous datasets, cohorts, conditions, models, metrics, or other study objects. Match validity and inference controls to the selected design family.

MANDATORY Gate 2 — combined spine-and-design approval

Read the full file on GitHub · 62 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 11d ago First seen · 62 lines · 40 tokens per session scan A 205eae306d9b

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research-architect-design is a skill published in the GitHub repository mmTheBest/Research-Architect (68 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 40 tokens to every session and 767 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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