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.
npx skills add mmTheBest/Research-Architect --skill research-architect-intakegit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mmTheBest/Research-ArchitectWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/mmthebest/research-architect/research-architect-intake)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/mmthebest/research-architect/research-architect-intake"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/mmthebest/research-architect/research-architect-intake/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/mmthebest/research-architect/research-architect-intake"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/mmthebest/research-architect/research-architect-intake.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>- NVIDIA SkillSpector pass
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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00046 | $0.00969 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00023 | $0.00485 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00009 | $0.00194 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00005 | $0.00097 |
Grade A, and why
research-architect-intake 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 84 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Research Architect Intake
Create the smallest reliable starting record. Ask only for information that changes the next research decision.
Minimum intake
Collect:
- the topic, raw idea, research question, or existing draft;
- the desired outcome and immediate deliverable;
- accessible target reference papers and the research functions the user wants to learn from;
- available notes, data, results, sources, code, drafts, and displays;
- time, access, ethics, privacy, methods, and resource constraints;
- whether sources are local, specified by path, or retrieved from the web; and
- recurring terms, abbreviations, datasets, cohorts, models, conditions, metrics, or other objects whose names or versions may be ambiguous; and
adaptation_depth:guided,standard, ordeep.
Target-reference record
For each target reference, record:
| Field | Meaning |
|---|---|
source_id |
Stable source ID |
path_or_identifier |
Local path, DOI, URL, or repository location |
role |
primary_exemplar, secondary_exemplar, method_reference, or citation_source |
user_target_reason |
Strength the user wants to learn from |
desired_similarity |
Research functions to adapt |
verification_status |
Access and verification state, including full_text_accessed or inaccessible |
Use primary_exemplar only for a paper whose overall research logic may guide adaptation. Keep exemplar learning and citation support separate.
Outputs
Create:
paper_output/project_config.json
paper_output/source_map.md
paper_output/source_inventory.md
Use ../research-architect/templates/project_config.json as the installed-suite configuration contract. Write source inventories as Markdown tables. If a later branch uses a shared CSV template, that CSV defines columns only; its canonical user artifact remains Markdown.
Set artifact_type to project_config and schema_version to v1 in the
configuration. Read ../research-architect/schemas/v1/project_config.schema.json
when creating it.
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.
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.
- 11d ago First seen · 84 lines · 46 tokens per session scan A a2d38cf15c45
research-architect-intake is a skill published in the GitHub repository mmTheBest/Research-Architect (68 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 46 tokens to every session and 969 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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