research-workflow

research-workflow is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from mp-juns/universal-research-mcp. It costs 32 tokens per session (1,029 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A research workflow that retrieves earlier research from a shared memory system and verifies the supporting sources. It records uncertainty and follows defined rules for what project files and external operations are allowed.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for questions about earlier research, decisions, methods, results, failures, or project research files, including finding prior evidence and identifying what remains uncertain.
Why use it?
It helps an agent build on previous research without treating unverified notes as facts. The required session and permission checks clarify what may be read, searched, or changed.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions subagents.

Good fit Use it for questions about earlier research, decisions, methods, results, failures, or project research files, including finding prior evidence and identifying what remains uncertain.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/mp-juns/universal-research-mcp/research-workflow
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 mp-juns/universal-research-mcp --skill research-workflow
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mp-juns/universal-research-mcp

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 32 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,029 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 $0.00032 $0.01029
Opus 5 $0.00016 $0.00515
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00206
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00103

Measured 9d ago against content hash 82c571574879, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

research-workflow 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 9d 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.

plugin/universal-research-memory/skills/research-workflow/SKILL.md · 96 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 96 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Universal Research Workflow

Mandatory session scope confirmation

Before research tools or any task execution in EVERY NEW session, ask the user to confirm the current workspace and permission scope, then WAIT for their explicit reply. Apply session-scope.md: host shell; ordinary scoped file creation/editing allowed after confirmation; external network/download approval BEFORE EACH operation; ZERO agents. Ask even if the initial task sounds actionable. Defaults and a previous session's approval never authorize this session. Preserve an explicit same-session confirmation after resume/compaction; ask again if uncertain.

Use this skill for questions about previous research work, plans, protocols, decisions, results, failures, or artifacts managed by this project.

If research_profile_status reports a profile, use its declared retrieval mode only after the corresponding local derived index is current. The profile can declare code, build-definition, configuration, and documentation source scope, but it does not register files or make them evidence-eligible. Never treat a profile's provider route or registered Skill ID as permission to call an API, read a secret, create a Skill, or start a subagent.

Evidence-first retrieval

  1. Call memory_search_candidates to obtain candidate records.
  2. Treat every returned score, preview, and summary as candidate metadata.
  3. For any material claim, call memory_fetch_evidence with the returned event_id, path, line range, and source_sha256 as expected_sha256.
  4. Before reporting a material result, comparison, causal statement, release decision, or other load-bearing fact, pass each evidence fetch response's claim_gate_reference object unchanged to memory_check_evidence_eligibility. Use materiality="material" for a load-bearing factual statement. Do not substitute the fetch response's current sha256 for expected_sha256.
  5. Treat eligible only as integrity/range/count eligibility. It does not establish semantic support, resolve conflicts, or prove the source true.
  6. Do not state a claim when eligibility is blocked. When it is eligible, review relevance and conflicts before stating a bounded conclusion.
  7. State the verified path, line range, and uncertainty with the conclusion.
  8. If evidence conflicts, preserve the conflict rather than merging it.

Read the full file on GitHub · 96 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. 9d ago First seen · 96 lines · 32 tokens per session scan A 82c571574879

Subscribe to this mod's changes

research-workflow is a skill published in the GitHub repository mp-juns/universal-research-mcp (0 stars, last pushed 11d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 32 tokens to every session and 1,029 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 2026-08-31.

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