researcher

researcher is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from mrtblount/Spec-to-Ship. It costs 39 tokens per session (944 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A product-research skill gathers market, competitor, and user information for a product requirements document, or PRD. A PRD describes what a product should do, who it serves, and why it matters.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it after discovery notes have identified the product, users, problem, and alternatives. It researches competitors, market signals, trends, regulations, and technology changes.
Why use it?
It adds real-world evidence to product planning instead of relying only on assumptions. The research focuses on findings that can strengthen the requirements document.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it after discovery notes have identified the product, users, problem, and alternatives. It researches competitors, market signals, trends, regulations, and technology changes.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/mrtblount/spec-to-ship/researcher
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 mrtblount/Spec-to-Ship --skill researcher
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mrtblount/Spec-to-Ship

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 39 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 944 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 $0.00039 $0.00944
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.00472
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00189
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00094

Measured 10d ago against content hash 02f90a4bf051, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

researcher 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 10d 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.

prd-builder/sub-skills/researcher/SKILL.md · 145 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 145 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Inputs

READ _prd/discovery-notes.md to understand:

  • What product is being built
  • Who the target user is
  • What problem it solves
  • What current alternatives exist
  • What the user's assumptions are

Research Protocol

Conduct targeted web research using WebSearch and WebFetch. Do NOT research everything — focus on what will actually change or strengthen the PRD.

Research Area 1: Competitive Landscape

SEARCH for:
  - Direct competitors (products solving the same problem)
  - Indirect competitors (different approach to same problem)
  - Adjacent products (solving related problems)

FOR each significant competitor:
  - What they do well
  - Where they fall short (from user reviews, complaints, forums)
  - Their pricing model
  - Their target user (is it the same as ours?)

OUTPUT: 3-5 competitor profiles with strengths/weaknesses

Research Area 2: Market Context

SEARCH for:
  - Market size or demand signals (search volume, funding activity, industry reports)
  - Trends relevant to the product space
  - Regulatory or compliance considerations (if applicable)
  - Technology shifts that enable or threaten this product

OUTPUT: 2-3 key market insights that inform product decisions

Research Area 3: User Patterns (if user hasn't done customer discovery)

SEARCH for:
  - Forum posts, Reddit threads, Twitter/X complaints about the problem
  - Reviews of competing products (what users love/hate)
  - Common workflows or workarounds people use today
  - User expectations in this product category

OUTPUT: User sentiment summary and notable quotes/patterns

Research Area 4: AI-Specific Context (only if product uses AI)

SEARCH for:
  - Similar AI-powered products and how they handle the AI UX
  - Best practices for AI transparency, error handling, human-in-the-loop
  - Relevant AI model capabilities and limitations for the use case
  - Data privacy standards and regulations for the product's domain

OUTPUT: AI implementation context and best practices

Read the full file on GitHub · 145 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. 10d ago First seen · 145 lines · 39 tokens per session scan A 02f90a4bf051

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researcher is a skill published in the GitHub repository mrtblount/Spec-to-Ship (2 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 39 tokens to every session and 944 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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