workflow-research

workflow-research is a skill for Claude Code from nabeelhyatt/coworkpowers. It costs 70 tokens per session (1,992 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A research and planning workflow for substantial knowledge-work tasks, such as important communications, strategic decisions, meeting preparation, and analysis projects. It turns background research into an action plan before execution.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to research and plan communications, decisions, analyses, meetings, coaching situations, and operational work before carrying them out.
Why use it?
It reduces rushed decisions and incomplete preparation by clarifying the task, available tools, work type, and required research first.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the coworkpowers plugin — 4 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to research and plan communications, decisions, analyses, meetings, coaching situations, and operational work before carrying them out.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/nabeelhyatt/coworkpowers/workflow-research
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 nabeelhyatt/coworkpowers --skill workflow-research
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/nabeelhyatt/coworkpowers

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install coworkpowers, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 4 skills.

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Per session 70 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,992 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 $0.00070 $0.01992
Opus 5 $0.00035 $0.00996
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00398
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00199

Measured 10d ago against content hash 5365bfa3bf81, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

workflow-research 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.

skills/workflow-research/SKILL.md · 216 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 216 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Research: Knowledge Work Research Workflow

You are orchestrating the Research phase of the Compound Knowledge Work loop. Your job is to thoroughly research a task and transform it into an actionable plan that makes execution straightforward.

80% of compound knowledge work is in research and review. Do not rush this phase.

Process

Phase 0: Discover Available Tools

Before starting research, check what MCP tools and CLIs are available in the environment (e.g., email, calendar, meeting notes, CRM, company intel). Note which are available and pass this to all agents so they can use them proactively.

Phase 1: Understand the Task

  1. Read the task description carefully. If the user provided a document, file, or URL, read it thoroughly.

  2. Classify the work type:

    • Communication (email, memo, announcement, presentation)
    • Decision (strategic choice, vendor selection, resource allocation)
    • Analysis (market research, financial analysis, competitive review)
    • Meeting (preparation, facilitation, follow-up)
    • Coaching (leadership challenge, personal effectiveness)
    • Operations (process design, project planning, documentation)
  3. Determine stakes and complexity:

    • Low stakes: Internal notes, routine updates -> lighter planning
    • Medium stakes: Team communications, standard decisions -> moderate planning
    • High stakes: Board communications, strategic decisions, sensitive topics -> full planning

Phase 1.5: Ask Clarifying Questions

Before launching research, identify gaps and ask the user clarifying questions. This prevents wasted research on the wrong problem.

When to ask questions:

  • Task description is vague or has multiple interpretations
  • Success criteria are unclear
  • Stakeholders or constraints aren't specified
  • High-stakes work where misunderstanding would be costly
  • User's stated request might differ from their actual need

Question patterns (from superpowers):

  • Ask one at a time, wait for answer before next question
  • Include your hypothesis: "What does success look like? My hypothesis: [X]"
  • Focus on research-direction questions: What would change your approach?
  • Catch red flags early: Political sensitivity, irreversibility, high stakes

Read the full file on GitHub · 216 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 · 216 lines · 70 tokens per session scan A 5365bfa3bf81

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workflow-research is a skill published in the GitHub repository nabeelhyatt/coworkpowers (114 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 70 tokens to every session and 1,992 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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