save-research

save-research is a skill for Claude Code from nirecom/agents. It costs 20 tokens per session (632 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A skill that saves research findings from the current conversation as a dated Markdown file in a project repository. It checks whether research exists and whether a file on the same topic is already there.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to record research questions, findings, sources, project analysis, and conclusions for later reference.
Why use it?
It keeps useful research from being lost when the conversation ends and helps avoid duplicate notes.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter. Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it to record research questions, findings, sources, project analysis, and conclusions for later reference.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/nirecom/agents/save-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 nirecom/agents --skill save-research
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/nirecom/agents

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 20 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 632 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 $0.00020 $0.00632
Opus 5.5 $0.00008 $0.00253
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00004 $0.00126
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00063

Measured 21d ago against content hash 2e2d1f5229de, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

save-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 21d 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/save-research/SKILL.md · 71 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 71 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Save research findings from the current conversation to a persistent research-results file.

Procedure

SR-1. Identify findings: Review the current conversation for research results worth preserving. If no research has been conducted yet, tell the user and stop. SR-2. Determine filename: Use the argument as the filename slug (kebab-case .md). If no argument was given, derive a slug from the research topic. SR-3. Check for duplicates: Read ../my-specs-repo/projects/engineering/research-results/ to see if a file on the same topic already exists.

  • If it exists, propose updating the existing file instead of creating a new one. SR-4. Draft the document in chat using this template:
# <Title>

Date: <YYYY-MM-DD>
Motivation: <why this research was needed — the question or decision it informed>

## Background

<context that motivated the investigation>

## Key Findings

### 1. <Finding>
<summary>

**Sources:**
- <URLs>

### 2. <Finding>
...

## Applied Analysis

<how findings apply to the project — tables, trade-offs, recommendations>

## Conclusion

<actionable conclusion with numbered rationale>

SR-5. Wait for user approval before writing the file. SR-6. Write the file to ../my-specs-repo/projects/engineering/research-results/<slug>.md. SR-7. Commit: Run git -C ../my-specs-repo add and git -C ../my-specs-repo commit for the new file. This commit is to a separate repository (my-specs-repo). It is NOT the main project commit and must NOT trigger USER_VERIFIED or advance the calling workflow step. SR-8. Return to caller: After the commit, explicitly state which workflow step to resume (e.g., "save-research complete. Resuming the research workflow step.") and do not mark any workflow phase as complete.

Rules

  • Never set USER_VERIFIED after this skill — this is an auxiliary tool called mid-workflow. Completing save-research does not constitute completion of the calling workflow step.
  • Do not modify any files in the current project — output goes to my-specs-repo only
  • Always include source URLs for traceability (no URLs = not worth saving)
  • Content language: Japanese (my-specs-repo is a private repository)
  • Follow the established format from existing files in research-results/
  • Strip conversation-specific noise — save only the reusable knowledge
  • Do not save trivial findings that are easily re-discoverable via a single web search

Read the full file on GitHub · 71 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. 21d ago Changed · -1 lines 2e2d1f5229de
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 72 lines · 20 tokens per session scan A 8373d18824db

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save-research is a skill published in the GitHub repository nirecom/agents (3 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 20 tokens to every session and 632 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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