research-types-descriptive

research-types-descriptive is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from P47Phoenix/Claude-Plugins. It costs 61 tokens per session (980 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A research-planning guide for questions that describe what exists in a field. It helps classify inventory, mapping, survey, and current-state research requests.

In plain words
What is it for?
Planning technology-landscape surveys, inventories, adoption maps, and other descriptive research. The excerpt does not describe a standalone user-facing action.
Why use it?
It helps choose a suitable research structure when the goal is to catalogue information rather than test an intervention or judge success.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/p47phoenix/claude-plugins/descriptive
Any agent
npx skills add P47Phoenix/Claude-Plugins --skill descriptive
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/P47Phoenix/Claude-Plugins

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 61 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 980 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00061 $0.00980
Opus 5 $0.00030 $0.00490
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00196
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00098

Measured 3d ago against content hash a585c7b53e9b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

research-types-descriptive 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 3d 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.

research-agent/skills/research-types/descriptive/SKILL.md · 88 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 88 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Descriptive Research Sub-Skill

Router-dispatched paradigm sub-skill for Descriptive research. Not directly model-invocable; the research-agent parent loads this sub-skill only when Phase 1 detection classifies the question as Descriptive.

When This Sub-Skill Loads

The parent router dispatches here when the input question contains signals like:

  • "What is the current state of X"
  • "What exists in the X landscape"
  • "Map / Document / Inventory / Survey / Catalogue"
  • "List the available X"
  • Field-survey or technology-landscape requests where the goal is to describe what exists

Disambiguation rule (from research-agent/references/research-type-patterns.md): "What is the current adoption of X" (mapping a fact) → Descriptive. "Was X adoption successful" (judging merit) → Evaluative.

Framework Selection

Framework Use When
SPICE Context-specific landscape ("what is the state of testing tools in mobile-first teams")
None Open-domain inventory or survey; no perspective filter needed

PICO/PECO are not used for Descriptive work — there is no intervention or exposure being evaluated; the goal is enumeration.

Output Pattern: Landscape Map

Use this pattern verbatim for the Findings section (parent skill's Phase 6 Synthesis output):

## Research Type: Descriptive
## Framework: [None / SPICE]

## Domain Boundaries
[Clear definition of what is and is not in scope]

## Entity Inventory
| Entity | Type | Key Properties | Source |
|--------|------|----------------|--------|
| ...    | ...  | ...            | [S1]   |

## Relationship Map
[Describe connections between entities - who uses what, what depends on what]

## State of the Field (as of [date])
- Mature / established: [...]
- Emerging: [...]
- Deprecated / declining: [...]

## Gaps in Documentation
[What exists but is undocumented, or documented inconsistently]

Phase Adaptations

The parent skill's 8-phase flow applies. Descriptive-specific notes:

Read the full file on GitHub · 88 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. 3d ago First seen · 88 lines · 61 tokens per session scan A a585c7b53e9b

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research-types-descriptive is a skill published in the GitHub repository P47Phoenix/Claude-Plugins (2 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 61 tokens to every session and 980 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 2026-08-31.

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