research-types-descriptive

research-types-descriptive is a skill for Claude Code 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 Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Part of the research-agent plugin — 6 skills shipped together

Good fit Planning technology-landscape surveys, inventories, adoption maps, and other descriptive research. The excerpt does not describe a standalone user-facing action.

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

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install research-agent, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 6 skills.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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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. 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 $0.00061 $0.00980
Opus 5.5 $0.00024 $0.00392
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00012 $0.00196
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00098

Measured 1mo ago against content hash a585c7b53e9b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, 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 1mo 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. 1mo 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 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 61 tokens to every session and 980 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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