research-types-evaluative

A research helper for judging whether an intervention worked, using structured evaluation methods such as PICO. PICO compares an intervention with another option and measures its outcome.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to assess outcomes, impact, value, adoption success, or post-launch results when comparing an intervention with a baseline or alternative.
Why use it?
It helps distinguish questions about effectiveness or impact from questions that only describe current facts or adoption.

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/evaluative
Any agent
npx skills add P47Phoenix/Claude-Plugins --skill evaluative
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/P47Phoenix/Claude-Plugins

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 74 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,292 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 $0.00074 $0.01292
Opus 5 $0.00037 $0.00646
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00258
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00129

Measured 2d ago against content hash 6905efd98c08, 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-evaluative 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 2d 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/evaluative/SKILL.md · 113 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 113 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Evaluative Research Sub-Skill

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

When This Sub-Skill Loads

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

  • "Did X work" / "Was X effective"
  • "What was the impact of X"
  • "Is X worth it"
  • "Evaluate X" / "Assess X"
  • Post-launch retrospectives, ROI assessments, "should we keep using X"

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
PICO Default for Evaluative — intervention X is being judged against a comparison C on outcome O
PECO Population was exposed to X (not actively choosing); evaluating the resulting effect
None Single-option pre-post evaluation with no comparison group available

PICO is the canonical Evaluative framework. SPICE applies only when the evaluation is qualitative/experiential rather than outcome-based.

Output Pattern: Impact Assessment

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

## Research Type: Evaluative
## Framework: PICO

P: [Population/context]
I: [Intervention/subject being evaluated]
C: [Comparison baseline]
O: [Outcomes measured]

## Inclusion/Exclusion Criteria
Include: [...]
Exclude: [...]
Date range: [from] to [to]

## Evidence Summary Table
| ID | Source | Design | Scope | Outcome Direction | GRADE |
|----|--------|--------|-------|-------------------|-------|
| S1 | ...    | ...    | ...   | + / - / neutral   | ⊕⊕⊕◯  |

## Outcome Synthesis
- Positive outcomes: [count / proportion of sources]
- Negative / neutral outcomes: [count / proportion]
- Heterogeneity: [Are results consistent or conflicting? Why?]

## Risk of Bias Summary
| Source | Selection | Performance | Detection | Attrition |
|--------|-----------|-------------|-----------|-----------|
| S1     | Low       | ...         | ...       | ...       |

## Verdict
[Conclusion with overall GRADE level and caveats]

Read the full file on GitHub · 113 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. 2d ago First seen · 113 lines · 74 tokens per session scan A 6905efd98c08

Subscribe to this mod's changes

research-types-evaluative is a skill published in the GitHub repository P47Phoenix/Claude-Plugins (2 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 74 tokens to every session and 1,292 once invoked, about $0.0004 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.

Related

Other skills, from other repositories

systematic-debugging

Use when encountering any bug, test failure, or unexpected behavior, before proposing fixes.

obra/superpowers · 21 tokens

brainstorming

You MUST use this before any creative work - creating features, building components, adding functionality, or modifying behavior. Explores user intent, requirements and design before implementation.

obra/superpowers · 37 tokens

chat-pet-sprite-creation

Use when creating or changing VS Code chat pet sprite art, sprite sheets, state animations, eye treatments, Stable/Insiders variants, or pet transitions under src/vs/workbench/contrib/chat/browser/widget/media/chatPet.

microsoft/vscode · 53 tokens

cpu-profile-analysis

Analyze V8/Chrome CPU profiles (.cpuprofile) and DevTools trace files (Trace-.json). Use when: profiling performance, investigating slow functions, comparing code paths, finding bottlenecks, analyzing timeToRequest, understanding call trees from sampling profiler data, analyzing layout/paint/rendering, investigating…

microsoft/vscode · 71 tokens

agent-host-chat-contributions

Build and review cross-cutting agent-host chat behavior through lifecycle contributions. Use when adding turn lifecycle side effects, prompt or context injection, restored-history transformation, protocol-action observation, or when reviewing changes that add code to AgentSideEffects or AgentService.

microsoft/vscode · 56 tokens

auto-perf-optimize

Run agent-driven VS Code performance or memory investigations. Use when asked to launch Code OSS, automate a VS Code scenario, run the Chat memory smoke runner, capture renderer heap snapshots, take workflow screenshots, compare run summaries, or drive a repeatable scenario before heap-snapshot analysis.

microsoft/vscode · 62 tokens