research-types-exploratory

research-types-exploratory is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from P47Phoenix/Claude-Plugins. It costs 71 tokens per session (999 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A research guide for open-ended questions about how something works, develops, or is shaped. It is used by a larger research agent to identify exploratory questions and choose an appropriate approach.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for exploring causes, experiences, contexts, and influencing factors; creating three to five sub-questions; and choosing SPICE when studying lived experience or a specific setting.
Why use it?
It prevents open-ended discovery from being treated like a study that already has a fixed treatment and measurable outcome. It helps break broad questions into useful areas of investigation.

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 71 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 999 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 $0.00071 $0.00999
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.00500
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00200
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00100

Measured 3d ago against content hash b615c219321d, 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-exploratory 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/exploratory/SKILL.md · 94 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 94 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Exploratory Research Sub-Skill

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

When This Sub-Skill Loads

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

  • "How does X work / arise / unfold"
  • "How can / How might"
  • "Explore", "Discover", "Investigate the space of"
  • "What factors influence / shape"
  • Domain-mapping requests where the goal is understanding, not choosing

Disambiguation rule (from research-agent/references/research-type-patterns.md): "Compare X to understand Y" where understanding Y is the goal → Exploratory (not Comparative). Comparison is a method here, not the purpose.

Framework Selection

Framework Use When
SPICE Lived-experience or context-bound exploration ("how do users in setting X experience Y")
None Open-ended early-stage exploration; decompose into 3-5 sub-questions instead

PICO and PECO are not typical for Exploratory work — both presuppose a defined intervention or exposure with a measurable outcome, which Exploratory research has not yet established.

Output Pattern: Discovery Report

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

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

## Domain Boundaries
[What is in scope vs. out of scope for this exploration]

## Emerging Themes

Theme 1: [Name]
- Evidence: [S1], [S3]
- Frequency: [how often this theme appears across sources]
- Connections: [related to Theme 2 via ...]

Theme 2: [Name]
...

## Conceptual Relationships
[How themes connect - describe the emerging model]

## Theoretical Saturation Check
[Are additional sources still revealing new themes, or has saturation been reached?]

## Preliminary Model (Provisional)
[Draft conceptual model from discovered themes - explicitly labeled as provisional]

## Open Questions Generated
[What this exploration reveals we do NOT yet know]

Read the full file on GitHub · 94 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 · 94 lines · 71 tokens per session scan A b615c219321d

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research-types-exploratory is a skill published in the GitHub repository P47Phoenix/Claude-Plugins (2 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 71 tokens to every session and 999 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.

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