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.
npx skills add poemswe/co-researcher --skill research-methodologygit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/poemswe/co-researcherWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/poemswe/co-researcher/research-methodology)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/poemswe/co-researcher/research-methodology"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/poemswe/co-researcher/research-methodology/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/poemswe/co-researcher/research-methodology"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/poemswe/co-researcher/research-methodology.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>- NVIDIA SkillSpector pass
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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00048 | $0.00967 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00024 | $0.00483 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00010 | $0.00193 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00005 | $0.00097 |
Grade A, and why
research-methodology 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 13d 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 84 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
1. Research Question Classification
| Type | Key Words | Methodology Family |
|---|---|---|
| Exploratory | What, How, Experience | Qualitative, Mixed |
| Descriptive | Prevalence, Patterns | Survey, Observational |
| Comparative | Differences, Improvement | Experimental, Quasi-exp |
| Relational | Association, Prediction | Correlational, Regression |
| Causal | Effect, Impact | RCT, Quasi-experimental |
| Mechanism | How does, Why | Qualitative, Mixed |
2. Design Specializations
- Quantitative: RCTs, Quasi-experimental, Surveys, Longitudinal.
- Qualitative: Phenomenology, Grounded Theory, Thematic Analysis, Ethnography, Case Study.
- Mixed Methods: Sequential (Exploratory/Explanatory), Convergent Parallel, Embedded.
3. Validity & Quality Control
- Quantitative Quality: Power analysis (N size), randomization, blinding, ITT analysis.
- Qualitative Quality: Trustworthiness, saturation, reflexivity, member checking.
- Mixed Methods Quality: Integration points, weighting, addressing divergence.
4. Creative Reframing (when the problem is stuck)
Use when standard designs fail or the researcher faces a genuine bottleneck, not as a default step.
- Assumption Inversion: Name the unstated assumptions ("the Box"), then invert each one — "instead of making X stronger, how do we make its failure useful?"
- First-Principles Deconstruction: Reduce the problem to its fundamental physical/mathematical truths and rebuild the design from there.
- Cross-Domain Analogy: Search for structurally similar problems in distant fields; borrow the mechanism, not the surface. Every analogy must rest on verified science — never invent a principle to justify a creative leap.
- Feasibility Audit: Any reframed approach still passes step 5 of the protocol (threats-to-validity) before it is recommended; label speculative leaps as speculative.
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.
- 13d ago First seen · 84 lines · 48 tokens per session scan A 615559686366
research-methodology is a skill published in the GitHub repository poemswe/co-researcher (128 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 48 tokens to every session and 967 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-30.
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