research-memo

research-memo is a skill for Claude Code from protomated/protomated-plugins-official. It costs 115 tokens per session (2,359 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A drafting tool for legal research memos based only on case files, statutes, briefs, contracts, and other documents attached to a workspace.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps attorneys prepare source-linked memos from supplied documents, while flagging claims the documents do not support.
Why use it?
It reduces the risk of unsupported or invented legal citations by refusing to search the web or fill gaps from general knowledge.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter.

Part of the research-memo-drafter plugin — 1 skill shipped together

Good fit It helps attorneys prepare source-linked memos from supplied documents, while flagging claims…

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/protomated/protomated-plugins-official/research-memo
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 protomated/protomated-plugins-official --skill research-memo
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/protomated/protomated-plugins-official

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install research-memo-drafter, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill.

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README.md
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Per session 115 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,359 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 $0.00115 $0.02359
Opus 5 $0.00057 $0.01179
Sonnet 5 $0.00023 $0.00472
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00236

Measured 6d ago against content hash b80c7b6f22d5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

research-memo 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 6d 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-memo-drafter/skills/research-memo/SKILL.md · 178 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 178 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

⚠️ AI-ASSISTED DRAFT — ATTORNEY REVIEW REQUIRED This output was generated by an AI assistant. Every citation must be checked against the original source document before this memo is relied on, filed, or sent. This is not legal advice, and it is not the product of independent legal research — it only reflects the documents you supplied.

Draft a legal research memo that answers your question using only the source documents you've attached to a workspace folder. This skill does not search the open web, does not query any case-law or statute database, and does not fall back on the model's general legal knowledge to fill a citation. If your attached sources don't support part of the answer, that part is flagged as unsupported — never quietly filled in.

This skill only cites what you gave it. It never invents or infers a citation, and it never writes a file without your explicit confirmation.

Why this skill exists

Hallucinated citations are not a hypothetical risk — they are actively producing bar discipline and sanctions for practicing attorneys, including a Ninth Circuit six-month suspension of two immigration attorneys and DOJ sanctions threats against government counsel. Generic AI research tools that draw on open-ended training knowledge or unverified web search invite exactly this failure mode. This skill is built the opposite way: it treats "I don't have a source for that" as a valid and required answer, not a gap to paper over.

Invocation

/research-memo [legal question] — [path to source-document folder]
/research-memo "Does the indemnification clause in the Acme MSA cover third-party IP claims?" — ~/Matters/Acme-Contract/sources
/research-memo "Is the traffic stop supported by reasonable suspicion under these facts?" — ~/Matters/Delgado-Auto-2026/sources

If no folder path is given, ask for one before proceeding. If the attorney names a matter but not a specific sources subfolder, look for a sources/ or research/ folder at the top of that matter, or ask where the source documents live.

Read the full file on GitHub · 178 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. 6d ago First seen · 178 lines · 115 tokens per session scan A b80c7b6f22d5

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research-memo is a skill published in the GitHub repository protomated/protomated-plugins-official (2 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 115 tokens to every session and 2,359 once invoked, about $0.0006 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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