research-brief-writer

research-brief-writer is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from puristajs/harness. It costs 28 tokens per session (128 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A skill for writing concise research briefs, reports, and memos with evidence, citations, diagrams, risks, counterarguments, open questions, and confidence levels.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to prepare recommendations, evidence summaries, research reports, and decision memos in Markdown.
Why use it?
It helps turn research into a clear document while separating supported findings from uncertainty and avoiding invented evidence.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to prepare recommendations, evidence summaries, research reports, and decision memos in Markdown.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/puristajs/harness/research-brief-writer
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 puristajs/harness --skill research-brief-writer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/puristajs/harness

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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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.

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README.md
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Per session 28 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 128 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 $0.00028 $0.00128
Opus 5 $0.00014 $0.00064
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00026
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00013

Measured 12d ago against content hash 819d747b9a79, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

research-brief-writer 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 12d 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.

examples/living-wiki-jaeger/skills/research-brief-writer/SKILL.md · 16 lines

What it actually says

Research Brief Writer

Structure reports as concise markdown with a clear recommendation, evidence, risks, counterarguments, open questions, and next actions.

Use wiki page slugs, source slugs, and artifact ids as citations. Do not invent evidence. Mark uncertainty with low, medium, or high confidence language.

When a diagram helps, request Mermaid source first. Treat draw.io output as an optional artifact and keep the Mermaid source as the canonical fallback.

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. 12d ago First seen · 16 lines · 28 tokens per session scan A 819d747b9a79

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research-brief-writer is a skill published in the GitHub repository puristajs/harness (5 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 28 tokens to every session and 128 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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