cross-checking-research

cross-checking-research is a skill for Claude Code from qte77/claude-code-plugins. It costs 50 tokens per session (845 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A two-way comparison between a project repository and a research hub, which is a shared collection of concepts, sources, and project findings. It finds useful research the project has not used and findings the hub does not yet contain.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it after a decision record or planning milestone to map research concepts and sources to project documents, and to prepare reusable project findings for contribution to the hub.
Why use it?
It reduces duplicated research and helps keep project decisions connected to relevant sources and lessons learned.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} variable. Also seen: mentions Claude Code.

Runs only inside its plugin — its command needs a path that Claude Code sets for a plugin’s own hooks and for nothing else. Install the plugin, not this.

Part of the cc-meta plugin — 9 skills, 1 hook shipped together

Good fit Use it after a decision record or planning milestone to map research concepts and sources to project documents, and to prepare reusable project findings for contribution to the hub.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add qte77/claude-code-plugins
Claude Code
/plugin install cc-meta

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install cc-meta, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 9 skills, 1 hook.

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Per session 50 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 845 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 $0.00050 $0.00845
Opus 5.5 $0.00020 $0.00338
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00010 $0.00169
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00085

Measured 21d ago against content hash f14b880ac104, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

cross-checking-research 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 21d 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.

plugins/cc-meta/skills/cross-checking-research/SKILL.md · 70 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 70 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Research Cross-Check

Target: $ARGUMENTS

Bidirectional cross-check between a consumer repo (a project with ADRs, plans, findings) and a research hub (a catalog of concepts, tools, and per-repo learnings):

  • Pull — hub concepts/tools/sources the consumer has not yet cited or applied, each mapped to the consumer file (ADR or plan) that should cite or adopt it.
  • Push — the consumer's reusable findings the hub does not yet capture, with the top ones drafted in the hub's per-repo-learnings format, ready to PR.

Arguments

Position Name Required Default Description
1 consumer-repo-path yes — Absolute path to the consumer repo.
2 research-hub-path yes* — Absolute path to the hub. *Ask the user if not given; do not guess.
3 focus no — Narrows the cross-check to a topic (e.g. evaluation, governance).

When NOT to use

  • The consumer has no decisions/findings yet (nothing to push, nothing to map pulls onto).
  • You only need a literature search — use a research skill instead.

Workflow

  1. Resolve paths. Confirm both directories exist and are readable. The hub should contain an index/README and a per-repo learnings dir (e.g. docs/learnings/per-repo/); if its layout differs, tell the user rather than guessing receptacles.

  2. Run the bundled workflow (the instruction to call Workflow is the opt-in):

    Workflow({
      scriptPath: "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/workflows/research-cross-check.js",
      args: { consumer: "<abs path>", research: "<abs path>", focus: "<optional>" }
    })
    

    args reaches the script as a JSON string; it is parsed there. Phases: Scan (read both repos in parallel) → Diff (pull + push candidates) → Draft (top 4 push items). All agents are read-only; nothing is written to either repo.

  3. Fallback when the Workflow tool is unavailable: do the same three phases inline — read the consumer's docs/decisions/, docs/plans/, AGENTS/README/CHANGELOG; read the hub's index and the landscape docs matching the consumer's domain; list pulls and pushes; draft the top items.

Read the full file on GitHub · 70 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. 21d ago First seen · 70 lines · 50 tokens per session scan A f14b880ac104

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cross-checking-research is a skill published in the GitHub repository qte77/claude-code-plugins (3 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 50 tokens to every session and 845 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-09-26.

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