researcher-hand-skill

researcher-hand-skill is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from RightNow-AI/openfang. It costs 30 tokens per session (2,522 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A reference guide for doing deep research: defining questions, finding and judging sources, comparing evidence, checking claims, and combining findings.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan searches, evaluate sources, cross-check important facts, resolve disagreements, and write sourced research results.
Why use it?
It provides a repeatable way to handle research tasks and avoid relying on weak, incomplete, or conflicting information.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to plan searches, evaluate sources, cross-check important facts, resolve disagreements, and write sourced research results.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/rightnow-ai/openfang/researcher
About the project

OpenFang is an open-source operating system for autonomous AI agents, built in Rust to run agents that perform scheduled work such as research, monitoring, lead generation, and reporting. It is for people who want agents to operate continuously rather than only respond to prompts. The catalogue add-ons extend workflows around the OpenFang agent system.

RightNow-AI/openfang · 18,170 stars · on GitHub · openfang.sh

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 RightNow-AI/openfang --skill researcher
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/RightNow-AI/openfang

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 30 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,522 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00030 $0.02522
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.01261
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00504
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00252

Measured 10d ago against content hash 3695e22e9725, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

researcher-hand-skill 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 10d 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.

crates/openfang-hands/bundled/researcher/SKILL.md · 328 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 328 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Deep Research Expert Knowledge

Research Methodology

Research Process (5 phases)

  1. Define: Clarify the question, identify what's known vs unknown, set scope
  2. Search: Systematic multi-strategy search across diverse sources
  3. Evaluate: Assess source quality, extract relevant data, note limitations
  4. Synthesize: Combine findings into coherent answer, resolve contradictions
  5. Verify: Cross-check critical claims, identify remaining uncertainties

Question Types & Strategies

Question Type Strategy Example
Factual Find authoritative primary source "What is the population of Tokyo?"
Comparative Multi-source balanced analysis "React vs Vue for large apps?"
Causal Evidence chain + counterfactuals "Why did Theranos fail?"
Predictive Trend analysis + expert consensus "Will quantum computing replace classical?"
How-to Step-by-step from practitioners "How to set up a Kubernetes cluster?"
Survey Comprehensive landscape mapping "What are the options for vector databases?"
Controversial Multiple perspectives + primary sources "Is remote work more productive?"

Decomposition Technique

Complex questions should be broken into sub-questions:

Main: "Should our startup use microservices?"
Sub-questions:
  1. What are microservices? (definitional)
  2. What are the benefits vs monolith? (comparative)
  3. What team size/stage is appropriate? (contextual)
  4. What are the operational costs? (factual)
  5. What do similar startups use? (case studies)
  6. What are the migration paths? (how-to)

CRAAP Source Evaluation Framework

Currency

  • When was it published or last updated?
  • Is the information still current for the topic?
  • Are the links functional?
  • For technology topics: anything >2 years old may be outdated

Relevance

  • Does it directly address your question?
  • Who is the intended audience?
  • Is the level of detail appropriate?
  • Would you cite this in your report?

Read the full file on GitHub · 328 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 10d ago First seen · 328 lines · 30 tokens per session scan A 3695e22e9725

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researcher-hand-skill is a skill published in the GitHub repository RightNow-AI/openfang (18,170 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 30 tokens to every session and 2,522 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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