ai-agents-research-frontier

ai-agents-research-frontier is a skill for Claude Code from rjmurillo/ai-agents. It costs 111 tokens per session (5,155 once invoked), scanned B, original, MIT.

A guide to three open research programs for improving this AI-agent repository, with current evidence, first steps, and measurable milestones.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to choose a research direction, understand its supporting artifacts, and define a result that could prove the work succeeded.
Why use it?
It helps decide what research is worth pursuing and shows how progress can be tested rather than described vaguely.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: PreToolUse hook event. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions Claude Code; mentions AGENTS.md.

Part of the project-toolkit plugin — 125 skills, 25 commands, 33 agents, 5 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it to choose a research direction, understand its supporting artifacts, and define a result that could prove the work succeeded.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/rjmurillo/ai-agents/ai-agents-research-frontier
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 rjmurillo/ai-agents --skill ai-agents-research-frontier
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/rjmurillo/ai-agents

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install project-toolkit, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 125 skills, 25 commands, 33 agents, 5 hooks.

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Per session 111 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 5,155 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 1 finding. 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 $0.00111 $0.05155
Opus 5.5 $0.00044 $0.02062
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00022 $0.01031
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00515

Measured 6d ago against content hash f419587a4932, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

ai-agents-research-frontier scanned grade B with 1 finding 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.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (tests/test_structure_ai_agents_research_frontier.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

Enumerates other installed skillsmediumAgent snooping

Other skills' SKILL.md files reveal prompts, capabilities and secrets that should be invisible to peers.

- EVENT telemetry emitter and tier classifier: RETIRED. `push_guard_base.py`, every guard built on it, and the skill that classified guards into Budding/Growing/Mature/Proficient/Inert/Harmful tiers were all deleted unde
.claude/skills/ai-agents-research-frontier/SKILL.md · 326 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 326 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

AI Agents Research Frontier

Open problems where this repository can advance the state of the art, ranked in owner-confirmed priority order. This skill tells you WHAT is worth working on and what "done" would look like. It does not teach experiment discipline (that is ai-agents-research-methodology) and it is not the portability battle plan (that is ai-agents-portability-campaign).

Honesty contract for this document: every asset claim below was re-verified against the working tree on 2026-07-30. Anything labeled PROPOSED is not policy. Anything labeled UNVERIFIED could not be confirmed and must be checked before you build on it.

Triggers

  • research frontier
  • open problems
  • what should we research next
  • frontier programs

The Three Programs at a Glance

Rank Program Anchor artifacts Status (as of 2026-07-30) Falsifiable milestone (short form)
1 Verified governance ADR-069, scripts/eval/eval-rule-activation.py ADR-069 is PROPOSED; eval tool exists, 15 rule scenario fixtures exist Controlled eval shows gated-corpus sessions beat ungated on N scenarios with defensible stats
2 Cross-harness abstraction ADR-072, ADR-068, build/generate_agents.py, tests/build_scripts/test_generate_hooks_runtime_contract.py ADR-072 PROPOSED, ADR-068 ACCEPTED as of 2026-07-30; generators and contract tests exist and run New harness target added with zero hand-edits to generated trees, contract suite green
3 Self-improving loop issue #1345 hooks, EVENT= telemetry (retired, ADR-084/#5154) Apply-step hooks unregistered; end-to-end consumer pipeline UNVERIFIED A correction observed once auto-proposes a guard that survives calibration

Read the full file on GitHub · 326 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. 6d ago Changed · +1 lines f419587a4932
  2. 22d ago Changed · +6 lines fd2cfe0e02c8
  3. 24d ago Changed cb738cac70ad
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  6. 1mo ago First seen · 318 lines · 111 tokens per session scan B 4b7a7e015d37

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ai-agents-research-frontier is a skill published in the GitHub repository rjmurillo/ai-agents (48 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 111 tokens to every session and 5,155 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (enumerates other installed skills). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.