research-analyst

research-analyst is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from rongarede/claude-skills-research. It costs 59 tokens per session (1,002 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A research-analysis guide for forming hypotheses, judging evidence, combining findings, and making recommendations. It is intended for systematic investigation of a topic or technical question.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps with technology evaluations, feasibility studies, literature reviews, and evidence-based decisions.
Why use it?
It provides a repeatable way to assess evidence instead of relying on an unstructured summary or first impression.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit It helps with technology evaluations, feasibility studies, literature reviews, and evidence-based decisions.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/rongarede/claude-skills-research/research-analyst
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add rongarede/claude-skills-research --skill research-analyst
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/rongarede/claude-skills-research

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 59 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,002 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 $0.00059 $0.01002
Opus 5 $0.00030 $0.00501
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00200
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00100

Measured 11d ago against content hash d1558e412f9e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

research-analyst 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 11d 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.

skills/research-analyst/SKILL.md · 143 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 143 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Research Analyst

Systematic research analysis skill that forms hypotheses, evaluates evidence, and produces structured analytical assessments.

Trigger Words

  • /research-analyst
  • "analyze this topic"
  • "evaluate the evidence"
  • "what does the research say about"
  • "feasibility analysis"
  • "systematic analysis"

Quick Start

  1. Define the research question and analytical scope
  2. Form initial hypotheses or analytical framework
  3. Gather and evaluate evidence (quality, relevance, recency)
  4. Synthesize findings into structured analysis
  5. Produce actionable recommendations with confidence levels

Core Workflow

Research Analyst Progress:
- [ ] Step 1: Define research question and scope
- [ ] Step 2: Establish analytical framework
- [ ] Step 3: Evidence gathering and evaluation
- [ ] Step 4: Cross-reference and validate findings
- [ ] Step 5: Synthesize analysis with confidence ratings
- [ ] Step 6: Produce recommendations

Step 1: Define Research Question

  • Clarify the specific question or problem to analyze
  • Identify constraints: time, domain, depth
  • Determine the decision this analysis will inform
  • Identify key stakeholders and their information needs

Step 2: Analytical Framework

Choose and apply one or more frameworks:

Framework Best For
SWOT Strategic positioning, competitive analysis
PESTEL Macro-environment, policy impact
Porter's Five Forces Industry/market dynamics
Root Cause Analysis Problem diagnosis
Cost-Benefit Investment/decision justification
Comparative Matrix Technology/tool evaluation
Literature Synthesis Academic/research topics

Step 3: Evidence Gathering

For each piece of evidence, record:

| # | Source | Type | Quality | Relevance | Key Finding |
|---|--------|------|---------|-----------|-------------|
| 1 | [source] | [primary/secondary/tertiary] | [H/M/L] | [H/M/L] | [finding] |

Quality Assessment Criteria:

  • High: Peer-reviewed, primary data, recent (< 2 years), reputable source
  • Medium: Industry reports, established blogs, conference papers
  • Low: Anecdotal, outdated (> 5 years), unverified claims

Read the full file on GitHub · 143 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. 11d ago First seen · 143 lines · 59 tokens per session scan A d1558e412f9e

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research-analyst is a skill published in the GitHub repository rongarede/claude-skills-research (2 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 59 tokens to every session and 1,002 once invoked, about $0.0003 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.