Research-Pi: Skill for Claude Code

.pi/skills/research-briefing/SKILL.md

research-briefing is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from RosMarinas/Research-Pi. It costs 64 tokens per session (452 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for turning important research updates into a short explanation of the question, evidence, interpretation, and next decision. It is meant for cases where results are complex, delegated, conflicting, or hard to follow.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to recap consequential research, distinguish evidence from interpretation, and identify the next useful question or decision.
Why use it?
It restores the key research context without making you reconstruct every experiment, source, or discussion yourself.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions subagents; mentions Codex.

This is RosMarinas/Research-Pi's own configuration. It tells Claude Code and Codex how to work on Research-Pi itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything Research-Pi configures →

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Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to RosMarinas/Research-Pi. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/RosMarinas/Research-Pi/main/.pi/skills/research-briefing/SKILL.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/RosMarinas/Research-Pi

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 64 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 452 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 $0.00064 $0.00452
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.00226
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00090
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00045

Measured 11d ago against content hash 00f28e6ec88a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

research-briefing 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.

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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.

.pi/skills/research-briefing/SKILL.md · 33 lines

What it actually says

Research Briefing

Produce the shortest explanation that restores the shared research state needed for the user's next judgment.

Before writing, recover the relevant ProjectView live delta, experiment record, delegated result, run identity, or artifact. Treat compacted state and assistant prose as navigation; verify a consequential factual claim against the strongest available record.

Select, rather than mechanically enumerate, the parts the user currently needs:

  • orientation: where this result sits in the current stage and what question was open;
  • work: what the Leader, Codex, or another actor actually changed, compared, or ran;
  • evidence: the decision-carrying observation, comparison, and minimum validity check;
  • interpretation: which hypothesis or route is supported, weakened, untested, or still ambiguous, including the main boundary on that claim;
  • consequence: what changed in the research plan and what next question or decision now has the highest value.

Keep work, observation, validity, interpretation, and plan logically distinct even when presenting them as natural prose rather than headings. A completed task or commit is not itself evidence for a research claim.

Write for a technically capable collaborator who may not have read the intermediate transcript:

  • lead with the result and why it matters;
  • use explicit actors, actions, comparisons, and causal connectors;
  • explain a local term or acronym once when it becomes necessary;
  • attach important numbers to their metric, baseline, threshold, or uncertainty;
  • use one concrete project example or compact analogy when it reduces conceptual load, then state the technical meaning;
  • translate internal JSON, ledger terms, and subagent shorthand instead of forwarding them;
  • omit recaps the user has already demonstrated they understand.

If ProjectView is stale, describe its structured state as the pre-result baseline and integrate the pending evidence delta before stating the current position. Do not silently promote a Codex recommendation or an unvalidated run into the project's conclusion.

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 · 33 lines · 64 tokens per session scan A 00f28e6ec88a

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research-briefing is a skill published in the GitHub repository RosMarinas/Research-Pi (6 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 64 tokens to every session and 452 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.

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