ase-task-research

ase-task-research is a skill for Claude Code from rse/ase. It costs 87 tokens per session (4,245 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A task-research tool that combines web searches with the project's own files and notes, then adds a research report to a task. It can also use the findings to refine the task plan.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps investigate a topic, compare information with project materials, record conclusions, and update a task's recommendations.
Why use it?
It keeps research connected to the work being planned instead of leaving web findings in a separate, easy-to-lose place.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: disable-model-invocation in frontmatter.

Part of the ase plugin — 56 skills, 10 agents, 5 hooks shipped together

Good fit It helps investigate a topic, compare information with project materials, record conclusions, and update a task's recommendations.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/rse/ase/ase-task-research
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 rse/ase --skill ase-task-research
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/rse/ase

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install ase, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 56 skills, 10 agents, 5 hooks.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

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Per session 87 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,245 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 $0.00087 $0.04245
Opus 5.5 $0.00035 $0.01698
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00017 $0.00849
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00424

Measured 3d ago against content hash 8a34402c16ea, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ase-task-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 3d 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.

plugin/skills/ase-task-research/SKILL.md · 387 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 387 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

@${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/../../meta/ase-control.md @${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/../../meta/ase-skill.md @${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/../../meta/ase-getopt.md

$ARGUMENTS

@${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/../../meta/ase-format-task.md @${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/../../meta/ase-format-meta.md

Procedure

  1. Determine Task and Topic:

    1. Set initially, with any leading and trailing whitespace stripped. Inherit the always existing , , and from the current context. Do not output anything.

    2. React on task and/or topic:

      • If matches the regexp ^[a-zA-Z0-9#][a-zA-Z0-9#_-]*$, or has the format <id/>: or <id/>: <text/> where matches this regexp: set (or to itself for the first form) and to (or to empty for the first two forms), call the ase_task_id(id: "<ase-task-id/>", session: "<ase-session-id/>") tool of the ase MCP server to switch the task, and then only output the following :

      • Otherwise, only output the following :

    3. Treat as a comma-separated list of backend tokens. The getopt parser validates only the first token, so you MUST validate each remaining token yourself against the allowed set all, perplexity, brave, exa, websearch. If any token is not in this set, bind to that offending token, then only output the following and then immediately STOP processing the entire current skill:

      A backend is selected if all is in OR that backend's own name is in .

    4. Load: call the ase_task_load(id: "<ase-task-id/>", tag: true) tool of the ase MCP server -- with the variant argument defaulting to source and the attachments argument defaulting to elided -- and set to its text output field without the trailing <task-plan-tag> delimiter line, and to the content of that line. If is empty or starts with ERROR: or WARNING:, only output the following and then immediately STOP processing the entire current skill:

Read the full file on GitHub · 387 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. 3d ago First seen · 387 lines · 87 tokens per session scan A 8a34402c16ea

Subscribe to this mod's changes

ase-task-research is a skill published in the GitHub repository rse/ase (60 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 87 tokens to every session and 4,245 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-10-18.

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