research-add-items

research-add-items is a skill for Claude Code from rvk7895/llm-knowledge-bases. It costs 11 tokens per session (236 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for adding research subjects to an existing research outline stored in an `outline.yaml` file.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to add named subjects to a research project, optionally find more subjects through web search, and update the outline.
Why use it?
It avoids manually finding the outline, checking for duplicates, and editing the file. It also lets you confirm the changes before they are saved.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: names the AskUserQuestion tool.

Part of the kb plugin — 8 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to add named subjects to a research project, optionally find more subjects through web search, and update the outline.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/rvk7895/llm-knowledge-bases/research-add-items
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 rvk7895/llm-knowledge-bases --skill research-add-items
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/rvk7895/llm-knowledge-bases

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install kb, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 8 skills.

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Per session 11 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 236 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 $0.00011 $0.00236
Opus 5 $0.00005 $0.00118
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00047
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00024

Measured 11d ago against content hash 7727991941bf, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

research-add-items 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.

plugins/kb/skills/research-add-items/SKILL.md · 30 lines

What it actually says

Attribution: Originally authored by Weizhena. Included with attribution for use in the Deep query workflow.

Research Add Items - Add Research Subjects

Trigger Method

/research-add-items

Execution Process

Step 1: Auto-locate Outline

Search for */outline.yaml files in the current working directory and read automatically.

Step 2: Parallel Collection of Additional Sources

Execute simultaneously:

  • A. Ask User: What items need to be added? Do you have specific names?
  • B. Ask About Web Search: Should we start an agent to search for more items?

Step 3: Merge and Update

  • Append new items to outline.yaml
  • Show to user for confirmation
  • Avoid duplicates
  • Save updated outline

Output

Updated {topic}/outline.yaml file (modified in place)

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 · 30 lines · 11 tokens per session scan A 7727991941bf

Subscribe to this mod's changes

research-add-items is a skill published in the GitHub repository rvk7895/llm-knowledge-bases (37 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 11 tokens to every session and 236 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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