research-report

research-report is a skill for Claude Code from rvk7895/llm-knowledge-bases. It costs 19 tokens per session (1,582 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A tool for turning deep research results into a Markdown report. Markdown is a plain-text format commonly used for documentation.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to summarize research findings, apply report-style preferences, handle citations and code, and create reports from research output.
Why use it?
It gathers the research into one consistent report while leaving uncertain fields out. It can also follow writing preferences stored in a knowledge-base configuration.

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 summarize research findings, apply report-style preferences, handle citations and code, and create reports from research output.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/rvk7895/llm-knowledge-bases/research-report
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-report
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.

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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Per session 19 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,582 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 $0.00019 $0.01582
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.00791
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00316
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00158

Measured 10d ago against content hash fa10e1a172d0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

research-report 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 10d 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-report/SKILL.md · 125 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 125 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

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

Research Report - Summary Report

Trigger Method

/research-report

Execution Flow

Step 0: Load Report Preferences

Read the vault's kb.yaml and extract the report_preferences: block. These are free-text prose instructions written by the user at init (kb-init §5.5) or via /kb-preferences. They control audience, register, depth, code handling, diagrams, self-containment, citations, and argument iteration for this report.

If the block is present: apply every field as an instruction to the prose you write in subsequent steps. Treat the field text literally — it is the working rule, not a keyword list. The Python generator script written in Step 3 should also respect these preferences (e.g., if depth asks for multi-paragraph per-item walkthroughs, emit the item template with multi-paragraph slots; if diagrams says ASCII-only, don't emit mermaid).

If the block is missing: fall back to factory defaults in plugins/kb/references/report-style-guide.md silently and include this line in the final report output:

No report_preferences set in kb.yaml — using factory defaults. Run /kb-preferences init to customize.

If kb.yaml itself is missing: tell the user to run kb-init and stop.

Per-task overrides. If the user's current request explicitly contradicts a stored preference ("make this one short", "skip the diagrams for this report"), follow the request for this report only. Do NOT modify kb.yaml — that's what the reflection step is for.

Step 1: Locate Results Directory

Find */outline.yaml in current working directory, read topic and output_dir configuration.

Step 2: Scan Optional Summary Fields

Read all JSON results and extract fields suitable for display in the table of contents (numeric, short indicators), such as:

  • github_stars
  • google_scholar_cites
  • swe_bench_score
  • user_scale
  • valuation
  • release_date

Read the full file on GitHub · 125 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. 10d ago First seen · 125 lines · 19 tokens per session scan A fa10e1a172d0

Subscribe to this mod's changes

research-report is a skill published in the GitHub repository rvk7895/llm-knowledge-bases (37 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 19 tokens to every session and 1,582 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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