What is research-thinking?

A research assistant setup for difficult questions, using extended reasoning and web search. It can help analyse experiments, design methods, review literature, and work through maths or theory.

Use it to study research findings, plan experiments, compare methods, review published work, solve theoretical problems, or decide what to investigate next.

It helps when a question needs careful investigation across sources and several possible lines of reasoning.

How safety-research/automated-w2s-research configures Claude Code

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to safety-research/automated-w2s-research. 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/safety-research/automated-w2s-research/main/.claude/skills/research-thinking/SKILL.md

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/safety-research/automated-w2s-research

Made for: Claude Code.

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.

README.md

[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/safety-research/automated-w2s-research/research-thinking/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/safety-research/automated-w2s-research/research-thinking)

Your own site

<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/safety-research/automated-w2s-research/research-thinking"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/safety-research/automated-w2s-research/research-thinking/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

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.

Your own site · 80×15

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Per session 52 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 539 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.

Security scan A 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.

Origin unknown 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00052	$0.00539
Opus 5.5	$0.00021	$0.00216
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00010	$0.00108
Haiku 4.5	$0.00005	$0.00054

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 8632fde6c2aa, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

research-thinking scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 2mo 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

import os, json, urllib.request, sys

.claude/skills/research-thinking/SKILL.md · 72 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

Read it on GitHub

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.

2mo ago First seen · 72 lines · 52 tokens per session scan A 8632fde6c2aa

Subscribe to this mod's changes

research-thinking is a skill published in the GitHub repository safety-research/automated-w2s-research (331 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), with no licence file. It adds 52 tokens to every session and 539 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

Research Scientific

research-thinking next to 6 skills from other repositories
Mod	Type	Stars	Last push	Licence	Scan	Tokens	Works with
research-thinkingsafety-research/automated-w2s-research	Skill	331	6mo ago	none	A	52	Claude Code
instrument-data-to-allotropeanthropics/knowledge-work-plugins	Skill	35k	2d ago	Apache-2.0	A	123	Claude Code
exploratory-data-analysisK-Dense-AI/scientific-agent-skills	Skill	56k	4d ago	MIT	A	83	Claude Code
matlabK-Dense-AI/scientific-agent-skills	Skill	56k	4d ago	MIT	A	44	Claude Code
phylogeneticsK-Dense-AI/scientific-agent-skills	Skill	56k	4d ago	MIT	A	71	Claude Code, Codex
research-engineerdavila7/claude-code-templates	Skill	33k	yesterday	MIT	A	43	Claude Code, Codex
mapping-to-snomedmaziyarpanahi/openmed	Skill	5.8k	yesterday	Apache-2.0	A	205	Claude Code

automated-w2s-research: Skill for Claude Code

Borrowing it

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What it costs to keep this loaded

Grade A, and why

Makes network callslowCapability

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

What this file has done since we first saw it

research-thinking compared with skills from other repositories