automated-w2s-research: Skill for Claude Code

.claude/skills/research-thinking/SKILL.md

research-thinking is a skill for Claude Code from safety-research/automated-w2s-research. It costs 52 tokens per session (539 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

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.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to study research findings, plan experiments, compare methods, review published work, solve theoretical problems, or decide what to investigate next.
Why use it?
It helps when a question needs careful investigation across sources and several possible lines of reasoning.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/.

This is safety-research/automated-w2s-research's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on automated-w2s-research 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 automated-w2s-research configures →

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.

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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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00052 $0.00539
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.00269
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00108
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00054

Measured 11d ago against content hash 8632fde6c2aa, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, 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 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.

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

A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.

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.

  1. 11d ago First seen · 72 lines · 52 tokens per session scan A 8632fde6c2aa

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research-thinking is a skill published in the GitHub repository safety-research/automated-w2s-research (305 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), with no licence file. It adds 52 tokens to every session and 539 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 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.

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