research-project

research-project is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from sjarmak/agent-workflows. It costs 22 tokens per session (750 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A complete research process for creating a risk-aware product requirements document (PRD), which describes what a product or feature should do.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to research a feature or problem, produce a draft PRD, identify risks and mitigations, and prepare the result for later building or scaffolding.
Why use it?
It gathers independent perspectives, compares them through structured debate, and examines how the proposed project could fail before implementation begins.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the agent-workflows plugin — 28 skills, 4 agents, 4 hooks shipped together

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/sjarmak/agent-workflows/research-project
Any agent
npx skills add sjarmak/agent-workflows --skill research-project
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sjarmak/agent-workflows

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install agent-workflows, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 28 skills, 4 agents, 4 hooks.

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README.md
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Per session 22 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 750 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00022 $0.00750
Opus 5 $0.00011 $0.00375
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00150
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00075

Measured 5d ago against content hash 3d81a8cad972, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

research-project 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 5d 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.

skills/research-project/SKILL.md · 67 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 67 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Run the complete PRD creation pipeline as a single invocation. Chains three skills in sequence — diverge (multi-perspective research), converge (structured debate), premortem (failure analysis) — passing file outputs between them. Produces a risk-annotated PRD ready for /prd-build or /scaffold.

Arguments

$ARGUMENTS — format: [N] "research question or topic" where N is optional agent count (default: 3)

Parse Arguments

Extract:

  • agent_count: the optional leading integer (default 3, min 2, max 6)
  • topic: the research question, feature description, or problem statement

If the topic is missing or unclear, ask the user to clarify before proceeding.

Phase 1: Diverge

Invoke the /diverge skill with the provided arguments. This spawns N independent research agents — each with a different lens (technical feasibility, user experience, risk/failure modes, prior art, first principles) — to explore the topic from uncorrelated perspectives.

Wait for the PRD file to be created (format: prd_{slugified_topic}.md).

The diverge output is a synthesis of all agent findings plus a draft PRD. Do NOT proceed until the file exists.

Phase 2: Converge

Invoke the /converge skill, passing the PRD file path from Phase 1.

This runs a structured debate: agents advocate competing positions from the diverge output, challenge each other's assumptions, propose compromises, and reach consensus. The result is a refined PRD with tensions resolved and trade-offs made explicit.

Wait for the convergence report and updated PRD.

Phase 3: Premortem

Invoke the /premortem skill, passing the refined PRD from Phase 2.

This spawns N agents who each write a narrative from the future where the project has failed — each for a different root cause (technical, operational, security, scope, organizational). Synthesizes into a risk registry with severity ratings and mitigations, then annotates the PRD with the top risks.

Wait for the risk-annotated PRD.

Phase 4: Present Results

Read the full file on GitHub · 67 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. 5d ago First seen · 67 lines · 22 tokens per session scan A 3d81a8cad972

Subscribe to this mod's changes

research-project is a skill published in the GitHub repository sjarmak/agent-workflows (9 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 22 tokens to every session and 750 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 2026-08-31.

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