research

research is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from skyllwt/AutoSci. It costs 29 tokens per session (5,953 once invoked), scanned B, original, MIT.

A research workflow that takes a technical idea through literature discovery, experiment design, execution, results, and paper writing.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to investigate a research direction, find and ingest papers, choose or test ideas, run experiments, check their status, and produce a paper.
Why use it?
It organises a research project into stages with saved progress, so work can resume later and experiments can be monitored as they run.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

About the project

AutoSci is an AI research platform organized around a wiki, with an agent that supports stages of scientific work such as reading, experimentation, writing, and retaining knowledge across projects. It is for people building or using AI-assisted research workflows, with Claude Code, Codex, and OpenCode adaptations available. The catalogue add-ons extend those agent-specific workflows.

skyllwt/AutoSci · 1,660 stars · on GitHub

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/skyllwt/autosci/research
Any agent
npx skills add skyllwt/AutoSci --skill research
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/skyllwt/AutoSci

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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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.

agentmods badge for research

README.md
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Per session 29 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 5,953 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 1 finding. 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 $0.00029 $0.05953
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.02976
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.01191
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00595

Measured 5d ago against content hash 6d57ac518758, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

research scanned grade B 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 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.

Asks the agent to reveal its instructionsmediumSystem prompt leakage

Directions to print, repeat or translate the system prompt extract configuration the operator did not intend to expose.

4. Output instructions then **end current session**:
.claude/skills/research/SKILL.md · 553 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 553 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/research

End-to-end research orchestrator that composes all skills into a complete research workflow. Stage 0 (Bootstrap) + 5 Stages + 2 Human Gates, covering the full pipeline from empty wiki to paper submission. Zero-friction entry: if the wiki is empty, Bootstrap is triggered automatically (search + auto-ingest 5 papers); no need to run /init manually. Every Gate and Stage saves progress to wiki/outputs/pipeline-progress.md, supporting cross-session recovery.

Stage 3 is non-blocking: experiments are deployed and control returns immediately (--auto mode automatically sets up a CronCreate to monitor every 30 minutes). When all experiments finish, Stage 4 is triggered automatically. Use /exp-status at any time to check progress.

--auto mode skips manual confirmation (automatically selects the top-1 idea). --skip-paper runs the research without writing a paper.

Inputs

  • direction: research direction description or path to a RESEARCH_BRIEF.md file
    • Text form: one-sentence description of the research direction (e.g. "sparse LoRA for edge devices")
    • File form: structured RESEARCH_BRIEF.md (containing domain, constraints, target venues)
  • --auto (optional): fully automatic mode; Gate 1 auto-selects top-1 idea, Gate 2 auto-continues, Stage 3b auto-creates CronCreate
  • --start-from <stage> (optional): resume execution from the specified stage
    • Valid values: stage1, stage2, stage3, stage3-collect, stage3-check, stage4, stage5
    • stage3-collect: skip deploy, go directly to Stage 3c (collect results from already-deployed experiments)
    • stage3-check: check experiment status only (equivalent to /exp-status --pipeline {slug}), do not continue execution
    • Requires wiki/outputs/pipeline-progress.md to exist
  • --skip-paper (optional): run research only (Stages 1-4), skip paper writing (Stage 5), but still run /exp-eval (Stage 4)
  • --venue (optional): target conference (ICLR / NeurIPS / ICML / ACL / CVPR), passed to /paper-plan

Read the full file on GitHub · 553 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 · 553 lines · 29 tokens per session scan B 6d57ac518758

Subscribe to this mod's changes

research is a skill published in the GitHub repository skyllwt/AutoSci (1,660 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 29 tokens to every session and 5,953 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (asks the agent to reveal its instructions). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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