live-research

live-research is a skill for Claude Code from solofounder-ai/solofounder. It costs 37 tokens per session (2,648 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A research rule for checking current official documentation before recommending technologies, APIs, model versions, packages, or prices.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps verify versions, API syntax, package names, pricing, platform requirements, best practices, and service availability before making recommendations.
Why use it?
Software changes after an AI model is trained, so memory can lead to outdated or incorrect advice.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the solofounder plugin — 10 skills, 1 hook shipped together

Good fit It helps verify versions, API syntax, package names, pricing, platform requirements, best practices, and service availability before making recommendations.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/solofounder-ai/solofounder/live-research
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 solofounder-ai/solofounder --skill live-research
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/solofounder-ai/solofounder

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install solofounder, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 10 skills, 1 hook.

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Per session 37 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,648 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 $0.00037 $0.02648
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.01324
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00530
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00265

Measured 11d ago against content hash cf46f2143e07, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

live-research 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 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.

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.

capabilities/live-research/SKILL.md · 243 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 243 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Live Research

Overview

LLM training data is 1-2 years old. Every technology recommendation based on memory alone is potentially wrong — outdated versions, deprecated APIs, renamed packages, changed pricing, new better alternatives.

Core principle: Never recommend a specific version, framework, API, or model from memory. Always verify with live documentation first.

Violating this rule produces confident, detailed, wrong advice — the most dangerous kind.

When to Use

Before ANY output that depends on current state of the world:

  • Framework/library versions — "Use React Native 0.84" → is 0.76 actually the latest?
  • AI model recommendations — "Use GPT-4" → is there a newer model? What's the current pricing?
  • API endpoints/syntax — "Call /v1/completions" → has the API changed?
  • Package names — "npm install X" → does X still exist? Was it renamed?
  • Pricing/limits — "The free tier includes..." → has pricing changed?
  • Best practices — "Use X pattern" → is this still the recommended approach?
  • Platform requirements — "Requires iOS 16+" → what's the current minimum?
  • Service availability — "Deploy to X" → is X still available/recommended?
  • UI/UX design — "Design a dashboard" → what do top-rated current designs look like on Dribbble/Behance? What are current design trends, not 2-year-old patterns from training data?

The Rule

NEVER RECOMMEND FROM MEMORY ALONE.

Before suggesting any technology, version, API, model, or
tool — verify it exists, is current, and works as described
by checking live documentation.

"I'm fairly sure it's version X" is not verification.
"The docs say it's version X" is verification.

How to Verify

Use available research tools in this order of preference:

  1. Official documentation — fetch the actual docs page (WebFetch/WebSearch)
  2. Package registries — npm, PyPI, crates.io, pub.dev for current versions
  3. GitHub releases — check latest release tags
  4. API reference — verify endpoints, parameters, response formats

Read the full file on GitHub · 243 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. 11d ago First seen · 243 lines · 37 tokens per session scan A cf46f2143e07

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live-research is a skill published in the GitHub repository solofounder-ai/solofounder (3 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 37 tokens to every session and 2,648 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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