research-person

research-person is a skill for Claude Code from spirosbax/insaight. It costs 210 tokens per session (2,229 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A LinkedIn research workflow that builds a structured profile of one person from their posts and professional profile. LinkedIn is a professional social network.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to research a person's career, identify relevant conversation topics, and find possible outreach openings.
Why use it?
It brings together a person's work history, interests, skills, and engagement so outreach is based on specific evidence rather than generic claims.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: positional $N argument.

Part of the insaight plugin — 8 skills, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit Use it to research a person's career, identify relevant conversation topics, and find possible outreach openings.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/spirosbax/insaight/research-person
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 spirosbax/insaight --skill research-person
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/spirosbax/insaight

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install insaight, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 8 skills, 1 MCP server.

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Per session 210 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,229 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 $0.00210 $0.02229
Opus 5.5 $0.00084 $0.00892
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00042 $0.00446
Haiku 4.5 $0.00021 $0.00223

Measured 13d ago against content hash 43415f42de36, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

research-person 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 13d 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-person/SKILL.md · 235 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 235 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Insaight — Person Research

Build an intelligence brief on one individual from two sources: their LinkedIn posts (what they choose to talk about) and their full profile (where they have actually been). The profile layer is where uncommon commonalities hide — a shared past employer, the same degree programme, overlapping volunteer work, a language you both speak. Those outperform generic flattery in a cold message because they prove someone actually looked.

Shared conventions (all Insaight skills):

  • Load the tools once per session with tool_search(query="insaight") if they are not already available.
  • Call insaight:get_config() once per session for the user's Notion pages and company name/slug. If it reports unconfigured: true, ask the user to edit the file at the returned path before anything is saved to Notion.
  • Read cheaply: list_accounts → list_posts (slim index) → get_posts on the few URNs worth reading (max 20 per call). list_people, list_comments and list_outreach hit local SQLite and are free; the scrape_* tools call Apify and cost money, so scrape only when data is missing or stale.
  • Engagement benchmarks (adjust for the niche): under 10 likes is low, 10–40 is normal, 40+ is high signal — read those in full.

Workflow

Step 0 — Start from what is already known

Researching from scratch burns Apify credits and throws away the earlier read, so check the two places prior knowledge lives before fetching anything. Page names come from insaight:get_config().

0a. Existing research page:

notion:search(query="[Person Name]")

If a page for this person exists under [NOTION_RESEARCH_PAGE], fetch it and load it as context. The job then becomes update, not re-do: note the last research date and refresh only what moves — recent posts and any role change.

0b. Prior contact:

insaight:list_outreach(target="[name or profile URL]")

Cold-messaging the same person twice costs the user credibility, so surface any hit before doing the work:

"Heads up — the ledger shows you messaged [Name] on [date] (outcome: [outcome]). Is this a follow-up, or did you mean someone else?"

Read the full file on GitHub · 235 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. 13d ago First seen · 235 lines · 210 tokens per session scan A 43415f42de36

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research-person is a skill published in the GitHub repository spirosbax/insaight (33 stars, last pushed 19d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 210 tokens to every session and 2,229 once invoked, about $0.0008 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-10-14.

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