pact-prepare-research

pact-prepare-research is a skill for Claude Code from Synaptic-Labs-AI/PACT-Plugin. It costs 72 tokens per session (1,852 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A structured research guide for the PACT Prepare phase, covering requirements, documentation gathering, and technology comparisons.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to research libraries, frameworks, APIs, and technical options, gather requirements, and create comparison matrices.
Why use it?
It makes technology decisions easier to justify by organising questions, constraints, success criteria, and source quality.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the PACT plugin — 21 skills, 14 commands, 13 agents, 11 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it to research libraries, frameworks, APIs, and technical options, gather requirements, and create comparison matrices.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/synaptic-labs-ai/pact-plugin/pact-prepare-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 Synaptic-Labs-AI/PACT-Plugin --skill pact-prepare-research
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Synaptic-Labs-AI/PACT-Plugin

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install PACT, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 21 skills, 14 commands, 13 agents, 11 hooks.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md
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Per session 72 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,852 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 2 findings, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 149
    Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 163
    Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
How audits are shown
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 $0.00072 $0.01852
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.00926
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00370
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00185

Measured 10d ago against content hash 609f2d9d688e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

pact-prepare-research 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 10d 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.

curl -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_TOKEN" \
pact-plugin/skills/pact-prepare-research/SKILL.md · 317 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 317 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

PACT Prepare Research Methodology

Structured approaches for the Prepare phase of PACT. This skill provides frameworks for systematic research, documentation gathering, and technology evaluation to build a solid foundation before architecture and implementation.

Research Workflow

Phase 1: Define Research Scope

Before starting research, clearly define:

## Research Scope Definition

### Primary Question
What specific problem are we trying to solve?

### Success Criteria
What would make a solution acceptable?
- [ ] Performance requirements
- [ ] Integration requirements
- [ ] Security requirements
- [ ] Budget constraints

### Constraints
What limitations must we work within?
- Technology stack restrictions
- Team expertise
- Timeline
- Licensing requirements

Phase 2: Source Prioritization

Prioritize sources by authority and reliability:

Priority Source Type Examples Trust Level
1 Official documentation Docs, API references Highest
2 Official repositories GitHub READMEs, wikis Very High
3 Maintainer content Blog posts by core team High
4 Community verified Stack Overflow accepted answers Medium
5 Third-party tutorials Blog posts, videos Low-Medium
6 AI-generated content ChatGPT, Copilot Verify Required

Source Verification Checklist:

  • Publication date within 12 months (for version-specific info)
  • Author has verifiable credentials
  • Information matches official docs
  • Code examples actually work

Phase 3: Documentation Types to Gather

Collect these documentation types for complete understanding:

1. API References

## API Documentation Checklist
- [ ] Authentication methods
- [ ] Rate limits and quotas
- [ ] Available endpoints
- [ ] Request/response formats
- [ ] Error codes and handling
- [ ] SDK availability
- [ ] Webhook support

2. Configuration Guides

## Configuration Documentation
- [ ] Environment variables
- [ ] Configuration file formats
- [ ] Default values
- [ ] Required vs optional settings
- [ ] Security-sensitive configs

Read the full file on GitHub · 317 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 10d ago First seen · 317 lines · 72 tokens per session scan A 609f2d9d688e

Subscribe to this mod's changes

pact-prepare-research is a skill published in the GitHub repository Synaptic-Labs-AI/PACT-Plugin (71 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 72 tokens to every session and 1,852 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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