swing-research

swing-research is a skill for Claude Code from TheStack-ai/swing-skills. It costs 75 tokens per session (3,435 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A research skill for investigating technologies, comparing tools, checking facts, and evaluating designs using multiple sources and source-quality levels.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for technology research, tool comparisons, architecture reviews, fact-checking, and other investigations that need cited evidence.
Why use it?
It reduces unsupported claims by requiring findings to be traceable to evidence and marking information that has not been verified.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Part of the swing-skills plugin — 6 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it for technology research, tool comparisons, architecture reviews, fact-checking, and other investigations that need cited evidence.

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

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install swing-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 6 skills.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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 swing-research

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/thestack-ai/swing-skills/swing-research.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/thestack-ai/swing-skills/swing-research)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/thestack-ai/swing-skills/swing-research"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/thestack-ai/swing-skills/swing-research.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 75 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,435 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 $0.00075 $0.03435
Opus 5 $0.00037 $0.01717
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00687
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00344

Measured 7d ago against content hash 148b66c9c6cf, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

swing-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 7d 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/swing-research/SKILL.md · 278 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 278 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Cross-Verified Research

Systematic research engine with anti-hallucination safeguards and source quality tiering.

Rules (Absolute)

  1. Never fabricate sources. No fake URLs, no invented papers, no hallucinated statistics.
  2. Source-traceability gate. Every factual claim must be traceable to a specific, citable source. If a claim cannot be traced to any source, mark it as Unverified (internal knowledge only) and state what verification would be needed. Never present untraced claims as findings.
  3. No speculation as fact. Do not present unverified claims using hedging language as if they were findings. Banned patterns: "아마도", "~인 것 같습니다", "~로 보입니다", "~수도 있습니다", "probably", "I think", "seems like", "appears to be", "likely". If a claim is not verified, label it explicitly as Unverified or Contested — do not soften it with hedging.
  4. BLUF output. Lead with conclusion, follow with evidence. Never bury the answer.
  5. Scaled effort. Match research depth to question scope:
    • Narrow factual (single claim, date, specification): 2-3 queries, 2+ sources
    • Technology comparison (A vs B): 5+ queries, 5+ sources
    • Broad landscape (market analysis, state-of-art): 8+ queries, 8+ sources Default to the higher tier when scope is ambiguous.
  6. Cross-verify. Every key claim must appear in 2+ independent sources before presenting as fact. "Independent" means the sources conducted their own analysis or reporting — two articles that both cite the same original source (press release, blog post, study) count as ONE source, not two. Trace claims back to their origin.
  7. Scope before search. If the research question is ambiguous or overly broad, decompose it into specific sub-questions in Stage 1 and present them to the user for confirmation before proceeding to Stage 2. Do not research a vague question — sharpen it first.

Pipeline

Execute these 4 stages sequentially. Do NOT skip stages.

Stage 1: Deconstruct

Break the research question into atomic sub-questions.

Read the full file on GitHub · 278 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 7d ago First seen · 278 lines · 75 tokens per session scan A 148b66c9c6cf

Subscribe to this mod's changes

swing-research is a skill published in the GitHub repository TheStack-ai/swing-skills (40 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 75 tokens to every session and 3,435 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-08-30.

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