research-format

research-format is a skill for Claude Code from TorpedoD/claude-researcher. It costs 32 tokens per session (1,089 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A report-writing tool for a structured research process. It combines prepared section summaries and evidence statements into a Markdown report; it does not perform the research or publish other formats.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create the canonical Markdown report from the process's manifest, section briefs, claim slices, and section relationship hints.
Why use it?
It keeps report composition separate from evidence gathering and later conversion to formats such as HTML or PDF.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; names the AskUserQuestion tool.

Good fit Use it to create the canonical Markdown report from the process's manifest, section briefs, claim slices, and section relationship hints.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/torpedod/claude-researcher/research-format
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 TorpedoD/claude-researcher --skill research-format
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/TorpedoD/claude-researcher

Made for: Claude Code.

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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.

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README.md
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Per session 32 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,089 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 $0.00032 $0.01089
Opus 5 $0.00016 $0.00544
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00218
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00109

Measured 10d ago against content hash 7c9c7b0bc2ec, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

research-format 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 10d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 4 executable files (scripts/coverage_audit.py, scripts/density_scan.py, scripts/paragraph_ceiling.py, …), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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-format/SKILL.md · 139 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 139 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Research Format Skill

Composes the canonical Markdown report for claim_pipeline_v1.

This skill is a report composer, not a researcher and not a publisher. It writes output/report.md from compact structured research state. HTML, PDF, and QMD outputs are generated later by the publishing phase from output/report.md.

Required Inputs

When invoked by research, use only:

Input Path Purpose
Output preferences manifest.json depth, audience, tone, render targets
Section briefs synthesis/section_briefs/<section_id>.json section title, summary, required claim IDs, boundaries
Claim slices synthesis/claim_slices/<section_id>.json compact required claims, optional claim briefs, and source records available to a section
Graph hints synthesis/section_graph_hints.json advisory per-section relationships only

The formatter must not read these files in the main path:

  • synthesis/raw_research.md (deprecated; not a formatter input)
  • synthesis/claim_bank.json
  • collect/inventory.json
  • full Graphify outputs
  • collect/graphify-out/GRAPH_REPORT.md

Missing claim slices are fatal. Do not fall back to claim_bank.json.

Required Outputs

  • output/assembly_plan.json
  • output/sections/<section_id>.md
  • output/sections/<section_id>.meta.json
  • output/report.md
  • output/formatter_audit.json

Do not write output/report.qmd, output/report.html, or output/report.pdf. Those belong to publishing.

Citation Contract

All citations use one global format:

[Source Title](url)

Numeric citations such as [1](url) or [1] are disallowed. Mixed citation styles fail the formatter audit.

Composition Flow

  1. Build the assembly plan:

    python3 ~/.claude/skills/research-format/scripts/report_composer.py \
      build-plan --run-dir "$run_dir"
    
  2. For each assembly-plan section, read only:

    • section_brief_path,
    • claim_slice_path,
    • graph hints matching the same section_id,
    • format preferences.

Read the full file on GitHub · 139 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. 10d ago First seen · 139 lines · 32 tokens per session scan A 7c9c7b0bc2ec

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research-format is a skill published in the GitHub repository TorpedoD/claude-researcher (2 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 32 tokens to every session and 1,089 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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