research-prospect

research-prospect is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from tough-tongue/demo-prep-skills. It costs 49 tokens per session (1,448 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A research workflow for learning about a potential customer or contact before outreach or a meeting. It creates a structured brief using company and LinkedIn information, then compares it with your company profile.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to research a company, contact, role, fit with your target customers, shared connections, and possible personalization points before writing or meeting.
Why use it?
It reduces the guesswork involved in understanding who a prospect is, what their company does, and which details may make an outreach message relevant.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to research a company, contact, role, fit with your target customers, shared connections, and possible personalization points before writing or meeting.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/tough-tongue/demo-prep-skills/research-prospect
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 tough-tongue/demo-prep-skills --skill research-prospect
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tough-tongue/demo-prep-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 49 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,448 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 $0.00049 $0.01448
Opus 5 $0.00024 $0.00724
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00290
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00145

Measured 12d ago against content hash 418cc838713b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

research-prospect 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 12d 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.

research-prospect/SKILL.md · 155 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 155 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Prospect Research

Research a prospect company and contact to produce a structured intelligence brief. This skill gathers information from the company's website and the contact's LinkedIn profile, then cross-references with your company-profile.md to find personalization hooks.

When to Use

  • Before writing any outreach (cold email, LinkedIn message)
  • Before a demo or meeting (this skill is called automatically by demo-prep)
  • When the user says "research [name] at [company]"
  • When you need to understand a prospect before generating any output

Required Inputs

Ask the user for:

Company: [Name or website URL]
Contact: [Name and title — optional for company-only research]

If they only provide a name and company, that's enough. Research the rest.

Process

1. Load Company Profile

Read company-profile.md from the workspace root. You need this to:

  • Identify shared connections between the user and the prospect
  • Match the prospect's pain points to the user's product
  • Determine if this company fits the user's ICP

If company-profile.md doesn't exist, tell the user: "Run the setup-company skill first to set up your profile. This makes research much more useful."

2. Research the Company

Navigate to the company's website and gather:

What to Find Where to Look
What they do Homepage hero section, About page
Who they sell to Pricing page, case studies, customer logos
Company size About page, LinkedIn company page, job postings
Sales model Pricing page structure, "Book a Demo" vs "Start Free Trial"
Recent news Blog, press page, recent funding announcements
Tech stack signals Job postings, integrations page
Demo / trial motion CTA buttons, pricing page, "how it works"

Also check for (see research checklist):

  • Whether they have a "Book a Demo" button (relevant for demo automation)
  • Whether they're hiring for roles related to the user's product
  • Recent product launches or pivots
  • Customer testimonials that reveal their value prop

Read the full file on GitHub · 155 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. 12d ago First seen · 155 lines · 49 tokens per session scan A 418cc838713b

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research-prospect is a skill published in the GitHub repository tough-tongue/demo-prep-skills (5 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 49 tokens to every session and 1,448 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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