sp-research

sp-research is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from tta-lab/ttal-cli. It costs 29 tokens per session (1,747 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A structured research workflow for investigating a task across multiple sources. It turns findings into conclusions that support a team decision.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for multi-source investigations, especially when comparing prior art or open-source projects and turning research into actionable recommendations.
Why use it?
It reduces unfocused link gathering by requiring a clear purpose, checking existing solutions first, and explaining why each finding matters.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the ttal plugin — 18 skills, 1 hook shipped together

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/tta-lab/ttal-cli/sp-research
Any agent
npx skills add tta-lab/ttal-cli --skill sp-research
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tta-lab/ttal-cli

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install ttal, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 18 skills, 1 hook.

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Per session 29 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,747 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00029 $0.01747
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00873
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00349
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00175

Measured 5d ago against content hash ecc4ae6d2fe5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

sp-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 5d 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/sp-research/SKILL.md · 157 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 157 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Research

Overview

Conduct structured, multi-source research that produces actionable findings. Research is synthesis with a stance, not aggregation. Every finding should connect to a "so what?" that helps the team make a decision.

Announce at start: "I'm using the research skill to investigate this."

Before You Start: Value Stance

Before touching any source, write down one sentence answering:

"My purpose is to calibrate our design intuition — or to copy features from prior art?"

If you can't answer, ask. Purpose-wrong research becomes anxiety-driven link-gathering — it fills the flicknote and drains trust.

Corollaries:

  • Don't over-research when we're ahead. If the team already has a working primitive or novel approach, external comparisons have diminishing signal. Research cost must match decision value.
  • Check existing primitives first. Before cataloging how others solve X, verify we haven't already solved X in our own system. Reinvention-via-research is the quiet failure mode.
  • Extract design philosophy, not implementation. When studying a competitor or OSS project, the prize is the design stance / mental model, not the code. Write down "what they believe" before "what they built."

Epistemic Hygiene — Know What You Know

Research analysis is only as good as the foundations under it. Apply these rules in output, not just internally:

Tag every factual claim:

  • 🔍 Verified — from a search or document you just read (cite it)
  • 💭 Interpretation — reasoning built on verified facts (show the chain)
  • 🤔 Speculation — pattern-guessing (flag it; move to branching scenarios when you can: "if X → A, if Y → B")
  • Unknown — say so; don't fill the gap

Core operating rules:

  • Verify before analyze. Memory is for directions, not details.
  • Check new claims before building on them. If a new fact enters the conversation, treat it as a claim until verified.
  • On correction, re-examine the whole chain. A corrected fact may invalidate every conclusion downstream — don't patch locally.
  • If tools can't find it, say so and ask. No "one more sentence" temptation — if the foundation is unknown, the analysis is deferred, not rebranded as speculation.
  • Honest dead ends beat forced conclusions. Partial findings with clear gaps are more valuable than a smooth answer built on air.

Read the full file on GitHub · 157 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. 5d ago First seen · 157 lines · 29 tokens per session scan A ecc4ae6d2fe5

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sp-research is a skill published in the GitHub repository tta-lab/ttal-cli (23 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 29 tokens to every session and 1,747 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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