Getting it into your agent
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npx skills add ur-grue/autopunk-media-skills --skill source-research-briefgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ur-grue/autopunk-media-skillsWrote this? Show the measurements
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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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00041 | $0.01618 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00020 | $0.00809 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00008 | $0.00324 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00004 | $0.00162 |
Grade A, and why
source-research-brief 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 8d 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 96 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Source Research Brief
What This Skill Does
Produces a structured pre-interview research brief on a potential source, covering their professional background, public positions, known biases, potential conflicts of interest, and suggested lines of questioning.
When To Use This Skill
- You have identified a potential interview subject and need to prepare before speaking with them
- You want to understand a source's track record before deciding how much weight to give their claims
- You are approaching a source who has been quoted in other stories and want to know their standard narrative
- You need to identify pressure points or contradictions in a source's public record before a difficult interview
What You Need To Provide
Required: The source's name, professional title or role, and the topic of your investigation Optional: Links or summaries of previous public statements, publications, or interviews; the source's employer or institutional affiliation; any known relationship between the source and the subject of your investigation; how you plan to use their testimony (on-record, background, expert commentary)
How the Assistant Approaches This
- Profiles the source's professional background and relevant expertise, distinguishing between established credentials and claimed authority
- Reviews the source's known public positions on the investigation topic, identifying consistency or evolution over time, and flagging any previously stated views that could affect their testimony
- Assesses potential conflicts of interest, institutional affiliations, funding sources, or personal relationships that could bias their account — without making unsupported accusations
- Generates a set of targeted pre-interview questions calibrated to probe both the substance of the story and the source's reliability
- After the brief, provides a "Next Step" note: whether any identified conflict of interest requires editorial review before proceeding, which question should open the interview and why, and whether foia-request-writer should be run to independently verify claims this source may make
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.
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.
- 8d ago First seen · 96 lines · 41 tokens per session scan A 71826672dfc2
source-research-brief is a skill published in the GitHub repository ur-grue/autopunk-media-skills (32 stars, last pushed 12d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 41 tokens to every session and 1,618 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 2026-09-04.
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