webjs-research-record

A skill for recording a research, design, or decision investigation as a closed GitHub issue labeled research. It keeps the investigation’s reasoning and findings in the issue rather than in framework usage instructions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to document an investigation, compare options, record evidence and conclusions, and close the resulting research issue.
Why use it?
It preserves decisions in a searchable project record without mixing research history into documentation meant to teach people how to use the framework.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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/webjsdev/webjs/webjs-research-record
Any agent
npx skills add webjsdev/webjs --skill webjs-research-record
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/webjsdev/webjs

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 160 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,258 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 $0.00160 $0.02258
Opus 5 $0.00080 $0.01129
Sonnet 5 $0.00032 $0.00452
Haiku 4.5 $0.00016 $0.00226

Measured 2d ago against content hash 1a6ebcda235a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

webjs-research-record 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 2d 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.

.claude/skills/webjs-research-record/SKILL.md · 119 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 119 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Record a research / design investigation as a closed research issue

The framework's reference docs (the skill at .agents/skills/webjs/) exist ONLY to teach AI agents how to USE WebJs. They are NOT a home for research write-ups, design records, or decision histories. Polluting them rots their purpose. So a research/design/decision investigation is recorded as a GitHub issue, labeled research, with the full writeup in the body plus deep-dive comments, then CLOSED to keep the record.

The two mistakes this skill prevents

  1. Do NOT write the record as a file in the framework's reference docs (no <topic>-design.md / <topic>-research.md committed under the skill at .agents/skills/webjs/ or any other doc surface). That was the #548 cleanup.
  2. Do NOT bury the record as a comment on an unrelated PR or issue. It must be its own labeled research issue, or it is not filterable. (This exact mistake happened on #548. The record was first archived as a comment on the cleanup PR #552, then mis-filed as a research: PR #559, before the convention settled on a labeled issue at #560.)

Why an issue, not a PR

A research record has no code diff. A PR is a "merge this diff" object, so a research PR needs an empty-commit hack and leaves a dangling branch behind (see the now-deleted branch from #559). An issue is the native home for a writeup with threaded discussion. It is filterable by the research label, and it fits the project model where the GitHub Project board backed by issues is the source of truth. Earlier records used closed PRs (#546, #553); the convention going forward is a labeled issue. Do not convert the old PRs unless asked.

Investigate in parallel

A comparison or options analysis is multi-angle work, and each angle is an independent read: one option's codebase evidence, the prior art, the project's own constraints in AGENTS.md, what the ecosystem does. For a multi-option or multi-angle investigation, spawn one read-only Explore agent per option or angle in ONE message, each returning evidence with concrete file paths and citations, then synthesize yourself. Reads fan out; the writeup and its judgment stay with you, because the record's voice and conclusions are the caller's, not an agent vote. A single-question spike needs no fan-out. Nothing here changes WHERE the record lands (the closed research-labeled issue below).

Read the full file on GitHub · 119 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. 2d ago First seen · 119 lines · 160 tokens per session scan A 1a6ebcda235a

Subscribe to this mod's changes

webjs-research-record is a skill published in the GitHub repository webjsdev/webjs (109 stars, last pushed 11d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 160 tokens to every session and 2,258 once invoked, about $0.0008 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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