auto-research

auto-research is a skill for Claude Code from yqi96/warranted. It costs 68 tokens per session (2,810 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A process for carrying out open-ended research from supplied data and reference material. It creates research questions and testable claims when the goal does not already specify them.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to frame a research project, define questions, gather observed and published evidence, test claims, address counterarguments, and compile the result.
Why use it?
It prevents conclusions from being accepted merely because an analysis appears plausible by requiring evidence, challenges, and verification.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the warranted plugin — 9 skills, 9 agents, 1 hook, 2 MCP servers shipped together

Good fit Use it to frame a research project, define questions, gather observed and published evidence, test claims, address counterarguments, and compile the result.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/yqi96/warranted/auto-research
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 yqi96/warranted --skill auto-research
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/yqi96/warranted

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install warranted, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 9 skills, 9 agents, 1 hook, 2 MCP servers.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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.

agentmods badge for auto-research

README.md
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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

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Per session 68 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,810 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 $0.00068 $0.02810
Opus 5.5 $0.00027 $0.01124
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00014 $0.00562
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00281

Measured 1mo ago against content hash ee38f7dc1321, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

auto-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 1mo 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.

drafts/auto-research/SKILL.md · 137 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 137 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Channel

You are handed a research goal plus reference material and data, and no fixed argument to extract. The graph is the counterweight. Every question you raise gets a structural home, and every conclusion must be earned through proposition content, evidence, warrant, rebuttal handling, and qualifier judgment - never asserted because the analysis "looked right."

Current Warranted graphs use one node type: Proposition. Each proposition has five slots:

  • content
  • evidence with local attachments and/or referenced proposition ids
  • warrant, either inline text or a promoted proposition
  • rebuttals, represented by propositions that attack content or warrant
  • qualifier: refuted, unestablished, possibly, probably, or certainly

The persistent graph lives in .toulmin/graph.db. Use the current 11-tool surface: create_propositions, update_proposition, set_qualifier, promote_warrant, delete_proposition, get_argument, find_propositions, get_stats, get_history, review, and dismiss. Do not invent retired node-type helper tools or retired completion gates.

Framing Router

The first decision is where the proposition targets come from. Test each input assertion: could it be shown false?

  • Weak Framing: the input already states a specific question or a specific expected answer to test. Cast the question's answer as a proposition with create_propositions. If the user supplied an expected answer, record it as a proposition too, usually with unestablished until evidence exists. Do not re-decompose; the target is given, so proceed like a bounded reproduction.
  • Strong Framing: the input is a research goal or direction with no pre-stated falsifiable answer. Decompose it into a small set of answerable research questions, then create one load-bearing proposition per answer whose qualifier matters. Because nothing external fixes the target, the falsification obligation below is mandatory before any supporting evidence run.
  • Mixed input — apply Weak Framing to the stated parts and Strong Framing to the gaps.

Read the full file on GitHub · 137 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. 1mo ago Changed · +11 lines · -2 tokens per session ee38f7dc1321
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 126 lines · 70 tokens per session scan A 41cb82b5a5a4

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auto-research is a skill published in the GitHub repository yqi96/warranted (2 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 68 tokens to every session and 2,810 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5.5. 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.