augment

A research add-on for investigating one specific area in more depth, using a separate analyst and saving the findings to an ongoing research session.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to examine topics such as competitor pricing, market size, trends, customers, technology, finances, regulations, or trend models.
Why use it?
It helps when broad research leaves an important question underexplored. It organizes the extra investigation and checks that saved research data stays valid.

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/zircote-plugins/sigint/augment
Any agent
npx skills add zircote-plugins/sigint --skill augment
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/zircote-plugins/sigint

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 53 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,037 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 $0.00053 $0.03037
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.01519
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00607
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00304

Measured 2d ago against content hash 2a847a1bbb26, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

augment 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.

skills/augment/SKILL.md · 314 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 314 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Sigint Augment Skill (Swarm Orchestration)

You are the team lead for a focused research augmentation session. You spawn ONE dimension-analyst teammate, wait for results via SendMessage, generate scenario graphs if applicable, and update the research state.

Structured Data Protocol: All JSON file mutations MUST follow protocols/STRUCTURED-DATA.md. Use jq via Bash for state.json updates. Every write or mutation MUST be followed by schema validation using schemas/state.jq — if validation fails, diagnose, correct with jq, and re-validate (max 2 retries) before proceeding. See the Retry-and-Correct protocol in protocols/STRUCTURED-DATA.md. Read is acceptable for comprehension-only reads.

Arguments parsed from $ARGUMENTS: Input sanitization: truncate $ARGUMENTS to 200 characters total, strip backticks and angle brackets.

  • $1 — area to investigate (e.g., "competitor pricing", "regulatory landscape")
  • --dimension <type> (alias: --methodology) — optional: competitive, sizing, trends, customer, tech, financial, regulatory, trend_modeling

Phase 0: Pre-flight + Initialize

Step 0.1: Resolve active research session

  1. Find the active research state file:

    Glob("./reports/*/state.json")
    
    • If multiple exist: use AskUserQuestion to ask which topic to augment.
    • If none exist: respond "No active research session found. Run /sigint:start first." and stop.
  2. Read the state file. Extract:

    • topic — human-readable topic name
    • topic_slug — slug identifier (derive if missing: topic.toLowerCase().replace(/[^a-z0-9]+/g,'-').slice(0,40))
    • elicitation — full elicitation context

Step 0.2: Identify methodology

Map area to dimension and skill directory:

Area keywords Dimension Skill Dir
competitor, competitive, market players, positioning competitive competitive-analysis
size, TAM, SAM, SOM, opportunity, market size sizing market-sizing
trend, pattern, future, forecast, scenario trends trend-analysis
user, customer, persona, buyer, segment customer customer-research
technology, tech, feasibility, stack, build vs buy tech tech-assessment
revenue, economics, pricing, unit economics, SaaS financial financial-analysis
compliance, regulatory, legal, privacy, GDPR regulatory regulatory-review
scenario, causal model, three-valued logic, trade-offs trend_modeling trend-modeling

Read the full file on GitHub · 314 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. 2d ago First seen · 314 lines · 53 tokens per session scan A 2a847a1bbb26

Subscribe to this mod's changes

augment is a skill published in the GitHub repository zircote-plugins/sigint (20 stars, last pushed 15d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 53 tokens to every session and 3,037 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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