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Cleaning Up Research Sessions skill

Cleaning Up Research Sessionsbrycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skillsskills/05-kthorn-research-superpower/research/cleaning-up-research-sessions/SKILL.md

Safely remove intermediate files from completed research sessions while preserving important data

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18 tokname + description

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2,943 tokSKILL.md body

bundled files

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Install the Cleaning Up Research Sessions skill

Skills CLI (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and others)

npx skills add https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills --skill 'Cleaning Up Research Sessions'

Claude Code, by hand (all projects)

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills.git /tmp/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills
cp -R /tmp/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills/skills/05-kthorn-research-superpower/research/cleaning-up-research-sessions ~/.claude/skills/cleaning-up-research-sessions

For one project only, copy the folder into .claude/skills/ in that project instead. The agent picks it up when a task matches its description.

What it costs your context

Agent Skills load in three steps. Tokens counted with the o200k tokenizer; your model's count will differ a little.

WhenWhat loadsCost
Every sessionName and description18 tok
When the agent uses itThe SKILL.md instructions2,943 tok
Only if openedNo bundled files—

Until it is used, Cleaning Up Research Sessions costs about 76× less than the median MCP server we measured (1,363 tokens on every turn). Installing all 150 skills from brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills would load 14,926 tokens of descriptions. Skills vs MCP study

Checks

  • The name breaks the specification (lowercase letters, digits and single hyphens, up to 64 characters).

Checked 2026-10-22 · method

What's inside

The headings of its SKILL.md. Read the full file on GitHub.

  • Cleaning Up Research Sessions
  • Overview
  • When to Use
  • Files That Are ALWAYS KEPT
  • Files That May Be Cleaned Up
  • Cleanup Workflow
  • Step 1: Analyze Research Session
  • Step 2: Present Cleanup Plan to User
  • Step 3: Confirm Deletions
  • Step 4: Perform Cleanup
  • Step 5: Verify Integrity
  • Special Cases
  • Case 1: Large abstracts-cache.json
  • Case 2: Helper Scripts
  • Case 3: Multiple Research Sessions
  • Safety Mechanisms
  • Protected File List
  • Dry Run Mode
  • Integration with Other Skills
  • Common Mistakes
  • Quick Reference
  • Success Criteria
  • Example Session
  • Next Steps

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