research

A research agent that searches code and technology information for patterns, specifications, and possible solutions, then records the findings in task context files.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to investigate how code works, compare technical approaches, and collect specifications or examples for a task.
Why use it?
It reduces the need to gather technical references manually and keeps research available to other task steps.

Agent

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 agents/mindfold-ai/trellis/research
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mindfold-ai/Trellis
Per session 25 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 2,533 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. Scan, not verified.
Origin unknown 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 $0.00025 $0.02533
Opus 5 $0.00013 $0.01267
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00507
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00253

Measured 2d ago against content hash 1b6ee3b11081, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

research scanned grade A with 1 finding 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

| Single file from GitHub | `curl -sSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/<org>/<repo>/<ref>/<path> -o /tmp/<name>` |
.trellis/agents/research.md · 274 lines

The source is not reproduced here

Licensed AGPL-3.0

The repository is licensed AGPL-3.0, which this catalogue does not treat as permission to reproduce the file. Read it at the source.

Read it on GitHub

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 · 274 lines · 25 tokens per session scan A 1b6ee3b11081

Subscribe to this mod's changes

research is an agent published in the GitHub repository mindfold-ai/Trellis (14,378 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed AGPL-3.0. It adds 25 tokens to every session and 2,533 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.