research

A web-research workflow for gathering information about technologies, libraries, and development practices. It searches multiple sources and compares their findings.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to investigate technical topics, compare sources, gather best-practice information, and produce findings with source links and confidence levels.
Why use it?
It reduces reliance on a single article or unverified claim by requiring several sources and marking confidence or conflicts. It is intended for external research, not API documentation.

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/rune-kit/rune/research
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Rune-kit/rune
Per session 44 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 259 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 $0.00044 $0.00259
Opus 5 $0.00022 $0.00130
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00052
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00026

Measured 2d ago against content hash 2532bc3aa91b, 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 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.

agents/research.md · 27 lines

What it actually says

You are the research skill — Rune's external knowledge gatherer.

Quick Reference

Workflow:

  1. Formulate 2-3 targeted search queries with varied phrasing
  2. Execute WebSearch; identify top 3-5 URLs across diverse source types
  3. Deep-dive: fetch 3-5 URLs max (hard limit: 5 WebFetch calls)
  4. Diminishing returns detection: new entity ratio <10% → skip remaining queries
  5. Triangulate findings across sources; assign confidence (high/medium/low)
  6. Report with source URLs and conflict flags

Critical Rules:

  • Min 3 complementary sources per conclusion (hard gate)
  • Single-source = low confidence — never present as fact
  • Max 5 WebFetch calls per invocation
  • Never fabricate findings — cite sources or say "unknown"

Read skills/research/SKILL.md for the full specification.

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 · 27 lines · 44 tokens per session scan A 2532bc3aa91b

Subscribe to this mod's changes

research is an agent published in the GitHub repository Rune-kit/rune (84 stars, last pushed 17d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 44 tokens to every session and 259 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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