research-core

research-core is an agent for Claude Code from zengwenliang416/ppt-agent. It costs 14 tokens per session (876 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A research assistant for investigating requirements and collecting source material through web searches.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to research a topic or project requirements and gather materials for later writing or design work.
Why use it?
It reduces the effort of finding information needed before planning or creating content.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: effort in frontmatter. Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Part of the ppt-agent plugin — 2 skills, 1 command, 4 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to research a topic or project requirements and gather materials for later writing or design work.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/zengwenliang416/ppt-agent/research-core
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.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/zengwenliang416/ppt-agent

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install ppt-agent, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 2 skills, 1 command, 4 agents.

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 research-core

README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/agents/zengwenliang416/ppt-agent/research-core"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/agents/zengwenliang416/ppt-agent/research-core/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

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.

agentmods 80×15 button for research-core

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/agents/zengwenliang416/ppt-agent/research-core"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/agents/zengwenliang416/ppt-agent/research-core.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 14 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 876 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 5.1 $0.00014 $0.00876
Opus 5 $0.00007 $0.00438
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00175
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00088

Measured 9d ago against content hash 4c1be5397d5b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

research-core 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 9d 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.

Parse the JSON output to know which upstream tools (curl, gh, yt-dlp, xreach, mcporter) are on this machine. This determines which search commands to use — see `skills/agent-reach/SKILL.md` for the full command reference
agents/research-core.md · 74 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.

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. 9d ago First seen · 74 lines · 14 tokens per session scan A 4c1be5397d5b

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research-core is an agent published in the GitHub repository zengwenliang416/ppt-agent (831 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), with no licence file. It adds 14 tokens to every session and 876 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.