request-research

A command that sends a specific topic to a separate research agent for investigation.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for topics such as AI tools, competitor analysis, or industry trends. The resulting findings are reported back when available.
Why use it?
It turns a brief research idea into a request and helps avoid repeating findings that may already exist.

Command for Claude Code

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 commands/abilityai/trinity/request-research
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Abilityai/trinity

Made for: Claude Code.

Per session 8 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 452 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 $0.00008 $0.00452
Opus 5 $0.00004 $0.00226
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00090
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00045

Measured 2d ago against content hash ad24ebbb0bf8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

request-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.

config/agent-templates/demo-analyst/.claude/commands/request-research.md · 67 lines

What it actually says

Request Research

Ask the researcher agent to investigate a specific topic.

Context

The user will provide a topic after this command, like:

  • /request-research AI agents for content creation
  • /request-research competitor analysis for [company]
  • /request-research emerging trends in [industry]

Steps

  1. Parse the Request

    • Extract the topic from the user's input
    • Formulate a clear research request
  2. Find the Researcher Agent

    • List available agents: mcp__trinity__list_agents()
    • Look for an agent with "researcher" in the name
    • Common names: research-network-researcher (system manifest) or researcher (individual)
  3. Check Current Findings (Optional)

    • List shared-in folder: ls /home/developer/shared-in/
    • Quickly scan existing findings to avoid duplicate research
    • Mention if related research already exists
  4. Call the Researcher Use the Trinity MCP tool to request research:

    mcp__trinity__chat_with_agent(
        agent_name="[RESEARCHER_AGENT_NAME]",  # Use actual name from step 2
        message="/research [TOPIC]"
    )
    
  5. Report Status

    • Confirm the research request was sent
    • Explain that findings will appear in the shared folder
    • Suggest checking back or running /briefing after research completes

Output Format

## Research Request Submitted

**Topic**: [requested topic]
**Sent to**: [researcher agent name]
**Status**: Request delivered

### What Happens Next
1. The researcher agent will investigate the topic
2. Findings will be saved to the shared folder
3. Run `/briefing` to see synthesized results

### Related Existing Research
[If any relevant findings already exist, mention them]

Process the research request now.

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 · 67 lines · 8 tokens per session scan A ad24ebbb0bf8

Subscribe to this mod's changes

request-research is a command published in the GitHub repository Abilityai/trinity (496 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 8 tokens to every session and 452 once invoked, about $0.0000 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.