research

A research command that searches for current trends in areas such as artificial intelligence, startups, developer tools, and technology. It writes dated findings and a short cumulative summary to shared files.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to discover and document technology trends, notable developments, and possible opportunities.
Why use it?
It turns scattered trend research into a repeatable record with opportunities, likely impact, and estimated effort.

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

Made for: Claude Code.

Per session 7 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 360 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 $0.00007 $0.00360
Opus 5 $0.00003 $0.00180
Sonnet 5 $0.00001 $0.00072
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00036

Measured 2d ago against content hash 322b37fcd886, 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.

config/agent-templates/demo-researcher/.claude/commands/research.md · 66 lines

What it actually says

Research Cycle

Execute a research cycle to discover and document interesting trends.

Steps

  1. Ensure Output Directory

    • Create /home/developer/shared-out/findings/ if it doesn't exist
  2. Discover Trends Search for trending topics in:

    • AI and machine learning developments
    • Startup ecosystem news
    • Developer tools and productivity
    • Technology industry trends
  3. Analyze Findings For each interesting discovery:

    • Summarize the key points
    • Assess potential opportunity or impact
    • Rate complexity/effort to pursue
  4. Document Results Write findings to /home/developer/shared-out/findings/:

    • Create [YYYY-MM-DD]-findings.md with today's date
    • Update summary.md with cumulative insights (keep last 5 research cycles)
  5. Report Summary Output a brief summary of what was found:

    • Number of trends identified
    • Top 3 most interesting findings
    • Any high-priority items

Output Format

The findings file should follow this structure:

# Research Findings - [DATE]

## Key Trends
- Trend 1: [description]
- Trend 2: [description]

## Opportunities Identified
1. **[Opportunity Name]**
   - Description: ...
   - Why interesting: ...
   - Complexity: Low/Medium/High

## Notable Signals
- [Signal 1]
- [Signal 2]

## Sources
- [Source 1]
- [Source 2]

Execute the research cycle 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 · 66 lines · 7 tokens per session scan A 322b37fcd886

Subscribe to this mod's changes

research is a command published in the GitHub repository Abilityai/trinity (496 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 7 tokens to every session and 360 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.