Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to aidemd-mcp/server. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/aidemd-mcp/server/main/.claude/commands/aide/research.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/aidemd-mcp/serverWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/commands/aidemd-mcp/server/research)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/commands/aidemd-mcp/server/research"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/commands/aidemd-mcp/server/research/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.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/commands/aidemd-mcp/server/research"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/commands/aidemd-mcp/server/research.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00000 | $0.00399 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00000 | $0.00160 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00000 | $0.00080 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00000 | $0.00040 |
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 20d 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.
What it actually says
/aide:research — Research Phase (Optional)
Agent: This command is executed by the
aide-domain-expertagent.
Fill the brain with durable domain knowledge the synthesizer can later draw from. Run this phase only when the module requires domain expertise the team does not already have — skip it when the domain is already understood.
Checklist
- Confirm research is actually needed. If the user or the brain already has the domain knowledge, stop and go directly to
/aide:synthesize - Identify the domain being researched — name it specifically enough that the brain can file the output under a stable topic
- Check the brain first for existing research on the topic. If coverage is already sufficient, stop — do not re-fetch what the brain already holds
- Gather sources: existing brain entries, transcripts, external articles, web search, MCP memory stores
- Synthesize findings and persist them to the brain filed by domain (e.g.,
research/email-marketing/,research/local-seo/), not by project. Domain knowledge is reusable across projects - If no external brain is available, write findings to a co-located
research.aidefile next to the intent spec as a fallback. This is not ideal — recommend enabling an external memory store - Each persisted entry should include:
- Sources with ratings and dates
- Data points with attribution
- Patterns observed across sources
- Conflicts resolved (where sources disagreed, which direction chosen and why)
- Stop when coverage is sufficient for the synthesizer to fill the
.aidebody sections, not when all sources are exhausted - Hand off to the next phase the orchestrator routed:
/aide:synthesizewhen the feature is a pipeline (the strategist reads your research alongside the pipeline description), otherwise/aide:plan
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.
- 20d ago Changed b4e9e49fbaa4
- 2mo ago First seen · 22 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A e530b8fbacbb
research is a command published in the GitHub repository aidemd-mcp/server (4 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 399 tokens. 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 2026-08-31.
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watchdog
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review
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worktree
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superskill
route a task through superskill packs.
ijfw-audit
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api-aqa-flow-execution-and-report-analysis
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