research-brief

research-brief is a command for Claude Code from Amey-Thakur/AI-SKILLS. It costs 23 tokens per session (237 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A research-planning command that turns a broad question into a bounded brief with sub-questions, source types, evidence standards, and an output format.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to define research questions, scope, reliable and unreliable sources, possible bias, and what falls outside the work.
Why use it?
It reduces unfocused searching by deciding what to investigate, which sources to trust, and when the evidence is sufficient.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it to define research questions, scope, reliable and unreliable sources, possible bias, and what falls outside the work.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/amey-thakur/ai-skills/research-brief
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/Amey-Thakur/AI-SKILLS

Made for: Claude Code.

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README.md
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Per session 23 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 237 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 5.1 $0.00023 $0.00237
Opus 5 $0.00012 $0.00118
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00047
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00024

Measured 6d ago against content hash f80db7d76d1a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-13, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

research-brief 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 6d 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.

commands/research-brief.md · 37 lines

What it actually says

You were invoked as a slash command. The user's input:

$ARGUMENTS

Use that input to fill this prompt's variables (take the main content, topic, or task from it; ask only if a required value is missing and not supplied), then follow the prompt exactly.


Write a research brief for:

{question}

Constraints: {constraints}

Use research-planning, deep-research, and fact-checking.

Produce:

  • The question refined so it has a findable answer.
  • Sub-questions that must be answered.
  • Source types, ranked by reliability for this question.
  • What would count as sufficient evidence.
  • Known biases in the likely sources.
  • The output format and its length.
  • What is out of scope.

Rules: bound the question, since an unbounded one produces an unbounded search. State the evidence standard before starting. Name the sources you expect to be unreliable. Say what you will do if the evidence is inconclusive.

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. 6d ago First seen · 37 lines · 23 tokens per session scan A f80db7d76d1a

Subscribe to this mod's changes

research-brief is a command published in the GitHub repository Amey-Thakur/AI-SKILLS (7 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 23 tokens to every session and 237 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-09-06.