research

research is a command for Claude Code from arielshad/balagan-agent. It costs 8 tokens per session (247 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of research, Apache-2.0.

A command that starts a structured research session on a topic. It breaks the subject into smaller questions, gathers web sources, saves research notes, and produces a written synthesis.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to investigate a technical or general topic, compare sources, record uncertainties, and create a research report.
Why use it?
It organizes broad research so important angles and source links are less likely to be missed.

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/arielshad/balagan-agent/research
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/arielshad/balagan-agent

Made for: Claude Code.

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

README.md
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Your own site
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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 247 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 100% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00247
Opus 5 $0.00004 $0.00123
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00049
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00025

Measured 4d ago against content hash 2e56ec992b6a, 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 4d 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.

Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to research — 0 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

claude-agent-sdk-demos/.claude/commands/research.md · 38 lines

What it actually says

Research the following topic thoroughly: $ARGUMENTS

Research Strategy

  1. Break Down the Topic

    • Identify 2-4 key subtopics or angles to investigate
    • Ensure comprehensive coverage without redundancy
  2. Parallel Research

    • Spawn researcher subagents for each subtopic
    • Each researcher should conduct 3-7 web searches
    • Focus on authoritative, recent sources (2024-2025)
  3. Source Quality

    • Prioritize: academic papers, official docs, reputable news
    • Cross-reference claims from multiple sources
    • Note any conflicting information
  4. Output Requirements

    • Save findings to files/research_notes/
    • Use clear, descriptive filenames
    • Include source URLs for citations
  5. Synthesis

    • After all research is complete, automatically spawn report-writer
    • Create a comprehensive synthesis in files/reports/

Quality Standards

  • Minimum 3 sources per subtopic
  • Include diverse perspectives
  • Flag areas where information is uncertain or conflicting
  • Note knowledge gaps for potential follow-up
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. 4d ago First seen · 38 lines · 8 tokens per session scan A 2e56ec992b6a

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research is a command published in the GitHub repository arielshad/balagan-agent (11 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 8 tokens to every session and 247 once invoked, about $0.0000 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to research, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.