how-to-research

how-to-research is a command for Claude Code from bengous/claude-code-plugins. It costs 10 tokens per session (83 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A teaching command that explains which research tools to use for a given topic.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to discover suitable tools and receive exact instructions for running research queries.
Why use it?
It helps when you do not know where to find reliable information or how to call the available tools.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Part of the research-tools plugin — 1 skill, 4 commands, 2 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to discover suitable tools and receive exact instructions for running…

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/bengous/claude-code-plugins/how-to-research
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/bengous/claude-code-plugins

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install research-tools, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill, 4 commands, 2 agents.

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 how-to-research

README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/commands/bengous/claude-code-plugins/how-to-research"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/commands/bengous/claude-code-plugins/how-to-research.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 10 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 83 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 $0.00010 $0.00083
Opus 5 $0.00005 $0.00042
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00017
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00008

Measured 3d ago against content hash 7dfe1c6cb0fb, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

how-to-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 3d 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.

research-tools/commands/how-to-research.md · 13 lines

What it actually says

Call the Agent tool with subagent_type: "research-tools:research-teacher".

Pass the topic exactly as provided: $ARGUMENTS

The agent will return tool instructions you can execute directly. After receiving the instructions, run the suggested tool calls yourself.

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. 3d ago First seen · 13 lines · 10 tokens per session scan A 7dfe1c6cb0fb

Subscribe to this mod's changes

how-to-research is a command published in the GitHub repository bengous/claude-code-plugins (4 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 10 tokens to every session and 83 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 2026-09-03.

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