research

research is a command for Claude Code from ChipAlexandru/strategy-consultant. It costs 23 tokens per session (540 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A command that resumes the research stage of an existing strategy-consulting project. It is not a starting point for a new investigation.

In plain words
What is it for?
It checks for an existing engagement workspace, reads its saved state and research inputs, and continues the research phase when those materials are present.
Why use it?
It prevents research from starting without the earlier files that define the question, scope, and required evidence.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter.

Needs its repository: it reads a path above its own folder, which exists only inside the repository. The line is If you see unfamiliar placeholders or need to check which tools are connected, see [CONNECTORS.md](../CONNECTORS.md)..

Part of the strategy-consultant plugin — 8 skills, 4 commands, 6 agents, 2 MCP servers shipped together

Good fit It checks for an existing engagement workspace, reads its saved state and research inputs, and continues the research phase when those materials are present.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ChipAlexandru/strategy-consultant
agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/chipalexandru/strategy-consultant/research

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install strategy-consultant, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 8 skills, 4 commands, 6 agents, 2 MCP servers.

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.

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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 540 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 $0.00540
Opus 5 $0.00012 $0.00270
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00108
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00054

Measured 8d ago against content hash f8162a0e0ec7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, 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 8d 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.md · 49 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 49 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CONTINUATION COMMAND — do not use as a fresh entry point

This command continues an existing engagement. Before any other tool call:

  1. Check for an engagement workspace (./engagements/<slug>-<date>/engagement-state.json, or — for legacy engagements — ./engagement/precision-anchor.md).
  2. If a workspace exists → continue from the research phase using its state.
  3. If a workspace does NOT exist → STOP. Invoke /engagement instead. engagement-manager will route to the correct starting phase, including this one if appropriate.

Do not attempt to run this phase cold. Upstream artifacts (Precision Anchor, Client Question Checklist, Source Material Extraction Log, data-source answers, engagement-state.json) are produced by earlier phases and required inputs here. Reconstructing them inside this command is not the fix — routing through engagement-manager is.

/research — Parallel Research with Validation (continuation)

If you see unfamiliar placeholders or need to check which tools are connected, see CONNECTORS.md.

Important: This plugin assists with strategic analysis and research but does not constitute professional consulting, financial, or legal advice. All outputs should be reviewed by qualified professionals before use in decision-making.

Resume the research phase of an active engagement. Deploys two independent research agents in parallel, then a validator, against the upstream artifacts produced by problem-definition.

Usage

/research <research question or topic>

The <topic> argument is informational only — the authoritative question comes from the active engagement's Precision Anchor, not from the argument string.

If no engagement workspace exists, do not attempt to start one. Stop and route the user to /engagement.

Workflow

This command resumes the research skill inside an active engagement. The skill's preflight gate verifies the upstream artifacts (precision-anchor.md, client-question-checklist.md, source-material-extraction-log.md, step0-answers.md, engagement-state.json) are present and that problem-definition is in completed_phases. If any required item is missing, the skill stops and routes back to engagement-manager.

Read the full file on GitHub · 49 lines

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. 8d ago First seen · 49 lines · 23 tokens per session scan A f8162a0e0ec7

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research is a command published in the GitHub repository ChipAlexandru/strategy-consultant (4 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 23 tokens to every session and 540 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 2026-08-31.