research

research is a command for Cursor from codeready-toolchain/tarsy. It costs 0 tokens per session (258 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A command for researching a subject on the internet using sources such as official documentation, articles, community discussions, technical reports, and academic papers.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when you need a broad, up-to-date research summary with source citations and discussion of alternatives or unresolved questions.
Why use it?
It helps gather current information and compare sources instead of relying on memory or a single page. It also checks dates, conflicting claims, and changes over time.

Command for Cursor

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/codeready-toolchain/tarsy/research
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/codeready-toolchain/tarsy

Made for: Cursor.

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
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/commands/codeready-toolchain/tarsy/research.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/commands/codeready-toolchain/tarsy/research)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/commands/codeready-toolchain/tarsy/research"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/commands/codeready-toolchain/tarsy/research.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 0 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 258 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00000 $0.00258
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00129
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00052
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00026

Measured 4d ago against content hash afe3270658a3, 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.

.cursor/commands/research.md · 32 lines

What it actually says

Comprehensive Internet Research

Perform thorough internet research to gather the most current and comprehensive information:

  1. Choose Relevant Sources (use what makes sense for the task):

    • Official documentation and API references
    • Best practices and design patterns
    • Recent blog posts and articles (check dates)
    • Stack Overflow and community discussions
    • GitHub issues and pull requests
    • Relevant academic papers or technical reports
  2. Cross-Reference When Needed:

    • Verify important information across sources
    • Look for consensus on best practices
    • Identify conflicting opinions and evaluate them
    • Check for version-specific information when relevant
  3. Stay Current (when version/recency matters):

    • Prioritize sources published within the last 1–3 years (adjust timeframe by domain; use longer windows for historical or foundational topics)
    • Look for deprecation notices or updates
    • Check for new features or alternatives
    • Identify emerging patterns and trends
  4. Synthesize Results:

    • Summarize key findings with source citations
    • Compare different approaches and trade-offs
    • Provide recommendations based on research
    • Highlight any gaps or uncertainties

Present findings clearly with links to sources for further reading.

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 · 32 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A afe3270658a3

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research is a command published in the GitHub repository codeready-toolchain/tarsy (10 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 258 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.