research

A research-only command that investigates a question using project files, code, current web sources, and library documentation, then summarizes the findings.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to answer technical questions, compare approaches, check current documentation, record sources, and save substantial findings for later.
Why use it?
It separates fact-finding from implementation so code is not changed while the problem or available options are still being investigated.

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/codeverbojan/claude-code-kickstart/research
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/codeverbojan/claude-code-kickstart

Made for: Claude Code.

Per session 11 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 255 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 $0.00011 $0.00255
Opus 5 $0.00005 $0.00128
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00051
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00026

Measured yesterday against content hash d51d42ccc8f3, 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 yesterday.

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.

.claude/commands/research.md · 38 lines

What it actually says

Research Playbook

This is a research task. Do NOT write code unless explicitly asked.

1. Understand the Question

  • What specifically needs to be answered?
  • What decision does this research inform?
  • Check existing project docs first (docs/, README, CLAUDE.md)
  • Search the codebase for prior art
  • Search the web for current information
  • Use context7 MCP for library/framework docs
  • Always verify versions are current — training data may be stale

3. Synthesize

  • Distinguish facts from opinions
  • Note when sources conflict
  • Include URLs for all external claims
  • Flag anything that might be outdated

4. Output

Write findings as a concise summary:

  • Answer: the direct answer in 1-3 sentences
  • Options: if comparing alternatives, a short pros/cons table
  • Recommendation: what you'd pick and why
  • Sources: links

If findings are substantial, write them to a file (e.g. research-{topic}.md) so they persist for future sessions.

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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. yesterday First seen · 38 lines · 11 tokens per session scan A d51d42ccc8f3

Subscribe to this mod's changes

research is a command published in the GitHub repository codeverbojan/claude-code-kickstart (2 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 11 tokens to every session and 255 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.