research

A command for researching questions on the web and producing a sourced report. It adjusts the research process to the question's complexity and records findings, confidence levels, and citations.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for current events, technical research, academic questions, market analysis, or competitive research that needs sources.
Why use it?
It provides a repeatable way to investigate current, technical, academic, or market topics without relying on unsupported claims.

Command

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/drag88/claude-dev-framework/research
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/drag88/claude-dev-framework
Per session 9 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 373 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 $0.00009 $0.00373
Opus 5 $0.00005 $0.00187
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00075
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00037

Measured yesterday against content hash 1b89e7fc6130, 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.

commands/research.md · 50 lines

What it actually says

/cdf:research - Deep Research Command

Triggers

  • Research questions beyond knowledge cutoff
  • Complex research questions
  • Current events and real-time information
  • Academic or technical research requirements
  • Market analysis and competitive intelligence

Context Trigger Pattern

/cdf:research "[query]" [--depth quick|standard|deep|exhaustive] [--strategy planning|intent|unified]

Behavioral Flow

Scope the question, decide how many hops of research it needs, search in parallel batches, and synthesize with sources cited — deeper or more ambiguous questions warrant more hops.

Output Standards

  • Save reports to claudedocs/research_[topic]_[timestamp].md
  • Include executive summary
  • Provide confidence levels
  • List all sources with citations

Examples

/cdf:research "latest developments in quantum computing 2024"
/cdf:research "competitive analysis of AI coding assistants" --depth deep
/cdf:research "best practices for distributed systems" --strategy unified

Boundaries

Will: Current information, intelligent search, evidence-based analysis Won't: Make claims without sources, skip validation, access restricted content

Agent Routing

Research Context Primary Agent When to Use
Technical topics deep-research-agent Architecture patterns, algorithms, best practices
Market/business business-research-strategist Market sizing, competitive analysis, business models
Library selection library-researcher Package comparison, maintenance health, migration risk

Next Commands

  • /cdf:design — Design systems based on research findings
  • /cdf:brainstorm — Explore requirements informed by research
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 · 50 lines · 9 tokens per session scan A 1b89e7fc6130

Subscribe to this mod's changes

research is a command published in the GitHub repository drag88/claude-dev-framework (2 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 9 tokens to every session and 373 once invoked, about $0.0000 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.