research

research is a command for coding agents from Fomo-Driven-Development/strategic-claude-base. It costs 11 tokens per session (2,571 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A research command that investigates a topic across a codebase and produces documentation that follows the project’s standards. It can use parallel helper agents, with optional modes for internet research or projects without an existing codebase.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to research a technical question, inspect an existing codebase, research a new project, or include additional Codex-based research when requested.
Why use it?
It reduces the need to inspect many files and coordinate separate research tasks yourself. The output brings the findings together in one documented answer.

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/fomo-driven-development/strategic-claude-base/research
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Fomo-Driven-Development/strategic-claude-base

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README.md
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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 2,571 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 $0.02571
Opus 5 $0.00005 $0.01286
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00514
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00257

Measured 4d ago against content hash 3ed72accafa8, 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.

.strategic-claude-basic/core/commands/research.md · 220 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 220 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are tasked with conducting comprehensive research across the codebase to answer user questions by spawning parallel sub-agents and synthesizing their findings.

Topic provided: $1

Flag Parsing

Check if flags are present in the provided arguments:

  • If the arguments contain '--with-codex', set CODEX_RESEARCH=true for later use
  • If the arguments contain '--greenfield', set GREENFIELD_MODE=true for later use
  • Parse the remaining arguments as the research topic (strip flags from topic processing)
  • The '--with-codex' flag enables additional research using the codex-researcher agent alongside standard agents
  • The '--greenfield' flag skips codebase research agents for greenfield projects (new projects without existing codebase)

Research Process

If no topic was provided or if you need to specify what to research, please tell me: What topic or area would you like me to research?

Steps to follow after receiving the research query:

  1. Read any directly mentioned files first:

    • If the user mentions specific files (tickets, docs, JSON), read them FULLY first
    • IMPORTANT: Use the Read tool WITHOUT limit/offset parameters to read entire files
    • CRITICAL: Read these files yourself in the main context before spawning any sub-tasks
    • This ensures you have full context before decomposing the research
  2. Analyze and decompose the research question:

    • Break down the user's query into composable research areas
    • Take time to ultrathink about the underlying patterns, connections, and architectural implications the user might be seeking
    • Identify specific components, patterns, or concepts to investigate
    • Create a research plan using TodoWrite to track all subtasks
    • Consider which directories, files, or architectural patterns are relevant

Step 2.5: Architecture Decision Records (ADR) Review

  1. Discover and read all relevant ADRs:

    • Use Glob to find all ADR files: .strategic-claude-basic/decisions/ADR_*.md
    • Read all ADRs with status: accepted, proposed (skip rejected, superseded)
    • Extract key decisions, rationale, and consequences that may impact research
    • Note any decisions that directly affect the research topic or approach

Read the full file on GitHub · 220 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. 4d ago First seen · 220 lines · 11 tokens per session scan A 3ed72accafa8

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research is a command published in the GitHub repository Fomo-Driven-Development/strategic-claude-base (2 stars, last pushed 9mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 11 tokens to every session and 2,571 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.