research

research is a command for Claude Code from frankchu91/mindbase-llm-wiki. It costs 32 tokens per session (335 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command for researching a topic using online sources and an existing project wiki, then saving the findings in the project's research folder.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to investigate a topic, save the research under a selected project, and prepare the findings for inclusion in the project's main context.
Why use it?
It keeps research tied to the correct project and preserves the sources and summary for later use.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: $ARGUMENTS substitution. Also seen: mentions subagents.

Part of the mb plugin — 1 skill, 12 commands, 5 agents, 1 hook, 1 MCP server shipped together

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/frankchu91/mindbase-llm-wiki/research
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/frankchu91/mindbase-llm-wiki

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install mb, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill, 12 commands, 5 agents, 1 hook, 1 MCP server.

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/frankchu91/mindbase-llm-wiki/research.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/commands/frankchu91/mindbase-llm-wiki/research)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/commands/frankchu91/mindbase-llm-wiki/research"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/commands/frankchu91/mindbase-llm-wiki/research.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 32 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 335 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 5.1 $0.00032 $0.00335
Opus 5 $0.00016 $0.00168
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00067
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00034

Measured 6d ago against content hash 16c11307482a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, 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 6d 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.

apps/plugin/commands/research.md · 30 lines

What it actually says

Deep research a topic for a MindBase project.

Arguments: $ARGUMENTS

Parse:

  • --project <id> or -p <id> flag → target project id. If omitted, uses config.json currentProjectId.
  • Remaining text = the topic. If empty, ask the user.

Dispatch the researcher sub-agent via the Task tool with subagent_type: "researcher" and prompt:

Research topic: ${topic}.
projectId: ${resolvedProjectId}

The researcher threads projectId through every MCP call (search_wiki, ask_wiki, research_save, append_log, validate_structure) and saves the output to ${resolvedProjectId}/sources/research/.

When the sub-agent returns, present its summary verbatim. Then offer:

  • "Run /mb:build -p ${resolvedProjectId} to fold these findings into context.md?"
  • "Save a follow-up question as a contributor note?" → use /mb:contribute -p ${resolvedProjectId} ...

Note: -p does NOT change current project — research is saved to the specified project only.

Examples:

  • /mb:research "AI agent marketplace" → current project
  • /mb:research -p ai-agents "transformer attention mechanisms" → ai-agents
  • /mb:research --project insurance "flood risk models 2026" → insurance
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. 6d ago First seen · 30 lines · 32 tokens per session scan A 16c11307482a

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research is a command published in the GitHub repository frankchu91/mindbase-llm-wiki (95 stars, last pushed 12d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 32 tokens to every session and 335 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-30.