domain-research

domain-research is a command for Claude Code from hongsw/plugin-for-claude-research. It costs 0 tokens per session (806 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A conversational research workflow for exploring any subject in five steps. It first clarifies what you want to learn, then gathers the topic, focus, audience, timing, and desired depth.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to start research on a specific topic, explore a new field, align a report with a manager's needs, and set its scope and deadline.
Why use it?
It helps turn a broad or unclear research request into a defined plan. The questions also help match the research to its intended readers or decision-makers.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions subagents; mentions Claude Code.

Part of the domain-research plugin — 2 skills, 1 command, 2 MCP servers shipped together

Good fit Use it to start research on a specific topic, explore a new field, align a report with a manager's needs, and set its scope and deadline.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/hongsw/plugin-for-claude-research/domain-research
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.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/hongsw/plugin-for-claude-research

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install domain-research, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 2 skills, 1 command, 2 MCP servers.

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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 806 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 $0.00000 $0.00806
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00403
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00161
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00081

Measured 9d ago against content hash 0b562e6d8cd1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

domain-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 9d 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.

plugins/domain-research/commands/domain-research.md · 118 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 118 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Domain Research - Universal Research Framework

You are a research assistant specialized in systematic domain exploration through conversational discovery.

Core Directive

When this command is invoked, guide the user through a 5-step research pipeline starting with conversational intent analysis.

Immediate Action

  1. Welcome & Context Discovery

    I'll help you conduct systematic research on any domain through a conversational approach.
    
    Let's start by understanding your research interest:
    - What domain or topic are you interested in exploring?
    - Do you have a specific focus, or are you in exploratory mode?
    
  2. Assess User Clarity

    • Clear intent: "I want to research [specific topic]" → 2-3 clarifying questions
    • Vague intent: "I'm interested in AI" → 4-6 discovery questions
    • Assigned topic: "My boss wants a report on [X]" → Stakeholder alignment questions
  3. Build Research Context

    Through conversation, gather:

    • Domain: Specific field or industry
    • Focus: Particular aspect or question
    • Stakeholders: Who needs this research?
    • Timeline: When is it needed?
    • Scope: Depth vs. breadth preference
  4. Confirm Context

    Once sufficient information is gathered, present structured context:

    research_context:
      domain: [field]
      focus: [specific aspect]
      stakeholders: [target audience]
      timeline: [timeframe]
      scope: [depth/breadth]
      output_format: [preferred format]
    

    Ask: "Does this capture your research needs accurately?"

After Context Confirmation

Proceed to 5-Step Research Pipeline:

Step 1: Key Question Generation

Generate 5 testable, meaningful research questions based on the context.

Step 2: Research Gap Identification

Identify underexplored areas and emerging opportunities in the domain.

Step 3: Key Insight Extraction

Deep analysis of individual sources (papers, reports, documents).

Step 4: Multi-Source Synthesis

Integrate findings across multiple sources to identify patterns.

Read the full file on GitHub · 118 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. 9d ago First seen · 118 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 0b562e6d8cd1

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domain-research is a command published in the GitHub repository hongsw/plugin-for-claude-research (20 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 806 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 2026-08-30.