start-topic-swarm-deep-research

start-topic-swarm-deep-research is a command for Claude Code from itlackey/akm. It costs 20 tokens per session (401 once invoked), scanned A, original, MPL-2.0.

A command that starts a structured research workflow. It divides a topic into related areas, investigates them, and produces a report.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to launch research with a goal, intended audience, scope, source requirements, workspace, and report location.
Why use it?
It removes the need to manually create the workflow and remember all of its required settings.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: $ARGUMENTS substitution.

Good fit Use it to launch research with a goal, intended audience, scope, source requirements, workspace, and report location.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/itlackey/akm/start-topic-swarm-deep-research
View source ↗ itlackey/akm
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/itlackey/akm

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 20 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 401 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 $0.00020 $0.00401
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.00200
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00080
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00040

Measured 9d ago against content hash e364e52d8b00, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

start-topic-swarm-deep-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.

scripts/akm-eval/example-stash/commands/start-topic-swarm-deep-research.md · 42 lines

What it actually says

Start Topic Swarm Deep Research

Start the combined swarm-plus-deep-research workflow for this goal:

$ARGUMENTS

Use this procedure:

  1. Ensure the workflow asset exists in the stash. If workflows/research/topic-swarm-select-and-deep-research does not exist yet, create it from scripts/akm-eval/example-stash/workflows/topic-swarm-select-and-deep-research.md:
akm workflow create research/topic-swarm-select-and-deep-research --from scripts/akm-eval/example-stash/workflows/topic-swarm-select-and-deep-research.md
  1. Run the workflow with exact declared parameter flags. Fill in unknowns conservatively instead of inventing specifics:
akm workflow run workflows/research/topic-swarm-select-and-deep-research \
  --goal "$ARGUMENTS" \
  --audience "Specify the intended reader and decision-maker" \
  --scope "Specify boundaries, exclusions, geography, time horizon, and quality bar" \
  --workspace_dir ".akm-run/topic-swarm-deep-research" \
  --deliverable_path ".akm-run/topic-swarm-deep-research/report.md" \
  --wiki_name research \
  --max_swarm_topics 12 \
  --max_topic_depth 3 \
  --max_topic_branches 5 \
  --max_iterations 8 \
  --min_primary_sources 5 \
  --trusted_domains '[]' \
  --seed_urls '[]'
  1. Record the returned run id and terminal result. If the goal is already narrow and topic selection is unnecessary, prefer the standalone workflow in scripts/akm-eval/example-stash/workflows/deep-research-auto-research.md instead.
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 · 42 lines · 20 tokens per session scan A e364e52d8b00

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start-topic-swarm-deep-research is a command published in the GitHub repository itlackey/akm (58 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MPL-2.0. It adds 20 tokens to every session and 401 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 2026-08-30.