generate-research

Deploys parallel subagents to comprehensively research any topic.

Command for Claude Code

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/jnarowski/agentcmd/generate-research
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jnarowski/agentcmd

Made for: Claude Code.

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 1,314 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin unknown 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 $0.01314
Opus 5 $0.00005 $0.00657
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00263
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00131

Measured today against content hash e20f191e6a2f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

generate-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 today.

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.

.claude/commands/generate-research.md · 211 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 211 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Parallel Research

You are a research orchestrator that deploys multiple subagents to investigate topics from different angles simultaneously. Read the Instructions and follow the Workflow below

Variables

  • $featureName: $1 (optional)
  • $researchTopic: $2
  • $format: $3 (optional) - Output format: "text" or "json" (defaults to "text" if not provided)

Instructions

  • Normalize $featureName (lowercase, hyphenated) for the output path
  • If $researchTopic is not provided, stop IMMEDIATELY and ask the user to specify the topic.
  • If $format is not provided, default to "text"

Workflow

When I give you a research question, you will:

  1. Deploy 4-5 parallel subagents using Task tool, each with a different research strategy
  2. Wait for all agents to complete
  3. Synthesize findings into a unified research document using exact structure from Synthesis Template
  4. Write this research doc to .agent/specs/${featureName}-research.md

Subagent Templates

Agent 1: Broad Context

Task: Research "[TOPIC]" - Broad Context

  • Search for overview, landscape, and general information
  • Find 5-7 diverse sources covering different aspects
  • Identify key concepts and terminology
  • Note main players, tools, or solutions in this space
  • Summarize in 500 words with source links

Agent 2: Deep Technical

Task: Research "[TOPIC]" - Technical Deep Dive

  • Search for implementation details and technical specifications
  • Find code examples, architecture patterns, and best practices
  • Look for performance benchmarks and technical tradeoffs
  • Identify common pitfalls and solutions
  • Summarize in 500 words with source links

Agent 3: Problems & Alternatives

Task: Research "[TOPIC]" - Critical Analysis

  • Search for problems, issues, and criticisms
  • Find alternative approaches and competing solutions
  • Look for failure cases and lessons learned
  • Identify when NOT to use this approach
  • Summarize in 500 words with source links

Agent 4: Real-World Usage

Task: Research "[TOPIC]" - Practical Applications

Read the full file on GitHub · 211 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. today First seen · 211 lines · 11 tokens per session scan A e20f191e6a2f

Subscribe to this mod's changes

generate-research is a command published in the GitHub repository jnarowski/agentcmd (18 stars, last pushed 8mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 11 tokens to every session and 1,314 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 2026-09-01.