research

A command for adding a secondary source to a research map. Secondary literature means published work that discusses or interprets a subject rather than serving as the study’s original evidence.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to read a new file, record its attributed position with source details, compare it with existing literature, identify the research gap, and reassess what remains original in the thesis.
Why use it?
It helps keep source claims accurate by checking their wording and context, while showing how each source agrees with, differs from, or leaves room for the study’s thesis.

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/josefslerka/study-kit/research
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/josefslerka/study-kit

Made for: Claude Code.

Per session 19 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 396 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 $0.00019 $0.00396
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.00198
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00079
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00040

Measured 2d ago against content hash 72f781a0b4db, 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 2d 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.

en/.claude/commands/research.md · 27 lines

What it actually says

Run the secondary-literature ingest per CLAUDE.md, section "Secondary literature".

For a new file in raw_secondary/:

  1. Read it and compile its POSITION (what it claims about the subject of the study) — by PARAPHRASE, with provenance (raw_secondary/<file>) and an anchor phrase for each key claim. Do NOT cite it as a fact about the world, only as someone's position with attribution.
  2. Two-layer verification (rule 1): for each attributed position verify not only that the anchor phrase IS in the file, but that the position holds in CONTEXT — that the use does not distort what the author actually claims. Word-match is not enough; distorting a position is fabrication. Uncertain context → weaken or drop.
  3. Place it in process/research.md. Map agreements and divergences with positions already there.
  4. Mark the gap the study's thesis fills (what this literature overlooks).
  5. Recompute originality: what of the thesis does this source already say itself → what remains as the author's own contribution? Write that remainder. (A source that confirms the thesis can quietly take its novelty.)
  6. Type and balance: is it a theoretical lens, or a document of field consensus? When a 3rd+ theoretical lens accrues without a single field source, REPORT the imbalance (risk of an "apparatus parade") — what's missing is scholarship about the subject, not another lens.
  7. Attribute ONLY what you find in the file — never "the author would probably say". Don't name a source outside raw_secondary/ at all.

Log it. After a few sources, offer to write the positioning for the introduction from research.md.

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. 2d ago First seen · 27 lines · 19 tokens per session scan A 72f781a0b4db

Subscribe to this mod's changes

research is a command published in the GitHub repository josefslerka/study-kit (5 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 19 tokens to every session and 396 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.