investigate

investigate is a command for Claude Code from lckx777/copy-chief-black. It costs 12 tokens per session (1,917 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A structured research workflow that creates questions and considers possible bias before searching for evidence. It deliberately looks for information that could disprove an initial idea as well as support it.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to investigate a topic, compare supporting and opposing evidence, and organize findings before drawing conclusions.
Why use it?
It reduces the risk of reaching a conclusion by searching only for confirming information.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it to investigate a topic, compare supporting and opposing evidence, and organize findings before drawing conclusions.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/lckx777/copy-chief-black/investigate
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/lckx777/copy-chief-black

Made for: Claude Code.

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.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

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Per session 12 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,917 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 $0.00012 $0.01917
Opus 5 $0.00006 $0.00958
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00383
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00192

Measured 11d ago against content hash c4883a30612e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

investigate 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 11d 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.

framework/commands/investigate.md · 237 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 237 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/investigate — Investigative Research Mode

Input: $ARGUMENTS

Structured investigation mode that generates questions and explicitly identifies biases BEFORE starting research. Ensures evidence is gathered for both confirming AND disconfirming hypotheses.

Why This Exists

Standard research suffers from confirmation bias: we search for what confirms what we already believe. This protocol forces EXPLICIT bias declaration and DELIBERATE disconfirming searches before synthesis.

Instructions

When this command is invoked with $ARGUMENTS:

Step 0: Handle Missing Input

If $ARGUMENTS is empty:

Usage: /investigate <topic>

Examples:
  /investigate "CoQ10 efficacy for tinnitus"
  /investigate "florayla avatar pain points"
  /investigate "competitor VSL structure for constipation offers"
  /investigate "shame as DRE in health niches"
  /investigate "which hook format converts best for supplement VSLs"

/investigate is for STRUCTURED research with explicit bias control.
For VOC collection, use /audience-research-agent instead.

Phase 1: Question Generation (BEFORE Any Searching)

Generate 5-10 investigative questions organized by type. Do NOT search yet — generate questions from prior knowledge first.

Display:

INVESTIGATING: "[topic]"

PHASE 1 — QUESTIONS (before searching)

FACTUAL (what we can measure or verify):
  Q1. [question about verifiable data or facts]
  Q2. [question about measurable outcomes]

CAUSAL (why things happen):
  Q3. [question about root cause or mechanism]
  Q4. [question about what drives the outcome]

COMPARATIVE (how things relate):
  Q5. [question comparing alternatives or options]
  Q6. [question about differences between cases]

COUNTERFACTUAL (challenging assumptions):
  Q7. What if the opposite were true?
  Q8. What evidence would make me change my conclusion?

BIAS-CHECK (making assumptions explicit):
  Q9. What am I assuming before I even start?
  Q10. Who benefits from the conclusion I expect to find?

Read the full file on GitHub · 237 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. 11d ago First seen · 237 lines · 12 tokens per session scan A c4883a30612e

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investigate is a command published in the GitHub repository lckx777/copy-chief-black (5 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 12 tokens to every session and 1,917 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.