research

A research command that searches the web, reads relevant pages, and saves organized findings as a note in a vault.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to investigate a topic, summarize sources, record links, and connect the new note to related notes.
Why use it?
It keeps research, sources, key points, and follow-up tasks together instead of leaving them scattered across browser tabs and temporary notes.

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/railly/agent-brain/research
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Railly/agent-brain

Made for: Claude Code.

Per session 10 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 271 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 $0.00010 $0.00271
Opus 5 $0.00005 $0.00135
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00054
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00027

Measured 2d ago against content hash 8cc5ef0999d3, 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.

.claude/commands/research.md · 56 lines

What it actually says

Topic: $ARGUMENTS

Research Methods (choose based on need)

Static Content (default)

  1. Use the runtime's web search capability to find relevant information
  2. Use the runtime's page fetch capability to read key sources

Dynamic/Interactive Content (use agent-browser)

When pages require JavaScript, login, or interaction:

agent-browser open "https://example.com"
agent-browser snapshot -i
agent-browser click @e3  # if needed
agent-browser snapshot -i  # get updated content
agent-browser close

Process

  1. Search and gather sources with the runtime's web tools or agent-browser
  2. Synthesize findings into structured notes
  3. Save to 05_Areas/research/$ARGUMENTS.md with:
    • Summary
    • Key points
    • Sources
    • Action items if applicable

Format:

# $ARGUMENTS

## Summary
Brief overview of the topic.

## Key Points
- Point 1
- Point 2

## Sources
- [Title](url)

## Action Items
- [ ] Next step

## Related
- [[Related Topic]]

Link to relevant existing notes if applicable.

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 · 56 lines · 10 tokens per session scan A 8cc5ef0999d3

Subscribe to this mod's changes

research is a command published in the GitHub repository Railly/agent-brain (22 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 10 tokens to every session and 271 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.