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

Use it to investigate a topic, summarize sources, record links, and connect the new note to related notes.

It keeps research, sources, key points, and follow-up tasks together instead of leaving them scattered across browser tabs and temporary notes.

How Railly/agent-brain configures Claude Code

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to Railly/agent-brain. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file

curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Railly/agent-brain/main/.claude/commands/research.md

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Railly/agent-brain

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.

README.md

[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/commands/railly/agent-brain/research/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/commands/railly/agent-brain/research)

Your own site

<a href="https://agentmods.dev/commands/railly/agent-brain/research"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/commands/railly/agent-brain/research/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

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.

Your own site · 80×15

<a href="https://agentmods.dev/commands/railly/agent-brain/research"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/commands/railly/agent-brain/research.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>

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. 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00010	$0.00271
Opus 5.5	$0.00004	$0.00108
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00002	$0.00054
Haiku 4.5	$0.00001	$0.00027

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 8cc5ef0999d3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, 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 2mo 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)

Use the runtime's web search capability to find relevant information
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

Search and gather sources with the runtime's web tools or agent-browser
Synthesize findings into structured notes
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.

2mo 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 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 10 tokens to every session and 271 once invoked, about $0.0000 per session on Opus 5.5. 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.

Research

research next to 6 commands from other repositories
Mod	Type	Stars	Last push	Licence	Scan	Tokens	Works with
researchRailly/agent-brain	Command	22	3mo ago	MIT	A	10	Claude Code
checklistgithub/spec-kit	Command	148k	yesterday	MIT	A	13	Claude Code
clarifygithub/spec-kit	Command	148k	yesterday	MIT	A	27	Claude Code
specifygithub/spec-kit	Command	148k	yesterday	MIT	A	13	Claude Code
analyzegithub/spec-kit	Command	148k	yesterday	MIT	A	26	Claude Code
convergegithub/spec-kit	Command	148k	yesterday	MIT	A	35	Claude Code
implementgithub/spec-kit	Command	148k	yesterday	MIT	A	14	Claude Code

agent-brain: Command for Claude Code