research

A command for researching questions about the outside world using current web sources. It returns a concise answer with citations for important factual claims and notes when evidence is limited.

In plain words
What is it for?
Answering current technical or general questions, comparing tools or products, and producing research with a sources list.
Why use it?
It helps when an answer needs checkable sources rather than guesses from the model's existing knowledge. It also separates sourced research from project advice, planning, or expert opinion.

Command

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/restarter/lets-workflow/research
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/restarter/lets-workflow
Per session 0 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,589 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 $0.00000 $0.01589
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00794
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00318
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00159

Measured 2d ago against content hash f04b6c83c0f6, 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.

docs/commands/research.md · 71 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 71 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/lets:research — web-first sourced research

Ask a question about the outside world, get back a concise answer where every non-trivial claim carries a citation — searched and fetched from the live web, cross-checked by a skeptic agent, and honestly labeled where the evidence is thin.

/lets:research which local LLM fits 32GB RAM + RTX 3080?

When to use it (and when not)

/lets:research fills a gap the other consult commands don't cover: its deliverable is a cited synthesis of external facts, not ideas about your project and not an expert's opinion from model knowledge.

You want Use Shape
An answer to an external/technical question, with sources /lets:research question → sourced answer
One expert's take, quick /lets:ask question → expert consult
A judgment or ideas about something in your project (a decision or an open question) /lets:opinion decision / open question → project-grounded take (no web)
A plan for how to build something /lets:plan task → implementation plan

Rule of thumb: if the answer should end with a Sources list, it's research. "Which vector DB has the best Go client in 2026?" is research; "how should we add a vector DB to this repo?" is opinion or plan.

Usage

Form What happens
/lets:research <question> Research the question, return a cited synthesis.
/lets:research Asks what to research first, then goes.
/lets:research <question> --workflow Same stages, but the research and cross-check run off-context in a Dynamic Workflow — only the final synthesis enters your conversation.
/lets:research <question> --project Also grounds findings against this repo (is X already used here, does it fit our stack), without ever reading outside the project root.

Without an explicit --workflow, the command offers a run-mode picker: Standard (everything visible in the chat) or Workflow (off-context, only the synthesis returns).

Read the full file on GitHub · 71 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. 2d ago First seen · 71 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A f04b6c83c0f6

Subscribe to this mod's changes

research is a command published in the GitHub repository restarter/lets-workflow (17 stars, last pushed 9d ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 1,589 tokens. 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.