research

research is a command for Claude Code from shanraisshan/claude-code-best-practice. It costs 13 tokens per session (2,858 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A research command that evaluates a proposed product feature before detailed planning. It produces a recommendation on whether to proceed, based on user value, technical feasibility, risks, and possible approaches.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it with a feature request stored in an `rpi/{feature-slug}/REQUEST.md` file to create a research report and a GO/NO-GO recommendation.
Why use it?
It creates an early decision point so teams can identify weak ideas, blockers, or better alternatives before investing in implementation planning.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions subagents.

About the project

claude-code-best-practice is a repository of agents, commands, skills, hooks, plugins, and configuration guidance for Claude Code. It helps developers organize repeatable workflows and apply agentic engineering practices, including in monorepos. The catalogue entries are its reusable Claude Code workflow components.

shanraisshan/claude-code-best-practice · 65,631 stars · on GitHub · linkedin.com

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/shanraisshan/claude-code-best-practice/research
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/shanraisshan/claude-code-best-practice

Made for: Claude Code.

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README.md
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Per session 13 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 2,858 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 5.1 $0.00013 $0.02858
Opus 5 $0.00006 $0.01429
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00572
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00286

Measured 6d ago against content hash a29b403477d4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, 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 6d 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

  • research — 100% identical, 0 lines differ
development-workflows/rpi/.claude/commands/rpi/research.md · 382 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 382 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

User Input

$ARGUMENTS

You MUST parse the user input to extract the feature slug (the folder name in rpi/).

Expected Input Format: rpi/{feature-slug}/REQUEST.md

Purpose

This command performs comprehensive research and analysis of feature requests before the planning phase begins. It acts as a critical GO/NO-GO gate to determine whether a feature idea should proceed to detailed planning.

Key Objectives:

  • Assess product-market fit and user value
  • Evaluate technical feasibility and complexity
  • Identify risks and potential blockers
  • Determine the right approach (build, buy, partner, or decline)
  • Make go/no-go recommendation with clear rationale

Prerequisites:

  • Feature folder exists at rpi/{feature-slug}/
  • Feature request file exists at rpi/{feature-slug}/REQUEST.md

Output Location: rpi/{feature-slug}/research/RESEARCH.md

This is Step 2 of the RPI Workflow (after initial feature description in Step 1).

Outline

  1. Load Context: Read feature description from rpi/{feature-slug}/ and project constitution (if exists)
  2. Parse Feature Request: Use requirement-parser agent to extract structured requirements
  3. Execute Multi-Phase Research:
    • Phase 1: Parse Feature Request (requirement-parser agent)
    • Phase 2: Product Analysis with Constitution Alignment (product-manager agent)
    • Phase 2.5: Technical Discovery (Explore agent) - CRITICAL: Deep code exploration
    • Phase 3: Technical Feasibility (senior-software-engineer agent)
    • Phase 4: Strategic Assessment (technical-cto-advisor agent)
    • Phase 5: Generate Research Report (documentation-analyst-writer agent)
  4. Synthesize Recommendation: Combine all analyses into clear go/no-go recommendation
  5. Validate Output: Check against quality gates
  6. Report Completion: Provide recommendation, next steps, and report location

Phases

Phase 0: Load Context

Prerequisites: Feature slug provided, rpi/{feature-slug}/REQUEST.md exists

Read the full file on GitHub · 382 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. 6d ago First seen · 382 lines · 13 tokens per session scan A a29b403477d4

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research is a command published in the GitHub repository shanraisshan/claude-code-best-practice (65,631 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 13 tokens to every session and 2,858 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.