research

research is a command for Claude Code from vinnie357/claude-skills. It costs 8 tokens per session (879 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A research command that investigates a topic and creates organized Markdown files for understanding and planning. It can adjust the depth of research based on the topic's complexity.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to research development or infrastructure topics and create an overview, troubleshooting guide, and optional supporting guides.
Why use it?
It turns scattered research into a searchable reference with consistent sections, troubleshooting notes, sources, examples, and planning material.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter.

Part of the core plugin — 14 skills, 5 commands, 7 agents, 1 hook shipped together

Good fit Use it to research development or infrastructure topics and create an overview, troubleshooting guide, and optional supporting guides.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/vinnie357/claude-skills/research
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/vinnie357/claude-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install core, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 14 skills, 5 commands, 7 agents, 1 hook.

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.

agentmods badge for research

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/commands/vinnie357/claude-skills/research/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/commands/vinnie357/claude-skills/research)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/commands/vinnie357/claude-skills/research"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/commands/vinnie357/claude-skills/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.

agentmods 80×15 button for research

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/commands/vinnie357/claude-skills/research"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/commands/vinnie357/claude-skills/research.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 8 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 879 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 $0.00008 $0.00879
Opus 5 $0.00004 $0.00439
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00176
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00088

Measured 9d ago against content hash a75282bae389, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, 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 9d 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.

plugins/core/commands/research.md · 111 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 111 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Research a topic and create multi-file documentation for planning, understanding, and working with the subject.

Document Creation:

  • Directory Structure: Creates research/<category>/<topic>/
  • File Generation: Produces overview.md, troubleshooting.md, and optional guides
  • Planning Focus: Helps understand topics before implementation
  • Reference Material: Creates searchable knowledge base

Features:

  • Automatic Complexity Assessment: Evaluates topic complexity (1-10 scale)
  • Thinking Mode Selection: Standard/Extended/Deep based on complexity
  • Manual Override: Use --complexity=<level> to force thinking depth
  • Structured Content: Consistent templates for reliability
  • Authoritative Sources: Links to official docs and best practices
  • Practical Examples: Real-world usage patterns and code samples

Examples:

/research development docker-compose
# Creates: research/development/docker-compose/
#          - overview.md
#          - troubleshooting.md

/research infrastructure kubernetes-networking --complexity=high
# Creates: research/infrastructure/kubernetes-networking/
#          - overview.md (with deep analysis)
#          - troubleshooting.md
#          - best-practices.md

/research frontend react-state-management --complexity=medium
# Creates: research/frontend/react-state-management/
#          - overview.md
#          - troubleshooting.md
#          - comparison.md (Redux vs Context vs Zustand)

Document Structure:

overview.md

  • Purpose & Use Cases: When and why to use this technology
  • Core Concepts: Fundamental principles and architecture
  • Implementation Patterns: Common approaches and best practices
  • Code Examples: Practical, runnable examples
  • Integration Guidelines: How it fits into larger systems
  • Performance Considerations: Optimization and scaling
  • Security: Common vulnerabilities and protections
  • Resources: Official docs, tutorials, community resources

Read the full file on GitHub · 111 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. 9d ago First seen · 111 lines · 8 tokens per session scan A a75282bae389

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research is a command published in the GitHub repository vinnie357/claude-skills (25 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 8 tokens to every session and 879 once invoked, about $0.0000 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.