research

research is a command for coding agents from VUVAX/press-rank. It costs 15 tokens per session (426 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A research command that creates a brief about a topic or starting keyword, including related searches, what search results show, and gaps competitors miss.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for planning search-focused articles: expanding keywords, reviewing search intent, comparing competing pages, finding unanswered questions, and outlining the piece.
Why use it?
It gathers the background a writer needs before creating an article, instead of leaving research scattered across separate searches.

Command

Part of the PressRank plugin — 7 skills, 8 commands shipped together

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/vuvax/press-rank/research
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/VUVAX/press-rank

Or install PressRank, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 7 skills, 8 commands.

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.

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README.md
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Per session 15 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 426 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 $0.00015 $0.00426
Opus 5 $0.00008 $0.00213
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00085
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00043

Measured 5d ago against content hash e611ba1374b7, 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 5d 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.

commands/research.md · 47 lines

What it actually says

/press:research

Produce a research brief that a writer can hand straight to /press:write.

Input

  • $ARGUMENTS — the topic or seed keyword.

Steps

  1. Seed expansion. Derive 15–30 keyword variations grouped by intent (informational, commercial, transactional, navigational). If DataForSEO is configured in .env, pull volume + difficulty; otherwise estimate and label estimates clearly.
  2. SERP intent read. For the primary keyword, characterize what currently ranks: page type (guide, listicle, product, tool), dominant angle, average word count, and whether an AI Overview / featured snippet is present.
  3. Competitor gap. List 3–5 top results and what they each cover. Flag subtopics they all miss (the gap to win) and entities they all mention (table stakes you must include).
  4. GEO angle. Identify 2–3 questions an AI assistant would answer from this page and the quotable facts it would cite.
  5. Recommended outline. H2/H3 skeleton with the target keyword mapped to each section and the search intent it serves.

Output

Save to research/<slug>.md with this shape:

# Research Brief: <topic>
- Primary keyword: <kw> (vol / difficulty / intent)
- Secondary keywords: [...]
- Search intent: <type>
- Recommended format: <guide | listicle | how-to | comparison>
- Target word count: <range>
## SERP snapshot
## Competitor gaps (win these)
## Table stakes (must include)
## GEO questions to answer
## Recommended outline (H2/H3 + keyword map)

Then suggest: Run /press:write <topic> to draft from this brief.

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. 5d ago First seen · 47 lines · 15 tokens per session scan A e611ba1374b7

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research is a command published in the GitHub repository VUVAX/press-rank (2 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 15 tokens to every session and 426 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 2026-08-31.

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