bmad-research

A command that creates structured prompts for researching technical choices, such as API providers, hosting services, payment systems, and technology stacks. The prompts are intended for web-based AI tools that can search the internet.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to investigate external services, compare technology options, perform cost analysis, or support technical due diligence during a BMAD project workflow.
Why use it?
It gives technical research a consistent structure before an architecture is chosen. This helps compare vendors, costs, and trade-offs without starting from an unplanned question.

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/webdevtodayjason/titanium-plugins/bmad-research
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/webdevtodayjason/titanium-plugins
Per session 6 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 3,162 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 $0.00006 $0.03162
Opus 5 $0.00003 $0.01581
Sonnet 5 $0.00001 $0.00632
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00316

Measured 2d ago against content hash 212adb332914, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

bmad-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.

plugins/titanium-toolkit/commands/bmad-research.md · 577 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 577 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

BMAD Research - Generate Research Prompts

You are helping the user research technical decisions by generating comprehensive research prompts for web-based AI (ChatGPT, Claude web) which have web search capabilities.

Purpose

Generate structured research prompts that users can copy to ChatGPT/Claude web to research:

  • API vendors and data sources
  • Authentication providers
  • Hosting platforms
  • Payment processors
  • Third-party integrations
  • Technology stack options

Results are documented in structured templates and referenced during architecture generation.

When to Use

During BMAD workflow:

  • After PRD mentions external APIs/vendors
  • Before architecture generation
  • When technical decisions need research

Standalone:

  • Evaluating vendor options
  • Comparing technologies
  • Cost analysis
  • Technical due diligence

Process

Step 1: Identify Research Topic

If user provided topic:

# User ran: /bmad:research "data vendors for precious metals"
  • Topic = "data vendors for precious metals"

If no topic:

  • Ask: "What do you need to research?"
  • Show common topics:
    Common research topics:
    1. Data vendors/APIs
    2. Hosting platforms (Railway, Vercel, GCP, etc.)
    3. Authentication providers (Clerk, Auth0, custom, etc.)
    4. Payment processors (Stripe, PayPal, etc.)
    5. AI/ML options (OpenAI, Anthropic, self-hosted)
    6. Database options
    7. Other (specify)
    
    Topic:
    

Step 2: Gather Context from PRD

If PRD exists:

Read bmad-backlog/prd/prd.md

Extract relevant context:

  • What features need this research?
  • What are the constraints? (budget, performance)
  • Any technical preferences mentioned?

If no PRD:

  • Use topic only
  • Generate generic research prompt
  • Note: "Research will be more focused with a PRD"

Step 3: Generate Research Prompt

Create comprehensive prompt for web AI.

Topic slug: Convert topic to filename-safe string

topic_slug = topic.lower().replace(' ', '-').replace('/', '-')
# "data vendors for precious metals" → "data-vendors-for-precious-metals"

Read the full file on GitHub · 577 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 · 577 lines · 6 tokens per session scan A 212adb332914

Subscribe to this mod's changes

bmad-research is a command published in the GitHub repository webdevtodayjason/titanium-plugins (7 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 6 tokens to every session and 3,162 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 2026-08-31.