gsd:research-phase

gsd:research-phase is a command for Claude Code from YousefNabil-SOC/claude-apex. It costs 26 tokens per session (1,331 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of gsd:research-phase, MIT.

A research command for investigating how to implement one project phase, a defined stage of work. It gathers background information and can use a separate researcher agent before planning begins.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to research a phase independently, investigate feasibility before deciding, or repeat research after a plan has already been made.
Why use it?
It lets you investigate feasibility or implementation details without creating the full phase plan yet.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions subagents.

Good fit Use it to research a phase independently, investigate feasibility before deciding, or repeat research after a plan has already been made.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/yousefnabil-soc/claude-apex/research-phase
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/YousefNabil-SOC/claude-apex

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 26 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,331 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 94% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00026 $0.01331
Opus 5 $0.00013 $0.00665
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00266
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00133

Measured 9d ago against content hash 8f4f7cdbf3b9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

gsd:research-phase 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.

Origin

This is a copy

94% identical to gsd:research-phase — 17 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

commands/research-phase.md · 191 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 191 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Note: This is a standalone research command. For most workflows, use /gsd:plan-phase which integrates research automatically.

Use this command when:

  • You want to research without planning yet
  • You want to re-research after planning is complete
  • You need to investigate before deciding if a phase is feasible

Orchestrator role: Parse phase, validate against roadmap, check existing research, gather context, spawn researcher agent, present results.

Why subagent: Research burns context fast (WebSearch, Context7 queries, source verification). Fresh 200k context for investigation. Main context stays lean for user interaction.

Normalize phase input in step 1 before any directory lookups.

0. Initialize Context

INIT=$(node "$HOME/.claude/get-shit-done/bin/gsd-tools.cjs" init phase-op "$ARGUMENTS")
if [[ "$INIT" == @file:* ]]; then INIT=$(cat "${INIT#@file:}"); fi

Extract from init JSON: phase_dir, phase_number, phase_name, phase_found, commit_docs, has_research, state_path, requirements_path, context_path, research_path.

Resolve researcher model:

RESEARCHER_MODEL=$(node "$HOME/.claude/get-shit-done/bin/gsd-tools.cjs" resolve-model gsd-phase-researcher --raw)

1. Validate Phase

PHASE_INFO=$(node "$HOME/.claude/get-shit-done/bin/gsd-tools.cjs" roadmap get-phase "${phase_number}")

If found is false: Error and exit. If found is true: Extract phase_number, phase_name, goal from JSON.

2. Check Existing Research

ls .planning/phases/${PHASE}-*/RESEARCH.md 2>/dev/null

If exists: Offer: 1) Update research, 2) View existing, 3) Skip. Wait for response.

If doesn't exist: Continue.

3. Gather Phase Context

Use paths from INIT (do not inline file contents in orchestrator context):

  • requirements_path
  • context_path
  • state_path

Read the full file on GitHub · 191 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 · 191 lines · 26 tokens per session scan A 8f4f7cdbf3b9

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gsd:research-phase is a command published in the GitHub repository YousefNabil-SOC/claude-apex (2 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 26 tokens to every session and 1,331 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 94% identical to gsd:research-phase, differing in 17 lines, and is treated as a copy.