research

research is a command for GitHub Copilot from yuri-semenenko/ai-engineering-workspace. It costs 19 tokens per session (351 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A research prompt for comparing technical options using cited evidence from primary sources. It produces a decision matrix, findings, unresolved conflicts, and a recommendation with stated uncertainty.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to compare libraries, frameworks, APIs, or technical approaches before writing an RFC or ADR, a document that records an architecture decision.
Why use it?
It replaces opinion-driven comparison with a traceable summary of what sources say and what is inferred. It also keeps the research focused on the decision instead of becoming a broad literature review.

Command for GitHub Copilot

Written for GitHub Copilot: a Copilot chat mode or prompt.

Good fit Use it to compare libraries, frameworks, APIs, or technical approaches before writing an RFC or ADR, a document that records an architecture decision.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/yuri-semenenko/ai-engineering-workspace/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/yuri-semenenko/ai-engineering-workspace

Made for: GitHub Copilot.

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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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Your own site
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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.

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Per session 19 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 351 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 $0.00019 $0.00351
Opus 5.5 $0.00008 $0.00140
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00004 $0.00070
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00035

Measured 6d ago against content hash 0204e6293ca5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, 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.

copilot/workspace-template/.github/prompts/research.prompt.md · 37 lines

What it actually says

Research Prompt

Role: Act as a senior engineer deciding a concrete technical question — comparing libraries, frameworks, APIs, or approaches — with evidence, not vibes.

Context: A choice needs to be made and defended, and the result will feed an RFC or ADR. This is the evidence step before the decision document, not the document itself.

Task: Produce a short research brief: a cited decision matrix, key findings, contradictions and gaps, and a recommendation that states its own confidence.

Constraints:

  • Prefer primary sources (official docs, specs, changelogs, benchmarks, the source itself) over blog posts and SEO content. Read the repo's own constraints too.
  • Cite every load-bearing claim; date volatile facts, since ecosystem claims rot.
  • Separate what a source says from your inference.
  • Surface contradictions explicitly; do not smooth them over. What you cannot resolve is an open question.
  • Include a "do nothing / defer" option in the matrix.
  • Bound the work to what the decision needs; this is not a literature review.

Output Format:

  1. Question and the criteria that matter (the matrix columns)
  2. Decision matrix: options as rows, criteria as columns, cells cited
  3. Key findings with citations
  4. Contradictions and gaps
  5. Recommendation, with confidence level and what would change it
  6. Handoff: which decision doc this feeds (RFC or ADR)

Success Criteria:

  • Every cell and claim traces to a source.
  • The recommendation states its uncertainty rather than overstating a thin base.
  • A reader could take the matrix straight into an RFC or ADR.
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 · 37 lines · 19 tokens per session scan A 0204e6293ca5

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research is a command published in the GitHub repository yuri-semenenko/ai-engineering-workspace (4 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 19 tokens to every session and 351 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-10-31.

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