Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to richer-richard/cc-research. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/richer-richard/cc-research/main/AGENTS.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/richer-richard/cc-researchWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/instructions/richer-richard/cc-research/agents-md)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/richer-richard/cc-research/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/richer-richard/cc-research/agents-md/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.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/richer-richard/cc-research/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/richer-richard/cc-research/agents-md.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00962 | $0.00962 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00481 | $0.00481 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00192 | $0.00192 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00096 | $0.00096 |
Grade B, and why
cc-research AGENTS.md scanned grade B with 1 finding 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 8d 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.
Reads agent configuration directoriesmediumAgent snooping
.claude/, .codex/, .gemini/ hold keys, settings and other credentials a mod has no legitimate need for.
- Install locally: `codex plugin marketplace add <path-to-this-repo>` → `codex plugin add cc-research-codex` (or the `codex /plugins` browser). Enable hooks with `[features] hooks = true` and `[features] plugin_hooks = t How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 31 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
AGENTS.md — Codex guide for the cc-research monorepo
This repository ships two independent deep-research plugins that share a method but no code:
- Claude Code plugin in
plugin/+ its Python Agent SDK front-end insdk/. These are done and frozen — do not modify them except to update docs. They are versioned in lockstep (independent of the Codex plugin) and have their own marketplace at.claude-plugin/marketplace.json. - Codex plugin in
plugin-codex/(described here). An independent port for the Codex CLI that reproduces the same research method and the same on-disk evidence/audit substrate; only the platform plumbing differs. No shared core with the Claude plugin — the two are kept in sync by hand.
Codex plugin layout (plugin-codex/)
.codex-plugin/plugin.json— manifest (namecc-research-codex, version1.2.0; points toskills/andhooks/hooks.json).skills/research/SKILL.md— the orchestrator method and the single source of truth for the Codex loop. Invoke with$research <query>or let Codex match it implicitly.skills/research/references/{researcher,local-researcher,synthesizer}.md— the role contracts the orchestrator pastes into spawned subagents.skills/research/agents/openai.yaml— invocation policy + UI metadata.
hooks/hooks.json— aStophook runningscripts/audit.py.scripts/audit.py— the Stop-hook citation/report audit (stdlib only; fail-open)./.agents/plugins/marketplace.json— the Codex repo marketplace (entrycc-research-codex,source.path./plugin-codex)./.codex/agents/{researcher,local-researcher,synthesizer}.toml— optional typed subagents (repo-scoped). Plugins can't bundle subagents, so these are a convenience; the skill also works by pasting the contracts into ad-hoc subagents.
Conventions (match these when editing the Codex plugin)
- Multi-agent is the point. The orchestrator fans out one researcher subagent per independent strand, in parallel (Codex
agents.max_threads, default 6; keep it ≥ 5). Never collapse to single-agent sequential — that defeats the loop. - Evidence substrate (identical to the Claude plugin): each run writes
runs/<id>/withmeta.json,plan.md, per-strandsources-<slug>.jsonl/claims-<slug>.jsonl(never merged), andreport.md. In-body citations use the[#<source-id>]sigil and must resolve to asources-*.jsonlid. Keep the A/B/C/D source tiering; every figure is a scored, tiered source row (no untiered "specific-detail" citations). - Codex built-in tools only:
web_search, the shell + file edits,update_plan(progress), and natural-language subagent spawn (fan-out). No external research APIs, no MCP servers. - Two audit layers: the
Stophook (scripts/audit.py, fail-open; exit 2 + stderr = continuation) AND a mandatory in-skill self-audit inSKILL.md, so a missing/uncited report is caught even when hooks are off (plugin_hooksdisabled or an untrusted directory).
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.
- 8d ago First seen · 31 lines · 962 tokens per session scan B 77206669f5f7
cc-research AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository richer-richard/cc-research (1 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 962 tokens to every session, about $0.0048 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (reads agent configuration directories). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.
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