deep-research

deep-research is a plugin for Claude Code from oborchers/fractional-cto. Its manifest loads nothing; the 5 skills, 1 command, 3 agents it bundles cost 1,317 tokens per session together, scanned A, original, MIT.

A structured method for researching questions on the web. It breaks questions into parts, checks sources, and combines the findings into documents with citations.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for multi-part web research, checking source reliability, reducing made-up answers, and writing sourced reports.
Why use it?
It reduces the risk of missing important parts of a question or presenting unsupported information as fact.

Plugin for Claude Code

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.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add oborchers/fractional-cto
agentmods
npx agentmods add plugins/oborchers/fractional-cto/deep-research
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/oborchers/fractional-cto

Made for: Claude Code.

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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.

agentmods badge for deep-research

README.md
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Your own site
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Per session not measured What this adds to a session before it is invoked.
When invoked not measured The manifest loads nothing itself; its 5 skills, 1 command, 3 agents cost 1,317 tokens a session between them.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Security

Grade A, and why

deep-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.

deep-research/.claude-plugin/plugin.json · 20 lines

What it actually says

{
  "name": "deep-research",
  "version": "1.2.2",
  "description": "Structured deep research methodology for Claude Code \u2014 query decomposition, parallel web research with source verification, hallucination prevention, and synthesis into well-sourced documents",
  "author": {
    "name": "Dr. Oliver Borchers"
  },
  "repository": "https://github.com/oborchers/fractional-cto",
  "license": "MIT",
  "keywords": [
    "research",
    "deep-research",
    "web-search",
    "source-verification",
    "hallucination-prevention",
    "synthesis",
    "citations"
  ]
}
Contents

What it installs

The manifest is a name and a version. 5 skills, 1 command, 3 agents travel with it, and installing the plugin installs all of them — 1,317 tokens a session between them. Each is measured on its own page, and each can be installed alone.

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 · 20 lines scan A e30dd82edad0

Subscribe to this mod's changes

deep-research is a plugin published in the GitHub repository oborchers/fractional-cto (29 stars, last pushed 29d ago), licensed MIT. Its token cost is not measured: this kind of file is read by the harness, not the model. 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 2026-08-30.