ECC is a toolkit that organizes and improves how coding agents work through skills, memory, security checks, research practices, and related extensions. It is for developers using agents such as Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, and Cursor.
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.
npx skills add affaan-m/ECC --skill deep-researchgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/affaan-m/ECCWrote 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/skills/affaan-m/ecc/deep-research)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/affaan-m/ecc/deep-research"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/affaan-m/ecc/deep-research/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/skills/affaan-m/ecc/deep-research"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/affaan-m/ecc/deep-research.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>- Socket pass
- Snyk warn
- NVIDIA SkillSpector warn
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to high
These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →
- high Agent Snooping · line 24 Skill reads from agent configuration directories (.claude/, .codex/, .gemini/). These directories may contain API keys, personal settings, and other credentials that the skill has no legitimate need to access.Fix: Remove all code or instructions that access agent configuration directories (.claude/, .codex/, .gemini/). If configuration values are needed, pass them explicitly as parameters or environment variabl
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 | $0.00048 | $0.01146 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00019 | $0.00458 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00010 | $0.00229 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00005 | $0.00115 |
Grade B, and why
deep-research 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 27d 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.
Both together give the best coverage. Configure in `~/.claude.json` or `~/.codex/config.toml`. Copies of this mod
8 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:
- deep-research — 100% identical, 1 lines differ
- deep-research — 97% identical, 13 lines differ
- deep-research — 95% identical, 5 lines differ
- deep-research — 94% identical, 10 lines differ
- deep-research — 94% identical, 2 lines differ
- deep-research — 94% identical, 2 lines differ
- deep-research — 94% identical, 2 lines differ
- deep-research — 94% identical, 2 lines differ
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 156 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Deep Research
Produce thorough, cited research reports from multiple web sources using firecrawl and exa MCP tools.
When to Activate
- User asks to research any topic in depth
- Competitive analysis, technology evaluation, or market sizing
- Due diligence on companies, investors, or technologies
- Any question requiring synthesis from multiple sources
- User says "research", "deep dive", "investigate", or "what's the current state of"
MCP Requirements
At least one of:
- firecrawl —
firecrawl_search,firecrawl_scrape,firecrawl_crawl - exa —
web_search_exa,web_search_advanced_exa,crawling_exa
Both together give the best coverage. Configure in ~/.claude.json or ~/.codex/config.toml.
Workflow
Step 1: Understand the Goal
Ask 1-2 quick clarifying questions:
- "What's your goal — learning, making a decision, or writing something?"
- "Any specific angle or depth you want?"
If the user says "just research it" — skip ahead with reasonable defaults.
Step 2: Plan the Research
Break the topic into 3-5 research sub-questions. Example:
- Topic: "Impact of AI on healthcare"
- What are the main AI applications in healthcare today?
- What clinical outcomes have been measured?
- What are the regulatory challenges?
- What companies are leading this space?
- What's the market size and growth trajectory?
Step 3: Execute Multi-Source Search
For EACH sub-question, search using available MCP tools:
With firecrawl:
firecrawl_search(query: "<sub-question keywords>", limit: 8)
With exa:
web_search_exa(query: "<sub-question keywords>", numResults: 8)
web_search_advanced_exa(query: "<keywords>", numResults: 5, startPublishedDate: "2025-01-01")
Search strategy:
- Use 2-3 different keyword variations per sub-question
- Mix general and news-focused queries
- Aim for 15-30 unique sources total
- Prioritize: academic, official, reputable news > blogs > forums
Step 4: Deep-Read Key Sources
For the most promising URLs, fetch full content:
What ships with it
1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.
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.
- 27d ago Changed · +1 lines e42c74a515e9
- 1mo ago First seen · 155 lines · 48 tokens per session scan B 5692b149b1b8
deep-research is a skill published in the GitHub repository affaan-m/ECC (280,368 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 48 tokens to every session and 1,146 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-08-30.
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