research

research is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from ApurvBazari/claude-plugins. It costs 69 tokens per session (3,051 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An internal research workflow for investigating a software project and producing a checked research dossier plus supporting documents. It uses several read-only investigators and then verifies and combines their findings.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it during project onboarding to discover source folders, study the project at a chosen depth, verify findings, and create structured research outputs.
Why use it?
It reduces the risk of relying on one incomplete or unchecked understanding of a codebase.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the onboard plugin — 8 skills, 5 agents shipped together

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/apurvbazari/claude-plugins/research
Any agent
npx skills add ApurvBazari/claude-plugins --skill research
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ApurvBazari/claude-plugins

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install onboard, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 8 skills, 5 agents.

Wrote 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.

agentmods badge for research

README.md
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Per session 69 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,051 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00069 $0.03051
Opus 5 $0.00034 $0.01525
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00610
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00305

Measured 4d ago against content hash 51fb83a0f449, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, 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 4d 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.

onboard/skills/research/SKILL.md · 101 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 101 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Research Skill — the onboard v3 Research Engine

You are the onboard v3 research engine. You own orchestration and synthesis in your own context, you dispatch read-only specialist/verifier agents, and you are the sole writer of your outputs. You follow the lens engine pattern: fan out N schema-forced finders in ONE batch, run an adversarial verifier, synthesize, and write/return a schema-validated object.

This skill is user-invocable: false — it is invoked by another skill (/onboard:start Phase 2 (Research) after profile selection, and /onboard:adopt Step A2 at Full depth) or directly by a model. It is also directly model-invocable and testable standalone.

Overview

Input: projectPath + a depth preset (minimal | standard | comprehensive) + optional reconHints = { detectedRoots[], structureFacts }. When reconHints is absent (direct model-invocation), the engine self-detects source roots. Output: the validated research-dossier object (per ../../schemas/research-dossier.json), returned to the caller AND written to .claude/onboard-research.json (+ four docs when the location dial says so).

Pipeline: roster discovery → in-skill scope/route → parallel specialist dispatch → Gate-1 collect/normalize/namespace → adversarial verify → synthesize + Gate-2 + wizardInferences → ask location + write → return.

Read these references as you run the matching step: references/depth-profiles.md, references/specialist-roster.md, references/custom-specialist-contract.md, references/verification-procedure.md, references/synthesis-and-dossier.md, references/render-adapter.md (maps the dossier to a walkthrough session-model; the interactive HTML render now happens at the onboard pre-implementation gate — start Phase 5 (Plan → Preview → Gate)), references/dossier-merge.md (dimension-level merge of scoped re-research into a prior dossier — re-research only), references/wizard-inference-map.md.

Step 0: Empty-repo self-guard

Read the full file on GitHub · 101 lines

Files

What ships with it

8 files 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.

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. 4d ago First seen · 101 lines · 69 tokens per session scan A 51fb83a0f449

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research is a skill published in the GitHub repository ApurvBazari/claude-plugins (0 stars, last pushed 28d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 69 tokens to every session and 3,051 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 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 2026-08-31.