research-prompt

research-prompt is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from attentiondotnet/davidondrej-skills. It costs 81 tokens per session (1,012 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of research-prompt, MIT.

A guide for writing one clear, self-contained research request that another person or research AI can follow without asking follow-up questions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to prepare a deep-research prompt, research brief, or instructions for deciding what a researcher should investigate.
Why use it?
It turns vague research ideas into a focused brief with context, specific questions, source requirements, and decision criteria.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to prepare a deep-research prompt, research brief, or instructions for deciding what a researcher should investigate.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/attentiondotnet/davidondrej-skills/research-prompt
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.

Any agent
npx skills add attentiondotnet/davidondrej-skills --skill research-prompt
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/attentiondotnet/davidondrej-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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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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Per session 81 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,012 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 100% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00081 $0.01012
Opus 5 $0.00041 $0.00506
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00202
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00101

Measured 12d ago against content hash d54545abdfbe, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

research-prompt 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 12d 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.

Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to research-prompt — 0 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

skills/research-and-web/research-prompt/SKILL.md · 43 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 43 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Research Prompt

Goal: turn a vague research need into ONE self-contained paragraph that a researcher with zero prior knowledge of the project can act on with zero back-and-forth.

Rules

  • One paragraph. No headers, no bullet list in the deliverable.
  • Prompt the job, not the topic. Give search handles (timeframe, ranking, source type, decision logic) — not just a subject.
  • Assume zero prior knowledge. Write for a researcher who has never heard of the project. Open by explaining, in plain English, what the project/product is, why it exists, and the current situation — so they understand what's going on, what we need, and why we need it.
  • Lead with the goal + decision. Right after that explainer, state the single question the research must answer and the decision/use it informs.
  • Embed all context. Names, dates, product, prior known facts, constraints. The researcher must not need to ask anything or guess.
  • Number the sub-questions inline (1, 2, 3…) so coverage is explicit. Keep to 3–6. One mission per prompt — don't cram unrelated questions.
  • State constraints. What to include, what to avoid (e.g. "only non-Chinese competitors", "no marketing fluff").
  • Source hierarchy. Prefer primary sources (official docs, GitHub, papers, filings, changelogs); forums/X/Reddit are weak signal only, never factual proof.
  • Contradiction handling. If sources conflict, separate confirmed facts / inference / unresolved uncertainty — don't force fake consensus. Flag low-confidence claims for verification.
  • Completion bar (define "done"). Don't stop at the first plausible answer. Corroborate each key claim with multiple independent primary sources where they exist; where sources are scarce, say so explicitly instead of padding. Keep going until every numbered sub-question is covered to this bar.
  • Gap round before finishing. Require a final self-critique pass: list gaps, contradictions, and any single-source claims, then run another round of searches to close them — repeat until clean.
  • Constrain output hard, method loosely. Be strict on the deliverable; leave the search path flexible so the researcher can explore.
  • Demand a fixed output per finding: source link + specific claim + one-line "why it matters / why a viewer should care".
  • Verifiable, citable facts only. No opinions.
  • Last sentence: instruct them to output everything into a single detailed markdown file.

Read the full file on GitHub · 43 lines

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. 12d ago First seen · 43 lines · 81 tokens per session scan A d54545abdfbe

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research-prompt is a skill published in the GitHub repository attentiondotnet/davidondrej-skills (11 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 81 tokens to every session and 1,012 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to research-prompt, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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