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research is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from baleen37/bstack. It costs 49 tokens per session (169 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of research, MIT.

A research workflow that investigates a question using trusted original sources, such as official documentation, source code, technical specifications, and first-party APIs.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps research APIs, software behavior, technical standards, and documentation, then record the results for later use or handoff.
Why use it?
It removes the need to spend time gathering and checking scattered technical facts yourself. Findings are saved in a Markdown file with source links.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for Claude Code and Codex: shipped in a Claude Code plugin, but also agents/openai.yaml present.

Part of the mattpocock-skills plugin — 26 skills shipped together

not rated 4repo changed 1mo ago A scan 49 tokens copy · 100% MIT

Good fit It helps research APIs, software behavior, technical standards, and documentation, then record the results for later use or handoff.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/baleen37/bstack/research
View source ↗ baleen37/bstack
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 baleen37/bstack --skill research
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/baleen37/bstack

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install mattpocock-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 26 skills.

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
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/baleen37/bstack/research/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/baleen37/bstack/research)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/baleen37/bstack/research"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/baleen37/bstack/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.

agentmods 80×15 button for research

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/baleen37/bstack/research"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/baleen37/bstack/research.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 49 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 169 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 $0.00049 $0.00169
Opus 5.5 $0.00020 $0.00068
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00010 $0.00034
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00017

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 985569f15739, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, 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 1mo 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 — 2 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.

plugins/mattpocock-skills/skills/research/SKILL.md · 13 lines

What it actually says

Spin up a background agent to do the research, so you keep working while it reads.

Its job:

  1. Investigate the question against primary sources (official docs, source code, specs, first-party APIs), not a secondary write-up of them. Follow every claim back to the source that owns it.
  2. Write the findings to a single Markdown file, citing each claim's source.
  3. Save it where the repo already keeps such notes; match the existing convention, and if there is none, put it somewhere sensible and say where.
Files

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.

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. 1mo ago Changed · +2 lines bc30a1526a29
  2. 2mo ago Changed 985569f15739
  3. 2mo ago First seen · 13 lines · 49 tokens per session scan A af378829f015

Subscribe to this mod's changes

research is a skill published in the GitHub repository baleen37/bstack (4 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 49 tokens to every session and 169 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to research, differing in 2 lines, and is treated as a copy.

Research
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