deep-research

deep-research is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from cklxx/elephant.ai. It costs 24 tokens per session (561 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A multi-source research workflow that searches for information, gathers evidence, and organizes findings into a structured report.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to investigate a topic, fetch selected webpages, and prepare findings with evidence, confidence, impact, and recommendations.
Why use it?
It reduces the manual work of searching across sources and assembling supporting evidence for a research question.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to investigate a topic, fetch selected webpages, and prepare findings with evidence, confidence, impact, and recommendations.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/cklxx/elephant.ai/deep-research
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 cklxx/elephant.ai --skill deep-research
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cklxx/elephant.ai

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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 deep-research

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/cklxx/elephant.ai/deep-research/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/cklxx/elephant.ai/deep-research)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/cklxx/elephant.ai/deep-research"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/cklxx/elephant.ai/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.

agentmods 80×15 button for deep-research

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/cklxx/elephant.ai/deep-research"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/cklxx/elephant.ai/deep-research.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 24 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 561 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 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 5.1 $0.00024 $0.00561
Opus 5 $0.00012 $0.00280
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00112
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00056

Measured 9d ago against content hash 899946219595, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

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 9d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 3 executable files (run.py, tests/__init__.py, tests/test_deep_research.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

skills/deep-research/SKILL.md · 56 lines

What it actually says

deep-research

多源检索 + 证据汇编 + 结构化报告。

调用

python3 skills/deep-research/run.py --topic '研究主题' --queries '["关键词1","关键词2"]' --max_results 5 --depth basic

参数

参数 类型 必填 说明
topic string 研究主题
queries string[] 搜索关键词,默认自动生成 3 条
max_results int 每条 query 结果数,默认 5
depth string "basic" 或 "advanced"
fetch_urls string[] 额外抓取全文的 URL

输出

返回 JSON,包含 searches(搜索结果)、fetched_pages(抓取页面)、summary_prompt(综合提示)。

LLM 拿到结果后,按「问题→发现/证据→置信度→影响/建议」结构化整理。

Files

What ships with it

3 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. 9d ago First seen · 56 lines · 24 tokens per session scan A 899946219595

Subscribe to this mod's changes

deep-research is a skill published in the GitHub repository cklxx/elephant.ai (11 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 24 tokens to every session and 561 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-08-30.

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