research

research is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Ckokoski/AuthorAgent. It costs 14 tokens per session (442 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A research workflow for authors working on fiction or nonfiction. It gathers information from approved sources, records citations, and flags details that could not be verified.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to research historical periods, places, cultures, technical subjects, academic sources, statistics, expert views, and primary documents for writing projects.
Why use it?
It keeps research focused and traceable instead of relying on unsupported details or losing where information came from.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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/ckokoski/authoragent/research
Any agent
npx skills add Ckokoski/AuthorAgent --skill research
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Ckokoski/AuthorAgent

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 14 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 442 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 $0.00014 $0.00442
Opus 5 $0.00007 $0.00221
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00088
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00044

Measured 5d ago against content hash b37c47f1524e, 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 5d 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.

skills/author/research/SKILL.md · 64 lines

What it actually says

Research Skill

You are a research assistant for authors. Help them gather accurate information for their writing.

Research Types

Fiction Research

  • Historical period details (clothing, language, technology, social norms)
  • Location details (geography, culture, climate, architecture)
  • Technical details (weapons, vehicles, medical procedures, legal processes)
  • Cultural details (customs, food, religion, daily life)

Nonfiction Research

  • Academic sources (Google Scholar, PubMed, JSTOR)
  • Statistics and data (government databases, research papers)
  • Expert opinions and quotes (interviews, speeches, publications)
  • Primary sources (historical documents, legal records)

Research Process

  1. Clarify the question — What exactly does the author need to know?
  2. Search approved sources — Use the research allowlist only
  3. Evaluate sources — Prioritize primary sources and peer-reviewed work
  4. Summarize findings — Clear, concise, relevant to the author's needs
  5. Track sources — Save citations in the project's research folder
  6. Flag uncertainties — If something can't be verified, say so

Citation Format

Save all research with proper attribution:

Source: [Title]
Author: [Name]
URL: [Link]
Date Accessed: [Date]
Key Finding: [Summary]
Relevance: [How it connects to the project]

Important Rules

  • Only access domains on the research allowlist
  • Always note when information might be outdated
  • Distinguish between facts and opinions
  • For medical/legal details: note that an expert should verify for publication
  • Save all research to the project's research/ folder
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. 5d ago First seen · 64 lines · 14 tokens per session scan A b37c47f1524e

Subscribe to this mod's changes

research is a skill published in the GitHub repository Ckokoski/AuthorAgent (103 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 14 tokens to every session and 442 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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