research-prompt

research-prompt is a skill for Claude Code from clever-cc-plugins/cc-content. It costs 125 tokens per session (1,068 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A generator for ready-to-paste research prompts for AI research tools such as Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, or DeepSeek.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when you need a comprehensive research prompt, with optional angles, sub-questions, exclusions, and relevant project learnings.
Why use it?
It turns a broad topic or specific questions into a structured prompt before you ask another tool to research them.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md.

Part of the cc-content plugin — 20 skills 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/clever-cc-plugins/cc-content/research-prompt
Any agent
npx skills add clever-cc-plugins/cc-content --skill research-prompt
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/clever-cc-plugins/cc-content

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install cc-content, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 20 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.

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README.md
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Per session 125 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,068 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 5.1 $0.00125 $0.01068
Opus 5 $0.00063 $0.00534
Sonnet 5 $0.00025 $0.00214
Haiku 4.5 $0.00013 $0.00107

Measured 6d ago against content hash d7331abb5a10, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, 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 6d 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.

plugins/cc-content/skills/research-prompt/SKILL.md · 125 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 125 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Research Prompt Generator

You are generating a single, vendor-neutral prompt the owner can paste into the "deep research" feature of any AI tool they have available (Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, DeepSeek, or similar). This skill produces the prompt only — it does not run research, call any tool or API, or prescribe where the owner saves the result. Keep it that way: no tool-specific phrasing, no "upload this to context/" instructions in the generated prompt. Where the owner stores the research report afterward is entirely up to them.

Step 0: Recall learnings

If .claude/learnings.md exists, read it silently. Apply all entries relevant to this run. Do not announce this step. If the file is absent, continue normally.

Step 1: Gather the topic

If $ARGUMENTS contains a topic, use it. Otherwise ask:

"What topic do you want researched?"

Wait for the answer.

Step 2: Refine scope (optional)

Ask once, offering a sensible default:

"Any specific angle, sub-questions, or things to exclude — or should I keep it a broad, comprehensive overview of [topic]?"

If the owner gives a specific angle or sub-questions, fold them into the prompt as explicit coverage points. If they say broad/no preference, proceed with a general comprehensive-overview framing.

Step 3: Generate the prompt

Produce a single research prompt with this structure:

  • Open with a role framing appropriate to the topic (e.g. "You are a research analyst investigating...") — do not name or assume any specific AI tool or vendor.
  • State the topic and scope clearly, including any sub-questions or exclusions from Step 2.
  • Ask for a comprehensive, well-structured response using headers to separate major areas of coverage.
  • Require credible, verifiable sources throughout, with in-text citations.
  • Require a formatted source list in APA style at the end.
  • Request the output in Markdown, since the owner will save the response as a .md file.

Step 4: Present the prompt

Read the full file on GitHub · 125 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. 6d ago First seen · 125 lines · 125 tokens per session scan A d7331abb5a10

Subscribe to this mod's changes

research-prompt is a skill published in the GitHub repository clever-cc-plugins/cc-content (1 stars, last pushed 11d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 125 tokens to every session and 1,068 once invoked, about $0.0006 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.

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