web-research

A structured method for researching a subject on the web by defining the question, searching in stages, judging sources, and combining the findings with citations. It is designed for fact-checked summaries rather than casual browsing.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to research technology, verify changing facts, compare viewpoints, and gather information from multiple sources. It covers the process from defining the scope through presenting the results.
Why use it?
It helps keep research focused and makes it easier to distinguish authoritative, current, and relevant information. Citing the sources also lets readers check the conclusions.

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/cloudshipai/station/web-research
Any agent
npx skills add cloudshipai/station --skill web-research
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cloudshipai/station

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 14 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 342 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 $0.00342
Opus 5 $0.00007 $0.00171
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00068
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00034

Measured 3d ago against content hash 09842aeb682a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

web-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 3d 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.

environments/default/skills/user/web-research/SKILL.md · 68 lines

What it actually says

Web Research Skill

When to Use

  • User asks you to research a topic
  • You need to gather information from multiple sources
  • Task requires fact-checking or verification

Workflow

1. Define Scope

Before searching, clarify:

  • What specific questions need answering?
  • What depth of coverage is needed?
  • Are there preferred or authoritative sources?

2. Search Strategy

Execute searches in this order:

  1. Broad overview search
  2. Specific fact-finding searches
  3. Alternative viewpoint searches

3. Source Evaluation

For each source, assess:

  • Authority (who wrote it?)
  • Currency (when published?)
  • Relevance (does it answer the question?)

4. Synthesis

Combine findings into a coherent summary with citations.

Examples

Example: Technology Research

User: "Research the latest developments in WebAssembly"

Step 1: Define scope

  • Focus on recent developments
  • Include browser support status
  • Cover WASI developments

Step 2: Execute searches

  • "WebAssembly developments 2026"
  • "WASI preview 2 status"
  • "WebAssembly component model"

Step 3: Evaluate sources

  • Prefer official documentation
  • Cross-reference with reputable tech blogs

Step 4: Synthesize findings

  • Create summary with citations
  • Note any conflicting information
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. 3d ago First seen · 68 lines · 14 tokens per session scan A 09842aeb682a

Subscribe to this mod's changes

web-research is a skill published in the GitHub repository cloudshipai/station (429 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 14 tokens to every session and 342 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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