survey

survey is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from cookys/autopilot. It costs 106 tokens per session (1,190 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A research skill that investigates technology choices using one researcher and one skeptical reviewer. It produces recommendations and trade-offs, but does not write code.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to compare technologies, investigate industry practices, and assess architecture options before implementation.
Why use it?
It reduces the risk of choosing tools based on a single source, outdated information, or unchecked assumptions.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the autopilot plugin — 32 skills, 3 agents, 7 hooks 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/cookys/autopilot/survey
Any agent
npx skills add cookys/autopilot --skill survey
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cookys/autopilot

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install autopilot, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 32 skills, 3 agents, 7 hooks.

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 survey

README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 106 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,190 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 $0.00106 $0.01190
Opus 5 $0.00053 $0.00595
Sonnet 5 $0.00021 $0.00238
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00119

Measured 5d ago against content hash 6bd14803c265, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

survey 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.

platforms/codex/plugin/skills/survey/SKILL.md · 137 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 137 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Survey -- Technology Research

Routing overlap? If this intent better matches a sibling skill, redirect per references/routing-tiebreaks.md (prefer external evidence research over internal priority debate).

Two independent agents (researcher + skeptic) search in parallel, bringing different perspectives to avoid anchoring bias and recency bias.

Trigger

Method When
Manual User says "survey", "research", "investigate", "what does the industry do"
Signal suggestion Plan Mode / brainstorming detects tech selection / architecture decision / uncertainty -> suggest (user confirms before running)

Suggestion template (when signal detected):

"This decision involves tech selection. Suggest running /survey to research industry practices first. Proceed?"

Boundary

  • Produce recommendation, marked as suggestion -- attach reasoning and preconditions so user can judge applicability
  • No code -- research only
  • No auto-trigger -- signal only suggests, user confirms

Flow

Step 1: Scope the Research

Extract from user input:

  • Topic: what to research (e.g. "WS compression options")
  • Constraints: known limits (e.g. "must support C++20", "latency < 1ms")
  • Existing bias: does user already lean toward something? (researcher should specifically probe that option's weaknesses)

If input is vague (e.g. "look into cache"), ask one clarifying round before dispatch.

Step 2: Parallel Dispatch

Model routing: Read .claude/model-routing-config.md if exists; otherwise defaults from references/model-routing.md. Survey agents map to researcher → default: model: "sonnet" (needs web search tools, so NOT plan mode).

Spawn researcher + skeptic simultaneously. Skeptic does NOT wait for researcher -- independent search finds different angles.

Agent tool:
  name: "survey-researcher"
  subagent_type: "general-purpose"
  model: "sonnet"              # from model-routing config (researcher role)
  run_in_background: true
  prompt: -> references/prompts.md #Researcher

Agent tool:
  name: "survey-skeptic"
  subagent_type: "general-purpose"
  model: "sonnet"              # from model-routing config (researcher role)
  run_in_background: true
  prompt: -> references/prompts.md #Skeptic

Read the full file on GitHub · 137 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 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. 5d ago First seen · 137 lines · 106 tokens per session scan A 6bd14803c265

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survey is a skill published in the GitHub repository cookys/autopilot (11 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 106 tokens to every session and 1,190 once invoked, about $0.0005 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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