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.
npx agentmods add skills/danielmiessler/lifeos/researchnpx skills add danielmiessler/LifeOS --skill researchgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/danielmiessler/LifeOSWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/danielmiessler/lifeos/research)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/danielmiessler/lifeos/research"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/danielmiessler/lifeos/research.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5 | $0.00173 | $0.04586 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00086 | $0.02293 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00035 | $0.00917 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00017 | $0.00459 |
Grade A, and why
Research scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 4d 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.
Makes network callslowCapability
Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.
curl -s -X POST http://localhost:31337/notify \ How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 262 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
⚠️ MANDATORY TRIGGER
When user says "research" (in any form), ALWAYS invoke this skill.
| User Says | Action |
|---|---|
| "research" / "do research" / "research this" | → Standard mode (3 agents: Claude + Gemini + Perplexity + cross-check) |
| "quick research" / "minor research" | → Quick mode (1 Perplexity agent) |
| "extensive research" / "deep research" | → Extensive mode (7 explorers + 2 verifiers) |
| "deep investigation" / "investigate [topic]" / "map the [X] landscape" | → Deep Investigation (iterative + verification) |
"Research" alone = Standard mode. No exceptions.
Deterministic alternative (EXPERIMENTAL — not yet run in the harness): Workflows/research.mjs ports Standard + Extensive into a Workflow-tool script — fixed researcher roster, single batch URL-verify, cross-checked synthesis. It is parse-verified and contract-checked but has NOT yet had a live harness run, so the prose StandardResearch.md / ExtensiveResearch.md stay the default path. Do not route real research through the .mjs until one smoke run lands. To do that smoke run: Workflow({ scriptPath: "skills/Research/Workflows/research.mjs", args: { question: "<trivial test>", depth: "standard" } }). Once it runs clean, drop this experimental caveat.
Customization
Before executing, check for user customizations at:
~/.claude/LIFEOS/USER/CUSTOMIZATIONS/SKILLS/Research/
If this directory exists, load and apply any PREFERENCES.md, configurations, or resources found there. These override default behavior. If the directory does not exist, proceed with skill defaults.
🚨 MANDATORY: Voice Notification (REQUIRED BEFORE ANY ACTION)
You MUST send this notification BEFORE doing anything else when this skill is invoked.
- Send voice notification:
curl -s -X POST http://localhost:31337/notify \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d '{"message": "Running the WORKFLOWNAME workflow in the Research skill to ACTION"}' \ > /dev/null 2>&1 &
What ships with it
23 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.
- MigrationNotes.md 5.2 KB
- QuickReference.md 2.6 KB
- SourceRoutingProtocol.md 13 KB
- Templates/MarketResearch.md 6.5 KB
- Templates/ThreatLandscape.md 7.1 KB
- UrlVerificationProtocol.md 2.7 KB
- Workflows/AnalyzeAiTrends.md 3.1 KB
- Workflows/ClaudeResearch.md 3.6 KB
- Workflows/DeepInvestigation.md 13 KB
- Workflows/DeepVerifiedResearch.mjs 17 KB runs code
- Workflows/Enhance.md 2.4 KB
- Workflows/ExtensiveResearch.md 9.5 KB
- Workflows/ExtractAlpha.md 18 KB
- Workflows/ExtractKnowledge.md 4.8 KB
- Workflows/Fabric.md 13 KB
- Workflows/InterviewResearch.md 4.4 KB
- Workflows/QuickResearch.md 2.2 KB
- Workflows/research.mjs 7.7 KB runs code
- Workflows/Retrieve.md 15 KB
- Workflows/StandardResearch.md 4.7 KB
- Workflows/Verify.md 4.3 KB
- Workflows/WebScraping.md 1.6 KB
- Workflows/YoutubeExtraction.md 1.6 KB
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.
- 4d ago First seen · 262 lines · 173 tokens per session scan A 8cdc2e04f906
Research is a skill published in the GitHub repository danielmiessler/LifeOS (18,865 stars, last pushed 19d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 173 tokens to every session and 4,586 once invoked, about $0.0009 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.
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