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/paiplugin/researchnpx skills add danielmiessler/PAIPlugin --skill researchgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/danielmiessler/PAIPluginWhat 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 | $0.00076 | $0.00328 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00038 | $0.00164 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00015 | $0.00066 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00008 | $0.00033 |
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 2d 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.
What it actually says
Research Skill
When to Use This Skill
This skill activates when the user requests research or information gathering:
- "Do research on X"
- "Research this topic"
- "Find information about X"
- "Investigate this subject"
- "Analyze trends in X"
- "Current events research"
- Any comprehensive information gathering request
How to Execute
Execute the /conduct-research slash command, which handles the complete workflow:
- Decomposing research questions into 3-10 sub-questions
- Launching up to 10 parallel research agents (perplexity, claude, gemini)
- Collecting results in 15-30 seconds
- Synthesizing findings with confidence levels
- Formatting comprehensive report with source attribution
Available Research Agents
- All agents with "researcher" in their name in the agents directory.
Speed Benefits
- ❌ Old approach: Sequential searches → 5-10 minutes
- ✅ New approach: 10 parallel agents → Under 1 minute
Full Workflow Reference
For complete step-by-step instructions: read ${PAI_DIR}/commands/conduct-research.md
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.
- 2d ago First seen · 41 lines · 76 tokens per session scan A db673989ec26
research is a skill published in the GitHub repository danielmiessler/PAIPlugin (56 stars, last pushed 9mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 76 tokens to every session and 328 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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