A research workflow coordinates several agents to search for information, fetch web pages, identify missing evidence, check claims, and record citations. It is designed for investigations that need more than a quick search.

Use it for external research, investigations, source collection, gap analysis, adversarial checking, and citation review.

It reduces the work of gathering and checking information across multiple sources, while making gaps and unsupported claims easier to spot.

research — Skill for Claude Code and Codex by dppdppd: A research workflow coordinates several agents to search for…

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/dppdppd/rpm/research

Any agent

npx skills add dppdppd/rpm --skill research

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dppdppd/rpm

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install rpm, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 8 skills, 3 agents, 8 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.

README.md

[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/dppdppd/rpm/research.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/dppdppd/rpm/research)

Your own site

<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/dppdppd/rpm/research"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/dppdppd/rpm/research.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

Per session 108 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 7,716 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.

Security scan A 1 finding. 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5	$0.00108	$0.07716
Opus 5	$0.00054	$0.03858
Sonnet 5	$0.00022	$0.01543
Haiku 4.5	$0.00011	$0.00772

Measured 3d ago against content hash 281bf6a00a05, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

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 3d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (rpm-research.workflow.js), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

allowed-tools: ["Read", "Write", "Bash(curl:*)", "Bash(mkdir:*)", "Agent", "WebSearch", "Glob", "Grep"]

skills/research/SKILL.md · 448 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 448 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

research — Multi-Agent Research Protocol

Exhaustive multi-agent research on any topic. Invoked as a skill (auto-triggered via description match), not a slash command.

Research escalation rule: During ANY rpm command, if you encounter a question requiring external knowledge, pause and offer to invoke the research skill before continuing.

Project Amendments

At the start of every invocation, check whether docs/rpm/skills/research.md exists in the consuming project. If it does, read it and apply its contents as additional project-specific instructions for this skill. Amendments may add research dimensions, require specific sources, or extend the output format. They cannot remove or override plugin defaults — on conflict, this SKILL.md wins.

rpm vs native /deep-research

Claude Code now ships a native bundled /deep-research Workflow. On CC you may hand off to native when MAXIMUM verification depth matters and cost plus CC-lock-in are acceptable (a future Tier-4 fast-path may wire this handoff directly). Otherwise use rpm.

rpm's edge is portability (opencode and codex have no Workflow — this skill runs on all three runtimes), durable artifacts (a navigable docs/rpm/research/ tree vs in-conversation-only output), inline in-session delivery, and cost governance (capped fan-out vs a deeper, far costlier multi-step Workflow). rpm is explicitly not "more rigorous" than native — a 2026-05-30 bake-off found native matched/edged rpm on citation rigor. Keep the fan-out protocol below stable; do not grow it to chase depth.

Offer gate (before Phase 0)

If the user asked for research generally (e.g. "research X", "look into X", "investigate X") — anything other than an explicit request for the full research protocol — STOP and offer a choice before running Phase 0:

QUESTION: Want a quick websearch + summary, or the full /rpm:research protocol (parallel agents, validation, saved report under docs/rpm/research/)? Reply quick or deep.

Read the full file on GitHub · 448 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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.

rpm-research.workflow.js 21 KB runs code

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.

3d ago First seen · 448 lines · 108 tokens per session scan A 281bf6a00a05

Subscribe to this mod's changes

research is a skill published in the GitHub repository dppdppd/rpm (3 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 108 tokens to every session and 7,716 once invoked, about $0.0005 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 2026-08-31.

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