research

research is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from EliasOulkadi/shokunin. It costs 58 tokens per session (3,053 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A research process for finding information online, checking sources, and verifying facts before writing. It prioritizes original evidence and reputable sources.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to research topics, confirm names, dates, numbers, and versions, gather sources, and perform fact-checking or deeper web investigations.
Why use it?
It reduces unsupported claims, incorrect details, and unreliable citations in documents and answers.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions OpenCode.

Good fit Use it to research topics, confirm names, dates, numbers, and versions, gather sources, and perform fact-checking or deeper web investigations.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/eliasoulkadi/shokunin/research
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.

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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 research

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/eliasoulkadi/shokunin/research/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/eliasoulkadi/shokunin/research)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/eliasoulkadi/shokunin/research"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/eliasoulkadi/shokunin/research/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for research

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/eliasoulkadi/shokunin/research"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/eliasoulkadi/shokunin/research.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 58 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,053 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Excessive Agency · line 225
    Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.
    Fix: Add human-in-the-loop confirmation for destructive, irreversible, or high-impact operations. Never auto-execute commands that modify files, send data, or alter system state.
How audits are shown
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 5.1 $0.00058 $0.03053
Opus 5 $0.00029 $0.01527
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00611
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00305

Measured 12d ago against content hash de70e9780f45, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

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 12d 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.

.pack/skills/research/SKILL.md · 240 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 240 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

research · 調査

調査 · ちょうさ — "investigation". Source verification and fact-checking for document generation.

Pre-loads facts before writing. Runs BEFORE humanize + kami + kagen in the document pipeline. Prevents hallucinated data, fake citations, unverified claims.

Based on: CIA Structured Analytic Techniques (Heuer & Pherson), US Government Tradecraft Primer, NPR Training verification guide, Princeton triangulation methodology, OSINT verification tiers (War Intel Hub), journalistic cross-verification research (Godler & Reich), AI hallucination benchmarks (Vectara HHEM 2026), and evidence hierarchy frameworks (NHMRC).


Core principle

Sources before phrasing. Do not write a claim without verifying it first. Every number, date, name, version, and citation must be traced to a primary or reputable secondary source.


Evidence hierarchy (adapted from NHMRC + intelligence community)

Use this hierarchy to determine the weight of each source:

Level Type Example
1 — Direct primary Official document, direct capture, observed data Real HTTP response, source code, DB dump, screenshot
2 — Official primary Official statement, public documentation, filing SEC filing, CVE entry, official changelog, press release
3 — Reputable secondary Established outlet, peer-reviewed paper, curated database NVD, Wordfence, OWASP, Reuters, arXiv
4 — Multiple independent sources 3+ unrelated sources report the same Cross-reference across tech blogs + forums + docs
5 — Single source with evidence One verifiable source but no corroboration Researcher blog with reproducible evidence
6 — Unverified Unsupported claim, rumor, speculation Do NOT use as fact in a document

Rule: a professional document only uses levels 1–4 for factual claims. Level 5 for context or direct quotes, marked as such. Level 6 is not published.


Source verification protocol (NPR + Princeton triangulation)

Read the full file on GitHub · 240 lines

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. 12d ago First seen · 240 lines · 58 tokens per session scan A de70e9780f45

Subscribe to this mod's changes

research is a skill published in the GitHub repository EliasOulkadi/shokunin (113 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 58 tokens to every session and 3,053 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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