research-agent

research-agent is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from ellmos-ai/bach. It costs 41 tokens per session (989 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A research assistant for finding and reviewing scientific literature. It searches services such as PubMed, which indexes medical research, and summarizes and compares papers and their evidence.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for literature reviews, paper summaries, evidence assessment, source comparison, thematic syntheses, and developing research questions or hypotheses.
Why use it?
It reduces the manual work of searching several research databases and reading many PDF documents. It also helps organize findings and identify gaps in existing research.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 41 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 989 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 $0.00041 $0.00989
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.00495
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00198
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00099

Measured 5d ago against content hash 5ff781776f6d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

research-agent 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.

system/agents/research/SKILL.md · 187 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 187 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Research Agent

Version: 1.0.0 | Status: active | Erstellt: 2025-12-31 | Aktualisiert: 2026-01-22

Überblick

Der Research Agent ist spezialisiert auf wissenschaftliche Recherche, Literaturanalyse und evidenzbasierte Zusammenfassungen. Er orchestriert verschiedene KI-Tools und Datenbanken für umfassende Recherchen.


Fähigkeiten

1. Literaturrecherche

  • Multi-Datenbank-Suche (PubMed, Consensus, Elicit)
  • Fachspezifische Filterung
  • Zeitraum-Einschränkungen
  • Zitationsstil-Anpassung

2. Dokumentenanalyse

  • PDF-Extraktion und Zusammenfassung
  • Schlüsselkonzept-Identifikation
  • Evidenz-Bewertung
  • Quellenvergleich

3. Synthese

  • Thematische Zusammenfassung
  • Gap-Analyse
  • Forschungsfragen-Entwicklung
  • Hypothesen-Generierung

Integrierte Services

Service Funktion
prompt-manager Optimierte Recherche-Prompts
scheduling Forschungs-Deadlines
memory Recherche-Ergebnisse speichern

Externe Tools (KI-Center)

Primär

  • Perplexity - Web-Recherche mit Quellen
  • Consensus - Wissenschaftliche Papers
  • NotebookLM - Dokument-Analyse
  • Elicit - Literatur-Review

Sekundär

  • Scite.ai - Zitations-Analyse
  • Claude - Synthese und Analyse
  • Gemini - Lange Dokumente

MCP-Verbindungen

connections/
├── connected_APIs/pubmed/           # PubMed API
├── connected_services/google_drive/ # Dokument-Speicher
└── connected_AIs/external/gemini/   # Deep Research Delegation

CLI-Befehle

# Agent starten (geplant)
bach research search "CRISPR autism therapy"

# Literatur-Review (geplant)
bach research review --topic "autism interventions" --years 5

# Dokument analysieren (geplant)
bach research analyze /path/to/paper.pdf

# Synthese erstellen (geplant)
bach research synthesize --sources ./papers/ --output report.md

Status: CLI-Handler noch nicht implementiert


Workflows

Schnell-Recherche (5 Min)

  1. Perplexity für Überblick
  2. Top 3-5 Quellen identifizieren
  3. Kurzzusammenfassung

Read the full file on GitHub · 187 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. 5d ago First seen · 187 lines · 41 tokens per session scan A 5ff781776f6d

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research-agent is a skill published in the GitHub repository ellmos-ai/bach (7 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 41 tokens to every session and 989 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-31.

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