research

research is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Epistates/sparX. It costs 41 tokens per session (1,078 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A research workflow for finding current topics, debates, releases, and content ideas in a chosen niche for X posts.

In plain words
What is it for?
Researching what is trending in areas such as Rust, local AI models, or developer tools, and finding subjects for timely X content.
Why use it?
It removes the need to search several sources manually when deciding what to post about. It uses discussions from X, Reddit, Hacker News, and recent announcements to identify opportunities.

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/epistates/sparx/research
Any agent
npx skills add Epistates/sparX --skill research
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Epistates/sparX

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
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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 1,078 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 $0.01078
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.00539
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00216
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00108

Measured 4d ago against content hash 28d2e6ae803a, 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 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 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.

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.

.claude/skills/research/SKILL.md · 109 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 109 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Topic & Trend Research for X Content

Research what's being discussed, debated, and shared in a specific niche to identify high-potential content opportunities.

Input

The user provides:

  • A niche or topic to research (e.g., "Rust", "local LLMs", "developer tools")
  • Or asks "what should I post about?"
  • Or wants to understand what's trending

Process

Step 1 — Web Research

Search for current conversations and trends using WebSearch:

  1. Search X/Twitter directly for the niche topic + "2026" to find recent discussions
  2. Search Reddit (r/programming, niche subreddits) for hot topics
  3. Search Hacker News for trending technical discussions
  4. Search for recent releases/announcements in the niche
  5. Search for controversies or debates (these drive highest engagement)

Use WebSearch with queries like:

  • site:x.com [niche topic] 2026
  • [niche] trending discussion March 2026
  • [niche] controversial opinion 2026
  • [niche] new release announcement 2026

Deep-read promising results using WebFetch to extract full content from the most relevant search results. This gives you the actual conversations, not just titles.

If chrome is available and you need to browse X's live feed for real-time conversations, you can navigate to X search:

  • https://x.com/search?q=[topic]&f=live — latest posts on the topic
  • Read the actual discussions, not just search snippets

Step 2 — Identify Content Opportunities

Categorize findings into opportunity types:

Hot Takes — Controversial discussions where you can add a unique perspective

  • Look for: debates, strong opinions, "unpopular opinion" threads
  • Signal: High reply counts indicate engagement potential

Tutorials — Questions people are asking that you can answer

  • Look for: "How do I...", Stack Overflow trending, common mistakes
  • Signal: Repeat questions indicate unmet demand

Announcements — New releases, updates, or changes you can contextualize

  • Look for: GitHub releases, product launches, API changes
  • Signal: Timing matters — first-mover advantage in commentary

Read the full file on GitHub · 109 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. 4d ago First seen · 109 lines · 41 tokens per session scan A 28d2e6ae803a

Subscribe to this mod's changes

research is a skill published in the GitHub repository Epistates/sparX (3 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 41 tokens to every session and 1,078 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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