spawn-research-agents

spawn-research-agents is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from eveld/claude. It costs 23 tokens per session (453 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A skill for researching a codebase by coordinating several specialized agents. A codebase is the complete collection of files that make up a software project.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to locate code and documentation, study how parts of a project work, find similar implementations, and combine the findings.
Why use it?
It divides a broad investigation into focused searches and analyses, making it easier to find relevant files, documentation, and implementation patterns.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the workflows plugin — 29 skills, 5 commands, 17 agents shipped together

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/eveld/claude/spawn-research-agents
Any agent
npx skills add eveld/claude --skill spawn-research-agents
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/eveld/claude

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install workflows, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 29 skills, 5 commands, 17 agents.

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Per session 23 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 453 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 $0.00023 $0.00453
Opus 5 $0.00012 $0.00227
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00091
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00045

Measured 5d ago against content hash c954a1aab03a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

spawn-research-agents 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.

skills/spawn-research-agents/SKILL.md · 62 lines

What it actually says

Spawn Research Agents

Use specialized agents in parallel to research different aspects of the codebase efficiently.

Agent Selection

Choose agents based on research needs:

Always start with locators:

  • codebase-locator - Find WHERE files/components are
  • thoughts-locator - Find WHAT documentation exists

Then use analyzers on findings:

  • codebase-analyzer - Understand HOW specific code works
  • codebase-pattern-finder - Find SIMILAR implementations
  • thoughts-analyzer - Extract insights from specific docs

Only if user explicitly requests:

  • web-search-researcher - External research

Parallel Execution Pattern

Spawn multiple agents at once using multiple Task calls in a single message:

Task(subagent_type="codebase-locator", prompt="Find all authentication files")
Task(subagent_type="thoughts-locator", prompt="Find auth-related documentation")

Then wait for both to complete before spawning follow-up agents.

Research Workflow

  1. Decompose: Break research question into specific areas
  2. Locate: Use locator agents to find relevant files/docs
  3. Analyze: Use analyzer agents on most promising findings
  4. Synthesize: Combine all results with file:line references

Example

Research question: "How does authentication work?"

Step 1 - Locate (parallel):

Task(subagent_type="codebase-locator", prompt="Find all authentication-related files including handlers, middleware, and services")
Task(subagent_type="thoughts-locator", prompt="Find any documentation about authentication implementation")

Step 2 - Analyze (parallel, after step 1 completes):

Task(subagent_type="codebase-analyzer", prompt="Analyze authentication flow from login endpoint through JWT generation")
Task(subagent_type="codebase-pattern-finder", prompt="Find examples of how other endpoints use authentication middleware")

Step 3 - Synthesize: Combine findings with specific file paths and line numbers.

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 · 62 lines · 23 tokens per session scan A c954a1aab03a

Subscribe to this mod's changes

spawn-research-agents is a skill published in the GitHub repository eveld/claude (10 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 23 tokens to every session and 453 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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