work-research

A method for researching a work question using current external or workspace sources. It defines what evidence is needed, checks source quality, and records uncertainty and citations.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for literature reviews, market and competitor research, policy questions, technical briefs, and due-diligence work where evidence must support the conclusion.
Why use it?
It reduces the risk of making important decisions from outdated, weak, or conflicting information.

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 74 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 533 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 $0.00074 $0.00533
Opus 5 $0.00037 $0.00267
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00107
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00053

Measured 2d ago against content hash 5c1ab9936487, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

work-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 2d 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.

app/agent/builtin_skills/work-research/SKILL.md · 60 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 60 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Research a work question

Produce a source-governed answer to a decision-relevant question. More links do not automatically create more confidence. Do not load bundled references when this skill activates.

Define the research contract

  1. State the question, decision or action it supports, audience, geography, time boundary, required depth, and acceptable source types.
  2. Split the question into the fewest independent subquestions that cover the outcome. Define what would count as enough evidence for each.
  3. Identify freshness-sensitive claims before searching. Use exact dates and versions where “current,” “latest,” or policy status matters.

Gather evidence

Prefer primary sources: official documentation, laws and regulators, original research, filings, standards, first-party product material, and direct data. Use secondary sources for discovery, independent interpretation, or when the primary source is unavailable. Account for source incentives and methodology.

Maintain a compact evidence ledger with claim, source, publication/update date, scope, and confidence. Read references/source-governance.md for source ranking, contradiction handling, and citation checks when claims are contested, freshness-sensitive, consequential, or based on estimates.

Seek corroboration for material claims only when independence improves confidence. Ten articles repeating one press release remain one source.

Resolve and synthesize

Resolve apparent contradictions by version, date, population, geography, definitions, methodology, and incentives. Do not average incompatible numbers or hide disagreement in vague prose.

Stop collecting when each material subquestion is answered, explicitly unknown, or blocked by inaccessible evidence. Separate:

  • confirmed source facts;
  • reasoned inference with its premises;
  • estimates and their methodology;
  • unresolved disagreement or missing evidence.

Verify that every citation opens to the intended source and supports the exact claim attached to it. Quote only when the wording itself matters. Never fabricate a URL, author, date, access result, or publication detail.

Read the full file on GitHub · 60 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 files 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.

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. 2d ago First seen · 60 lines · 74 tokens per session scan A 5c1ab9936487

Subscribe to this mod's changes

work-research is a skill published in the GitHub repository evoelsewhere/evoflux (5 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 74 tokens to every session and 533 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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