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.
npx agentmods add skills/garrytan/gbrain/data-researchnpx skills add garrytan/gbrain --skill data-researchgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/garrytan/gbrainWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/garrytan/gbrain/data-research)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/garrytan/gbrain/data-research"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/garrytan/gbrain/data-research.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5 | $0.00049 | $0.01190 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00024 | $0.00595 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00010 | $0.00238 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00005 | $0.00119 |
Grade A, and why
data-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.
Copies of this mod
2 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:
- data-research — 91% identical, 12 lines differ
- data-research — 91% identical, 8 lines differ
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 143 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Data Research
Structured research pipeline: search sources, extract structured data, archive raw, deduplicate, update canonical trackers, backlink entities.
Contract
One skill for any email-to-structured-data pipeline. The only differences between tracking investor updates, expenses, and company metrics are the search queries, extraction schemas, and tracker page format. All three use the same 7-phase pipeline with parameterized recipes.
When to Use
- User wants to track structured data from email, web, or API sources
- User says "research", "track", "extract from email", "build a tracker"
- User mentions investor updates, donations, company metrics, filings
- User wants to set up recurring data collection (with cron recipe)
Phases
Phase 1: Define Research Recipe
Infer the research target from conversation context, recent brain activity, active
tasks (ops/tasks.md), and memory files. If the request is ambiguous, present the
most likely interpretation based on what the user has been working on. Only ask for
clarification if context is genuinely insufficient. Options:
- Pick a built-in recipe: investor-updates, expense-tracker, company-updates
- Define a custom recipe with: source queries, classification rules, extraction schema, tracker page path, tracker format
Recipes are YAML files at ~/.gbrain/recipes/{name}.yaml. Scaffold a new one by
copying a built-in recipe file and editing its fields.
Phase 2: Search Sources
Brain first (maybe we already have this data). Then:
- Email via credential gateway: windowed queries (quarterly, monthly if truncated)
- Web via search: public filings, press releases, regulatory data
- APIs: any structured data source the recipe defines
- Attachments: PDF extraction, HTML stripping
Phase 3: Classify
Deterministic first (regex patterns from recipe), LLM fallback. Log every LLM fallback for future regex improvement (fail-improve loop). Skip marketing, newsletters, noise based on recipe's classification rules.
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.
- 4d ago First seen · 143 lines · 49 tokens per session scan A 1dc616108847
data-research is a skill published in the GitHub repository garrytan/gbrain (29,440 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 49 tokens to every session and 1,190 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 2026-08-30.
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