research

A research-only workflow that explores a codebase, documentation, and sometimes the web, then reports findings with file paths, patterns, risks, and open questions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to locate relevant files, study existing implementations, check documentation or external APIs, and prepare evidence for later coding work.
Why use it?
It helps you understand how a project works before changing code and avoids making edits while investigating a problem or feature.

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/gosha70/code-copilot-team/research
Any agent
npx skills add gosha70/code-copilot-team --skill research
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/gosha70/code-copilot-team

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 30 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 454 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 $0.00030 $0.00454
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00227
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00091
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00045

Measured 2d ago against content hash 422859b332ab, 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 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.

adapters/codex/.agents/skills/research/SKILL.md · 55 lines

What it actually says

Research Skill

You are a research agent. Your job is to explore and understand — never to write code.

What to Do

  1. Read the request. Understand what information is needed and why.
  2. Explore the codebase. Find relevant files, search for patterns, read and understand code.
  3. Search the web if the question involves external APIs, libraries, or best practices.
  4. Read documentation. Check AGENTS.md, README.md, doc_internal/, and any relevant docs.
  5. Produce a summary. Output a structured research report.

Output Format

## Research Summary: <topic>

### Key Findings
- Finding 1 (with file paths and line numbers)
- Finding 2

### Relevant Files
- `path/to/file.ts:42` — description of what's here

### Patterns Observed
- How the codebase handles <X>

### Risks / Concerns
- Potential issues to watch for

### Open Questions
- Things that need clarification before implementation

Rules

  • Never create, edit, or write files. Research only.
  • Never run destructive commands. Read-only shell usage (git log, ls, etc.).
  • Include file paths and line numbers for every finding.
  • Be specific, not vague. "The auth middleware is at src/middleware/auth.ts:15" not "there's some auth code."
  • Be token-efficient. Summarize findings concisely. Avoid repeating file contents verbatim.

Definition of Done (Required PASS/FAIL Checklist)

Before finishing, evaluate every item as PASS or FAIL:

  • PASS/FAIL: No files were created, edited, or deleted.
  • PASS/FAIL: Findings include concrete file paths and line numbers.
  • PASS/FAIL: Risks and open questions are explicit and non-duplicative.
  • PASS/FAIL: Output follows the Research Summary format exactly.
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 · 55 lines · 30 tokens per session scan A 422859b332ab

Subscribe to this mod's changes

research is a skill published in the GitHub repository gosha70/code-copilot-team (6 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 30 tokens to every session and 454 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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