research

research is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Hmbown/CodeWhale. It costs 28 tokens per session (119 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for researching current information from external sources, with attention to original sources, dates, links, citations, and uncertainty.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to investigate release notes, documentation, prior work, or ecosystem changes and produce a sourced summary with open questions.
Why use it?
It reduces the risk of relying on outdated facts, unsupported claims, or sources that cannot be checked.

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/hmbown/codewhale/research
Any agent
npx skills add Hmbown/CodeWhale --skill research
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Hmbown/CodeWhale

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
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/hmbown/codewhale/research.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/hmbown/codewhale/research)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/hmbown/codewhale/research"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/hmbown/codewhale/research.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 28 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 119 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 $0.00028 $0.00119
Opus 5 $0.00014 $0.00060
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00024
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00012

Measured 4d ago against content hash 8caad7c5bd32, 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.

crates/tui/assets/skills/research/SKILL.md · 21 lines

What it actually says

Research

When to use

Use for external facts: release notes, docs, prior art, ecosystem changes.

Non-goals

  • Do not invent citations.
  • Degrade clearly when web tools are unavailable.

Workflow

  1. Prefer primary sources.
  2. Note dates and version pins.
  3. Synthesize; separate fact from inference.
  4. List open questions.
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 · 21 lines · 28 tokens per session scan A 8caad7c5bd32

Subscribe to this mod's changes

research is a skill published in the GitHub repository Hmbown/CodeWhale (40,889 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 28 tokens to every session and 119 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 2026-08-30.