research

research is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from joris887/exosuit. It costs 33 tokens per session (1,743 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guided online research workflow that investigates a topic and produces a structured report with citations and confidence scores.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to research technical, business, or general-interest questions at a quick, standard, or deep level. It can also check existing research notes before starting new work.
Why use it?
It reduces the time spent planning searches, checking whether a question is specific enough, and organizing findings. It also helps show how certain each conclusion is.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the exosuit plugin — 44 skills, 1 command, 9 agents, 10 hooks 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/joris887/exosuit/research
Any agent
npx skills add joris887/exosuit --skill research
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/joris887/exosuit

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install exosuit, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 44 skills, 1 command, 9 agents, 10 hooks.

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/joris887/exosuit/research.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/joris887/exosuit/research)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/joris887/exosuit/research"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/joris887/exosuit/research.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 33 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,743 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 $0.00033 $0.01743
Opus 5 $0.00016 $0.00872
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00349
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00174

Measured 5d ago against content hash 385b5b8f4d7a, 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 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.

.claude/skills/research/SKILL.md · 167 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 167 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.


research

Skill metrics: Emit a start event to the activity log:

echo "{\"type\":\"skill\",\"event\":\"start\",\"skill\":\"research\",\"ts\":\"$(date -u +%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ)\"}" >> docs/sessions/.activity-log.jsonl

Researching: $ARGUMENTS

Phase 1: Clarification Gate

Before starting research, assess whether the query is specific enough:

If the query is vague (single word, no clear question, ambiguous scope):

  • Ask 1–2 focused clarifying questions using AskUserQuestion
  • Ask about scope: "What specific aspect of [topic] are you interested in?"
  • Ask about context: "Is this for a specific project/technology, or a general investigation?"

If the query is specific enough — proceed directly.

Ask about depth if not obvious from the query:

  • Use AskUserQuestion with options: "Quick scan (2-3 searches, fast answer)", "Standard (parallel research, 2-3 min)", "Deep dive (comprehensive, 5-10 min)"
  • If the query clearly implies depth (e.g., "comprehensive analysis of..." → deep), skip asking

Phase 2: Check Prior Research

Before doing new research, check if this topic has been investigated before:

  1. Search docs/research/ for matching topics (Grep on title/tags in frontmatter)
  2. Search docs/solutions/ for related findings
  3. Search docs/brainstorms/ for related design explorations

If prior research exists:

  • Load it and assess: is it still current? Does it answer the query?
  • If it's recent and relevant: present it to the user, ask if they want fresh research or if prior findings suffice
  • If it's outdated or partially relevant: note it as context for the new research

Phase 3: Plan Research

Compose the deep-research methodology (.claude/prompts/deep-research.md):

  1. Classify depth — Auto-classify using depth profile heuristics, or use the user's explicit choice
  2. Decompose query — Break into sub-questions per Phase 1 of deep-research methodology
  3. Present plan to user — Show the sub-questions and depth before executing

Read the full file on GitHub · 167 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 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. 5d ago First seen · 167 lines · 33 tokens per session scan A 385b5b8f4d7a

Subscribe to this mod's changes

research is a skill published in the GitHub repository joris887/exosuit (4 stars, last pushed 15d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 33 tokens to every session and 1,743 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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