research

research is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from junghwaYang/oh-my-codex. It costs 0 tokens per session (542 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A process for researching technical choices, APIs, libraries, practices, and other unfamiliar subjects using documented sources.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to compare technologies, investigate best practices, understand new tools, and produce a structured research summary.
Why use it?
It makes investigations more focused and records limitations, trade-offs, maintenance concerns, and supporting evidence.

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/junghwayang/oh-my-codex/research
Any agent
npx skills add junghwaYang/oh-my-codex --skill research
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/junghwaYang/oh-my-codex

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 0 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 542 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

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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 $0.00000 $0.00542
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00271
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00108
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00054

Measured 4d ago against content hash 27c06c58bc95, 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.

.codex/skills/research/SKILL.md · 123 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 123 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Research Skill

Deep research and information gathering.

When to Use

  • Evaluating technology options
  • Understanding new APIs/libraries
  • Investigating best practices
  • Comparing solutions
  • Learning new concepts

When NOT to Use

  • When answer is already known
  • Simple documentation lookups
  • Time-critical tasks

Research Process

1. Define Question

What exactly do we need to know?
- Specific question
- Success criteria
- Scope boundaries

2. Gather Sources

Primary sources:
- Official documentation
- GitHub repos
- Academic papers
- RFC specifications

Secondary sources:
- Blog posts
- Stack Overflow
- Community forums
- Video tutorials

3. Analyze & Compare

For each option:
- Pros and cons
- Use cases
- Limitations
- Community support
- Maintenance status

4. Synthesize

- Summary of findings
- Recommendation
- Supporting evidence
- Caveats/risks

Research Templates

Technology Comparison

## {Topic} Comparison

### Options Evaluated
1. {Option A}
2. {Option B}
3. {Option C}

### Comparison Matrix

| Criteria | Option A | Option B | Option C |
|----------|----------|----------|----------|
| Performance | ⭐⭐⭐ | ⭐⭐ | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ |
| Ease of Use | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ | ⭐⭐⭐ | ⭐⭐ |
| Community | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ | ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ | ⭐⭐ |
| Documentation | ⭐⭐⭐ | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ | ⭐⭐⭐ |

### Recommendation
{Option X} because {reasons}

### Risks
- {potential issues}

Best Practice Research

## Best Practices: {Topic}

### Industry Standards
- {standard 1}
- {standard 2}

### Common Patterns
1. {pattern} - {when to use}
2. {pattern} - {when to use}

### Anti-patterns to Avoid
- {anti-pattern} - {why it's bad}

### Sources
- {source 1}
- {source 2}

Usage

research: compare React state management solutions

research: best practices for API rate limiting

research: evaluate database options for time-series data

Output Guidelines

  1. Be specific - Cite sources, version numbers
  2. Be objective - Present tradeoffs fairly
  3. Be actionable - End with clear recommendation
  4. Be current - Note when info might be outdated

Read the full file on GitHub · 123 lines

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 · 123 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 27c06c58bc95

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research is a skill published in the GitHub repository junghwaYang/oh-my-codex (5 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 542 tokens. 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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