research

research is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from katipally/openlive. It costs 28 tokens per session (797 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A research workflow for answering questions by breaking them into focused checks, finding current information, and citing sources that others can verify.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to research, compare, fact-check, or find current information. It is intended for answers that include sources.
Why use it?
It reduces unsupported or outdated answers and makes uncertainty clear when the available evidence is incomplete.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to research, compare, fact-check, or find current information. It is intended for answers that include sources.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/katipally/openlive/research
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.

Any agent
npx skills add katipally/openlive --skill research
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/katipally/openlive

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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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.

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Per session 28 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 797 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 5.1 $0.00028 $0.00797
Opus 5.5 $0.00011 $0.00319
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00006 $0.00159
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00080

Measured 12d ago against content hash 8a33d89dec5e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, 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 12d 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.

services/agent/skills/research/SKILL.md · 86 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 86 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Researching well

Good research answers the question asked, from sources that can be checked, and says plainly what is still uncertain.

Your tools

  • delegate(task): hands one task to OpenLive's research assistant, who has web_search and fetch_url and reports back a short summary. It works while you keep talking and takes a few search steps at most, so give it one focused question per call.
  • web_search and fetch_url: if these are in your own tool list, call them directly instead of delegating. A coding agent may also have its own web tools; use whichever you have.

If you have none of these, say you cannot look it up right now and answer only from what you are sure of, marked as such.

1. Plan the questions

Before searching, break the request into the few facts that decide the answer. "Which laptop should I buy" becomes: the models in their budget, battery life measured by reviewers, current prices. Two to four focused questions beat one vague one.

Tell the user in one short line what you are checking, then start.

2. Ask for sources, every time

The assistant returns plain sentences and leaves links out unless asked. So write each delegated task to ask for them:

Find the current price of the Framework Laptop 13 in the US, from the official store, with the source URL.

Good task lines name: the exact fact, the time frame ("as of this month"), the kind of source you want (official site, the paper, the filing, a named outlet), and "with source URLs".

With web_search yourself: search, pick the most authoritative results, then fetch_url them to read the page itself. Search highlights are a lead, not a source.

3. Prefer primary sources

In order:

  1. The original: the official page, the paper, the dataset, the changelog, the court filing, the company's own announcement.
  2. A reputable outlet reporting on it, with a date.
  3. Everything else, only to find 1 or 2.

Check the date. For anything that changes (prices, versions, schedules, office holders, scores), an old page is a wrong answer.

Read the full file on GitHub · 86 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. 12d ago First seen · 86 lines · 28 tokens per session scan A 8a33d89dec5e

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research is a skill published in the GitHub repository katipally/openlive (360 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 28 tokens to every session and 797 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-10-04.

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