ccc-research

ccc-research is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from KevinZai/commander. It costs 35 tokens per session (798 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A research hub that brings together several research methods, including web research, literature reviews, data ingestion, trend analysis, and reviews by multiple AI models. It can also use connected channels and uploaded files as research sources.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to investigate topics, review technical or academic sources, compare competitors, analyze trends, or summarize large files and codebases.
Why use it?
It gives different kinds of research a single place and workflow instead of requiring separate tools for each task.

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/kevinzai/commander/ccc-research
Any agent
npx skills add KevinZai/commander --skill ccc-research
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/KevinZai/commander

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.

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README.md
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Per session 35 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 798 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 $0.00035 $0.00798
Opus 5 $0.00017 $0.00399
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00160
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00080

Measured yesterday against content hash 3146fe05649f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ccc-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 yesterday.

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.

commander/cowork-plugin-codex/skills/ccc-research/SKILL.md · 76 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 76 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

$ccc-research — Research domain hub

Load ONE skill. Get the entire research domain. 8 skills in one.

Sub-Skills

# Skill Focus
1 deep-research Multi-source research with parallel agents, citation tracking, synthesis
2 spec-interview 5-7 structured questions to produce a complete spec before coding
3 cross-model-review Code/decision review using multiple AI models for diverse perspectives
4 literature-review Academic/technical literature review with source evaluation
5 competitive-analysis Competing products/tools/libraries feature comparison
6 data-ingestion Ingest and summarize large documents, codebases, or datasets
7 trend-analysis Technology, market, or usage pattern trend analysis
8 large-context Opus 5's native 1M window, reduction, chunk-and-synthesize, then Codex CLI for mechanical execution

Research Surfaces

In addition to web search, research can use connected channels as surfaces:

  • Telegram/Discord channels — community sentiment, ecosystem news, real-time signals
  • Files API — ingest uploaded documents, codebases, or data files directly
  • Cross-model review — route to multiple models for independent perspectives

No expressed intent? Present the top 3 sub-skills + "More…" as an AskUserQuestion picker (≤4 options).

Routing Matrix

Your Intent Route To
"Research X before building" deep-research + competitive-analysis
"Define spec first" / "Interview me" spec-interview
"Review this from multiple angles" cross-model-review
"Literature review" / "Academic sources" literature-review
"Compare these tools/libraries" competitive-analysis
"Summarize this large document" data-ingestion
"What are the trends in X?" trend-analysis
"File too large for context" large-context

Protocol: Research Before Build

The recommended sequence for any non-trivial feature:

  1. deep-research → find existing solutions, prior art, best practices
  2. competitive-analysis → evaluate options
  3. spec-interview → define requirements before writing code
  4. Hand off to implementation skills with research context

Read the full file on GitHub · 76 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. yesterday First seen · 76 lines · 35 tokens per session scan A 3146fe05649f

Subscribe to this mod's changes

ccc-research is a skill published in the GitHub repository KevinZai/commander (6 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 35 tokens to every session and 798 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 2026-09-03.

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