multi-model-research

multi-model-research is a skill for Claude Code from krishagel/geoffrey. It costs 55 tokens per session (1,338 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A research workflow that asks several large language models for input, has them review one another, and combines the results into a report.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps with complex analysis, contested topics, current-event research, factual lookups, and reports that need multiple perspectives.
Why use it?
It reduces reliance on one model when a question needs broad coverage, current information, or fact checking.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Part of the geoffrey plugin — 33 skills, 2 commands, 7 agents, 4 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/krishagel/geoffrey/multi-model-research
Any agent
npx skills add krishagel/geoffrey --skill multi-model-research
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/krishagel/geoffrey

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install geoffrey, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 33 skills, 2 commands, 7 agents, 4 hooks.

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README.md
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Per session 55 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,338 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 5.1 $0.00055 $0.01338
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.00669
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00268
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00134

Measured 6d ago against content hash 779aec6bc1c2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

multi-model-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 6d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 3 executable files (scripts/citation_tracker.py, scripts/llm_client.py, scripts/research.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

skills/multi-model-research/SKILL.md · 187 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 187 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Multi-Model Research Agent

Implements Karpathy's LLM Council pattern for superior research through parallel queries, peer review, and chairman synthesis.

Architecture

Geoffrey/Claude (Native Council Member):

  • Routes simple vs complex queries
  • Calls external API orchestrator (research.py)
  • Provides my own research response
  • Conducts peer review phase
  • Requests GPT-5.1 synthesis (chairman)
  • Saves final report to Obsidian

Python External API Orchestrator:

  • Fetches responses from GPT-5.1, Gemini 3.0 Pro, Perplexity Sonar, Grok 4.1
  • Returns JSON with all external responses
  • I handle all orchestration and synthesis

When to Use This Skill

Use multi-model research when:

  • Complex analysis needed - Multiple perspectives valuable
  • Factual verification critical - Cross-model validation
  • Comprehensive coverage required - No single model sufficient
  • Current information essential - Perplexity provides web grounding
  • Contested topics - Benefit from diverse model perspectives

Simple vs Council Mode

Simple Mode (Perplexity only):

  • Factual lookups
  • Current events
  • Quick research with citations
  • Completes in <15 seconds

Council Mode (Full council):

  • Comparative analysis
  • Deep research
  • Multiple perspectives needed
  • Strategic questions
  • Completes in <90 seconds

Workflow

Simple Query

User: "What are the latest developments in quantum computing?"
     ↓
I decide: Simple query (factual, current)
     ↓
I call: uv run scripts/research.py --query "..." --models perplexity
     ↓
I read: JSON response from Perplexity
     ↓
I format: Markdown report with citations
     ↓
I save: To Obsidian Geoffrey/Research folder
     ↓
I return: Summary to user with Obsidian link

Council Query

User: "Compare the AI strategies of OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google"
     ↓
I decide: Council query (comparative, complex)
     ↓
I call: uv run scripts/research.py --query "..." --models gpt,gemini,perplexity,grok
     ↓
I read: JSON with all external responses
     ↓
I provide: My own (Claude) research response
     ↓
I conduct: Peer review (each model ranks others)
     ↓
I request: GPT-5.1 chairman synthesis
     ↓
I format: Comprehensive markdown report
     ↓
I save: To Obsidian Geoffrey/Research folder
     ↓
I return: Summary with Obsidian link

Read the full file on GitHub · 187 lines

Files

What ships with it

9 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. 6d ago First seen · 187 lines · 55 tokens per session scan A 779aec6bc1c2

Subscribe to this mod's changes

multi-model-research is a skill published in the GitHub repository krishagel/geoffrey (5 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 55 tokens to every session and 1,338 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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