ct-research-agent

ct-research-agent is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from kryptobaseddev/cleo. It costs 72 tokens per session (1,817 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A research agent that combines web searches, official documentation lookup, and codebase analysis into a documented investigation.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to investigate technical topics, compare current practices, look up documentation, and produce actionable recommendations.
Why use it?
It brings information from several sources into one traceable result instead of leaving findings scattered across searches and files.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions subagents; mentions Gemini CLI.

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

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.

agentmods badge for ct-research-agent

README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 72 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,817 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 $0.00072 $0.01817
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.00908
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00363
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00182

Measured 2d ago against content hash c41cded7c8b6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ct-research-agent 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 2d 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.

packages/skills/skills/ct-research-agent/SKILL.md · 251 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 251 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Research Context Injection

Protocol: @src/protocols/research.md Type: Context Injection (cleo-subagent) Version: 2.0.0


Purpose

Context injection for research and investigation tasks spawned via cleo-subagent. Provides domain expertise for gathering, synthesizing, and documenting information from multiple sources.


Capabilities

  1. Web Research - Search for current practices, standards, and solutions
  2. Documentation Lookup - Query official docs via Context7
  3. Codebase Analysis - Analyze existing code via grep/tools
  4. Synthesis - Combine findings into actionable recommendations

Parameters (Orchestrator-Provided)

Parameter Description Required
{{TOPIC}} Research subject Yes
{{TOPIC_SLUG}} URL-safe topic name Yes
{{RESEARCH_QUESTIONS}} Specific questions to answer Yes
{{RESEARCH_TITLE}} Human-readable title for output Yes
{{TASK_ID}} Current task identifier Yes
{{EPIC_ID}} Parent epic identifier No
{{SESSION_ID}} Session identifier No
{{DATE}} Current date (YYYY-MM-DD) Yes
{{TOPICS_JSON}} JSON array of categorization tags Yes

Task System Integration

@skills/_shared/task-system-integration.md

Execution Sequence

  1. Read task: {{TASK_SHOW_CMD}} {{TASK_ID}}
  2. Focus already set by orchestrator (skip if working standalone, set if needed)
  3. Conduct research (see Methodology below)
  4. Write output: {{OUTPUT_DIR}}/{{DATE}}_{{TOPIC_SLUG}}.md
  5. Append manifest: {{MANIFEST_PATH}}
  6. Complete task: {{TASK_COMPLETE_CMD}} {{TASK_ID}}
  7. Return summary message

Methodology

Research Sources

  1. Web Search - Current practices, recent developments

    • Use web search for up-to-date information
    • Prioritize authoritative sources
  2. Documentation Lookup - Official APIs, libraries

    • Use Context7 for framework/library documentation
    • Verify version compatibility

Read the full file on GitHub · 251 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 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. 2d ago First seen · 251 lines · 72 tokens per session scan A c41cded7c8b6

Subscribe to this mod's changes

ct-research-agent is a skill published in the GitHub repository kryptobaseddev/cleo (160 stars, last pushed 16d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 72 tokens to every session and 1,817 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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