research

research is a skill for Claude Code, Codex, Cursor from mamahoos/dot-files. It costs 49 tokens per session (177 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of research, MIT.

A research workflow that investigates questions using primary sources, such as official documentation, source code, standards, and first-party APIs, then records the findings in Markdown.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to research APIs, documentation, technical questions, or other topics and save cited findings in the repository.
Why use it?
It reduces the time spent gathering trustworthy technical information and tracing claims back to their original sources.

Skill for Claude CodeCodexCursor

Written for Claude Code and Codex and Cursor: disable-model-invocation in frontmatter, but also agents/openai.yaml present.

Good fit Use it to research APIs, documentation, technical questions, or other topics and save cited findings in the repository.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/mamahoos/dot-files/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 mamahoos/dot-files --skill research
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mamahoos/dot-files

Made for: Claude Code, Codex, Cursor.

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 research

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/mamahoos/dot-files/research/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/mamahoos/dot-files/research)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/mamahoos/dot-files/research"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/mamahoos/dot-files/research/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for research

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/mamahoos/dot-files/research"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/mamahoos/dot-files/research.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 49 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 177 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 94% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00049 $0.00177
Opus 5 $0.00024 $0.00088
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00035
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00018

Measured 6d ago against content hash 52df71d9fb04, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, 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 6d 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.

Origin

This is a copy

94% identical to research — 1 line differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

home/.cursor/skills/research/SKILL.md · 14 lines

What it actually says

Spin up a background agent to do the research, so you keep working while it reads.

Its job:

  1. Investigate the question against primary sources (official docs, source code, specs, first-party APIs), not a secondary write-up of them. Follow every claim back to the source that owns it.
  2. Write the findings to a single Markdown file, citing each claim's source.
  3. Save it where the repo already keeps such notes; match the existing convention, and if there is none, put it somewhere sensible and say where.
Files

What ships with it

1 file 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 · 14 lines · 49 tokens per session scan A 52df71d9fb04

Subscribe to this mod's changes

research is a skill published in the GitHub repository mamahoos/dot-files (4 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 49 tokens to every session and 177 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 94% identical to research, differing in 1 line, and is treated as a copy.

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