What is research-web?

A web-research tool for finding information about topics, people, companies, software libraries, markets, or jobs. It puts the results directly into the current conversation.

Use it when you ask for online research through /research-web and want the findings returned in the same conversation.

It saves you from manually searching several websites and copying findings into your coding session.

research-web — Skill for Claude Code by mareurs/claude-plugins

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 mareurs/claude-plugins --skill research-web

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mareurs/claude-plugins

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install codescout-companion, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 8 skills, 1 command.

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.

README.md

[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/mareurs/claude-plugins/research-web/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/mareurs/claude-plugins/research-web)

Your own site

<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/mareurs/claude-plugins/research-web"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/mareurs/claude-plugins/research-web/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.

Your own site · 80×15

<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/mareurs/claude-plugins/research-web"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/mareurs/claude-plugins/research-web.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>

Per session 47 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 545 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 unknown 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00047	$0.00545
Opus 5.5	$0.00019	$0.00218
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00009	$0.00109
Haiku 4.5	$0.00005	$0.00055

Measured 14d ago against content hash 781cb4b32d07, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

research-web 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 14d 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.

codescout-companion/skills/research-web/SKILL.md · 54 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

Read it on GitHub

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.

14d ago Changed · -20 lines · -24 tokens per session 781cb4b32d07
2mo ago First seen · 74 lines · 71 tokens per session scan A 81619682021c

Subscribe to this mod's changes

research-web is a skill published in the GitHub repository mareurs/claude-plugins (6 stars, last pushed yesterday), with no licence file. It adds 47 tokens to every session and 545 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-31.

Research

research-web next to 6 skills from other repositories
Mod	Type	Stars	Last push	Licence	Scan	Tokens	Works with
research-webmareurs/claude-plugins	Skill	6	yesterday	none	A	47	Claude Code
imagegenopenai/codex	Skill	133k	yesterday	Apache-2.0	A	113	Codex
playwright-climicrosoft/playwright	Skill	99k	yesterday	Apache-2.0	A	19	Claude Code
local-ai-agentsmicrosoft/ai-agents-for-beginners	Skill	79k	4d ago	MIT	A	200	Claude Code, Codex
systematic-debuggingobra/superpowers	Skill	313k	3d ago	MIT	A	21	Claude Code
next-cache-components-adoptionvercel/next.js	Skill	143k	yesterday	MIT	A	95	Claude Code
next-partial-prefetching-adoptionvercel/next.js	Skill	143k	yesterday	MIT	A	103	Claude Code