do-your-research

do-your-research is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from melodic-software/claude-code-plugins. It costs 121 tokens per session (1,580 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A research review aid that checks factual claims and concrete technical details against authoritative sources or the live environment.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when you need evidence before relying on a technical statement or telling someone what to do.
Why use it?
It reduces guessing about files, settings, commands, interfaces, and other details that may be wrong or outdated.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Installs and runs on its own, but its text points at files inside its plugin — anything it tells you to read at a ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} path is only there once the plugin is installed. Installing the plugin gets both.

Part of the discipline plugin — 16 skills 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/melodic-software/claude-code-plugins/do-your-research
Any agent
npx skills add melodic-software/claude-code-plugins --skill do-your-research
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/melodic-software/claude-code-plugins

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install discipline, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 16 skills.

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README.md
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Per session 121 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,580 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 $0.00121 $0.01580
Opus 5 $0.00060 $0.00790
Sonnet 5 $0.00024 $0.00316
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00158

Measured yesterday against content hash d4ea0428c625, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

do-your-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.

plugins/discipline/skills/do-your-research/SKILL.md · 131 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 131 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Do your research

A drift corrector for research discipline. The method, re-anchor, audit the work in flight, correct forward, report, and the tone that firing this is not an accusation, lives in ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/context/re-anchor-audit-correct.md. Read it; this file adds only what is specific to research discipline.

The discipline this re-anchors

Research and verification before assertion. Resolve its source of truth per the method doc's ladder: if the consuming project states a research/verification discipline in its own CLAUDE.md or .claude/rules/, re-anchor THAT. Otherwise re-anchor this portable baseline:

  • Assert nothing you cannot point to a source for. A claim labelled "known", "obvious", or "from memory" is unverified until a fetched source or the live environment backs it.
  • Verify every concrete specific. A path, filename, default, flag, signature, or any "standard/conventional X" is a claim. Check it against an authoritative source or the actual environment before stating it as fact, most critically right before the user acts on it.
  • Frame the problem before reaching for a solution. Name what is actually being solved; do not let the first solution shape decide it.
  • Never act on ambiguity. Surface the unknown and resolve it rather than assuming a value.
  • Training-data recall is a starting point, not an answer. Treat it as unverified until confirmed from a current, authoritative source.

"An authoritative source" is a bar with three dimensions

Naming a source is not clearing the bar. A source has a tier. Tool output and docs fetched this turn outrank secondary synthesis; ungrounded recall does not clear the bar at all until it is promoted. A claim needs independent corroboration. Citations that trace back to one upstream pool are one source, not three. And a claim about anything that ships releases needs a recency check against the current upstream, because first-party docs lag their own releases.

Read the full file on GitHub · 131 lines

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. yesterday First seen · 131 lines · 121 tokens per session scan A d4ea0428c625

Subscribe to this mod's changes

do-your-research is a skill published in the GitHub repository melodic-software/claude-code-plugins (15 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 121 tokens to every session and 1,580 once invoked, about $0.0006 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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