research-context

research-context is a skill for Claude Code from moberghr/mtk-agent-toolkit. It costs 40 tokens per session (2,524 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A research workflow that checks current web sources and relates them to named files in a code repository. It returns a short brief with citations and does not edit code.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to investigate the current best way to implement something, verify release notes or security advisories, and inform specifications or implementation choices.
Why use it?
It prevents decisions based on outdated memory or generic advice when libraries, versions, security guidance, or migration paths may have changed.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: user-invocable in frontmatter. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; names the AskUserQuestion tool.

Part of the mtk plugin — 45 skills, 6 agents, 7 hooks, 1 MCP server 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/moberghr/mtk-agent-toolkit/research-context
Any agent
npx skills add moberghr/mtk-agent-toolkit --skill research-context
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/moberghr/mtk-agent-toolkit

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install mtk, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 45 skills, 6 agents, 7 hooks, 1 MCP server.

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-context

README.md
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<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/moberghr/mtk-agent-toolkit/research-context"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/moberghr/mtk-agent-toolkit/research-context.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 40 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,524 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 $0.00040 $0.02524
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.01262
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00505
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00252

Measured 6d ago against content hash bb271895671a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

research-context 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.

.claude/skills/research-context/SKILL.md · 167 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 167 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Research Context

Overview

source-driven-development answers "does this known API behave the way I think?" by checking authoritative docs for one call. research-context answers the broader, forward-looking question: "given what this repo already does, what is the current best way to do X?" — pulling fresh external information (release notes, current best-practices, migration paths, security advisories) and grounding it against named files in this repo so the answer fits the codebase, not a generic tutorial.

It is the MTK analog of Taskmaster's research mode: research is a first-class workflow primitive, not an ad-hoc web search. Its output is a small, cited brief that downstream skills consume — spec-driven-development (version-sensitive ambiguity gate, step 6) and implement (Phase 3, version-sensitive choices) — so spec and implementation decisions ride on current information rather than training-cutoff memory.

This skill does not edit code. It produces a brief; another skill acts on it.

Tool discipline (phase-locked): research is a read + web-fetch phase — use Read/Grep/Glob and the web tools only. Do not Edit/Write source or test code; the only artifact it may write is its own brief. (It is not locked to the read-only toolset because it legitimately needs WebSearch/WebFetch, which that toolset excludes.) Model tier: runs on sonnet (synthesis of external sources into a cited brief) per .claude/references/model-routing.md.

When To Use

  • A spec or plan hinges on a version-sensitive choice (which API/pattern is current in the installed package version, not the one from memory).
  • Choosing between competing libraries/approaches where the landscape moved recently.
  • A dependency upgrade or framework migration where the migration path matters.
  • A security-sensitive decision where current advisories or deprecations could change the answer.
  • The engineer literally asks to "research X" before building.

Read the full file on GitHub · 167 lines

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 · 167 lines · 40 tokens per session scan A bb271895671a

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research-context is a skill published in the GitHub repository moberghr/mtk-agent-toolkit (7 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 40 tokens to every session and 2,524 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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