best-practice-research

best-practice-research is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from mrzhangguoguo/oh-my-workbuddy. It costs 33 tokens per session (1,264 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A research workflow for finding current recommendations from official documentation and other upstream sources. It produces a cited recommendation and passes the result to planning or implementation.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to investigate version-specific guidance, technical standards, library choices, or official recommendations before planning a change.
Why use it?
It avoids relying on outdated memory when software behavior, standards, or recommended practices may have changed. It also separates external evidence from facts found in your own codebase.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions Codex.

Good fit Use it to investigate version-specific guidance, technical standards, library choices, or official recommendations before planning a change.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/mrzhangguoguo/oh-my-workbuddy/best-practice-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 mrzhangguoguo/oh-my-workbuddy --skill best-practice-research
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mrzhangguoguo/oh-my-workbuddy

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 33 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,264 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 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 $0.00033 $0.01264
Opus 5 $0.00016 $0.00632
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00253
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00126

Measured 12d ago against content hash bcedee19c4a3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

best-practice-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 12d 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.

skills/best-practice-research/SKILL.md · 106 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 106 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Ported from oh-my-codex best-practice-research. OMX runtime conventions ($macro invocation, omx CLI, .omx/ state directory) are replaced with WorkBuddy idioms (Skill tool, Agent tool, task list, .workbuddy/memory).

Best-Practice Research

Use this skill when a task depends on current external best practices, version-aware guidance, standards, official recommendations, or upstream behavior. This is a workflow wrapper: it routes evidence gathering and synthesis; it is not a new research authority and it does not replace WebSearch/WebFetch work.

Purpose

Produce a cited, reusable best-practice answer or handoff that separates current external evidence from repo-local facts and dependency-selection decisions. For pre-planning investigation, this is the ordinary first research wrapper: gather official/upstream evidence, then hand it to the plan skill or the caller as planning input. Do not present best-practice-research as a final architecture component or as a validator-gated research loop.

Terminal By Default

This skill is terminal and read-only by default. It gathers evidence and produces a cited recommendation with a handoff, then stops. Do not write or edit files, create or amend commits, run mutating commands, or otherwise modify repository state under this skill — even when the question has clear implementation implications. When implementation is warranted, stop and hand off rather than continuing: name the plan skill for planning and the Agent tool (or team/deep-interview skills) for execution, and resume only after the user explicitly switches to that workflow.

Activate When

  • The user asks for best practices, recommended approach, current guidance, official recommendations, standards, or version-aware external behavior.
  • The plan, deep-interview, or team skill (or another workflow) needs current external evidence before planning or execution can be correct.
  • The task involves an already chosen technology and needs authoritative usage guidance, migration notes, API behavior, lifecycle rules, or current safety guidance.

Read the full file on GitHub · 106 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. 12d ago First seen · 106 lines · 33 tokens per session scan A bcedee19c4a3

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best-practice-research is a skill published in the GitHub repository mrzhangguoguo/oh-my-workbuddy (2 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 33 tokens to every session and 1,264 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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