deep-research

deep-research is a skill for Codex from mturac/everything-openai-codex. It costs 48 tokens per session (1,144 once invoked), scanned B, a copy of deep-research, MIT.

A guide to researching a topic across multiple web sources using Firecrawl and Exa, tools for finding and retrieving web information. It explains how to combine findings into a report with citations.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for deep research, competitive analysis, technology reviews, market sizing, company due diligence, and other questions that require comparing information from multiple sources.
Why use it?
It helps when one search result is not enough and the answer needs evidence gathered from several sources.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present. Also seen: mentions subagents; reads ~/.codex paths; installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents).

Good fit Use it for deep research, competitive analysis, technology reviews, market sizing, company due diligence, and other questions that require comparing information from multiple sources.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/mturac/everything-openai-codex/deep-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 mturac/everything-openai-codex --skill deep-research
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mturac/everything-openai-codex

Made for: Codex.

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Per session 48 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,144 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin 95% 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 $0.00048 $0.01144
Opus 5.5 $0.00019 $0.00458
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00010 $0.00229
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00114

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 2c1a19cd9c32, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

deep-research scanned grade B with 1 finding 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 1mo 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.

Reads agent configuration directoriesmediumAgent snooping

.claude/, .codex/, .gemini/ hold keys, settings and other credentials a mod has no legitimate need for.

Both together give the best coverage. Configure in `~/.codex.json` or `~/.codex/config.toml`.
Origin

This is a copy

95% identical to deep-research — 5 lines 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.

.agents/skills/deep-research/SKILL.md · 155 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 155 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Deep Research

Produce thorough, cited research reports from multiple web sources using firecrawl and exa MCP tools.

When to Activate

  • User asks to research any topic in depth
  • Competitive analysis, technology evaluation, or market sizing
  • Due diligence on companies, investors, or technologies
  • Any question requiring synthesis from multiple sources
  • User says "research", "deep dive", "investigate", or "what's the current state of"

MCP Requirements

At least one of:

  • firecrawl — firecrawl_search, firecrawl_scrape, firecrawl_crawl
  • exa — web_search_exa, web_search_advanced_exa, crawling_exa

Both together give the best coverage. Configure in ~/.codex.json or ~/.codex/config.toml.

Workflow

Step 1: Understand the Goal

Ask 1-2 quick clarifying questions:

  • "What's your goal — learning, making a decision, or writing something?"
  • "Any specific angle or depth you want?"

If the user says "just research it" — skip ahead with reasonable defaults.

Step 2: Plan the Research

Break the topic into 3-5 research sub-questions. Example:

  • Topic: "Impact of AI on healthcare"
    • What are the main AI applications in healthcare today?
    • What clinical outcomes have been measured?
    • What are the regulatory challenges?
    • What companies are leading this space?
    • What's the market size and growth trajectory?

Step 3: Execute Multi-Source Search

For EACH sub-question, search using available MCP tools:

With firecrawl:

firecrawl_search(query: "<sub-question keywords>", limit: 8)

With exa:

web_search_exa(query: "<sub-question keywords>", numResults: 8)
web_search_advanced_exa(query: "<keywords>", numResults: 5, startPublishedDate: "2025-01-01")

Search strategy:

  • Use 2-3 different keyword variations per sub-question
  • Mix general and news-focused queries
  • Aim for 15-30 unique sources total
  • Prioritize: academic, official, reputable news > blogs > forums

Step 4: Deep-Read Key Sources

For the most promising URLs, fetch full content:

Read the full file on GitHub · 155 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. 1mo ago First seen · 155 lines · 48 tokens per session scan B 2c1a19cd9c32

Subscribe to this mod's changes

deep-research is a skill published in the GitHub repository mturac/everything-openai-codex (86 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 48 tokens to every session and 1,144 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (reads agent configuration directories). It is 95% identical to deep-research, differing in 5 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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