research

research is a skill for Claude Code from naimkatiman/continuous-improvement. It costs 13 tokens per session (304 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of research, MIT.

A research workflow for answering open questions with evidence from the codebase, documentation, or official external sources. It separates verified facts from inferences and records where findings came from.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to investigate repository behavior, APIs, SDKs, frameworks, or other unknowns before implementation, without changing the code as a side effect.
Why use it?
It replaces assumptions and unreliable recollection with traceable evidence. It also exposes uncertainty or conflicting information instead of hiding it.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the oh-my-claudecode plugin — 36 skills, 17 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to investigate repository behavior, APIs, SDKs, frameworks, or other unknowns before implementation, without changing the code as a side effect.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/naimkatiman/continuous-improvement/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 naimkatiman/continuous-improvement --skill research
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/naimkatiman/continuous-improvement

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install oh-my-claudecode, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 36 skills, 17 agents.

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

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/naimkatiman/continuous-improvement/research/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/naimkatiman/continuous-improvement/research)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/naimkatiman/continuous-improvement/research"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/naimkatiman/continuous-improvement/research/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.

agentmods 80×15 button for research

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/naimkatiman/continuous-improvement/research"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/naimkatiman/continuous-improvement/research.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 13 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 304 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 100% 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 $0.00013 $0.00304
Opus 5 $0.00006 $0.00152
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00061
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00030

Measured 3d ago against content hash c449ecaa9357, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

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 3d 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.

Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to research — 0 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.

third-party/oh-my-claudecode/skills/research/SKILL.md · 40 lines

What it actually says

Research

Use this skill when the next step depends on something not yet known. Research answers questions; it does not implement.

This is the canonical research lane. deep-dive, sciomc, and autoresearch route here.

Goal

Replace assumptions with evidence, and say plainly what remains uncertain.

Workflow

  1. State the question precisely enough to know when it is answered.
  2. Search the repo and its docs first — local evidence outranks recollection.
  3. For external SDKs, frameworks, or APIs, consult official documentation.
  4. Sweep more than one way when the answer could hide: by file, by symbol, by caller, by history.
  5. Synthesize into findings, each tied to where it came from.

Scale

  • Narrow lookup — answer it directly.
  • Multiple independent questions — investigate in parallel.
  • Unknown-size discovery — keep going until additional passes surface nothing new.

Rules

  • Cite the source: file and line, or the document consulted.
  • Distinguish what was verified from what was inferred.
  • Report contradicting evidence rather than picking the tidier story.
  • Do not implement as a side effect of researching.

Output

  • The question
  • Findings, each with its source
  • What remains unknown or unverifiable
  • Recommended next step, if one follows
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. 3d ago First seen · 40 lines · 13 tokens per session scan A c449ecaa9357

Subscribe to this mod's changes

research is a skill published in the GitHub repository naimkatiman/continuous-improvement (7 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 13 tokens to every session and 304 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to research, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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