research

research is a skill for Claude Code from naveedharri/benai-skills. It costs 89 tokens per session (582 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A research workflow that uses the internet to produce a sourced report on a topic. It can clarify a vague request, save the final research prompt, and run OpenAI's Deep Research service.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps gather background material and produce Markdown reports for content such as LinkedIn posts or newsletters.
Why use it?
It turns an open-ended research request into a repeatable process with a saved prompt and numbered sources.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: disable-model-invocation in frontmatter.

Part of the content plugin — 4 skills shipped together

Good fit It helps gather background material and produce Markdown reports for content such as LinkedIn posts or newsletters.

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

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install content, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 4 skills.

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/naveedharri/benai-skills/research/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/naveedharri/benai-skills/research)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/naveedharri/benai-skills/research"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/naveedharri/benai-skills/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/naveedharri/benai-skills/research"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/naveedharri/benai-skills/research.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 89 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 582 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Memory Poisoning · line 35
    Skill injects content designed to persist in agent memory or context across interactions. Persistent injection can alter agent behavior long after the initial interaction.
    Fix: Do not allow untrusted input to persist in agent memory or context. Validate all content before storing and implement memory isolation between sessions.
How audits are shown
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 $0.00089 $0.00582
Opus 5 $0.00044 $0.00291
Sonnet 5 $0.00018 $0.00116
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00058

Measured 7d ago against content hash fac46c7ff761, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, 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 7d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 2 executable files (assets/deep_research.py, scripts/run_deep_research.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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/content/skills/research/SKILL.md · 38 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 38 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Deep Research

Turns a research request into a comprehensive, sourced report using the OpenAI Deep Research API. The orchestration script assesses the prompt, enhances it through clarifying questions when needed, saves the exact prompt for reproducibility, runs the research, and saves a markdown report with numbered sources.

Steps

  1. Accept the user's research request (brief or detailed).

  2. Decide whether to enhance. If the prompt is brief or generic, ask the 2-3 clarifying questions in references/prompt-enhancement.md (present numbered options plus a free-text option) and build the enhanced prompt. Skip when the prompt is already specific.

  3. Confirm the final prompt with the user before executing. A run costs API spend and takes 10-20 minutes, so get a yes on the enhanced prompt first.

  4. Run the orchestration script:

    python3 scripts/run_deep_research.py "<prompt>"
    

    It re-runs the enhancement check, saves research_prompt_*.txt, and executes synchronously. Options and output files are in references/cli.md. Wait silently for completion; do not poll for status.

  5. Present results: the markdown report (research_report_*.md), the numbered source URLs, and the saved file paths. Offer follow-up research directions.

Routing

  • references/prompt-enhancement.md: when to enhance, the question templates (technical vs general), how to build the enhanced prompt, worked examples.
  • references/cli.md: script options, output files, execution behavior.
  • references/troubleshooting.md: requirements and error fixes (missing API key, script not found, timeout).

Self-improvement

This skill is never finished. Improve it as you use it.

  • When the user corrects how a step was done, update the relevant reference file (or this SKILL.md) so the correction sticks. Do not just fix it for this run.
  • When a correction is a hard rule ("always X", "never Y"), add it as a permanent rule here.
  • When the user says a research report was genuinely good, save it to references/examples/ so it becomes a model for future runs.
  • Keep the skill small: when you add something, run the deletion test and cut anything that no longer changes behavior.

Read the full file on GitHub · 38 lines

Files

What ships with it

6 files 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. 7d ago First seen · 38 lines · 89 tokens per session scan A fac46c7ff761

Subscribe to this mod's changes

research is a skill published in the GitHub repository naveedharri/benai-skills (61 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 89 tokens to every session and 582 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-09-05.

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