mk:research

mk:research is a skill for Claude Code from ngocsangyem/MeowKit. It costs 165 tokens per session (1,631 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A technical research workflow for answering important engineering questions with evidence from several independent sources. It produces a cited Markdown report without changing source code.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to compare technologies, investigate standards, evaluate ecosystems, or collect documented best practices.
Why use it?
It prevents technology choices and design decisions from relying on guesswork or a single source.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions subagents.

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/ngocsangyem/meowkit/research
Any agent
npx skills add ngocsangyem/MeowKit --skill research
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ngocsangyem/MeowKit

Made for: Claude Code.

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 mk:research

README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 165 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,631 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 $0.00165 $0.01631
Opus 5 $0.00082 $0.00816
Sonnet 5 $0.00033 $0.00326
Haiku 4.5 $0.00016 $0.00163

Measured 3d ago against content hash 3aed3ac087c9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

mk: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.

.claude/skills/research/SKILL.md · 126 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 126 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Research

Front door for deep, multi-source technical research. Wraps a research subagent, keeps the main session unblocked, and returns one cited markdown report. Report-only — it never edits source code.

Differentiator: one library or API question is not research — that is mk:docs-finder. Research answers decisions that need evidence from several independent sources ("evaluate X vs Y", "how do others solve Z", "what does the spec actually say").

Process

Outcome-oriented, not a fixed script.

  1. Scope the question in one sentence. Confirm the budget only if the user hinted at depth; otherwise use the default below.
  2. Internal bridge (optional) — when the topic touches the current codebase, run mk:scout first and feed a short summary into the research prompt.
  3. Spawn the researcher. Default: one researcher subagent. --deep: two parallel researcher subagents on independent sub-topics with zero file overlap. Give each an inline delegation prompt carrying: work context, report save path, acceptance criteria, constraints, budget, and the Source Discipline block below.
  4. Assemble the returned findings into one report at the save path (see Save Paths). Never fetch a URL yourself — the researcher owns retrieval.

Source Discipline

Inject this block into every researcher prompt:

  • Primary sources. Follow every claim back to the source that owns it — cite the owner, not a summary of it.
  • Require ≥2 independent sources for any load-bearing claim; attach a confidence level (high / medium / low) to each finding.
  • Prefer material from the last 12 months; mark anything older as potentially stale.
  • Retrieval chain: mk:docs-finder for library / framework / API docs → mk:web-to-markdown --wtm-accept-risk --caller mk:research for arbitrary pages → WebSearch as last resort. Never fetch a URL directly; do NOT call WebFetch even if the subagent has it granted — delegate every fetch through the chain.
  • Budget: max 5 retrieval calls per researcher. Hard cap. Raise only when the user explicitly asks for more depth.

Read the full file on GitHub · 126 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. 3d ago First seen · 126 lines · 165 tokens per session scan A 3aed3ac087c9

Subscribe to this mod's changes

mk:research is a skill published in the GitHub repository ngocsangyem/MeowKit (14 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 165 tokens to every session and 1,631 once invoked, about $0.0008 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 2026-09-03.

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