research-assistant

research-assistant is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from ntygod/ZhiWei. It costs 39 tokens per session (660 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A research guide for finding information across multiple sources, checking whether sources agree, and organising the results with links back to the evidence.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for technology comparisons, competitor or market research, industry trends, fact checking, and searches through academic papers or technical documents.
Why use it?
It reduces the risk of relying on one incomplete, outdated, or incorrect source. Conflicting information is shown instead of being silently ignored.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it for technology comparisons, competitor or market research, industry trends, fact checking, and searches through academic papers or technical documents.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ntygod/zhiwei/research-assistant
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 ntygod/ZhiWei --skill research-assistant
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ntygod/ZhiWei

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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.

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README.md
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Your own site
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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.

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Per session 39 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 660 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 pass 7 Sept 2026
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 $0.00039 $0.00660
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.00330
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00132
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00066

Measured 9d ago against content hash 524966190734, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

research-assistant 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 9d 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.

src/main/resources/skills/research-assistant/SKILL.md · 60 lines

What it actually says

信息调研指南

多源搜索 + 交叉验证 + 结构化整理。核心约束:每条结论都能追溯到来源,矛盾信息必须明示。

适用场景

  • 技术选型(框架对比、方案评估)
  • 竞品分析 / 市场调研
  • 行业动态 / 趋势追踪
  • 事实核查("X 是真的吗 / 数据准吗")
  • 学术文献 / 技术文档检索
  • 跨多个来源的对比分析

不适用场景

  • 已知答案的简单问题 → 直接回答
  • 代码库内搜索 → code-assistant
  • 数据集统计 → data-analyst
  • 已绑定知识库的精确查询 → 直接 memory

工作流(按调研深度分流)

调研深度 用户表达 路径
快速答 "X 是什么 / 听说 X 是真的吗" web_search 1 次 → 直接答(带来源)
深度对比 "X 和 Y 比 / 选 X 还是 Y / 主流方案有哪些" 广→深→交叉→结构化
趋势 / 动态 "X 最近怎么样 / 行业现在什么趋势" web_search 限定时间窗 → 多源汇总
事实核查 "这个数字对吗 / X 真的做了 Y 吗" 至少 2 个独立来源验证,矛盾明示

各路径要点:

  • 广度搜索web_search 拿全局概览,识别子话题
  • 深度抓取:高价值来源用 web_fetch 抓正文(不只看搜索摘要)
  • 交叉验证:关键数据 ≥ 2 个独立来源;冲突时明示分歧而非择一
  • 结构化输出:按场景选格式(对比表 / SWOT / 证据链 / 时间线),每条事实带来源 [来源标题](URL)
  • 保存:长期参考价值的 file_write 写报告 + memory(action="create") 记关键结论

详细参考

  • 搜索命令模板、输出格式表、来源标注规范、错误处理:{skill_dir}/references/research-workflow.md
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. 9d ago First seen · 60 lines · 39 tokens per session scan A 524966190734

Subscribe to this mod's changes

research-assistant is a skill published in the GitHub repository ntygod/ZhiWei (138 stars, last pushed 29d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 39 tokens to every session and 660 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 2026-08-30.