web-research

web-research is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from oleg494/coding-kit. It costs 78 tokens per session (689 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A skill for finding and checking facts from outside sources using web search and primary references.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to look up information, compare options, explain how something works, and answer questions with dated sources.
Why use it?
It provides a repeatable research process and avoids filling gaps with unverified claims.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents).

Good fit Use it to look up information, compare options, explain how something works, and answer questions with dated sources.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/oleg494/coding-kit/web-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 oleg494/coding-kit --skill web-research
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/oleg494/coding-kit

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.

agentmods badge for web-research

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/oleg494/coding-kit/web-research/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/oleg494/coding-kit/web-research)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/oleg494/coding-kit/web-research"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/oleg494/coding-kit/web-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 web-research

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/oleg494/coding-kit/web-research"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/oleg494/coding-kit/web-research.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 78 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 689 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 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 $0.00078 $0.00689
Opus 5.5 $0.00031 $0.00276
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00016 $0.00138
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00069

Measured 2d ago against content hash 0e8f10c1143e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

web-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 2d 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.

.agents/skills/web-research/SKILL.md · 60 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 60 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Web Research — facts from the outside world

Workflow

  1. Define the missing external fact. Local code and established project facts do not need web corroboration.
  2. Read known primary URLs directly; search when the source is unknown. Use a browser only for interactive or dynamically rendered content.
  3. Primary sources, not retellings. Official docs, original research or source code; check the actual version and applicability.
  4. Cross-check where material. One authoritative source can establish a narrow fact; seek independent evidence for disputed, indirect or high-impact claims.
  5. Dating. Include the relevant version/date for time-sensitive facts.
  6. Answer with sources. Link external claims and identify remaining uncertainty. Do not invent facts when a source is unavailable.

Source hierarchy & fallback (403/429/captcha)

  1. Official docs / GitHub repo / source code — the primary source.
  2. Issue trackers, ADRs, engineering blogs — industry practice.
  3. Direct HTTP fetch of the page (read on the URL) — when search engines block you.

On 403/429/captcha, try another legitimate source or access method without bypassing access controls. If sources remain unreachable, name the unresolved fact and what was tried; finish the parts that available evidence supports.

Research depth

Use enough evidence to resolve the question, not a fixed number of queries or pages. A definition can need one source; a technology comparison may require multiple alternatives, benchmarks and counterexamples. Stop when further search cannot materially change the answer.

What to look for

Type of information Where to look
API / library Official documentation, GitHub README, source code
Industry practice GitHub issues, ADRs, engineering blogs, Thoughtworks Tech Radar
Bug / error GitHub issues, Stack Overflow, official bug tracker
Tool comparison Benchmarks, practitioner articles, Hacker News discussions
Regulations / laws Official sources (.gov, legal databases)

Read the full file on GitHub · 60 lines

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.

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  10. 1mo ago First seen · 59 lines · 78 tokens per session scan A 1fd9fa22851f

Subscribe to this mod's changes

web-research is a skill published in the GitHub repository oleg494/coding-kit (3 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 78 tokens to every session and 689 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-08-31.

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