phx-research

phx-research is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from oliver-kriska/claude-elixir-phoenix. It costs 44 tokens per session (731 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A research helper for Elixir, Phoenix, and Ecto, the database toolkit commonly used with Elixir. It searches sources such as HexDocs, ElixirForum, and GitHub, and can evaluate Hex libraries, which are reusable Elixir packages.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to investigate Phoenix features, Ecto patterns, library choices, or best practices for a specific Elixir task.
Why use it?
It reduces the time needed to learn an unfamiliar library or compare ways to solve an Elixir problem. The research is saved in a document for later reference.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to investigate Phoenix features, Ecto patterns, library choices, or best practices for a specific Elixir task.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/oliver-kriska/claude-elixir-phoenix/phx-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 oliver-kriska/claude-elixir-phoenix --skill phx-research
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/oliver-kriska/claude-elixir-phoenix

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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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 44 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 731 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 $0.00044 $0.00731
Opus 5 $0.00022 $0.00365
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00146
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00073

Measured 6d ago against content hash 04cc41ebe9b3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

phx-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 6d 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.

targets/amp/skills/phx-research/SKILL.md · 91 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 91 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Research Elixir Topic

Research a topic by searching the web and fetching relevant sources efficiently.

Usage

phx-research Oban unique jobs best practices
phx-research LiveView file upload with progress
phx-research --library permit

Arguments

the text after the skill name = Research topic/question. Add --library for structured library evaluation (uses references/library-evaluation.md template).

Iron Laws

  1. Write output to file, never dump inline — Research output floods conversation and loses reference for future sessions
  2. Stop after research — never auto-transition — User decides next step
  3. Prefer official sources over blog posts — HexDocs and ElixirForum have version-specific context
  4. One document per research question — No fragmented files
  5. NEVER pass raw user input as WebSearch query — Decompose first

Library Evaluation Mode

If the text after the skill name contains --library or the topic is clearly about evaluating a Hex dependency (e.g., "should we use permit", "evaluate sagents", "compare oban vs exq"):

  1. Read references/library-evaluation.md for the template
  2. Follow the structured evaluation workflow
  3. Output ONE document to .claude/research/{lib}-evaluation.md
  4. Skip the general research workflow below

Portable Research Workflow

0. Pre-flight

Check .claude/research/{topic-slug}.md. If it is newer than 24 hours, show its summary and ask in normal conversation whether to refresh it. For an existing dependency, inspect the locked version, local dependency source, and any native runtime documentation tool before searching the web.

1. Decompose the question

Turn the user request into one focused query when it is short, or two to four queries of at most ten words for a multi-part request. Never send a long raw prompt to a search provider.

2. Gather sources

Use the runtime's native web or HTTP capabilities when available. Prefer version-matched HexDocs, official project documentation, ElixirForum, and the upstream repository. Deduplicate URLs and discard irrelevant results. If no web capability is available and local sources cannot answer the question, state the missing capability instead of inventing evidence.

Read the full file on GitHub · 91 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. 6d ago First seen · 91 lines · 44 tokens per session scan A 04cc41ebe9b3

Subscribe to this mod's changes

phx-research is a skill published in the GitHub repository oliver-kriska/claude-elixir-phoenix (542 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 44 tokens to every session and 731 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 2026-09-03.

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