research

research is a skill for Claude Code from oliver-kriska/claude-elixir-phoenix. It costs 41 tokens per session (1,214 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A research guide for learning about Elixir, Phoenix, Ecto, and related libraries. It searches technical documentation and community discussions, then saves the findings in a document.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to compare libraries or research topics such as background jobs, LiveView uploads, and database patterns.
Why use it?
It provides a repeatable way to investigate unfamiliar tools or programming questions without losing the results.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: effort in frontmatter. Also seen: names the AskUserQuestion tool.

Part of the phx plugin — 50 skills, 26 agents, 8 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it to compare libraries or research topics such as background jobs, LiveView uploads, and database patterns.

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

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install phx, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 50 skills, 26 agents, 8 hooks.

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/oliver-kriska/claude-elixir-phoenix/research/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/oliver-kriska/claude-elixir-phoenix/research)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/oliver-kriska/claude-elixir-phoenix/research"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/oliver-kriska/claude-elixir-phoenix/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/oliver-kriska/claude-elixir-phoenix/research"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/oliver-kriska/claude-elixir-phoenix/research.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 41 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,214 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 $0.00041 $0.01214
Opus 5.5 $0.00016 $0.00486
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00008 $0.00243
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00121

Measured 18d ago against content hash a78d6f24d146, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, 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 18d 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.

plugins/elixir-phoenix/skills/research/SKILL.md · 169 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 169 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

$ARGUMENTS = Research topic/question. Add --library for structured library evaluation (uses ${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/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 $ARGUMENTS 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 ${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/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

Workflow

0. Pre-flight Checks

Cache check: Check if .claude/research/{topic-slug}.md already exists. If recent (<24 hours): present existing summary, ask "Refresh or use existing?"

Tidewave shortcut: If the topic is about an existing dependency (library already in mix.exs), prefer Tidewave over web search:

mcp__tidewave__get_docs(module: "LibraryModule")

This returns docs matching your exact mix.lock version — faster, more accurate, zero web tokens. Only fall through to web search if Tidewave is unavailable or the topic needs community discussion (gotchas, real-world patterns, comparisons).

1. Query Decomposition (CRITICAL — before any search)

Read the full file on GitHub · 169 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. 18d ago Changed a78d6f24d146
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 169 lines · 41 tokens per session scan A c777d97f68ce

Subscribe to this mod's changes

research is a skill published in the GitHub repository oliver-kriska/claude-elixir-phoenix (567 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 41 tokens to every session and 1,214 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-09-03.

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