research

research is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from onebrain-ai/onebrain. It costs 93 tokens per session (1,108 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A web-research workflow that investigates a topic and saves the findings as a structured note in a resources folder.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to research a topic from scratch, choose the desired depth, synthesize the results, and organize them for later reference.
Why use it?
It turns scattered research into a reusable note with sources, key ideas, practical details, and uncertainties.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the onebrain plugin — 32 skills, 5 agents, 2 hooks shipped together

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install onebrain, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 32 skills, 5 agents, 2 hooks.

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README.md
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Per session 93 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,108 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 $0.00093 $0.01108
Opus 5 $0.00046 $0.00554
Sonnet 5 $0.00019 $0.00222
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00111

Measured 4d ago against content hash 50ea4cf7a8e2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, 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 4d 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/plugins/onebrain/skills/research/SKILL.md · 165 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 165 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Research

Research a topic and save the findings as a structured note in your resources folder.

Usage: /research [topic]


Step 1: Clarify the Research Goal

If topic is provided, confirm scope. If not, ask:

What do you want to research?

Then ask:

What are you trying to figure out? (This helps me focus the research.)

Optional: ask depth preference:

  • Overview : broad understanding, key points
  • Deep dive : comprehensive, with sources and nuance
  • Practical : focused on how-to and actionable takeaways

Step 2: Conduct Research

Search for information on the topic. Look for:

  • Authoritative sources (docs, papers, established publications)
  • Multiple perspectives if the topic is contested
  • Practical examples or case studies
  • Recent developments (note dates of sources)

Step 3: Synthesize

Before writing the note, synthesize what you found:

  • What's the core answer to the user's question?
  • What are the key concepts to understand?
  • What's actionable or immediately useful?
  • What's uncertain or contested?

Step 4: Choose Subfolder

  1. Glob existing subfolders in [resources_folder]/*/
  2. Suggest a kebab-case subfolder based on the research topic (max 2 levels, e.g. technology/ai)
  3. Present to user: "I'd file this under [resources_folder]/[suggested-path]/. OK?" Show existing subfolders as options.
  4. Use confirmed path for file creation.

Step 5: Create Research Note

File: [resources_folder]/[subfolder]/[Topic Name].md (subfolder confirmed in Step 4)

If a note on this topic already exists (search recursively in [resources_folder]/**/*.md), ask whether to create a new one or append a "Research : [Date]" section.

---
tags: [research, topic-tag]
created: YYYY-MM-DD
source: /research
sources: [list of key sources]
---

# [Topic Name]

> **Research goal:** [What the user was trying to figure out]

## Overview

[2-3 sentence summary]

## Key Concepts

### [Concept 1]
[Explanation]

### [Concept 2]
[Explanation]

## Key Takeaways

- [Actionable insight 1]
- [Actionable insight 2]
- [Actionable insight 3]

## Open Questions

- [Something the research didn't fully resolve]

## Sources

- [Source 1 : title and context]
- [Source 2 : title and context]

## Related

[[Link to related vault notes]]

Read the full file on GitHub · 165 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.

  1. 4d ago First seen · 165 lines · 93 tokens per session scan A 50ea4cf7a8e2

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research is a skill published in the GitHub repository onebrain-ai/onebrain (25 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 93 tokens to every session and 1,108 once invoked, about $0.0005 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.

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