research

A research workflow for investigating a topic and producing a structured summary. It breaks the subject into smaller questions, gathers facts with reasoning, and records uncertainties.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to research a topic, investigate a question, look up information, summarize findings, and identify open questions or useful follow-ups.
Why use it?
Broad research can become a collection of disconnected facts. This provides a way to organize the investigation and show what is known or still unclear.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 61 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 393 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 $0.00061 $0.00393
Opus 5 $0.00030 $0.00197
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00079
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00039

Measured 2d ago against content hash 34edcc7c9b73, 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 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.

examples/lyzr-agent/skills/research/SKILL.md · 60 lines

What it actually says

Research

Instructions

When researching a topic:

  1. Identify the core question or area of interest
  2. Break it into 3-5 key subtopics
  3. For each subtopic, provide factual information with reasoning
  4. Note areas of uncertainty or debate
  5. Synthesize findings into a coherent summary

Output Format

## TL;DR
[Brief summary]

## Research Findings

### [Subtopic]
- [Key point with supporting reasoning]

## Open Questions
- [Areas that need further investigation]

## Suggested Follow-ups
- [Related questions the user might want to explore]

Example Output

## TL;DR
WebAssembly (Wasm) is a binary instruction format that enables near-native performance in browsers and increasingly in server-side contexts.

## Research Findings

### Browser Support & Adoption
- All major browsers support Wasm since 2017 — Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Edge
- Used in production by Figma (rendering engine), Google Earth (3D), and AutoCAD (web port)

### Performance Characteristics
- Typically 1.1-1.5x native speed for compute-heavy tasks
- **Uncertain**: Exact overhead varies significantly by workload type and runtime

## Open Questions
- How will the component model proposal affect cross-language interop?

## Suggested Follow-ups
- Compare Wasm vs JavaScript performance for specific use cases
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. 2d ago First seen · 60 lines · 61 tokens per session scan A 34edcc7c9b73

Subscribe to this mod's changes

research is a skill published in the GitHub repository open-gitagent/opengap (2,921 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 61 tokens to every session and 393 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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