research

research is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from OutlineDriven/odin-gemini-cli-extension. It costs 87 tokens per session (888 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of research, Apache-2.0.

A read-only research workflow for collecting and checking external technical information. It uses a source order that starts with official documentation and API references, then moves to books, papers, tutorials, and community sources.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to investigate libraries, frameworks, SDKs, APIs, command-line tools, cloud services, version changes, and vendor announcements.
Why use it?
Technical answers can be wrong when they rely on memory or outdated examples. This workflow checks claims against primary sources and highlights anything that could not be verified.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to investigate libraries, frameworks, SDKs, APIs, command-line tools, cloud services, version changes, and vendor announcements.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/outlinedriven/odin-gemini-cli-extension/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 OutlineDriven/odin-gemini-cli-extension --skill research
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/OutlineDriven/odin-gemini-cli-extension

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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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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Per session 87 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 888 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 100% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00087 $0.00888
Opus 5 $0.00044 $0.00444
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.00178
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00089

Measured 7d ago against content hash a71e2ba01676, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, 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 7d 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.

Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to research — 0 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

skills/research/SKILL.md · 58 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 58 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Research Command

Read-only external knowledge gathering. Walk the 5-tier source ladder; cite every claim to a primary source; flag training-data-only assertions explicitly. Do NOT write, edit, or commit files.

When to Apply / NOT

Apply:

  • Library/framework/SDK/API docs — signatures, config options, migration
  • Version-specific behavior — changelogs, deprecations, breaking changes
  • Vendor announcements, RFCs, public web technical content
  • Any named library, framework, SDK, API, CLI tool, or cloud service

NOT apply:

  • Questions about a local repo's code — use a codebase exploration workflow instead
  • Autonomous goal-directed research loops (multi-step, agent-driven)
  • Implementation or file editing

Process

  1. Identify subject — extract the library, framework, SDK, API, CLI, or topic from the user's message. Capture version if stated (e.g., [email protected]). If version unstated, resolve latest stable at Tier 1.
  2. Resolve identifier — look up the canonical name and version from the library's official documentation surface. If no dedicated doc tool is available, use the subject name as the search query and proceed.
  3. Walk the source ladder — start at Tier 1; proceed to the next tier only on hard failure (source unavailable, no results, clearly non-authoritative hit). State which tier was skipped and why.
  4. Cross-reference — every factual claim must cite at least one primary source URL. Assertions derived solely from training data must carry [Speculative — training data only].
  5. Synthesize — produce Required Output with source URLs and library@version identifiers.

Source Ladder

Priority order (canonical): 1) Official docs 2) API refs 3) Books/papers 4) Tutorials 5) Community

If a source category is unavailable or returns no authoritative results, skip it and move to the next tier — do not halt.

Tier Priority Source type Use when
1 Official docs Library/framework official documentation site; SDK reference pages Named library/framework/SDK with a published doc surface
2 API refs API reference pages; repository README and docs folders API signatures, types, configuration keys, repo-architecture details
3 Books/papers RFCs; academic papers; vendor whitepapers; standards documents Standards-body publications, deep technical specifications
4 Tutorials Tutorial articles; blog posts; vendor how-to guides Example-driven walkthroughs when reference docs are insufficient
5 Community Repository issues and discussions; community forums; Q&A threads Real-world usage patterns, upstream known issues, community workarounds

Read the full file on GitHub · 58 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. 7d ago First seen · 58 lines · 87 tokens per session scan A a71e2ba01676

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research is a skill published in the GitHub repository OutlineDriven/odin-gemini-cli-extension (5 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 87 tokens to every session and 888 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to research, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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