research

research is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from OZmasterAI/Torus-Framework. It costs 0 tokens per session (713 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A structured research workflow that gathers information before a decision and can use several levels of investigation, from a quick lookup to a broad academic-style review.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to investigate a topic, compare related entities, examine changes over time, explore concepts and edge cases, or trace causes and possible fixes.
Why use it?
It checks existing stored knowledge first and organizes the investigation, reducing repeated work and making deeper research more systematic.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions subagents.

Good fit Use it to investigate a topic, compare related entities, examine changes over time, explore concepts and edge cases, or trace causes and possible fixes.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ozmasterai/torus-framework/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 OZmasterAI/Torus-Framework --skill research
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/OZmasterAI/Torus-Framework

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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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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Per session 0 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 713 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 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 $0.00000 $0.00713
Opus 5.5 $0.00000 $0.00285
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00000 $0.00143
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00071

Measured 1mo ago against content hash c2272cf5e1de, 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 1mo 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.

dormant/skills/standalone/research/SKILL.md · 49 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 49 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/research — Structured Research with Memory Integration

When to use

When the user says "research", "look into", "investigate", "find out about", "what is", or needs to gather information before making a decision.

Depth Tiers

Use --depth <tier> to set research intensity (default: standard):

Tier Agents Hops Time Use Case
quick 0 (direct) 0 ~30s Simple factual lookups
standard 2-4 1 2-5min General research (default)
deep 4-6 2 5-10min Comprehensive investigation
exhaustive 6+ team 3 10-20min Full academic-level research

Hop Patterns (for deep/exhaustive)

  • entity-expansion: X → related entities → explore each (Company → Products → Competitors)
  • temporal: current state → recent changes → historical context → future implications
  • conceptual-deepening: overview → details → examples → edge cases → limitations
  • causal-chains: observation → immediate cause → root cause → fix options

Steps

  1. MEMORY CHECK — search_knowledge("[topic]", top_k=50) for existing knowledge on the topic:
    • Check what we already know before searching externally
    • search_knowledge("[topic]", mode="all") for related past observations
    • If sufficient knowledge exists, present it and ask if deeper research is needed
  2. SCOPE — Define 3-5 specific research questions:
    • Break the broad topic into focused, answerable questions
    • Prioritize questions by impact on the user's decision
    • Present the research plan to the user for confirmation
  3. GATHER — Launch sub-agents based on depth tier (quick: direct calls, standard: 2-4, deep: 4-6 with hop patterns, exhaustive: 6+ team with multi-hop):
    • Web researcher: WebSearch + WebFetch for online sources (docs, articles, comparisons)
    • Codebase explorer: Glob + Grep + Read for relevant local code, patterns, and dependencies
    • Memory miner: search_knowledge (mode="all" for observations too) for past decisions and learnings
    • Each agent targets specific research questions from Step 2
  4. SYNTHESIZE — Combine findings into a structured report:
    • Key Findings: Direct answers to each research question
    • Evidence: Links, code references, and memory entries supporting each finding
    • Gaps: Questions that couldn't be fully answered
    • Recommendations: Actionable next steps based on findings
    • Trade-offs: Pros/cons if comparing options
  5. SAVE — remember_this() for each significant finding:
    • Tag with "type:learning" and relevant area tags
    • Save key decisions and their rationale
    • Save links to important resources for future reference
  6. PRESENT — Display formatted report to user:
    • Use clear markdown headings and bullet points
    • Highlight the most important findings
    • End with a clear recommendation or set of options

Read the full file on GitHub · 49 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. 1mo ago First seen · 49 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A c2272cf5e1de

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research is a skill published in the GitHub repository OZmasterAI/Torus-Framework (5 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 713 tokens. 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 2026-08-31.

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