research

research is a skill for Claude Code from pitimon/8-habit-ai-dev. It costs 48 tokens per session (2,359 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A research workflow for investigating existing solutions, prior examples, and domain constraints before writing requirements. It produces a research brief with verified sources.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before specifying a solution when the problem space needs investigation. It offers quick, standard, and deeper research modes.
Why use it?
It helps prevent requirements from being based on guesses or incomplete understanding of the problem.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths.

Runs only inside its plugin — its command needs a path that Claude Code sets for a plugin’s own hooks and for nothing else. Install the plugin, not this.

Part of the 8-habit-ai-dev plugin — 24 skills, 2 agents, 1 hook shipped together

Good fit Use it before specifying a solution when the problem space needs investigation.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add pitimon/8-habit-ai-dev
Claude Code
/plugin install 8-habit-ai-dev

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install 8-habit-ai-dev, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 24 skills, 2 agents, 1 hook.

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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 48 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,359 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 $0.00048 $0.02359
Opus 5 $0.00024 $0.01179
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00472
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00236

Measured 6d ago against content hash b400edad55b2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, 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 6d 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.

plugin/skills/research/SKILL.md · 197 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 197 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Step 0: Research (ศึกษาก่อนกำหนด)

Habit: H5 — Seek First to Understand | Anti-pattern: Defining requirements without investigating the problem space

Before You Start: Is the Problem Statement Fuzzy?

/research is convergent — it assumes you know what to investigate and produces a research brief with verified sources. If the problem statement itself is still fuzzy (you're not sure what you're really solving, stakeholders disagree, the request is vague), do not start here. Invoke superpowers:brainstorming from the claude-plugins-official:superpowers plugin first — it ships a hard-gate collaborative design session that produces a committed spec document before any research. Come back to /research once the problem is crisp.

If you don't have Superpowers installed, proceed here only when the problem is clearly stated — otherwise you risk producing excellent research on the wrong problem. (v2.4.1 removed our own /brainstorm skill in favor of Superpowers' stronger equivalent — see ADR-006.)

Research Depth

Choose the appropriate depth based on the problem complexity. Default is Standard.

Depth When to Use Tools Verification
Quick Codebase-only question; "how does X work here?" Read, Glob, Grep Self-verify file paths
Standard Default — investigate problem space with codebase + external sources + WebSearch, WebFetch Self-verify all sources
Deep High-stakes decision; multi-option evaluation; unfamiliar domain + Agent (research-verifier) Agent-verified sources

Auto-detection: If the user provides no depth keyword, select based on the argument:

  • Single codebase question → Quick
  • General problem investigation → Standard
  • "compare", "evaluate", "which should we", or 3+ options mentioned → Deep

Read the full file on GitHub · 197 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. 6d ago First seen · 197 lines · 48 tokens per session scan A b400edad55b2

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research is a skill published in the GitHub repository pitimon/8-habit-ai-dev (3 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 48 tokens to every session and 2,359 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-31.