research

research is a skill for Codex from PIXARTSeu/Synapse. It costs 49 tokens per session (169 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A research workflow that investigates a question using trusted original sources and saves the findings as a Markdown file in the code repository. Primary sources are the documents or data closest to the original facts, such as official documentation or published studies.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to research a topic, check documentation or API facts, and delegate background reading to another agent.
Why use it?
It removes the need to gather and organise source-backed information manually. The written findings remain available to the project as a file.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present. Also seen: installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents).

Good fit Use it to research a topic, check documentation or API facts, and delegate background reading to another agent.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/pixartseu/synapse/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 PIXARTSeu/Synapse --skill research
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/PIXARTSeu/Synapse

Made for: Codex.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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.

agentmods badge for research

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/pixartseu/synapse/research/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/pixartseu/synapse/research)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/pixartseu/synapse/research"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/pixartseu/synapse/research/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

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.

agentmods 80×15 button for research

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/pixartseu/synapse/research"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/pixartseu/synapse/research.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 49 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 169 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 unknown 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 $0.00049 $0.00169
Opus 5.5 $0.00020 $0.00068
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00010 $0.00034
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00017

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 985569f15739, 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.

.agents/skills/research/SKILL.md · 13 lines

The source is not reproduced here

A licence we could not identify

The repository carries a LICENSE file, but it is custom or dual enough that GitHub cannot name it and neither can this catalogue. Unknown terms are not permission, so the body is not copied here. Read the licence at the source and decide for yourself.

Read it on GitHub

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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 · 13 lines · 49 tokens per session scan A 985569f15739

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research is a skill published in the GitHub repository PIXARTSeu/Synapse (11 stars, last pushed 24d ago), with no licence file. It adds 49 tokens to every session and 169 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-09-16.

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