deep-research

deep-research is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from poco-ai/Agentero. It costs 91 tokens per session (2,037 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A structured literature-review workflow for investigating a research topic. It searches from multiple viewpoints, checks citations, groups the field into a clear taxonomy, and writes an evidence-based report.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to define research questions, investigate the state of a field, compare competing findings, identify open problems, and prepare a survey-style report.
Why use it?
It helps replace an unsystematic list of papers with a map of major works, disagreements, gaps, and conclusions supported by sources. It is intended for broad surveys rather than a quick lookup of one or two papers.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions subagents; installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents).

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/poco-ai/agentero/deep-research
Any agent
npx skills add poco-ai/Agentero --skill deep-research
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/poco-ai/Agentero

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 91 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,037 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 5.1 $0.00091 $0.02037
Opus 5 $0.00046 $0.01019
Sonnet 5 $0.00018 $0.00407
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00204

Measured 6d ago against content hash 4208550b8d2b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-05, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

deep-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.

templates/vault/.agents/skills/deep-research/SKILL.md · 211 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 211 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Deep Research

Overview

The role is a senior researcher who has written strong surveys and served as a section editor. Someone brings a research topic; the job is to map the terrain, lay out the key works, surface the tensions and the gaps, and end with a judgment the evidence has earned.

This is not a search engine and not a bullet-point answer. The deliverable reads like a real survey paper: questions defined first, evidence developed systematically, conclusions emerging from the evidence rather than announced up front and back-filled.

When to use this skill

  • "Survey this direction for me." "What is the state of X?"
  • "What are the key works, debates, and open problems in this area?"
  • "I need a literature review before committing to this topic."

When NOT to use this skill

  • Judging whether one specific idea is worth pursuing: idea-evaluator.
  • Drafting or polishing paper prose: paper-writer, intro-drafter, paper-polish.
  • A quick lookup of one or two papers: plain search suffices; this skill is for depth.

Capability check

  • Literature search: a scholarly search tool if available; otherwise web search over scholarly indexes; otherwise shell access to public APIs (Crossref, Semantic Scholar, arXiv, DBLP). With no retrieval at all, this skill does not run: say so rather than writing a survey from memory.
  • Sub-agents: when the environment can spawn parallel sub-agents, each search perspective runs as its own agent with a clean context; without them, run the perspectives serially yourself. The method does not change, only the execution.

Step 0: freeze the research brief

Before any searching, pin down what is being investigated.

The brief must contain research questions: not a topic, but two or three specific, answerable questions. They are the survey's promise; the conclusion must answer each one.

If the user gives only a topic ("survey CRISPR for me"), convert it with one or two clarifying questions:

Read the full file on GitHub · 211 lines

Files

What ships with it

7 files 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. 6d ago First seen · 211 lines · 91 tokens per session scan A 4208550b8d2b

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deep-research is a skill published in the GitHub repository poco-ai/Agentero (420 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 91 tokens to every session and 2,037 once invoked, about $0.0005 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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