new-research

new-research is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from PromptPartner/agentsmith. It costs 74 tokens per session (436 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A skill that starts a lasting research note in a project repository. It records the question, sources consulted, findings, and open questions in a Markdown file.

In plain words
What is it for?
Starting a research note, recording multiple sources, documenting findings, and preserving unanswered questions.
Why use it?
It keeps research traceable and available after the current session instead of leaving it only in temporary conversation history.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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/promptpartner/agentsmith/new-research
Any agent
npx skills add PromptPartner/agentsmith --skill new-research
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/PromptPartner/agentsmith

Made for: Claude Code, 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 new-research

README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 74 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 436 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 $0.00074 $0.00436
Opus 5 $0.00037 $0.00218
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00087
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00044

Measured 5d ago against content hash b09c9685be13, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-05, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

new-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 5d 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.

skills/new-research/SKILL.md · 34 lines

What it actually says

New research note

Research belongs in the repo, traceable to sources, and is never silently deleted (R9). This scaffolds one note per topic.

When this fires

"start a research note" / "capture these sources" / beginning any multi-source investigation whose findings should outlive the session.

Fast path — if the Agentsmith CLI is available

Run agentsmith new-research "topic name" — use .agentsmith/agentsmith on macOS/Linux or .agentsmith\\agentsmith.cmd on Windows when the command is not on PATH. It slugifies the title and writes docs/research/<slug>.md from the template (it won't overwrite an existing file).

Fallback — no CLI

  1. slug = the topic lowercased, every run of non-alphanumeric characters → -, ends trimmed.
  2. If docs/research/<slug>.md already exists, STOP — append to it, never overwrite.
  3. Otherwise create it with a no-delete banner (obsolete → move to docs/research/_archive/, R9) and these sections:
    • Question / scope
    • Sources consulted — url or citation; what you actually opened, dated.
    • Findings — each traceable to a source above; mark single-sourced / uncertain items.
    • Open questions / what was NOT checked.

Report

Name the file created and remind the operator to commit it (R9 — research lives in git, not memory). Every finding you add later must cite a source already in the note.

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. 5d ago First seen · 34 lines · 74 tokens per session scan A b09c9685be13

Subscribe to this mod's changes

new-research is a skill published in the GitHub repository PromptPartner/agentsmith (185 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 74 tokens to every session and 436 once invoked, about $0.0004 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.