deep-research

deep-research is a skill for Claude Code from proyecto26/sherlock-ai-plugin. It costs 66 tokens per session (1,575 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of deep-research, MIT.

A workflow for producing research reports with source evidence, citations, a fixed format, and several review passes. It covers planning, finding and checking sources, drafting, merging, and verification.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for research reports, literature reviews, market or industry analyses, competitor studies, policy briefs, and technical briefs with defined requirements.
Why use it?
It reduces the risk of a report missing required sections, losing track of evidence, or making claims that its sources do not support.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions subagents.

Part of the sherlock-ai-plugin plugin — 6 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it for research reports, literature reviews, market or industry analyses, competitor…

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/proyecto26/sherlock-ai-plugin/deep-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 proyecto26/sherlock-ai-plugin --skill deep-research
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/proyecto26/sherlock-ai-plugin

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install sherlock-ai-plugin, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 6 skills.

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.

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README.md
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Per session 66 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,575 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 94% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00066 $0.01575
Opus 5 $0.00033 $0.00788
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00315
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00158

Measured 7d ago against content hash 28e7c016e1e1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, 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 7d 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.

Origin

This is a copy

94% identical to deep-research — 14 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

skills/deep-research/SKILL.md · 207 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 207 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Deep Research

Create high-fidelity research reports with strict format control, evidence mapping, and multi-pass synthesis.

Quick Start

  1. Clarify the report spec and format contract
  2. Build a research plan and query set
  3. Collect evidence with the deepresearch tool (multi-pass if needed)
  4. Triage sources and build an evidence table
  5. Draft the full report in multiple complete passes (parallel subagents)
  6. UNION merge, enforce format compliance, verify citations
  7. Present draft for human review and iterate

Core Workflow

Copy this checklist and track progress:

Deep Research Progress:
- [ ] Step 1: Intake and format contract
- [ ] Step 2: Research plan and query set
- [ ] Step 3: Evidence collection (deepresearch tool)
- [ ] Step 4: Source triage and evidence table
- [ ] Step 5: Outline and section map
- [ ] Step 6: Multi-pass full drafting (parallel subagents)
- [ ] Step 7: UNION merge and format compliance
- [ ] Step 8: Evidence and citation verification
- [ ] Step 9: Present draft for human review and iterate

Step 1: Intake and Format Contract

Establish the report requirements before any research:

  • Confirm audience, purpose, scope, time range, and geography
  • Lock output format: Markdown, DOCX, slides, or user-provided template
  • Capture required sections and exact formatting rules
  • Confirm citation style (footnotes, inline, numbered, APA, etc.)
  • Confirm length targets per section
  • Ask for any existing style guide or sample report

Create a concise report spec file:

Report Spec:
- Audience:
- Purpose:
- Scope:
- Time Range:
- Geography:
- Required Sections:
- Section Formatting Rules:
- Citation Style:
- Output Format:
- Length Targets:
- Tone:
- Must-Include Sources:
- Must-Exclude Topics:

If a user provides a template or an example report, treat it as a hard constraint and mirror the structure.

Step 2: Research Plan and Query Set

Define the research strategy before calling tools:

  • Break the main question into 3-7 subquestions
  • Define key entities, keywords, and synonyms
  • Identify primary sources vs secondary sources
  • Define disqualifiers (outdated, low quality, opinion-only)
  • Assemble a query set per section

Read the full file on GitHub · 207 lines

Files

What ships with it

5 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. 7d ago First seen · 207 lines · 66 tokens per session scan A 28e7c016e1e1

Subscribe to this mod's changes

deep-research is a skill published in the GitHub repository proyecto26/sherlock-ai-plugin (35 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 66 tokens to every session and 1,575 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 94% identical to deep-research, differing in 14 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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