tech-research

tech-research is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from psylch/tech-research-skill. It costs 122 tokens per session (4,586 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A research workflow that combines developer discussions on X, GitHub repository analysis, and web searches.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps investigate technical topics, compare projects or competitors, and produce a report that brings findings from multiple sources together.
Why use it?
It reduces the need to gather technical information from several sources separately and then combine the results by hand.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the tech-research plugin — 1 skill shipped together

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/psylch/tech-research-skill/tech-research
Any agent
npx skills add psylch/tech-research-skill --skill tech-research
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/psylch/tech-research-skill

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install tech-research, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill.

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 tech-research

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/psylch/tech-research-skill/tech-research.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/psylch/tech-research-skill/tech-research)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/psylch/tech-research-skill/tech-research"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/psylch/tech-research-skill/tech-research.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 122 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,586 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 $0.00122 $0.04586
Opus 5 $0.00061 $0.02293
Sonnet 5 $0.00024 $0.00917
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00459

Measured 4d ago against content hash 2e6022f9e8c5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

tech-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 4d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/grok_setup.sh), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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/tech-research/SKILL.md · 326 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 326 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Tech Research

Orchestrate multi-source technical research by dispatching parallel subagents to gather intelligence from X/Twitter (via Grok), GitHub repositories (via DeepWiki), and the web (via WebSearch). Synthesize all findings into a single actionable report.

Architecture: The main agent orchestrates research using one of two modes — lightweight (Task Subagents) or heavyweight (Agent Teammates) — chosen based on research complexity.

Language

Match user's language: Respond in the same language the user uses. If the user writes in Chinese, the entire research report should be in Chinese. If in English, report in English.

Research Mode Selection

Before dispatching any agents, determine the appropriate mode:

Signal → Mode
Single topic, multiple data sources (Grok + DeepWiki + WebSearch) Light → Task Subagents
Multiple independent topics/competitors needing cross-comparison Heavy → Agent Teammates
Research may produce follow-up questions requiring dynamic re-scoping Heavy → Agent Teammates
Agent count ≥ 4 Heavy → Agent Teammates

Light Mode (default for single-topic research)

Dispatch up to 3 Task Subagents (Task with subagent_type: "general-purpose"). Each handles one data source independently. The main agent synthesizes results after all return.

Heavy Mode (for multi-topic / competitive research)

Use TeamCreate to create a research team → TaskCreate for each research task → spawn Agent Teammates (via Task with team_name and name parameters) → coordinate via SendMessage. Teammates can:

  • Communicate to avoid duplication ("I found Project A uses the same approach as B — focus on their differentiators")
  • Share discoveries across tasks ("The blog post I found compares all 3 frameworks, sending you the link")
  • Dynamically adjust scope based on what others have found

When to Use

  • Evaluating a technology, library, or framework for adoption
  • Comparing alternatives (e.g., "Zustand vs Jotai vs Redux")
  • Investigating a GitHub repo's architecture and community reception
  • Gauging developer sentiment on a new API, tool, or announcement
  • Cross-language research (Chinese/Japanese developer communities)

Read the full file on GitHub · 326 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. 4d ago First seen · 326 lines · 122 tokens per session scan A 2e6022f9e8c5

Subscribe to this mod's changes

tech-research is a skill published in the GitHub repository psylch/tech-research-skill (2 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 122 tokens to every session and 4,586 once invoked, about $0.0006 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.

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