ulw-research

ulw-research is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from rlaope/oh-my-hermes. It costs 102 tokens per session (3,084 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow skill for gathering evidence from live sources or reference implementations, checking disputed claims, and turning findings into research conclusions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for source-backed web research, comparing reference implementations, verifying claims, and producing evidence that can guide a plan.
Why use it?
It reduces reliance on guesses when planning depends on current information or external technical references.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions subagents.

Good fit Use it for source-backed web research, comparing reference implementations, verifying claims, and producing evidence that can guide a plan.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/rlaope/oh-my-hermes/ulw-research
About the project

oh-my-hermes is an operating layer for Hermes Agent that organizes requests into workflows for planning, research, creation, coding handoffs, operations, and project memory. Hermes users run these workflows through the desktop app, CLI, or messenger app, while the catalogue add-ons extend its native capabilities.

rlaope/oh-my-hermes · 1,677 stars · on GitHub · rlaope.github.io

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 rlaope/oh-my-hermes --skill ulw-research
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/rlaope/oh-my-hermes

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.

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README.md
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Per session 102 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,084 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00102 $0.03084
Opus 5 $0.00051 $0.01542
Sonnet 5 $0.00020 $0.00617
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00308

Measured today against content hash 95186ac5e6ec, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ulw-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 today.

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/ulw-research/SKILL.md · 176 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 176 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Research

This is a Hermes-native research workflow skill.

Why This Exists

research exists to make Hermes a careful research engine: it routes research demands to source-backed evidence gathering - from live web citations to studied reference implementations - verifies contested claims, and distills decision-grounding output so planning starts from evidence instead of guesses.

Do Not Use When

  • The user asks for a full plan-to-PR delivery cycle; use ultrawork (its delivery_boundary capability) or a planning workflow after research instead.
  • The request is purely local repo inspection with no external, current, citation, or source-comparison need.
  • The study target is this repository itself rather than external references; use codebase-onboarding.
  • The user needs coding execution, review, CI, or merge evidence rather than research synthesis.
  • The requested output is a typed candidate list or acquisition status without factual synthesis; use source-finder.
  • The user needs a market, customer, or pricing decision brief with evidence-versus-inference treatment; use research-brief.
  • The user asks for recurring monitoring, a source inbox, or Scout/Analyst/Briefer operations; use research-department.
  • Correctness is a bounded, versioned official or upstream guidance question; use best-practice-research.
  • One cited retrieval round settles the question and no reference implementation needs reading; use web-research.

Examples

Good example:

  • Prompt: 딥리서치로 다른 오픈소스 구현들을 깊게 보고 스펙 잡기 전에 근거를 만들어줘.
  • Expected behavior: Run the Hermes research lane at depth: decompose axes, study the most relevant reference implementations with pinned refs, verify contested claims, then distill a decision-grounding dossier for the planning step.
  • Why: The user explicitly asked for deep pre-spec grounding built on other open-source implementations.

Bad example:

  • Prompt: 이 레포 코드 구조만 파악해줘.
  • Expected behavior: Route to codebase-onboarding because the study target is this repository, not external sources or reference implementations.
  • Why: Local repo orientation needs no external evidence gathering or claim verification.

Read the full file on GitHub · 176 lines

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. today Changed · +2 lines 95186ac5e6ec
  2. 4d ago Changed · +5 lines 0466b5b3905a
  3. 6d ago Changed 7187b5d98ab8
  4. 7d ago Changed c3aac109540d
  5. 9d ago First seen · 169 lines · 102 tokens per session scan A 4e9a4e466be4

Subscribe to this mod's changes

ulw-research is a skill published in the GitHub repository rlaope/oh-my-hermes (1,677 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 102 tokens to every session and 3,084 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 2026-09-03.

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