deep-research

deep-research is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from runxhq/runx. It costs 23 tokens per session (796 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A research skill that turns a focused question into a decision-ready brief based on collected evidence, with sources and uncertainties included.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for architecture choices, ecosystem questions, product decisions, or other important questions that need more than a quick answer.
Why use it?
It helps turn scattered research into a clear recommendation while showing what supports it and what remains unknown.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it for architecture choices, ecosystem questions, product decisions, or other important questions that need more than a quick answer.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/runxhq/runx/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 runxhq/runx --skill deep-research
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/runxhq/runx

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 deep-research

README.md
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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for deep-research

Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 23 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 796 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 warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Excessive Agency · line 53
    Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.
    Fix: Add human-in-the-loop confirmation for destructive, irreversible, or high-impact operations. Never auto-execute commands that modify files, send data, or alter system state.
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 $0.00023 $0.00796
Opus 5 $0.00012 $0.00398
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00159
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00080

Measured 6d ago against content hash 90770d1d99fe, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, 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.

skills/deep-research/SKILL.md · 89 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 89 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Deep Research

Turn one important question into a durable operator brief: what the answer is, what evidence supports it, what remains uncertain, and what posture the reader should take next. Use this when a quick answer is too shallow but an open-ended report would obscure the decision.

The output should feel like a thoughtful memo, not a narration of the research process. It leads with the decision and operational implication, then exposes the evidence, inference, alternatives, and unresolved questions that justify that posture.

Composes

  • ghostwrite#draft
  • research#local-files
  • research#research

When to use it

Use deep-research for architecture choices, market or ecosystem questions, product bets, trust decisions, or other consequential analysis that needs a reader-ready synthesis. Use plain research when the evidence packet itself is the desired artifact. Use content-pipeline when the primary outcome is public content for a known channel.

Do not use this skill for an unbounded literature review, a daily trend recap, or research whose sources have not been fetched through a governed reader.

How the chain works

  1. The caller supplies the exact question and audience plus either governed source packets or bounded local paths. The local-files runner reads those paths through Runx's native filesystem boundary; it does not tunnel local evidence through HTTP.
  2. The canonical research skill admits and indexes those sources, separates evidence from inference, and verifies every citation and recommendation.
  3. Only a ready research packet proceeds to ghostwrite. The writing stage turns decision support into a clear brief without introducing unsupported facts.
  4. The final artifact preserves the research and content packet bindings. It remains local and is not a publication claim.

Local research and drafting need no approval because they do not cross an external boundary. If the brief is later sent, posted, or published, the provider delivery skill owns approval, idempotency, acknowledgement, and readback.

Read the full file on GitHub · 89 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. 6d ago First seen · 89 lines · 23 tokens per session scan A 90770d1d99fe

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deep-research is a skill published in the GitHub repository runxhq/runx (84 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 23 tokens to every session and 796 once invoked, about $0.0001 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.