research

research is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from runxhq/runx. It costs 18 tokens per session (864 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A source-backed research workflow for answering one practical question with evidence that can be traced to its source. It supports bounded research packets for product, ecosystem, and operator decisions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to investigate product or ecosystem questions, compare options, assess proposals, and gather evidence for planning or publishing decisions.
Why use it?
It prevents unsupported claims from being treated as evidence and keeps the research focused on a decision. It also makes clear when more evidence is needed.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to investigate product or ecosystem questions, compare options, assess proposals, and gather evidence for planning or publishing decisions.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/runxhq/runx/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 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.

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README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/runxhq/runx/research/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/runxhq/runx/research)
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 research

Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 18 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 864 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 $0.00018 $0.00864
Opus 5 $0.00009 $0.00432
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00173
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00086

Measured 8d ago against content hash f76d65e1e45e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

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 8d 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/research/SKILL.md · 87 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 87 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Research

Answer one practical question with enough evidence to change a decision. This skill is for applied research: which issue is worth tackling, whether a proposal is grounded, what changed in an ecosystem, or which claims a public artifact can safely make. It is not an open-ended browsing session or a summary for its own sake.

The result should make the operator's posture clearer: build, write, avoid, defer, compare, or gather a named missing fact. Prefer a small number of well-supported findings over a broad report whose conclusions cannot be traced.

Where it fits

research consumes governed source packets. Fetch evidence with web-fetch or a provider reader, or use the local-files runner to admit bounded UTF-8 files through Runx's native filesystem reader. Both paths converge on the same source and content-digest index. URLs, paths, model memory, operator context, and target names do not become evidence merely because they were supplied.

The packet is a reusable primitive for deep-research, content-pipeline, ecosystem-brief, ghostwrite, product planning, and other decision workflows. It does not publish, notify, or mutate a provider. Those later operations keep their own authority, approval, and readback boundary.

How it works

  1. State a bounded objective and the decision the research should inform.
  2. Supply up to the declared source limit as governed readback packets, or name bounded local files through the dedicated runner. Runx indexes their provenance, observation times, source digests, and content digests before synthesis.
  3. Synthesis separates verified facts from inference, explains relevance, records confidence, and carries open questions rather than filling gaps with plausible prose.
  4. Every material claim cites an admitted source digest. Every recommended option cites the evidence on which its rationale depends.
  5. The deterministic verifier rejects unknown citations, digest drift, and unsupported decision support before the packet is released.

Read the full file on GitHub · 87 lines

Files

What ships with it

7 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. 8d ago First seen · 87 lines · 18 tokens per session scan A f76d65e1e45e

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research is a skill published in the GitHub repository runxhq/runx (87 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 18 tokens to every session and 864 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.