research

research is a skill for Claude Code from rvk7895/llm-knowledge-bases. It costs 28 tokens per session (1,061 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A research-planning workflow that first creates a topic outline and then supplements it with web searches for a chosen time period.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for early academic research, comparing technologies, researching benchmarks, and similar investigations.
Why use it?
It helps turn a broad research question into a checked list of topics and sources.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: names the AskUserQuestion tool.

Part of the kb plugin — 8 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it for early academic research, comparing technologies, researching benchmarks, and similar investigations.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/rvk7895/llm-knowledge-bases/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 rvk7895/llm-knowledge-bases --skill research
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/rvk7895/llm-knowledge-bases

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install kb, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 8 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.

agentmods badge for research

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/rvk7895/llm-knowledge-bases/research/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/rvk7895/llm-knowledge-bases/research)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/rvk7895/llm-knowledge-bases/research"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/rvk7895/llm-knowledge-bases/research/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

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
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/rvk7895/llm-knowledge-bases/research"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/rvk7895/llm-knowledge-bases/research.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 28 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,061 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 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 $0.00028 $0.01061
Opus 5 $0.00014 $0.00531
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00212
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00106

Measured 8d ago against content hash a53c98486c16, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, 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.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (validate_json.py), 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.

plugins/kb/skills/research/SKILL.md · 145 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 145 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Attribution: Originally authored by Weizhena. Included with attribution for use in the Deep query workflow.

Research Skill - Preliminary Research

Trigger Method

/research <topic>

Execution Flow

Step 1: Generate Initial Framework Using Model's Internal Knowledge

Based on the topic, use the model's existing knowledge to generate:

  • A list of main research objects/items in the field
  • A suggested framework of research fields

Output {step1_output} and use AskUserQuestion to confirm:

  • Does the items list need additions or removals?
  • Does the field framework meet the requirements?

Step 2: Web Search Supplement

Use AskUserQuestion to inquire about the time range (e.g., last 6 months, 2024 to present, no limit).

Parameter Collection:

  • {topic}: Research topic input by user
  • {YYYY-MM-DD}: Current date
  • {step1_output}: Complete output content generated in Step 1
  • {time_range}: Time range specified by user

Hard Constraint: The following prompt must be strictly reproduced, only replacing variables in {xxx}, no rewriting of structure or wording allowed.

Launch 1 web-search-agent (background), Prompt Template:

prompt = f"""## Task
Research Topic: {topic}
Current Date: {YYYY-MM-DD}

Based on the following preliminary framework, supplement the latest items and recommended research fields.

## Existing Framework
{step1_output}

## Objectives
1. Verify if existing items miss important objects
2. Supplement items based on missing objects
3. Continue searching for {topic}-related items within {time_range} and supplement
4. Supplement new fields

## Output Requirements
Return structured results directly (do not write files):

### Supplemented Items
- item_name: Brief explanation (why should it be included)
...

### Recommended Additional Fields
- field_name: Field description (why this dimension is needed)
...

### Information Sources
- [Source 1](url1)
- [Source 2](url2)
"""

Read the full file on GitHub · 145 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. 8d ago First seen · 145 lines · 28 tokens per session scan A a53c98486c16

Subscribe to this mod's changes

research is a skill published in the GitHub repository rvk7895/llm-knowledge-bases (36 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 28 tokens to every session and 1,061 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 2026-08-30.

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