research

research is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from scalarian/oh-my-codex. It costs 17 tokens per session (204 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An evidence-first workflow for answering implementation questions using facts from the codebase and current outside sources. It separates repository facts, external facts, and assumptions before making a recommendation.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to check current technical patterns, understand implementation risks, compare tradeoffs, and identify questions that still block planning or coding.
Why use it?
It reduces decisions based on guesses or outdated knowledge. It leaves behind a saved summary so later work does not repeat the same investigation.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to check current technical patterns, understand implementation risks, compare tradeoffs, and identify questions that still block planning or coding.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/scalarian/oh-my-codex/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 scalarian/oh-my-codex --skill research
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/scalarian/oh-my-codex

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 research

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/scalarian/oh-my-codex/research/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/scalarian/oh-my-codex/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 17 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 204 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 $0.00017 $0.00204
Opus 5 $0.00009 $0.00102
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00041
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00020

Measured 9d ago against content hash 208db0b3a5a5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, 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 9d 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 · 36 lines

What it actually says

Research

Purpose

Use $research when the correct implementation depends on facts you do not yet have, either from the repo or from current external sources.

Execution Policy

  • Start with brownfield evidence from the repo.
  • Use primary sources for technical questions.
  • End with a decision-ready recommendation, not a wall of notes.
  • Persist findings so the next pass does not repeat the work.

Workflow

  1. Identify the actual unknowns.
  2. Separate:
    • repo truth
    • external truth
    • assumptions
  3. Gather only the evidence needed to decide.
  4. Write the result into .omx/research/summary.md.
  5. Update memory facts that execution should keep in view.

Deliverables

  • current pattern or contract summary
  • risk list
  • recommendation with concrete tradeoffs
  • open questions that still block planning or execution
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. 9d ago First seen · 36 lines · 17 tokens per session scan A 208db0b3a5a5

Subscribe to this mod's changes

research is a skill published in the GitHub repository scalarian/oh-my-codex (73 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 17 tokens to every session and 204 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.