q-research

A research tool that collects papers, library documentation, GitHub repositories, and Hugging Face models into one linked digest. Prior art means existing research and implementations related to your topic.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to find publications, implementation examples, documentation, and machine-learning models relevant to a topic.
Why use it?
It saves you from searching several research and software sources separately when investigating a technical question.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/sdewell/code-quorum/q-research
Any agent
npx skills add sdewell/code-quorum --skill q-research
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sdewell/code-quorum

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 124 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,501 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00124 $0.02501
Opus 5 $0.00062 $0.01251
Sonnet 5 $0.00025 $0.00500
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00250

Measured yesterday against content hash dfaea0810673, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

q-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 yesterday.

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/code-quorum/skills/q-research/SKILL.md · 180 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 180 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Q-Research — standalone prior-art digest

One synchronous call, no council, no job_id/q_await. This fronts the same engine the storm modes use for research-first grounding; use it when the digest itself is the deliverable.

Arguments

$ARGUMENTS is the research topic, optionally with flags:

  • --source <s> / -s <s> (repeatable) — restrict to a subset of arxiv, openalex, europepmc-published, europepmc-preprints, context7, github, huggingface. Default: all seven. "Publications/literature only" means -s arxiv -s openalex -s europepmc-published -s europepmc-preprints.
  • --limit <n> — max results per source (default 5, maximum 20). Below 3 the automatic on-topic verdict cannot fire — see Step 3. The cap stays fixed across lanes, so extra lanes broaden coverage without growing the digest.
  • --purpose methods|currencymethods is the default: OpenAlex balances all-time canonical/relevance candidates with a recent five-year stratum and retains the stratum labels after deduplication. currency queries only the recent five-year stratum.
  • --query-lane <query> (repeatable, at most three) — explicit semantic query formulations. If absent, form the lanes in Step 1 and pass them through the tool's query_lanes parameter. Literature sources search every lane; artifact sources (Context7, GitHub, and Hugging Face) search only the primary lane.
  • --exploratory — cross-domain mode: the user is hunting structural analogies in other fields, so low topic overlap is expected (reported as LOW-OVERLAP, not a retry demand) and the digest adds a ### Field map of which OpenAlex subfields the primary query lane spans.

Strip the flags from the topic text. If the topic (after removing flags) is empty, ask the user what they want researched.

Step 1 — Form the query lanes

Form two or three genuinely different semantic lanes; do not generate them by merely deleting words from one long query:

  1. Domain plus method or construct.
  2. Failure mode, validity question, or limitation.
  3. Standard, guideline, review, or canonical terminology when applicable.

Read the full file on GitHub · 180 lines

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. yesterday First seen · 180 lines · 124 tokens per session scan A dfaea0810673

Subscribe to this mod's changes

q-research is a skill published in the GitHub repository sdewell/code-quorum (0 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 124 tokens to every session and 2,501 once invoked, about $0.0006 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 2026-08-31.

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