deep-research

deep-research is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from seb1n/awesome-ai-agent-skills. It costs 51 tokens per session (1,778 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for researching a complex topic through several focused searches and source types. It compares findings across academic papers, official documents, reports, news, and expert commentary before producing a cited report.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to break broad questions into smaller research tasks, gather evidence, cross-check sources, and write a comprehensive analysis.
Why use it?
It reduces the risk of relying on one source or missing important context, disagreements, and gaps in the available information.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to break broad questions into smaller research tasks, gather evidence, cross-check sources, and write a comprehensive analysis.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/seb1n/awesome-ai-agent-skills/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 seb1n/awesome-ai-agent-skills --skill deep-research
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/seb1n/awesome-ai-agent-skills

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 51 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,778 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 $0.00051 $0.01778
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.00889
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00356
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00178

Measured 9d ago against content hash 0f1fd2fec98f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, 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 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

research-and-knowledge/deep-research/SKILL.md · 106 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 106 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Deep Research

This skill enables an AI agent to perform rigorous, multi-step research on complex topics. Rather than returning a single search result, the agent decomposes the research question into sub-queries, gathers information from diverse source types (academic papers, industry reports, official documentation, news articles, and expert commentary), cross-references findings for consistency, and synthesizes everything into a structured, citation-backed report. The result is a thorough analysis that surfaces nuance, identifies conflicting viewpoints, and highlights knowledge gaps.

Workflow

  1. Decompose the Research Query: Break the user's high-level question into 3-6 targeted sub-queries that cover distinct facets of the topic. Each sub-query should address a specific angle such as historical context, current state, key players, technical details, or future outlook. This ensures broad coverage rather than shallow retrieval from a single search.

  2. Identify and Gather Sources: For each sub-query, search across multiple source categories: academic databases, official documentation, reputable news outlets, industry analyst reports, and community forums. Aim for at least 2-3 sources per sub-query. Record the URL, publication date, author, and a relevance score for each source to enable later prioritization.

  3. Extract and Organize Key Findings: Read each source and extract the core claims, data points, statistics, and expert opinions. Organize findings into a structured outline grouped by theme or sub-query. Tag each finding with its source for traceability.

  4. Cross-Reference and Validate: Compare findings across sources to identify consensus, contradictions, and gaps. Flag any claims that appear in only one source or that conflict with the majority of evidence. Note the recency and authority of each source when resolving disagreements.

  5. Synthesize the Report: Combine validated findings into a coherent narrative. Structure the report with an executive summary, detailed sections for each theme, a discussion of limitations and open questions, and a full reference list. Use clear headings and bullet points for readability.

Read the full file on GitHub · 106 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. 9d ago First seen · 106 lines · 51 tokens per session scan A 0f1fd2fec98f

Subscribe to this mod's changes

deep-research is a skill published in the GitHub repository seb1n/awesome-ai-agent-skills (179 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 51 tokens to every session and 1,778 once invoked, about $0.0003 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.

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