deep-research

deep-research is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from sergeyizmailov/knowledge-delta-skills. It costs 49 tokens per session (1,211 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A structured method for researching a topic, comparing options, checking claims, and tracing information back to original sources.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to prepare reports and briefings, investigate unfamiliar subjects, fact-check claims, compare vendors, or build a reference document.
Why use it?
It reduces the risk of relying on outdated, weak, or repeated information and makes gaps in the evidence clear.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions subagents.

Good fit Use it to prepare reports and briefings, investigate unfamiliar subjects, fact-check claims, compare vendors, or build a reference document.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/sergeyizmailov/knowledge-delta-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 sergeyizmailov/knowledge-delta-skills --skill deep-research
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sergeyizmailov/knowledge-delta-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.

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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 49 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,211 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. 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 $0.00049 $0.01211
Opus 5 $0.00024 $0.00606
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00242
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00121

Measured 4d ago against content hash e74b207a7ad8, 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 1 finding 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 4d 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

| 403/challenge on a known-live site | Retry browser-capable before writing it off; fingerprinting blocks curl, not the site |
skills/deep-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.

Deep Research

Verified: 2026-09-08

Primary sources over blog rewrites. Every claim traceable, every gap named. "Could not find X" is a valid result — never fabricate to close one.

Workflow

Scope (question, audience, depth, query budget) → outline (items, fields, success criteria) → pick retrieval tool → gather tiers 1→4, never start at 4 → verify per protocol → date-check staleness/version → apply stop criteria → compile output format.

Retrieval tool

Need Use
Library/API/framework docs Docs-index tool (e.g. Context7-style MCP) — version-scoped, current, far fewer queries
Fetch returns empty/JS shell Headless-browser fetch — plain HTTP misses client-rendered content
Many sources at once Bulk-crawler — one dispatch vs. N fetches, spares budget
403/challenge on a known-live site Retry browser-capable before writing it off; fingerprinting blocks curl, not the site
Everything else Web search + search-techniques.md

Query budget

Search tools are capped per session and the cap is shared across parallel subagents, not per-agent. Divide it up front, give each agent a fixed quota in its prompt, prefer few targeted queries to many broad ones. Budget thin → finish sequentially rather than adding agents.

Source Tiers

Tier Sources
1 Primary Specs (RFC, W3C, WHATWG), source code, official docs, original papers, changelogs
2 Secondary Peer-reviewed papers, vendor threat intel, audits, MITRE ATT&CK
3 Tertiary Technical books, curated guides (awesome-*, OWASP Cheat Sheets), conference talks
4 Community Stack Overflow, Reddit, HN, dev.to/Medium — leads only, never ground truth
5 Avoid SEO farms, AI slop, "Top 10 X in ", marketing blogs

Skip a source: no author, no dates/versions, "Updated for !" over stale content, every question resolves to the same product.

Verification

Claim type Required evidence
One canonical authority (spec, vendor's own docs, project source) 1 primary source
High-impact: security, cost, breaking change, "recommended approach", perf numbers 2+ independent, ≥1 Tier 1–2; only 1 → mark Tentative
Sources conflict Present both, name the conflict, never silently pick
Routine metadata (release date, version, port) 1 primary; recheck if it drives a decision
Community "best practice" Trace to origin; single blog post → opinion, not fact
Any URL cited in output Fetch it this session; dead or redirected → cite the resolved target or drop it

Read the full file on GitHub · 87 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 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. 4d ago Changed · +17 lines e74b207a7ad8
  2. 12d ago First seen · 70 lines · 49 tokens per session scan A b792540617a4

Subscribe to this mod's changes

deep-research is a skill published in the GitHub repository sergeyizmailov/knowledge-delta-skills (3 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 49 tokens to every session and 1,211 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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