deep-research-agent

A research workflow for breaking a broad question into smaller searches, checking information from multiple sources, and combining the findings into a structured report.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for comprehensive research, market studies, academic surveys, competitor analysis, and investigations of technology trends or regulations.
Why use it?
It reduces the work of planning a large investigation and checking whether claims agree across sources.

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/shobcoder/shob/deep-research-agent
Any agent
npx skills add shobcoder/shob --skill deep-research-agent
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/shobcoder/shob

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 82 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,585 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 $0.00082 $0.01585
Opus 5 $0.00041 $0.00792
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00317
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00159

Measured 3d ago against content hash 4a05e5831976, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

deep-research-agent 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 3d 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/deep-research-agent/SKILL.md · 219 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 219 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

DeepResearch Agent

Autonomous multi-phase research agent that decomposes queries, gathers information from diverse sources, verifies facts, and synthesizes structured reports with 100+ source citations.

Core Workflow

Phase 1: Query Decomposition & Planning

Input: User's research query (natural language)

Process:

  1. Analyze the query intent

    • Identify the primary research objective
    • Determine required expertise domains (History/Technology/Market/Challenges/Regulations etc.)
    • Assess depth requirements (surface-level vs comprehensive)
  2. Generate multi-dimensional search queries

    • Historical context queries (when applicable)
    • Technical specification queries
    • Market/industry trend queries
    • Challenge/pain point queries
    • Regulatory/compliance queries (if applicable)
    • Future outlook/prediction queries
  3. Build investigation roadmap

    • Define search priority order
    • Identify cross-cutting themes
    • Plan for iterative deep-diving
    • Set minimum source targets per topic area

Output: research_plan object containing:

{
  "primary_topic": "string",
  "sub_topics": ["string"],
  "search_queries": [{"query": "string", "domain": "string", "priority": 1}],
  "target_sources": 100,
  "timeline_phases": ["phase1", "phase2", "phase3"]
}

Phase 2: Autonomous Information Gathering

Tools Used: batch_web_search, extract_content_from_websites

Process:

  1. Initial breadth search

    • Execute parallel searches across all primary query dimensions
    • Gather minimum 20-30 URLs per major topic area
    • Prioritize authoritative sources (official docs, academic, established media)
  2. Source classification

    • Categorize by source type: News, Academic Papers, Whitepapers, Technical Documentation, Forums, Blogs
    • Assess domain authority and reliability
    • Flag sources requiring deeper analysis
  3. Iterative deep-diving

    • Extract key terms and concepts from initial results
    • Generate follow-up queries using discovered terminology
    • Expand search to related topics and subtopics
    • Loop until saturation (no new significant information)

Read the full file on GitHub · 219 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. 3d ago First seen · 219 lines · 82 tokens per session scan A 4a05e5831976

Subscribe to this mod's changes

deep-research-agent is a skill published in the GitHub repository shobcoder/shob (582 stars, last pushed 11d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 82 tokens to every session and 1,585 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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