web-research

web-research is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from sinaptik-ai/starpod. It costs 56 tokens per session (849 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of instructions for researching topics online and turning information from multiple sources into a structured answer.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when investigating a question, comparing options, reading online sources, or compiling a research summary.
Why use it?
It helps define the question, search with focused queries, judge source quality, and summarize findings clearly.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it when investigating a question, comparing options, reading online sources, or compiling a research summary.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/sinaptik-ai/starpod/web-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 sinaptik-ai/starpod --skill web-research
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sinaptik-ai/starpod

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 web-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 web-research

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Per session 56 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 849 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 $0.00056 $0.00849
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.00425
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00170
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00085

Measured 11d ago against content hash bae8b00b739d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

web-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 11d 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.

crates/starpod/skills/web-research/SKILL.md · 95 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 95 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Web Research

Methodology

Follow this structured approach for any research task:

1. Scope the question

Before searching, clarify:

  • What specifically does the user need to know?
  • What format should the answer take? (summary, comparison table, list, report)
  • How deep should the research go? (quick answer vs. comprehensive analysis)

2. Search strategy

  • Start with 2–3 targeted queries using different phrasings
  • Use specific terms, not vague ones: "React server components vs client components performance 2025" beats "React performance"
  • For comparisons, search each option independently before comparing
  • For recent topics, include the year in queries
  • If initial results are thin, broaden terms or try adjacent queries

3. Source evaluation

Prioritize sources in this order:

  1. Official documentation — most reliable for technical topics
  2. Primary sources — research papers, official reports, announcements
  3. Expert analysis — recognized experts, reputable publications
  4. Community consensus — Stack Overflow, GitHub discussions (check vote counts and recency)
  5. News articles — for current events, cross-reference multiple outlets

Red flags: outdated dates, no author attribution, SEO-farm patterns, contradicted by official sources.

4. Synthesize findings

  • Lead with the direct answer, then supporting evidence
  • Note conflicting information across sources and which is more credible
  • Include source URLs for key claims
  • Flag uncertainty: "Based on available data..." or "Sources disagree on..."
  • Distinguish facts from opinions

5. Present results

For quick questions: Direct answer in 2–3 sentences with source link.

For comparisons:

Criteria Option A Option B
Key metric Value Value
Pros ... ...
Cons ... ...

For deep research: Structure as:

  1. Summary — 2–3 sentence answer
  2. Key findings — bulleted list of important points
  3. Analysis — detailed discussion organized by theme
  4. Sources — numbered list of references used

Read the full file on GitHub · 95 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. 11d ago First seen · 95 lines · 56 tokens per session scan A bae8b00b739d

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web-research is a skill published in the GitHub repository sinaptik-ai/starpod (78 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 56 tokens to every session and 849 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 2026-08-30.

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