research

research is a skill for Claude Code from sliamh11/Deus. It costs 47 tokens per session (2,878 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A research workflow that gathers sources, rates their evidence quality, and produces answers with citations.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for web research, evidence gathering, idea generation, and questions that need source-backed conclusions.
Why use it?
It helps separate shallow fact-finding from deeper investigation and keeps the supporting sources visible.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: user-invocable in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions subagents; names the AskUserQuestion tool; mentions Claude Code.

Good fit Use it for web research, evidence gathering, idea generation, and questions that need source-backed conclusions.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/sliamh11/deus/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 sliamh11/Deus --skill deep-research
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sliamh11/Deus

Made for: Claude Code.

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.

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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 research

Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 47 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,878 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 warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Excessive Agency · line 44
    Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.
    Fix: Add human-in-the-loop confirmation for destructive, irreversible, or high-impact operations. Never auto-execute commands that modify files, send data, or alter system state.
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 $0.00047 $0.02878
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.01439
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00576
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00288

Measured 6d ago against content hash 0d459bb9eaa0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

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 6d 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.

.claude/skills/deep-research/SKILL.md · 321 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 321 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Deep Research Pipeline

Host-side only (Claude Code). See docs/agent-agnostic-debt.md AAG-012 for backend parity status.

A 4-stage research pipeline. Classifies research depth, clarifies scope when ambiguous, then routes to shallow or deep retrieval with structured citation-backed output.

Design pattern: Mediator. This skill is the central coordinator. Research scouts and brainstormer are independent peers invoked through the Agent tool without cross-coupling. Neither agent knows about the other or about the pipeline stages.

Composes existing infrastructure — does NOT duplicate it:

  • Research scout agents for evidence-classified source finding (deep path)
  • brainstormer agent for creative synthesis (when the user wants ideas, not just facts)
  • Parallel AI MCP for web search when available (graceful fallback to WebSearch)
  • Vault memory for prior decisions and research
  • NotebookLM for querying existing notebooks when relevant

Instructions

When the user invokes /deep-research <topic> or a trigger phrase matches:

Stage 1: Classify intent

Read the query and classify into one of:

Depth Signal Example
SHALLOW Single fact, narrow scope, recent event, quick comparison "What's the latest on X?", "Compare A vs B briefly"
DEEP Multi-source synthesis, historical overview, regulatory landscape, decision brief, "research X" "Research the regulatory landscape for Y", "Produce a brief on Z"
CREATIVE Solution design, brainstorming, "how could we", exploration of alternatives "How could we improve X?", "What are creative approaches to Y?"

State the classification and proceed. Do NOT ask the user to confirm depth — only ask if the topic itself is ambiguous (Stage 2).

Stage 2: Clarify scope (conditional)

Skip this stage if the query is specific enough to research directly. Most queries are.

Only use AskUserQuestion when genuinely ambiguous — when researching the wrong scope would waste significant effort:

Read the full file on GitHub · 321 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. 6d ago First seen · 321 lines · 47 tokens per session scan A 0d459bb9eaa0

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research is a skill published in the GitHub repository sliamh11/Deus (51 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 47 tokens to every session and 2,878 once invoked, about $0.0002 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.