ds-research

ds-research is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from sungurerdim/dev-skills. It costs 32 tokens per session (3,409 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A research skill that searches multiple sources, judges their reliability, combines the findings, and makes recommendations with citations.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to compare technologies, find a suitable library, research engineering practices, or produce evidence-based options before implementation.
Why use it?
It helps avoid relying on outdated articles, weak sources, or made-up references when comparing tools or investigating a technical question.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to compare technologies, find a suitable library, research engineering practices, or produce evidence-based options before implementation.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/sungurerdim/dev-skills/ds-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 sungurerdim/dev-skills --skill ds-research
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sungurerdim/dev-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 32 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,409 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 $0.00032 $0.03409
Opus 5 $0.00016 $0.01705
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00682
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00341

Measured 5d ago against content hash 38832ba97a48, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ds-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 5d 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.

ds-research/SKILL.md · 183 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 183 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/ds-research

AI models hallucinate sources, cite outdated data, can't distinguish blog post from peer-reviewed study. Skill searches, scores source reliability, synthesizes with citations.

Smart Research — Parallel search, tier sources, synthesize, recommend.

Completion Evidence — applies to every phase: Report done/OK only with the machine-checkable evidence the gates name — the exact command run and its observed output (or file:line diff). Missing evidence → report INCOMPLETE plus what is missing. Self-assessment is never evidence. (This band repeats at file end by design — both copies are normative.)

Triggers

  • User runs /ds-research
  • User asks to research a topic, compare technologies, or investigate solutions
  • User asks "what's the best way to...", "compare X vs Y", or "what are the options for..."
  • User needs evidence-based analysis with source verification

Triggers — INVOKE / DON'T INVOKE

INVOKE DON'T INVOKE
"compare X vs Y", "find best library for {task}" "implement what you find" (→ manual / target skill)
"research auth best practices" "design auth flow concretely" (→ ds-backend --design)
"academic / multi-source comparison" "marketing competitor analysis" (→ external / manual)
"investigate solutions with CRAAP scoring" "decide the implementation" (→ user owns the choice)
"score sources without building a report" "produce a sourced HTML brief/report" (→ ds-brief)

Contract

Dimensions: none (carrier)

  • Searches both local codebase files and web sources.
  • Only includes verified, accessible sources and URLs. Presents T5/T6 with confidence caveats. Resolves contradictions when sources disagree. Cites specific source tiers in every synthesis.
  • Standalone: uses blueprint when available, own analysis when absent. Web tracks dispatch ds-research-agent when available (same handoff contract as ds-brief Phase 2), inline search when absent — identical methodology either way. Local-codebase track always runs skill-side.
  • State-exempt: single regenerable artifact — each run reproduces its result from scratch; no ds/audit/ state persisted (only ds-blueprint/ds-frontend/ds-mobile/ds-ship/ds-tune keep state).
  • Full accounting enforced: every finding and planned check ends in an explicit disposition (fixed / skipped + reason / only you can do); summary totals balance.
  • Pre-existing / out-of-scope errors detected during work are NOT skipped — fixed inline or escalated with concrete blocker.

Read the full file on GitHub · 183 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 5d ago Changed · -3 lines 38832ba97a48
  2. 8d ago First seen · 186 lines · 32 tokens per session scan A 915e68af84b7

Subscribe to this mod's changes

ds-research is a skill published in the GitHub repository sungurerdim/dev-skills (1 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 32 tokens to every session and 3,409 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 2026-08-31.

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