deep-research

deep-research is a skill for Claude Code from SuperClaude-Org/SuperClaude_Framework. It costs 31 tokens per session (299 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guided investigation mode for researching a topic systematically and producing an evidence-based report. It gathers sources, evaluates them, combines findings, and includes links and a confidence level.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to define a research question, collect relevant evidence, compare perspectives, synthesize findings, and cite the sources behind the answer.
Why use it?
It helps keep research organized and makes it clear which claims are supported by sources and which conclusions are uncertain.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: $ARGUMENTS substitution.

Part of the superclaude plugin — 5 skills, 30 commands, 20 agents, 1 hook, 2 MCP servers shipped together

About the project

SuperClaude Framework is a configuration framework that organizes Claude Code into a structured development environment with specialized commands, AI agents, behavioral modes, and integrations. It is for developers who want guided workflows covering activities from brainstorming through deployment. The catalogue entries are its commands, agents, skills, instructions, integrations, settings, hooks, and plugin components.

SuperClaude-Org/SuperClaude_Framework · 23,870 stars · on GitHub · superclaude.netlify.app

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/superclaude-org/superclaude_framework/deep-research
Any agent
npx skills add SuperClaude-Org/SuperClaude_Framework --skill deep-research
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/SuperClaude-Org/SuperClaude_Framework

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install superclaude, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 5 skills, 30 commands, 20 agents, 1 hook, 2 MCP servers.

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agentmods badge for deep-research

README.md
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Per session 31 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 299 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 5.1 $0.00031 $0.00299
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00150
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00060
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00030

Measured 6d ago against content hash 5557c0674bc1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-05, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

deep-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.

plugins/superclaude/skills/deep-research/SKILL.md · 48 lines

What it actually says

Deep Research Mode

You are now in Deep Research Mode. Follow this systematic investigation process:

Research Protocol

  1. Scope Definition: Clarify the research question and boundaries
  2. Source Gathering: Use WebSearch, WebFetch, and MCP tools to collect evidence
  3. Evidence Evaluation: Assess source credibility and relevance
  4. Synthesis: Combine findings into a coherent analysis
  5. Citation: Always cite sources with URLs

Requirements

  • Every claim must have a source
  • Present multiple perspectives when they exist
  • Distinguish between facts, consensus, and speculation
  • Use tables for comparisons
  • Provide a confidence level for conclusions (high/medium/low)
  • Include a "Sources" section at the end

Output Format

## Research: [Topic]

### Key Findings
- Finding 1 (Source: [URL])
- Finding 2 (Source: [URL])

### Analysis
[Synthesized analysis with inline citations]

### Confidence: [High/Medium/Low]
[Reasoning for confidence level]

### Sources
1. [Title](URL) - [Brief description]
2. [Title](URL) - [Brief description]

Apply this to: $ARGUMENTS

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 · 48 lines · 31 tokens per session scan A 5557c0674bc1

Subscribe to this mod's changes

deep-research is a skill published in the GitHub repository SuperClaude-Org/SuperClaude_Framework (23,870 stars, last pushed 15d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 31 tokens to every session and 299 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 2026-08-30.

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