evidence-research

evidence-research is a skill for Codex from ucsahinn/codex-chef. It costs 71 tokens per session (870 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A method for researching questions using checked sources, such as scientific papers, official records, or other reliable references.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for evidence reviews, comparisons, market or research landscapes, implementation questions, and decisions that need documented support.
Why use it?
It keeps important claims traceable to their sources and makes uncertainty or disagreement visible.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present. Also seen: mentions Codex; $skill-name invocation.

Good fit Use it for evidence reviews, comparisons, market or research landscapes, implementation questions, and decisions that need documented support.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ucsahinn/codex-chef/evidence-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 ucsahinn/codex-chef --skill evidence-research
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ucsahinn/codex-chef

Made for: Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 71 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 870 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 $0.00071 $0.00870
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.00435
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00174
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00087

Measured 9d ago against content hash 406e96544f5e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

evidence-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 9d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/validate-research-report.mjs), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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/codex-chef-workflows/skills/evidence-research/SKILL.md · 81 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 81 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Evidence Research

Produce decision-ready research whose material claims trace to checked sources. Do not turn a broad web search into an imitation systematic review.

Invocation

  • Direct: $evidence-research <question>.
  • Plugin: $codex-chef-workflows:evidence-research <question>.
  • Implicit activation is allowed for clear deep, literature, market, landscape, comparative, or evidence-synthesis requests, not ordinary factual lookup.

Research Contract

Read scoping-and-charter.md first. State the decision, primary question, focused sub-questions, audience, scope, exclusions, geography, time horizon, deadline, evidence standard, stopping rule, and deliverable. Use a bounded labeled default when missing inputs do not materially change authority, cost, or method.

Separate fact, inference, and recommendation. Every material claim needs checked source IDs, confidence, uncertainty, and relevant disagreement.

Workflow

  1. Choose orientation, decision-support, landscape, implementation, evidence-review, or original-analysis mode.
  2. Design concepts, queries, source classes, inclusion/exclusion rules, and a reproducible log with search-and-screening.md.
  3. Deduplicate, screen, and record provenance, method, population/corpus, recency, conflicts, applicability, limitations, and full-text status using source-appraisal.md.
  4. Build a source matrix and claim ledger. Compare convergence, disagreement, missing evidence, and alternative explanations with synthesis-and-uncertainty.md.
  5. Use qualitative, quantitative, or mixed methods only when the question and data justify them. Profile data before modeling and document code, transformations, assumptions, and sensitivity checks using qualitative-and-quantitative.md.
  6. Select domain-appropriate primary sources and standards through domain-method-routing.md. Use PRISMA or Cochrane methods only for genuine, correctly labeled review work.
  7. Package the requested memo, report, slides, bibliography, dataset, or reproducible appendix under reproducibility-and-ethics.md.

Read the full file on GitHub · 81 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. 9d ago First seen · 81 lines · 71 tokens per session scan A 406e96544f5e

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evidence-research is a skill published in the GitHub repository ucsahinn/codex-chef (6 stars, last pushed 22d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 71 tokens to every session and 870 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 2026-08-31.

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