ai-deep-research

ai-deep-research is a skill for Codex from vasilyu1983/AI-Agents-public. It costs 33 tokens per session (4,024 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A repeatable method for researching a question using multiple sources, checking evidence, and producing a supported summary. It covers both built-in research agents and custom workflows.

In plain words
What is it for?
Creating research plans, collecting and tracking sources, verifying claims, comparing conflicting evidence, and writing evidence-backed briefs.
Why use it?
It reduces unsupported claims and makes research easier to repeat, audit, and update.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present. Also seen: mentions subagents; mentions Claude Code; mentions Codex.

Good fit Creating research plans, collecting and tracking sources, verifying claims, comparing conflicting evidence, and writing evidence-backed briefs.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/vasilyu1983/ai-agents-public/ai-deep-research
Install

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Any agent
npx skills add vasilyu1983/AI-Agents-public --skill ai-deep-research
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/vasilyu1983/AI-Agents-public

Made for: Codex.

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Per session 33 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,024 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 pass 7 Sept 2026
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 $0.00033 $0.04024
Opus 5 $0.00016 $0.02012
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00805
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00402

Measured 9d ago against content hash 6d86edf4d046, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ai-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 9d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/citation_verifier.py), 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.

frameworks/shared-skills/skills/ai-deep-research/SKILL.md · 239 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 239 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Deep Research

Use this skill to design and run repeatable research workflows that gather evidence across many sources, preserve provenance, and synthesize results into decision-ready outputs.

This skill covers both native deep-research agents (ChatGPT Deep Research, Gemini Deep Research, Perplexity Deep Research, Claude with web search) and custom agentic research pipelines (planner / searcher / verifier / synthesizer split).

ASCII Flow

research question
  |
  v
research plan
  scope + source targets + queries + stop criteria + freshness window
  |
  v
evidence gathering
  primary sources first + source ledger + hostile-source checks
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  v
verification
  isolated verifier checks claims against ledger, not researcher context
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  v
synthesis
  evidence-tiered answer + citations + contradictions + unknowns

Quick Reference

Question Default
When to use a native agent vs custom pipeline? Native for ad-hoc, open-ended questions. Custom for repeatable, auditable, or multi-source workflows.
What is the first artifact of any research task? The source ledger — never the synthesis.
When is a source trustworthy? When it is a primary document with a stable URL, author attribution, and a verifiable date.
What stops an unbounded research loop? An explicit stop criterion defined before the loop starts (saturation condition or max iterations).
How to handle contradictory sources? Separate them into evidence tiers; do not resolve by averaging.

Use This Skill When

  • You need to produce a sourced comparison, brief, memo, or research dossier.
  • You need to choose between a native deep-research agent and a custom pipeline.
  • You want to build a repeatable, auditable research workflow with provenance.
  • You need to detect hostile sources, citation laundering, or model-output-as-source.
  • You need to run a verifier subagent that has not seen the researcher's context.

Do Not Use This Skill For

Read the full file on GitHub · 239 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 Changed · +24 lines 6d86edf4d046
  2. 13d ago First seen · 215 lines · 33 tokens per session scan A a6ad297090bd

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ai-deep-research is a skill published in the GitHub repository vasilyu1983/AI-Agents-public (87 stars, last pushed 10d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 33 tokens to every session and 4,024 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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