research

research is a skill for Claude Code from vasuag09/harness-claude. It costs 44 tokens per session (432 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A reuse-first research step before writing new code. It searches the repository, library documentation, code-hosting sites, and package registries for existing solutions that fit the problem.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it after requirements are clarified and before detailed planning for a substantial implementation.
Why use it?
It reduces the chance of rebuilding something that already exists and helps compare possible libraries or implementations before choosing an approach.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the harness-claude plugin — 32 skills, 8 agents, 6 hooks, 3 MCP servers shipped together

Good fit Use it after requirements are clarified and before detailed planning for a substantial implementation.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/vasuag09/harness-claude/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 vasuag09/harness-claude --skill research
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/vasuag09/harness-claude

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install harness-claude, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 32 skills, 8 agents, 6 hooks, 3 MCP servers.

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.

agentmods badge for research

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/vasuag09/harness-claude/research/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/vasuag09/harness-claude/research)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/vasuag09/harness-claude/research"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/vasuag09/harness-claude/research/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

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
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/vasuag09/harness-claude/research"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/vasuag09/harness-claude/research.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 44 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 432 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 $0.00044 $0.00432
Opus 5 $0.00022 $0.00216
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00086
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00043

Measured 9d ago against content hash 7bbe6b136043, 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 9d 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.

skills/research/SKILL.md · 38 lines

What it actually says

/research — reuse before you build

Goal: never hand-roll what a proven solution already does well. Find the 80%-fit and adopt/port it.

Do this (in order)

  1. In-repo first — does this codebase already solve a near-identical problem? Use the knowledge graph / mgrep (or Grep/Glob if those are unavailable) to find existing patterns, utilities, and conventions.
  2. Library docs — use context7 (or the library's primary docs / web if context7 is unavailable) to confirm current API/behavior of candidate libraries (don't answer from memory; versions drift).
  3. Code & registries — search GitHub and the relevant package registry (npm / PyPI) for battle-tested implementations or templates that fit ≥80%. When several candidates fit, compare them on fit %, maintenance/activity, license, and footprint — pick deliberately and note the runner-up; don't just grab the first hit.
  4. Broader web — only if the above are insufficient (mgrep --web "...", or WebSearch if mgrep is unavailable).

For LLM/agent work, read the harness's relevant references before choosing an approach.

Output

## Reuse decision
- Adopt / port / wrap: <library or repo>  — why it fits
- Build new: <only the genuinely novel part>  — why nothing fits
## Key API facts (from context7) that the plan must respect
## Risks of the chosen dependency (maintenance, license, size)

Exit criterion

A documented build-vs-reuse decision with evidence. Fold it into the spec. Then /harness-claude:plan.

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 · 38 lines · 44 tokens per session scan A 7bbe6b136043

Subscribe to this mod's changes

research is a skill published in the GitHub repository vasuag09/harness-claude (2 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 44 tokens to every session and 432 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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