research

research is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from vinvcn/mattpocock-skills-zh-CN. It costs 51 tokens per session (175 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A research helper that asks a background agent to investigate a question using first-party sources such as official documentation, source code, specifications, and official APIs. It saves the findings and source links in a Markdown file in the repository.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to collect reliable documentation or API facts, investigate a technical topic, or delegate reading and evidence gathering for a written research note.
Why use it?
It reduces the manual work of comparing trustworthy sources and recording where each fact came from. You can continue other work while the research runs.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for Claude Code and Codex: shipped in a Claude Code plugin, but also agents/openai.yaml present.

Part of the mattpocock-skills plugin — 36 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to collect reliable documentation or API facts, investigate a technical topic, or delegate reading and evidence gathering for a written research note.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/vinvcn/mattpocock-skills-zh-cn/research
About the project

mattpocock-skills-zh-CN is a Simplified Chinese localization of a collection of reusable instructions for coding agents. Chinese-speaking developers use the translated skills to support engineering workflows while keeping their original commands, paths, identifiers, and behavior. The catalogue contains the localized skills, instructions, and plugin components.

vinvcn/mattpocock-skills-zh-CN · 4,149 stars · on GitHub

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 vinvcn/mattpocock-skills-zh-CN --skill research
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/vinvcn/mattpocock-skills-zh-CN

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install mattpocock-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 36 skills.

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/vinvcn/mattpocock-skills-zh-cn/research/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/vinvcn/mattpocock-skills-zh-cn/research)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/vinvcn/mattpocock-skills-zh-cn/research"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/vinvcn/mattpocock-skills-zh-cn/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/vinvcn/mattpocock-skills-zh-cn/research"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/vinvcn/mattpocock-skills-zh-cn/research.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 51 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 175 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
  • Socket pass 30 Aug 2026
  • Snyk pass 30 Aug 2026
  • 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 $0.00051 $0.00175
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.00088
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00035
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00017

Measured 13d ago against content hash 7d0fc6af2608, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, 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 13d 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/engineering/research/SKILL.md · 13 lines

What it actually says

启动一个 background agent 做 research,这样你可以在它阅读时继续工作。

它的工作:

  1. 对照 primary sources 调研问题:official docs、source code、specs、first-party APIs,而不是二手解读。每个 claim 都要追溯到拥有该事实的 source。
  2. 把 findings 写入一个 Markdown 文件,并为每个 claim 标注 source。
  3. 保存到 repo 既有的 notes 位置;匹配现有 convention。如果没有 convention,就放在合理位置并说明路径。
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. 13d ago First seen · 13 lines · 51 tokens per session scan A 7d0fc6af2608

Subscribe to this mod's changes

research is a skill published in the GitHub repository vinvcn/mattpocock-skills-zh-CN (4,149 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 51 tokens to every session and 175 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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