deep-x-research

deep-x-research is a skill for Claude Code from w-winter/dot314. It costs 76 tokens per session (1,317 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of deep-x-research, MIT.

A research skill that investigates topics across X, formerly known as Twitter, by using Grok through a browser. It produces findings linked to individual posts.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for broad research on trends, tools, techniques, creators, or discussions on X, including searches that involve video content.
Why use it?
It helps gather information from many X posts when one search is not enough. Source links make the reported claims traceable to the posts found.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: disable-model-invocation in frontmatter.

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/w-winter/dot314/deep-x-research
Any agent
npx skills add w-winter/dot314 --skill deep-x-research
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/w-winter/dot314

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 76 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,317 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 97% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00076 $0.01317
Opus 5 $0.00038 $0.00659
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00263
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00132

Measured 6d ago against content hash 8859dd9e7032, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

deep-x-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.

Origin

This is a copy

97% identical to deep-x-research — 1 line differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

skills/deep-x-research/SKILL.md · 108 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 108 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Deep X Research

Research a topic across X by putting Grok to work from multiple angles — it runs keyword and semantic X searches and watches videos natively — then deliver categorized findings where every claim is traceable to a post URL.

Requires: surf installed and connected (surf doctor), Chrome logged into x.com. Command reference: the surf skill or surf --help.

Quota: X caps Grok requests (typically 15 per 20 hours on a standard plan). Every surf grok call spends one. Budget the session before the first query and make each query do multi-angle work — never spend a request on what a quota-free step can answer.

Steps

1. Decompose the topic and budget the queries

Break the topic into angles: showcases/examples, techniques & tutorials, tools, notable creators, community discussion — adapt to the topic. Plan a Grok budget of 4-8 queries covering every angle (combine related angles into one query rather than spending two). Done when each angle is assigned to a budgeted query.

2. Grok sweep

Run the budgeted queries sequentially. Engineer each so Grok does the fan-out internally and returns traceable sources:

# Broad pass — force multi-angle search and URLs
surf grok "Do deep research on TOPIC on X. Search both latest and top posts, keyword and semantic. Return the most relevant posts with full post URLs (x.com/user/status/ID) and a one-line description of each."

# Focused passes — one per remaining angle group
surf grok "TOPIC on X: tutorials, techniques, and the tools people use. Include post URLs for every example."

# Deepest pass — spend DeepSearch on the highest-value angle
surf grok "TOPIC: notable creators, how the trend is evolving, and the standout posts of the last 6 months. Post URLs required." --deep-search

Record every post Grok cites: author, one-line gist, full https://x.com/USER/status/ID URL. If a response gives claims without URLs, the next query in the budget re-asks for sources — never leave an angle sourceless. Done when every planned angle has been queried and the final response adds no new relevant posts, or the budget is spent.

Read the full file on GitHub · 108 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. 6d ago First seen · 108 lines · 76 tokens per session scan A 8859dd9e7032

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deep-x-research is a skill published in the GitHub repository w-winter/dot314 (130 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 76 tokens to every session and 1,317 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 97% identical to deep-x-research, differing in 1 line, and is treated as a copy.