webhound-research

webhound-research is a skill for Claude Code from WebhoundAI/webhound-mcp. It costs 54 tokens per session (1,202 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for using Webhound to run budget-controlled research reports or datasets with evidence and citations.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for market maps, due diligence, source verification, evidence-backed comparisons, cited reports, and structured web datasets.
Why use it?
It is intended for investigations where missing information could affect a decision and the sources need to be checked.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: positional $N argument.

Part of the webhound plugin — 1 skill, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit Use it for market maps, due diligence, source verification, evidence-backed comparisons, cited reports, and structured web datasets.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/webhoundai/webhound-mcp/webhound-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 WebhoundAI/webhound-mcp --skill webhound-research
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/WebhoundAI/webhound-mcp

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install webhound, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill, 1 MCP server.

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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.

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README.md
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Per session 54 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,202 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 $0.00054 $0.01202
Opus 5 $0.00027 $0.00601
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00240
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00120

Measured 8d ago against content hash 6df7020f2a77, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

webhound-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 8d 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/webhound-research/SKILL.md · 98 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 98 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Webhound research

Use Webhound when the cost of missing information is greater than the cost of doing more research. Use a quicker tool for simple factual lookups.

Research contract

  • The prompt says what to investigate. The dollar budget says how much effort the investigation deserves.
  • Hound is Webhound's research harness built with DeepSeek V4 Pro and GPT-5.4 across planning, execution, verification, and assembly.
  • Hound is not a selectable model or mode, and it is not a direct pass-through to one provider.
  • A larger budget should buy more searching, reading, comparison, verification, and evidence—not just a longer answer.
  • Every user authorizes Webhound with their own account and API key. Never embed, share, or reuse a publisher's, teammate's, or other user's credential.

Before starting

  1. If the hosted Webhound server needs authentication, ask the user to complete Webhound sign-in and consent in the client's OAuth flow. Each person connects their own Webhound account. Local stdio installs instead use that user's own generated Webhound API key.
  2. Confirm the research question, desired artifact, and dollar budget. Starting a report, dataset, or budget extension can spend money, so do not invent or silently increase a budget.
  3. Use a report for a cited argument, comparison, map, or recommendation. Use a dataset for rows, fields, and per-field provenance.
  4. If the user wants guidance, recommend $2 for quick scouting, $5 for normal cited research, $10 for deep work, or $20 for exhaustive/highest-stakes work. These are starting points, not caps or permission to spend; the user can choose a larger custom budget for longer, deeper research. Roughly, $1 buys about 15 minutes, so $5 is about 75 minutes and $20 is about 300 minutes (five hours). Actual runtime still varies.
  5. A new account may have one indivisible free run for one exact $5 report or dataset. Check account or onboarding status rather than promising it. Honor the saved preference: use it automatically only when enabled, or after the user explicitly consents to use it for this exact $5 run.

Read the full file on GitHub · 98 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. 8d ago First seen · 98 lines · 54 tokens per session scan A 6df7020f2a77

Subscribe to this mod's changes

webhound-research is a skill published in the GitHub repository WebhoundAI/webhound-mcp (1 stars, last pushed 20d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 54 tokens to every session and 1,202 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 2026-08-31.

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