research

research is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Weizhena/Deep-Research-skills. It costs 25 tokens per session (956 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A preliminary research workflow for exploring a topic and producing a research outline. It can cover academic research, technology comparisons, and benchmarking, followed by web searches for newer information.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to identify important items in a research area, propose a comparison framework, confirm the scope, and supplement the outline with recent sources.
Why use it?
It provides an initial map of the subject before deeper research begins. It also includes a checkpoint for refining the topics and fields to investigate.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to identify important items in a research area, propose a comparison framework, confirm the scope, and supplement the outline with recent sources.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/weizhena/deep-research-skills/research
About the project

Deep-Research-skills is a structured research workflow for Claude Code, OpenCode, and Codex that guides agents through outlining and then investigating a question. Researchers use it for tasks such as literature reviews, technology comparisons, market analysis, and due diligence, with human approval during the process.

Weizhena/Deep-Research-skills · 2,135 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 Weizhena/Deep-Research-skills --skill research
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Weizhena/Deep-Research-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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.

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README.md
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Your own site
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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.

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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 25 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 956 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 18 Mar 2026
  • Snyk warn 10 Mar 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 $0.00025 $0.00956
Opus 5 $0.00013 $0.00478
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00191
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00096

Measured 11d ago against content hash 575073c54834, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, 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 11d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (validate_json.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.

skills/research-codex-en/research/SKILL.md · 144 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 144 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Research Skill - Preliminary Research

Trigger

/research <topic>

Workflow

Step 1: Generate Initial Framework from Model Knowledge

Based on topic, use model's existing knowledge to generate:

  • Main research objects/items list in this domain
  • Suggested research field framework

Output {step1_output}, use request_user_input to confirm:

  • Need to add/remove items?
  • Does field framework meet requirements?

Step 2: Web Search Supplement

Use request_user_input to ask for time range (e.g., last 6 months, since 2024, unlimited).

Parameter Retrieval:

  • {topic}: User input research topic
  • {YYYY-MM-DD}: Current date
  • {step1_output}: Complete output from Step 1
  • {time_range}: User specified time range

Hard Constraint: The following prompt must be strictly reproduced, only replacing variables in {xxx}, do not modify structure or wording.

Launch 1 web-search-agent (background), Prompt Template:

prompt = f"""## Task
Research topic: {topic}
Current date: {YYYY-MM-DD}

Based on the following initial framework, supplement latest items and recommended research fields.

## Existing Framework
{step1_output}

## Goals
1. Verify if existing items are missing important objects
2. Supplement items based on missing objects
3. Continue searching for {topic} related items within {time_range} and supplement
4. Supplement new fields

## Output Requirements
Return structured results directly (do not write files):

### Supplementary Items
- item_name: Brief explanation (why it should be added)
...

### Recommended Supplementary Fields
- field_name: Field description (why this dimension is needed)
...

### Sources
- [Source1](url1)
- [Source2](url2)
"""

One-shot Example (assuming researching AI Coding History):

## Task
Research topic: AI Coding History
Current date: 2025-12-30

Based on the following initial framework, supplement latest items and recommended research fields.

## Existing Framework
### Items List
1. GitHub Copilot: Developed by Microsoft/GitHub, first mainstream AI coding assistant
2. Cursor: AI-first IDE, based on VSCode
...

### Field Framework
- Basic Info: name, release_date, company
- Technical Features: underlying_model, context_window
...

## Goals
1. Verify if existing items are missing important objects
2. Supplement items based on missing objects
3. Continue searching for AI Coding History related items within since 2024 and supplement
4. Supplement new fields

## Output Requirements
Return structured results directly (do not write files):

### Supplementary Items
- item_name: Brief explanation (why it should be added)
...

### Recommended Supplementary Fields
- field_name: Field description (why this dimension is needed)
...

### Sources
- [Source1](url1)
- [Source2](url2)

Read the full file on GitHub · 144 lines

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. 11d ago First seen · 144 lines · 25 tokens per session scan A 575073c54834

Subscribe to this mod's changes

research is a skill published in the GitHub repository Weizhena/Deep-Research-skills (2,135 stars, last pushed 18d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 25 tokens to every session and 956 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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