deep-research

deep-research is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from X-School-Academy/skill-pilot. It costs 37 tokens per session (505 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A deep-research workflow reads a research requirement or instruction file, gathers and organises findings, and writes Markdown and an HTML report with diagrams when useful.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for researching a topic, synthesising evidence, and producing written reports in a workspace folder.
Why use it?
It turns an open-ended research request into saved, structured outputs beside the source requirements.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit It is for researching a topic, synthesising evidence, and producing written reports in a workspace folder.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/x-school-academy/skill-pilot/deep-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 X-School-Academy/skill-pilot --skill deep-research
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/X-School-Academy/skill-pilot

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 37 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 505 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 $0.00037 $0.00505
Opus 5.5 $0.00015 $0.00202
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00007 $0.00101
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00051

Measured 16d ago against content hash 6282ba7dbf03, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

deep-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 16d 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.

core/skills/system/deep-research/SKILL.md · 59 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 59 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

AI Builder - Deep Research

Perform a structured research pass from a research requirement file.

When to Use This Skill

  • The user wants a deep research result from workspace/research/{topic}/requirements.md
  • The user provides any requirement, task, or instruction file and wants the result written beside it
  • The work requires gathering, organizing, and synthesizing research findings
  • The output should be written back into the topic workspace

Your Roles in This Skill

  • Research Analyst: Gather and synthesize relevant findings
  • Technical Writer: Turn findings into a clear output document

Role Communication

As an expert in your assigned roles, you must announce your actions before performing them using the following format:

As a {Role} [and {Role}, ...], I will {action description}

This communication pattern ensures transparency and allows for human-in-the-loop oversight at key decision points.

Instructions

Step 1: Read the Requirement

Read the referenced research requirements.md carefully and identify the scope, research questions, and expected deliverable.

If the user provides a requirement, task, or instruction file path, use that file's parent folder as the output folder unless the user explicitly provides another output path.

Step 2: Perform the Research

Gather and synthesize the most relevant information for the requested topic.

Step 3: Write the Result

Save the result inside the same folder as the instruction file when one exists. Markdown is the default source format.

When the result benefits from visual explanation, also create:

index.html

The HTML report should be a polished visual report, not just raw Markdown. Use Mermaid diagrams, tables, sections, and navigation when useful. Put any Mermaid source files, images, or supporting assets in the same folder or a child folder so the report works as a static page rooted at that folder. If Mermaid diagrams are included, also save their .mmd source files where practical.

Read the full file on GitHub · 59 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. 16d ago First seen · 59 lines · 37 tokens per session scan A 6282ba7dbf03

Subscribe to this mod's changes

deep-research is a skill published in the GitHub repository X-School-Academy/skill-pilot (20 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 37 tokens to every session and 505 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-10-02.

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