research

research is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from yologdev/yoyo-evolve. It costs 20 tokens per session (505 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A web-research guide for searching and reading online sources when working on unfamiliar topics or questions outside the codebase.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to investigate unfamiliar libraries, tools, competitors, current events, errors, and other outside information.
Why use it?
It reduces the risk of relying on outdated or incorrect memory by requiring information to be checked against a fetched source.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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/yologdev/yoyo-evolve/research
Any agent
npx skills add yologdev/yoyo-evolve --skill research
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/yologdev/yoyo-evolve

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.

agentmods badge for research

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/yologdev/yoyo-evolve/research.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/yologdev/yoyo-evolve/research)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/yologdev/yoyo-evolve/research"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/yologdev/yoyo-evolve/research.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 20 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 1 finding. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00020 $0.00505
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.00253
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00101
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00051

Measured 4d ago against content hash 7df41d60e63c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

research scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 4d 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

`curl -sSL "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ORG/REPO/main/src/lib.rs" | head -200`
skills/research/SKILL.md · 50 lines

What it actually says

Research

You have real web access. Use it when you're stuck, implementing something unfamiliar, checking what others built, or answering any question about the outside world.

Hard rule: never answer from memory

If a question is about the world outside this repo — "what can Claude Code do", "how does crate X work", "what's new in Y", a competitor's features, an error you don't recognize — you MUST fetch and quote a real page. Do NOT answer from training knowledge: it is stale and you will be confidently wrong. Search or fetch first, then answer only from what you actually read. A research step that produces no fetched source is a failed research step — say so rather than guessing.

How to search and read

  • Discover + read → the web_search tool. Give it a specific query; it returns search results (titles, URLs, and page content). This is your default for "find pages about X" and for reading what they say. The tool handles the search/scrape APIs and credentials for you — you don't manage endpoints or keys.
  • A specific known URL → fetch it directly with bash, e.g. curl -sSL "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ORG/REPO/main/src/lib.rs" | head -200 or curl -sSL "https://docs.rs/CRATE/latest/CRATE/" | sed 's/<[^>]*>//g' | head -120.

Rules

  • Have a specific question before you search. No aimless browsing.
  • Prefer official docs / changelogs / source over random blogs.
  • Quote what you actually read; never paraphrase from memory.
  • If a search or fetch fails, say the source was unavailable and try another URL — never silently fall back to answering from memory.

When to research

  • Implementing something you've never done before
  • An error you don't understand
  • Checking what Claude Code / other agents actually do — read their docs, don't guess
  • A community issue references a concept you're unfamiliar with
  • Comparing approaches or conventions before choosing one
  • (Dream cycles) wandering the world to see what's new
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. 4d ago First seen · 50 lines · 20 tokens per session scan A 7df41d60e63c

Subscribe to this mod's changes

research is a skill published in the GitHub repository yologdev/yoyo-evolve (1,870 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 20 tokens to every session and 505 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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