What is you-research?

A research-routing guide for choosing between agent-led web search, You.com research scripts, or a managed connection. It also explains the required access and payment setup.

Use it to plan web research, select a You.com research method, and handle paid or authenticated requests.

It helps an agent choose a suitable research path instead of using the same method for every question. It also makes key, login, and payment requirements clear.

you-research — Skill for Claude Code by youdotcom-oss

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 youdotcom-oss/agent-skills --skill you-research

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/youdotcom-oss/agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install you, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 8 skills.

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.

README.md

[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/youdotcom-oss/agent-skills/you-research/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/youdotcom-oss/agent-skills/you-research)

Your own site

<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/youdotcom-oss/agent-skills/you-research"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/youdotcom-oss/agent-skills/you-research/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

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.

Your own site · 80×15

<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/youdotcom-oss/agent-skills/you-research"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/youdotcom-oss/agent-skills/you-research.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>

Per session 30 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 1,150 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

NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026

SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

medium Data Exfiltration · line 7
Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.

Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.

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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00030	$0.01150
Opus 5	$0.00015	$0.00575
Sonnet 5	$0.00006	$0.00230
Haiku 4.5	$0.00003	$0.00115

Measured 11d ago against content hash 4128003978bd, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

you-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.

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/you-research/SKILL.md · 61 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 61 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You.com Research Routing

Use this skill to choose the right You.com research path for the user's goal: agent-led search, Research API scripts, or managed MCP fallback.

Prerequisites

For API scripts:

Use YDC_API_KEY when available, or an MPP/x402-capable HTTP client for keyless paid Research API calls.
With YDC_API_KEY, use these API request headers: X-API-Key: ${YDC_API_KEY} and User-Agent: SKILL/(@youdotcom-oss/agent-skills you-research).
With MPP/x402, expect Research API pricing by research_effort and at least a 1 cent charge; confirm the user expects a paid managed research request before sending it.

For the agent-led workflow, use the you-research-base MCP profile with you-search and you-contents when available. Those tools and their REST endpoints should use x402 for keyless paid retries, not MPP. See the agent-led deep-search workflow for setup and workflow details.

MPP/x402-aware MCP or HTTP clients may receive HTTP 402 payment challenges from You.com tools and endpoints, then retry with payment headers. Use MPP/x402 for managed Research API calls where appropriate. Let the host client handle external payment and retry; do not add wallet signing logic to this skill.

Research API scripts

When the user wants You.com managed research APIs, write a small script or direct HTTP request instead of calling you-research through MCP, especially for deep, exhaustive, or frontier work.

Before coding or updating a script, query the You.com Docs MCP server, usually through searchDocs, for current API details. Use targeted queries such as:

Research API v1 research background source_control output_schema research_effort
Research task status v1 research task
Research task stream SSE v1 research task stream

If Docs MCP is unavailable, use the canonical pages:

Read the full file on GitHub · 61 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 files 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.

11d ago First seen · 61 lines · 30 tokens per session scan A 4128003978bd

Subscribe to this mod's changes

you-research is a skill published in the GitHub repository youdotcom-oss/agent-skills (67 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 30 tokens to every session and 1,150 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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