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.
npx skills add youdotcom-oss/agent-skills --skill you-researchgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/youdotcom-oss/agent-skillsWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/youdotcom-oss/agent-skills/you-research)<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.
<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>- NVIDIA SkillSpector warn
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.
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 | $0.00066 | $0.00700 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00026 | $0.00280 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00013 | $0.00140 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00007 | $0.00070 |
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 23d 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 45 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 with you-search and you-contents, or one-shot cited synthesis with the you-research MCP tool.
Prerequisites
The You.com MCP endpoint must be reachable from the host:
- Managed research (
you-research):https://api.you.com/mcp/researchwith OAuth (preferred),YDC_API_KEYbearer auth, or an MPP/x402-aware MCP client.
MPP/x402-aware MCP clients may receive HTTP 402 payment challenges from You.com tools, then retry with payment headers. Let the host client handle external payment and retry; do not add wallet signing logic to this skill.
Managed research with the you-research MCP tool
Call the you-research MCP tool when the user wants a synthesized answer with citations in one step. It runs You.com's managed research pipeline and returns a concise answer with inline citations and source metadata, so the host does not orchestrate multi-step search itself.
For keyless payment with no API key and no manual signing, compose the You.com MCP server with the Coinbase Payments MCP server; see Coinbase Payments MCP path for setup and when to choose it.
If the you-research tool is unavailable or the client cannot tolerate its response time, fall back to the agent-led search pipeline in the you-web skill and say which path was used.
Decision Tree
- User is cost-conscious or wants to develop/fine-tune a research skill -> use the agent-led search pipeline in the
you-webskill. - User needs a one-shot synthesized answer with citations -> call the
you-researchMCP tool. - User needs OAuth or MPP/x402 payment handling -> use the
you-researchMCP tool with a payment-aware MCP client or the Coinbase Payments MCP composition. - Required MCP tools are unavailable -> tell the user what is missing, provide the setup options from the prerequisites above, and request approval before installing, connecting, or changing configuration.
- Simple lookup -> use
you-searchonce, answer directly. - URL provided -> use
you-contentson those URLs. - Everything else -> use the agent-led search pipeline in the
you-webskill.
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.
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.
- 23d ago Changed 8b75f107543d
- 25d ago Changed · +36 tokens per session c8e9543b03de
- 1mo ago Changed · -16 lines f088d4721ed3
- 1mo ago First seen · 61 lines · 30 tokens per session scan A 4128003978bd
you-research is a skill published in the GitHub repository youdotcom-oss/agent-skills (94 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 66 tokens to every session and 700 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-08-30.
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