Research

What it does

When your agent uses it

• Tasks that involve Fact-checking and source verification

Example prompts

• “/research”

Requirements

• Pre-approved tools (allowed-tools): Read, Bash, Glob, Grep, Agent, Write, WebFetch, WebSearch

Workflow steps

7 steps, taken from the step headings in SKILL.md.

1. 1EXTRACT
2. 2VERIFY
3. 3ADJUDICATE
4. 4REPORT
5. 5LOCATE
6. 6PARSE
7. 7PRESENT

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 5218674. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

• Tool permissions

  Pre-approves these tools, so the agent can use them without asking each time:

  • Read
  • Bash
  • Glob
  • Grep
  • Agent
  • Write
  • WebFetch
  • WebSearch

  From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

• Runs code

  No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md (its code samples are bash).

  From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

• Network

  No URLs in SKILL.md.

  From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

• Credentials

  Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

  From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Research loads about 1.7k tokens when it runs, and up to ~7.1k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 20 tokens; SKILL.md has 645 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it

~20

When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches

~1.7k

With references · SKILL.md plus every file in references/, read only if the agent opens them

~7.1k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

• NotePre-approves every shell command (allowed-tools: Bash)SKILL.md

  allowed-tools: Read, Bash, Glob, Grep, Agent, Write, WebFetch, WebSearch

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from notque/vexjoy-agent at commit 5218674, republished under its MIT licence (© notque). 645 words, ~1,687 tokens.

name

research

description

Research: structured investigation, fact-checking, explanation traces.

allowed-tools

Read, Bash, Glob, Grep, Agent, Write, WebFetch, WebSearch

user-invocable

true

argument-hint

<research topic or claim to verify>

agent

research-coordinator-engineer

context

fork

routing.force_route

true

routing.not_for

code review (use review), security audit (use security)

routing.triggers

research-pipeline, research, formal research, research with artifacts, systematic investigation, research report, gather evidence, fact check, fact-check…

routing.category

research

routing.pairs_with

review, writing

# Fact-Check Report: [document]
## Summary
Claims: N | Verified: n | Disputed: n | Unverifiable: n | Missing-source: n
Unchecked: n (reason)
## Per-Claim Findings
### C1 -- [label]
Claim: [text] | Evidence: [source + passage] | Reasoning: [why this label]
## Warnings
[Every Disputed/Missing-source claim with correction]
## Publish Recommendation
[Hold / fix-then-publish / clear]

LOG="${CLAUDE_LEARNING_DIR:-$HOME/.claude/learning}/route-events.jsonl"
wc -l "$LOG"

© notque, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

SKILL.md and 3 other files (references) in skills/research/research of notque/vexjoy-agent.

• SKILL.md
• references/error-handling.md
• references/preferred-patterns.md
• references/trace-schema.md

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 5218674