# AI Model Research

> Research, discover, compare, and evaluate AI models on OpenRouter — backed by the bundled Model-Scout MCP server for live catalog data with caching. Subsumes the standalone open-router-model-research plugin and the Model-Scout-MCP server. 11 skills cover lookup, capability filtering (tools, vision, audio), recommendation, head-to-head comparison, deep evaluation, workload cost projection, and finding cheaper alternatives.

## Facts
- Page: https://tashan.sh/capability/plugin-danielrosehill-claude-code-plugins-ai-model-research
- tashan id: plugin:danielrosehill/claude-code-plugins/ai-model-research
- Source: https://github.com/danielrosehill/Claude-Code-Plugins
- Type: plugin
- Category: ai
- tashan score: 41.0 / 100
- Adoption: 7.0
- Upkeep: 82.0
- Freshness: 100.0
- Evidence coverage: 84% of the inputs this score can use
- Health: active
- Instruction depth: not yet graded
- Official: no

## Install

```sh
/plugin marketplace add danielrosehill/Claude-Code-Plugins
/plugin install ai-model-research@danielrosehill
```

## Security audit
Not scanned. We audit npm-published capabilities; this one has no npm package we can resolve, or has not reached the queue. This is not a clean bill of health.

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Measured 2026-08-05 by tashan (https://tashan.sh) from public evidence. Scorer s5.