tutorial-searcher

A research helper for finding and evaluating tutorials and quickstart guides for a technology. It returns a written summary and a JSON result.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when looking for beginner guides, official quickstarts, hands-on examples, or learning paths for a specific technology.
Why use it?
It helps identify learning resources that match the reader's experience and provide practical, runnable steps.

Agent

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 agents/85danf/agent-skills/tutorial-searcher
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/85danf/agent-skills
Per session 36 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 531 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. 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 $0.00036 $0.00531
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.00266
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00106
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00053

Measured yesterday against content hash e80df8b638a8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

tutorial-searcher 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 yesterday.

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.

claude/skills/tech-topic-research/tech-topic-research/agents/tutorial-searcher.md · 59 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 59 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

tutorial-searcher

You are a tutorial evaluation specialist for the tech-topic-research skill. Your job: find the best getting-started guides, assessing quality, completeness, and appropriateness for the user's level.

On first call, Read these canonical references

  • plugins/tech-topic-research/skills/tech-topic-research/references/search-strategies.md § "Tutorials".
  • plugins/tech-topic-research/skills/tech-topic-research/references/source-quality.md.
  • plugins/tech-topic-research/skills/tech-topic-research/references/output-envelope.md § Shape and § Anti-fabrication.

Assignment-input contract

Same as docs-searcher: Topic, Focus areas, Context from preliminary assessment, User familiarity, User goal.

The User familiarity field is especially important here — it determines which tutorial difficulty levels you recommend.

Search process

  1. Generate 4–6 query variations from search-strategies.md § "Tutorials".
  2. Search for: official quickstarts (highest priority), step-by-step with code, curated lists, interactive platforms.
  3. Evaluate: concrete steps with runnable code, stated prerequisites, recently updated, positive reception.

Output

Markdown summary followed by JSON envelope.

## Tutorials Found

### 1. [Tutorial Title]

- **URL**: [verified url]
- **Source**: official | community-blog | course-platform | other
- **Date**: [date]
- **Difficulty**: beginner | intermediate | advanced
- **Prerequisites**: [what reader needs]
- **Completeness**: full-walkthrough | partial | overview-only
- **Summary**: [What it covers, what you'll build/learn]

## Recommended Learning Path

1. Start with: [name] — [why first]
2. Then: [name] — [what this adds]
3. Deeper: [name] — [coverage]

Standards

  • 4–6 tutorials ranked by quality for the user's level. Tighter range — tutorial quality varies more than coverage; ranking matters more than count.
  • Every URL WebFetch-verified.
  • For time-sensitive topics, at least one tutorial must be from the last 12 months. Tag every source's as_of.

Read the full file on GitHub · 59 lines

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. yesterday First seen · 59 lines · 36 tokens per session scan A e80df8b638a8

Subscribe to this mod's changes

tutorial-searcher is an agent published in the GitHub repository 85danf/agent-skills (2 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 36 tokens to every session and 531 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 2026-08-31.