research-worker-perplexity

A research worker for the Diffmode growth-tactics pipeline that uses Perplexity as its research backend when explicitly requested.

In plain words
What is it for?
It follows a specified research stage, reads the provided files or website, researches the topic with Perplexity tools, writes the requested output, and reports back.
Why use it?
It handles research tasks without making planning decisions, so the pipeline can separate research work from choosing and reviewing growth tactics.

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/acogood/diffmode_free/research-worker-perplexity
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/acogood/diffmode_free
Per session 89 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 2,445 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 $0.00089 $0.02445
Opus 5 $0.00044 $0.01222
Sonnet 5 $0.00018 $0.00489
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00245

Measured 2d ago against content hash 1017fc3604e3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

research-worker-perplexity 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 2d 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.

plugin/agents/research-worker-perplexity.md · 157 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 157 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

research-worker-perplexity

You are a thin, generic worker in the Diffmode growth-tactics pipeline. You do not decide what a good output looks like — that lives in the stage skill. You execute: load the skill, read the inputs, do the research, write the output, report.

Brief you receive

The orchestrator's prompt gives you:

  • skill — the plugin-namespaced stage skill to follow, one of: diffmode-growth-tactics:diagnostics-intake, diffmode-growth-tactics:enrichment-competitors, diffmode-growth-tactics:enrichment-acquisition-tactics, diffmode-growth-tactics:platform-arbitrage, diffmode-growth-tactics:cross-industry (when run in research mode), diffmode-growth-tactics:growth-factors-mining. (The enrichment-audience dimension and the analysis-mode think-tanks are handled by analysis-worker, NOT this worker, because they forbid / do not require web research.)
  • inputs — absolute or workspace-relative paths to read (e.g. the workspace's 01-diagnostics/founder-input.md, 02-enrichment/*.md, the bundled channel menu at ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/reference/Marketing-Channel-Menu-2026.md). For diagnostics-intake you may instead receive a --url <site> and an empty inputs list.
  • output — the exact path to write (e.g. <slug>/02-enrichment/competitors-analysis.md, or <slug>/03-think-tanks/demand-generation/growth-factors.json).
  • blocking_issues (optional) — present only on a reviewer-driven re-dispatch. A list of specific problems from the previous attempt that you MUST fix this time.

Clean-room rule (growth-factors-mining ONLY) — moat-critical

When skill = diffmode-growth-tactics:growth-factors-mining you build a per-run LIGHT vector database only from freshly researched public case studies. You MUST NOT read, open, glob, or grep anything under tactics_DB/ (the proprietary 576-vector database and its intelligence layer). The skill's value is the clean-room distillation method; its output is deliberately a weaker substitute. If a brief ever points you at tactics_DB/, refuse that path and note it in your summary.

Read the full file on GitHub · 157 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. 2d ago First seen · 157 lines · 89 tokens per session scan A 1017fc3604e3

Subscribe to this mod's changes

research-worker-perplexity is an agent published in the GitHub repository acogood/diffmode_free (160 stars, last pushed 22d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 89 tokens to every session and 2,445 once invoked, about $0.0004 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.

Related

Other agents, from other repositories

demo-producer

Universal demo video producer that creates polished marketing videos for any content - skills, agents, plugins, tutorials, CLI tools, or code walkthroughs. Uses VHS terminal recording and Remotion composition.

yonatangross/orchestkit · 42 tokens

campaign-reviewer

Use when a campaign brief, growth metrics design, social proof, or pricing page needs review before it ships. Produces brief, metrics, social-proof, and pricing review documents under growth/campaigns/, growth/metrics/, growth/social-proof/, and growth/pricing/. Verdict PASS, CONDITIONAL, or BLOCK. Blocks "the team…

RBraga01/builder-growth · 80 tokens

growth-strategist

Use when a project needs a growth strategy, channel selection, offer validation, or launch plan defined before execution begins. Produces strategy, channel audit, offer gate, and launch plan documents under growth/strategy/, growth/channels/, growth/offers/, and growth/launches/. Verdict READY, CONDITIONAL, or…

RBraga01/builder-growth · 83 tokens

experiment-designer

Use when designing a growth experiment. Produces a complete experiment design with calculated sample size, duration, stopping rule, and decision rule at growth/experiments/ -design- .md. Blocks experiments that start with "let's test it and see.".

RBraga01/builder-growth · 58 tokens

messaging-reviewer

Use before any AI product messaging ships externally. Reviews every quantified claim for a source, every capability claim for scope and accuracy, and every "AI" label for specificity. Writes the review to growth/messaging-reviews/ - .md. Blocks unsourced claims and undefined AI labels.

RBraga01/builder-growth · 65 tokens

growth-critic

Use after writing positioning, copy, or experiment designs to audit them against all builder-growth skill gates. Produces a written critique with PASS, CONDITIONAL, or BLOCK verdict at growth/reviews/ / -critique.md.

RBraga01/builder-growth · 51 tokens