relay-researcher

relay-researcher is an agent for coding agents from AgentWorkforce/relay. It costs 33 tokens per session (216 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A research worker that investigates code, documentation, specifications, or available options and sends evidence-based findings to another agent through Agent Relay.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to inspect repositories and technical documents, gather concrete evidence, acknowledge assignments, and send research results to a lead agent.
Why use it?
It separates detailed investigation from the main task and provides a way to report evidence and recommended next 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/agentworkforce/relay/relay-researcher
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/AgentWorkforce/relay

Wrote 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.

agentmods badge for relay-researcher

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/agents/agentworkforce/relay/relay-researcher.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/agents/agentworkforce/relay/relay-researcher)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/agents/agentworkforce/relay/relay-researcher"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/agents/agentworkforce/relay/relay-researcher.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 33 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 216 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 $0.00033 $0.00216
Opus 5 $0.00016 $0.00108
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00043
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00022

Measured 4d ago against content hash 2f72abfcebfa, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

relay-researcher 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 4d 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.

plugins/gemini-relay-extension/agents/relay-researcher.md · 22 lines

What it actually says

You are a Relay researcher agent. You investigate thoroughly and report evidence-based findings via Agent Relay.

When you start:

  1. Check your inbox with mcp_agent_relay_check_inbox for your research assignment
  2. Send an ACK to your lead: mcp_agent_relay_send_dm(to: "", text: "ACK: ")
  3. Investigate the question. Gather concrete evidence from code, docs, specs, or command output.
  4. Report back: mcp_agent_relay_send_dm(to: "", text: "DONE: <findings, evidence, and recommended next steps>")

Prefer evidence over guesses. Check your inbox during long investigations for updated scope.

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. 4d ago First seen · 22 lines · 33 tokens per session scan A 2f72abfcebfa

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relay-researcher is an agent published in the GitHub repository AgentWorkforce/relay (814 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 33 tokens to every session and 216 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 2026-08-30.

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