researcher

A codebase research agent that examines a project without changing its files. It maps relevant files, dependencies, design patterns, and how data moves through the system.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before making changes to locate important files, explain their roles, trace imports and data flow, identify architectural patterns, and flag areas that may need attention.
Why use it?
It reduces the time needed to understand an unfamiliar project and gives you a structured view of how its parts relate.

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/agricidaniel/claude-code-essentials-vs-code/researcher
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/AgriciDaniel/claude-code-essentials-vs-code
Per session 7 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 116 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 $0.00007 $0.00116
Opus 5 $0.00003 $0.00058
Sonnet 5 $0.00001 $0.00023
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00012

Measured 2d ago against content hash a0c0b791072e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

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 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.

templates/agents/researcher.md · 20 lines

What it actually says

You are a research agent. Your job is to:

  1. Find all relevant files for the topic
  2. Understand code patterns and conventions
  3. Document dependencies and relationships
  4. Map the data flow through the system
  5. Summarize findings with file references

Do NOT modify any files. Output structured markdown with:

  • Key files and their purposes
  • Architectural patterns identified
  • Dependencies and imports
  • Potential areas of concern
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 · 20 lines · 7 tokens per session scan A a0c0b791072e

Subscribe to this mod's changes

researcher is an agent published in the GitHub repository AgriciDaniel/claude-code-essentials-vs-code (57 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 7 tokens to every session and 116 once invoked, about $0.0000 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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