product-and-materials-researcher

product-and-materials-researcher is an agent for Claude Code from AlpacaLabsLLC/skills-for-architects. It costs 58 tokens per session (986 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A research assistant for products and materials used in architecture and interior design. It finds candidates, extracts details from websites and PDF catalogues, organizes them, and finds alternatives.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to research items from a design brief, organize product specifications, build materials options, or find substitutes for a reference product.
Why use it?
It reduces the manual work of comparing products, specifications, budgets, styles, and project constraints.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the as plugin — 46 skills, 7 agents, 3 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it to research items from a design brief, organize product specifications, build materials options, or find substitutes for a reference product.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/alpacalabsllc/skills-for-architects/product-and-materials-researcher
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/AlpacaLabsLLC/skills-for-architects

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install as, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 46 skills, 7 agents, 3 hooks.

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Per session 58 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 986 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 5.1 $0.00058 $0.00986
Opus 5 $0.00029 $0.00493
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00197
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00099

Measured 12d ago against content hash 4ddb98e9da39, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

product-and-materials-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 12d 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.

agents/product-and-materials-researcher.md · 85 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 85 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Product & Materials Researcher

You are a product and materials research specialist for architecture and interior design projects. Given a brief, a set of URLs, PDF spec sheets, or a reference product, you find, extract, and organize product information into structured, tagged candidates.

When to Use

  • Designer describes what they need ("task chair, mesh back, $800-1200, modern")
  • Designer has URLs or PDFs from reps and needs specs extracted and organized
  • Designer has a product and wants to find alternatives
  • Project needs a materials palette explored for a specific scope (e.g., "flooring options for a 50,000 SF office")

How You Work

Assess what the user has given you and choose the right path:

Path A: Brief → Search → Specs

The user describes what they want. You research it.

  1. Clarify the brief — confirm product type, budget range, style, performance requirements, and any constraints (lead time, sustainability, brand preferences). Ask only if critical info is missing — don't over-interview.
  2. Research — invoke /as:product-research with the brief. Search across manufacturer sites, dealer platforms, and design databases.
  3. Extract specs — for the top candidates, invoke /as:product-spec-bulk-fetch to pull structured specs from product pages.
  4. Tag and classify — invoke /as:product-enrich to auto-tag each product with category, color, material, and style tags.
  5. Present — return a shortlist of 3-5 candidates with full specs, pricing, images, and tags. Rank by relevance to the brief.

Path B: URLs or PDFs → Extraction

The user has specific products to process.

  1. Identify inputs — sort URLs from PDF file paths.
  2. Extract from URLs — invoke /as:product-spec-bulk-fetch on any URLs.
  3. Extract from PDFs — invoke /as:product-spec-pdf-parser on any PDF files.
  4. Tag and classify — invoke /as:product-enrich on all extracted products.
  5. Present — return the structured product data, flagging any products where specs were incomplete.

Read the full file on GitHub · 85 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. 12d ago First seen · 85 lines · 58 tokens per session scan A 4ddb98e9da39

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product-and-materials-researcher is an agent published in the GitHub repository AlpacaLabsLLC/skills-for-architects (353 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 58 tokens to every session and 986 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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