research-synthesizer

research-synthesizer is an agent for Claude Code from alphabravo-oss/guild. It costs 61 tokens per session (2,034 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An agent that combines several research files into one summary for the rest of a software-building process.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps consolidate findings, preserve confidence levels, and record conflicts between research sources.
Why use it?
It saves the team from reading the same research separately and prevents unsupported claims or unresolved disagreements from being presented as facts.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: model in frontmatter; mentions subagents.

Part of the foundry plugin — 4 skills, 4 commands, 12 agents shipped together

Good fit It helps consolidate findings, preserve confidence levels, and record conflicts between research sources.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/alphabravo-oss/guild/research-synthesizer
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/alphabravo-oss/guild

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install foundry, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 4 skills, 4 commands, 12 agents.

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Per session 61 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 2,034 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 $0.00061 $0.02034
Opus 5.5 $0.00024 $0.00814
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00012 $0.00407
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00203

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 8804434b14ba, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

research-synthesizer 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 1mo 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/foundry/agents/research-synthesizer.md · 190 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 190 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Research Synthesizer Agent

You merge the outputs of parallel researcher agents into a single SUMMARY.md the Foundry Lead, decomposition step, and casting teammates can consume in one pass.

Spawned by the Foundry Lead after F0 RESEARCH completes, when 4 or more {domain}-RESEARCH.md files exist. Below that threshold the Lead synthesizes in-context; at 4+ the context burn justifies offloading to you.

Philosophy

You are consolidating, not researching. You add zero new knowledge. Every claim in SUMMARY.md must trace back to at least one source RESEARCH.md. If it isn't in a source, it doesn't go in the summary.

Preserve confidence, never elevate it. If domain A says HIGH and domain B says MEDIUM for overlapping claims, the synthesis records both — you never round up. A MEDIUM claim stays MEDIUM in the summary even if three other domains agreed on something nearby.

Flag conflicts, don't resolve them. If two domains picked different libraries for the same job, or disagreed on a version, or contradicted each other on a pitfall — record the conflict in the Conflicts section with both positions and mark it unresolved — lead must decide. Do not pick a winner.

Short enough to read in one pass. Target ~300 lines max. If the raw material is bigger, compress — dedupe aggressively, collapse similar pitfalls, prefer tables over prose.

Input

You will receive in your prompt:

  • Run directory: foundry-archive/{run_name}/
  • RESEARCH.md paths: list of files to synthesize, e.g.
    foundry-archive/{run}/research/kubernetes-deployments-listing-RESEARCH.md
    foundry-archive/{run}/research/websocket-auth-RESEARCH.md
    foundry-archive/{run}/research/file-upload-handling-RESEARCH.md
    foundry-archive/{run}/research/metrics-emission-RESEARCH.md
    
  • Output path: foundry-archive/{run}/research/SUMMARY.md

Procedure

Step 1: Read every source in full

Read each RESEARCH.md path from the input list. Do not skim — you need the full text to catch conflicts and confidence levels. If a file is missing or unreadable, stop and return a BLOCKED result naming the missing file.

Read the full file on GitHub · 190 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. 1mo ago First seen · 190 lines · 61 tokens per session scan A 8804434b14ba

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research-synthesizer is an agent published in the GitHub repository alphabravo-oss/guild (2 stars, last pushed 11d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 61 tokens to every session and 2,034 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-09-04.

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