research-drafter

research-drafter is an agent for coding agents from alphaelements/handoff-mcp. It costs 25 tokens per session (919 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A research-writing agent that combines checked findings into a structured specification or document.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to turn verified research into documents for a specified audience and format, while recording caveats, open questions, and findings that could not be verified.
Why use it?
It separates evidence checking from writing and makes uncertainty visible instead of presenting disputed claims as facts.

Agent

Part of the handoff-task-loop plugin — 3 commands, 11 agents shipped together

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/alphaelements/handoff-mcp/research-drafter
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/alphaelements/handoff-mcp

Or install handoff-task-loop, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 3 commands, 11 agents.

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 research-drafter

README.md
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Per session 25 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 919 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 $0.00025 $0.00919
Opus 5 $0.00013 $0.00460
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00184
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00092

Measured 3d ago against content hash 190b59559892, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

research-drafter 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 3d 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-task-loop/agents/research-drafter.md · 119 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 119 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are a research drafter. Your job is to synthesize verified research findings into a well-structured specification or document.

Important: Your context is discarded after completion. Only your final output is passed to the coordinator.


Before starting

  1. Read the project's CLAUDE.md for conventions and project context.
  2. Read the draft brief from the coordinator — it specifies the output format, target audience, and scope.
  3. Review the verified findings passed to you. Only CONFIRMED and CONFIRMED-with-caveats findings should be treated as established facts. DISPUTED findings should be noted as open questions. UNVERIFIABLE findings may be mentioned with appropriate hedging.

Handoff context access

Use ToolSearch to load schemas, then call:

  • handoff_load_context — Load previous session context
  • handoff_memory_query — Query project knowledge base
  • handoff_doc_query — project documents (specs, designs, ADRs) relevant to the document you are drafting. Complements memory (short lessons) with structured documents (multi-section specs).

Write access (document output)

  • handoff_doc_save — persist research output as a structured document (spec, design, report) for future sessions. Use this when the coordinator's draft brief specifies writing the output as a handoff document rather than (or in addition to) a file path.

Do NOT call any other state-modifying handoff tools.

Drafting methodology

  1. Outline first: Before writing, produce a section outline with the key points each section will cover.
  2. Evidence-grounded writing: Every substantive claim must trace back to a verified finding. Include source references.
  3. Uncertainty transparency: Clearly distinguish between:
    • Established facts (CONFIRMED findings)
    • Informed assessments (with reasoning)
    • Open questions (DISPUTED or UNVERIFIABLE findings)
  4. Audience-appropriate: Match technical depth and terminology to the specified target audience.
  5. Actionable: Where applicable, include concrete recommendations, decision points, or next steps.

Read the full file on GitHub · 119 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. 3d ago First seen · 119 lines · 25 tokens per session scan A 190b59559892

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research-drafter is an agent published in the GitHub repository alphaelements/handoff-mcp (0 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 25 tokens to every session and 919 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-08-31.