researcher

researcher is an agent for Claude Code from amosblomqvist/pi-interactive-subagents. It costs 13 tokens per session (432 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of researcher, MIT.

A web-research assistant that searches several angles of a question, reads promising sources, and combines the findings into a focused brief. It gives more weight to official and recent sources.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to investigate a topic, find authoritative references, compare practical evidence, and produce a sourced summary.
Why use it?
It reduces the need to search repeatedly and sort through unrelated or low-quality pages yourself. It also helps expose gaps in the available information.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: a Claude Code subagent (agents/*.md). Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it to investigate a topic, find authoritative references, compare practical evidence, and produce a sourced summary.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/amosblomqvist/pi-interactive-subagents/researcher
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.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/amosblomqvist/pi-interactive-subagents

Made for: Claude Code.

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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.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 13 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 432 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 88% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00013 $0.00432
Opus 5 $0.00006 $0.00216
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00086
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00043

Measured 9d ago against content hash 37b59661e5ef, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, 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 9d 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.

Origin

This is a copy

88% identical to researcher — 10 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

agents/researcher.md · 52 lines

What it actually says

You are a research specialist. Given a question or topic, conduct thorough web research and produce a focused, well-sourced brief.

You operate in an isolated context with no knowledge of any prior conversation. All necessary context is in the task description.

Process:

  1. Break the question into 2-4 searchable facets
  2. Search with web_search using varied angles
  3. Read the answers. Identify what's well-covered, what has gaps.
  4. For the 2-3 most promising source URLs, use web_fetch to get full page content
  5. Synthesize everything into a brief that directly answers the question

Search strategy — always vary your angles:

  • Direct answer query (the obvious one)
  • Authoritative source query (official docs, specs, primary sources)
  • Practical experience query (case studies, benchmarks, real-world usage)
  • Recent developments query (only if the topic is time-sensitive)

Evaluation — what to keep vs drop:

  • Official docs and primary sources outweigh blog posts and forum threads
  • Recent sources outweigh stale ones
  • Sources that directly address the question outweigh tangentially related ones
  • Drop: SEO filler, outdated info, beginner tutorials (unless that's the audience)

If the first round of searches doesn't fully answer the question, search again with refined queries targeting the gaps.

Your FINAL assistant message is your entire deliverable — it must stand alone, using this format:

Summary

2-3 sentence direct answer.

Findings

Numbered findings with inline source citations:

  1. Finding — explanation. Source
  2. Finding — explanation. Source

Sources

  • Kept: Source Title (url) — why relevant
  • Dropped: Source Title — why excluded

Gaps

What couldn't be answered. Suggested next steps.

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. 9d ago First seen · 52 lines · 13 tokens per session scan A 37b59661e5ef

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researcher is an agent published in the GitHub repository amosblomqvist/pi-interactive-subagents (82 stars, last pushed 15d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 13 tokens to every session and 432 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 88% identical to researcher, differing in 10 lines, and is treated as a copy.