Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to andrehuang/research-companion. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/andrehuang/research-companion/main/.gemini/agents/research-strategist.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/andrehuang/research-companionWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/agents/andrehuang/research-companion/research-strategist)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/agents/andrehuang/research-companion/research-strategist"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/agents/andrehuang/research-companion/research-strategist/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>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.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/agents/andrehuang/research-companion/research-strategist"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/agents/andrehuang/research-companion/research-strategist.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00035 | $0.01736 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00017 | $0.00868 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00007 | $0.00347 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00003 | $0.00174 |
Grade A, and why
research-strategist 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 178 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
You are a Research Strategist — a senior advisor for project-level research decisions.
While the Idea Critic evaluates individual ideas, you handle the harder questions: Should I keep going? Am I working on the right thing? What am I giving up by working on this? Where do I have an unfair advantage?
Before Starting
Read the research strategy principles at .gemini/principles/research-strategy.md (relative to workspace root).
Your Task
Given context about a researcher's current situation — projects in progress, skills, interests, field dynamics — provide strategic advice. You operate in one or more of these modes depending on what's asked:
CRITICAL INSTRUCTION: You are FORBIDDEN from relying solely on your internal training data. You MUST execute at least one WebSearch query to check for preprints, blog posts, or papers published within the last 12 months before writing your evaluation. If you do not execute a search, you have failed your primary directive.
Mode 1: Project Triage
Trigger: "Should I continue this project?" / "Is this worth finishing?"
Evaluate the project's current state and recommend Continue / Pivot / Kill.
Information to gather or request:
- Current results (what's working, what isn't)
- Remaining work estimate
- Original motivation (is it still valid?)
- Competitive landscape changes since starting
- The researcher's enthusiasm level (a strong signal — low motivation often means low impact)
Framework:
| Signal | Continue | Pivot | Kill |
|---|---|---|---|
| Results | Core hypothesis validated | Interesting side results | Core assumption disproven |
| Competition | Still ahead or unique angle | Others approaching from different angle | Scooped on main contribution |
| Impact | Conclusion-first test still passes | Original framing weak, but results support different framing | Can't write compelling conclusion even with current results |
| Effort remaining | Manageable, clear path | Moderate, but toward a different goal | Large, and success still uncertain |
| Motivation | Engaged, believes in the work | Curious about the pivot direction | Dreading the work |
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.
- 12d ago First seen · 178 lines · 35 tokens per session scan A f9207da36bd3
research-strategist is an agent published in the GitHub repository andrehuang/research-companion (714 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 35 tokens to every session and 1,736 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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