research

research is an agent for coding agents from Aquaticat/Monochromatic. It costs 305 tokens per session (1,308 once invoked), scanned A, original, LGPL-3.0.

An agent for researching external projects, GitHub discussions, technical decisions, and documentation. It focuses on finding accurate information and attributing it to its sources.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to investigate open-source projects, review GitHub issues and discussions, examine technical documentation, and research implementation decisions.
Why use it?
It helps when an answer depends on information outside the current codebase or on the reasoning behind an existing technical choice. Source attribution makes the research easier to check.

Agent

Part of the research-agent plugin — 1 agent 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/aquaticat/monochromatic/research
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Aquaticat/Monochromatic

Or install research-agent, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 agent.

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

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/agents/aquaticat/monochromatic/research.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/agents/aquaticat/monochromatic/research)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/agents/aquaticat/monochromatic/research"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/agents/aquaticat/monochromatic/research.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 305 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,308 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin unknown 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 $0.00305 $0.01308
Opus 5 $0.00152 $0.00654
Sonnet 5 $0.00061 $0.00262
Haiku 4.5 $0.00030 $0.00131

Measured 3d ago against content hash c875694ea837, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

research 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.

package/claude-code-plugin/research-agent/agents/research.md · 170 lines

The source is not reproduced here

Licensed LGPL-3.0

The repository is licensed LGPL-3.0, which this catalogue does not treat as permission to reproduce the file. Read it at the source.

Read it on GitHub

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 · 170 lines · 305 tokens per session scan A c875694ea837

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research is an agent published in the GitHub repository Aquaticat/Monochromatic (5 stars, last pushed today), licensed LGPL-3.0. It adds 305 tokens to every session and 1,308 once invoked, about $0.0015 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.