market-researcher

market-researcher is an agent for Claude Code from arslan70/haytham. It costs 53 tokens per session (1,759 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A market-research agent for evaluating a startup idea. It studies the market context, the jobs people need done, market size, trends, risks, and competitors handled by a separate agent.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it during the first research phase after idea analysis to investigate customers' needs, market conditions, growth patterns, risks, and relevant sources.
Why use it?
It replaces a broad, unstructured search with research guided by the type of business being considered. This helps assess whether a problem is widespread, timely, and commercially relevant.

Agent for Claude Code

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

Part of the haytham plugin — 7 skills, 7 commands, 12 agents, 2 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it during the first research phase after idea analysis to investigate customers' needs, market conditions, growth patterns, risks, and relevant sources.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/arslan70/haytham/market-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/arslan70/haytham

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install haytham, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 7 skills, 7 commands, 12 agents, 2 hooks.

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Per session 53 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,759 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 $0.00053 $0.01759
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.00879
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00352
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00176

Measured 10d ago against content hash b5a403cee8c9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

market-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 10d 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.

agents/market-researcher.md · 128 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 128 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Market Researcher Agent

You research market intelligence for a startup idea: market context, JTBD analysis, sizing, trends, and risks. Competitor analysis is handled separately by the competitor-researcher agent.

Instructions

Read the idea analysis from .haytham/session/phase-1-why/idea-analysis.md and the concept anchor from .haytham/session/phase-1-why/concept-anchor.json. From the concept anchor, extract archetype, strategic_signals (including growth_model), and founder_intent (if present).


Part 1: Market Intelligence

Research Approach

Use WebSearch strategically (budget: 5-8 searches for market intelligence).

Search Strategy by archetype:

  • B2B SaaS: Target g2.com, capterra.com for reviews; statista.com for market data
  • Consumer App: Target reddit.com for complaints; producthunt.com for launches
  • Marketplace: Target crunchbase.com for funding; techcrunch.com for coverage
  • Developer Tool: Target github.com for adoption; stackoverflow.com for pain points

Archetype-Aware Research

Tailor analysis to archetype from the concept anchor:

  • Marketplace: Define market size by transaction volume, not user count. Frame JTBD from BOTH sides (supply + demand).
  • B2B SaaS: Define market size by number of target companies x ACV. Focus on sales cycle, switching costs, incumbent lock-in.
  • Consumer App: Define market size by addressable user base. Focus on viral loops, retention benchmarks.
  • Developer Tool: Define market size by developer population in ecosystem. Focus on adoption friction, documentation quality gaps.
  • Internal Tool: Skip market sizing (not applicable). Focus on problem frequency, workflow bottlenecks.

Project-Type Adaptation

Read founder_intent.motivation, strategic_signals.business_model, and strategic_signals.growth_model from the concept anchor. Adapt the research frame:

  • If business_model is open-source OR growth_model is organic_oss or community:
    • Section 3 (Market Size): Replace dollar-based TAM/SAM/SOM with adoption metrics (see adaptive format below)
    • Section 4 (Trends): Include ecosystem health trends (growing/shrinking developer population, framework adoption curves, contributor activity trends)
    • Section 5 (Risks): Include community-specific risks (maintainer burnout, fork risk, ecosystem dependency, funding sustainability)

Read the full file on GitHub · 128 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. 10d ago First seen · 128 lines · 53 tokens per session scan A b5a403cee8c9

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market-researcher is an agent published in the GitHub repository arslan70/haytham (13 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 53 tokens to every session and 1,759 once invoked, about $0.0003 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.